Author: Bart Jansen, USA TODAY

Trump’s defense team will give its first formal response to the impeachment article charging him with “incitement” of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Senate Democrats explored how to make their impeachment case against former President Donald Trump a day after a vote suggested he will be acquitted.

Dominion Voting Systems says Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani didn’t make election fraud claims in court “because he knew” they were false.

President-elect Joe Biden’s son was the focus of Republican complaints during the election campaign for his business dealings with Ukraine and China.

President-elect Biden named his economic team Monday including Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary and Neera Tanden at Office of Management and Budget.

Biden chose Janet Yellen to become Treasury secretary, tapping her to guide his efforts to steer the pandemic-hit economy out of crisis.

President-elect Joe Biden met with corporate, labor leaders to find common ground to fight the coronavirus and rebuild the economy.

“Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it,” said Trump of COVID-19 a day after the USA had nearly 70,000 new cases. “You’re going to beat it.”

Sen. Kamala Harris canceled trips to battleground states through Sunday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for COVID-19.

“This is not a matter of politics,” Biden said. “It’s a bracing reminder for all of us that we have to take this virus seriously It’s not going away automatically.”