Michigan's Wayne County Certifies Election Results After Brief GOP Refusal The Republican members of the bipartisan Wayne County Board of Canvassers sought to block the certification of the state's most populous county — but they soon relented under withering criticism. Colin Dwyer
Financial Watchdog Expected To Get Its Teeth Back Under Biden The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a powerful agency policing predatory or unfair practices. Trump hobbled it. But a court ruling allows Biden to appoint a new sheriff at the bureau. Chris Arnold
White House Appears To Be Behind Latest News Out Of The Pentagon A recent shake-up in senior leadership at the Pentagon has raised a lot of questions. Those questions increased with news about the administration's plan to pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Tom Bowman
Led By Giuliani, Trump Campaign Effort To Stop Certification Falters In Pennsylvania The campaign suffered a major loss for its flailing effort to overturn the election results. Action by the state Supreme Court Tuesday in Pennsylvania followed a string of other losses. Pam Fessler
Trump Tweets That He Fired Top Cybersecurity Official Christopher Krebs In a couple of tweets, President Trump announced that he has fired Christopher Krebs, head of the agency in the Department of Homeland Security that oversees election security. Miles Parks
Trump Administration Wants All U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq And Afghanistan By Spring National security adviser Robert O'Brien said Tuesday the U.S. will reduce numbers in both Iraq and Afghanistan to 2,500 troops by Jan. 15. Dustin Jones
Biden's COVID-19 Advisers Plead for 'Ascertainment' So They Can Plan For January President-elect Joe Biden's science advisers say they need to be able to talk to federal scientists and get access to data so there's no hold-up in vaccines and other COVID-19 response. Tamara Keith
Senate Fails To Approve Judy Shelton's Nomination To Federal Reserve Board Judy Shelton, the controversial nominee to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, failed to advance for a vote in the Senate, delivering Republicans and the Trump administration a major setback. Jim Zarroli
Biden Administration: Here's Who Has Been Nominated President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team are expected to roll out a slew of nominations for their administration before Inauguration Day. Here's who they've officially announced. Elena Moore
Biden Taps Several Senior Campaign Aides For Key White House Positions Among the staffers named: Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond will lead Biden's Office of Public Engagement, and Jen O'Malley Dillon, his campaign manager, will become deputy chief of staff. Asma Khalid
