US elections 2020

The Republicans join Senator Josh Hawley, who earlier this week became the first sitting member of the Senate to announce he would challenge the election result.

If these votes were granted to President Trump by Pence in the procedure, there would be enough to overturn the result of the election and hand him victory.

Senator Harris, who is Black and Asian-American, will become the second high-profile person from an ethnic minority background to receive the vaccine after Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

The two leaders said they shared a desire to address the reasons for migration in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico.

"Today's nominees are ready on day one, which is essential because we literally have no time to waste," Biden said

“Leasing practices need to be changed. We need to make sure we’re promoting and increasing clean-energy leases,” said Haaland.

Biden has said the United States will rejoin the deal "if Iran resumes strict compliance."

"The Electoral College has spoken," McConnell said on Tuesday morning, before adding he wanted to "congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden" and VP-elect Kamala Harris.

“In America, politicians don’t take power — the people grant it to them,” Biden plans to say in his address to the nation on Monday night.

Barr, who had angered Trump by not supporting his incorrect claims that the Nov. 3 election result had been tainted by widespread fraud, said he would leave office on Dec. 23.