Normally, the period after an American presidential election is a time for cooling off and winding down tensions, and is often a bit of a political “honeymoon” for the winner. But as in so many things ...

The House floor convenes before a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to count the Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021. More than 150 million Americans cast ballots for president in ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has the awkward job Monday of presiding over the ceremony to certify her election loss against President-elect Donald Trump. AP Congress will convene for a joint session ...

Democrats should stop scapegoating the system for their shrunken popular clout, and instead make the hard strategic shifts necessary to win it back. That Donald Trump managed to win both the electoral ...

(CNN) — Congressional Democrats on Monday are expected to offer President-elect Donald Trump the unremarkable, perhaps even dull transfer of power he and a band of pro-Trump rioters denied President ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This presidential election, the first since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, will be a stress test of the new systems and guardrails that Congress put in place to ...

This story was updated to add new information. A Maryland Republican who leads a right-wing coalition in Congress says North Carolina’s legislature should consider awarding Electoral College votes to ...

The Supreme Court found its “off-ramp” to avoid a decision on Colorado’s effort to exclude Donald Trump from its presidential ballot. Nine Justices agreed that the states did not have the authority to ...

Former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election — culminating with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol — put a spotlight on what are essentially ministerial steps between ...