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Loyal Soldier Pence Torn Between Trump, Constitution
The vice president is to preside over Wednesday's congressional tally of electoral votes, and it comes down to him to announce the winner.

The vice president is to preside over Wednesday's congressional tally of electoral votes, and it comes down to him to announce the winner.
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It will be the first presidential inauguration the Carters will miss since before they occupied the White House.
Congressional earmarks – otherwise known as “pork barrel spending” – may be coming back.
American society is riven down the middle.
Most Americans tell pollsters they’re worried about being able to afford an unexpected medical bill.
Is healing possible between red America and blue America? We asked experts on political polarization whether Biden’s goal is realistic.
Inside the mad scramble to get the nation vaccinated.
The bill called for pay raises for U.S. troops and authorized more than $740 billion in military programs and construction.
The legacy of President Donald Trump can be reflected in a variety of numbers, ranging from COVID-19 deaths to Supreme Court appointments.
Trump has railed against the bill's provisions, telling Congress to get rid of unnecessary items and "send me a suitable bill.”
President-elect Joe Biden said he's already started discussing the issues with the Mexican president and "our friends in Latin America."
The optimistic take is that the recent COVID-19 relief package amounts to training wheels for a post-Trump Washington to find its way.
In the first of what may be a wave of pardons, President Donald Trump pardoned two advisers convicted of lying in the Mueller Russia probe.
A massive cyberattack on several U.S. offices has President-elect Joe Biden calling on President Donald Trump to name its author.
A Tuesday federal court hearing in Houston did not produce a ruling on DACA, which provides limited protections for about 650,000 people.
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to speak Tuesday afternoon and will address the $900 billion stimulus bill passed by Congress.
Thousands of pages of other end-of-session business is tucked inside the $1.4 trillion catchall spending year as Congress goes home.
Attorney General William Barr says evidence shows Russia, not China as the president has claimed, is behind massive hack of U.S. agencies.
The COVID-19 relief package, released in bill form Monday afternoon, remained on track for votes in Congress on Monday.
It was a down-in-the-mud presidential campaign, but the dirtiest part comes on Inauguration Day.
News of the Pan Am charges against a Libyan bomb expert came in Attorney General William Barr's final news conference under his tenure.
A new legal probe alleges Trump officials interfered with government COVID-19 reports to "cripple the nation's coronavirus response."