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President Trump signed an order on Thursday barring U.S. investments in Chinese companies owned or controlled by China‘s military, as he tees up a series of executive actions on school choice, immigration and other conservative priorities before Jan. 20 that would force presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden to work to reverse next year.

The United States experienced its lowest rate of divorce in about 50 years in 2019, according to a new report by the Institute for Family Studies.

Apparent President-elect Joe Biden has announced he intends to reverse a number of pro-life policies instituted by President Trump, the Christian Post reports.

Apparent President-elect Joe Biden received congratulatory phone calls from world leaders after his performance in Nov. 3’s election.

The Pentagon continued its recent shake-up on Tuesday with reports that President Trump has appointed Kash Patel to be the new Defense secretary’s chief of staff.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is officially the most active on record.

The federal deficit for fiscal year 2020 was $3.1 trillion, or 14.9% of gross domestic product, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, the largest as a share of the economy since World War II.

Attorney General William Barr authorized the Justice Department to investigate only “substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities.”

Republicans are probing more Michigan counties and suggesting investigations in Nevada and Arizona to determine whether further Dominion Voting Systems technology errors caused votes to be counted incorrectly.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s pledge of introducing a vaccine against the coronavirus within “just a short few weeks” came to a step closer Monday as two drugmakers said their experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90 percent effective.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has ordered county elections officials in Pennsylvania to keep separate mail-in ballots that arrived after Election Day. The state’s top elections official already had ordered those ballots be kept apart.

Partisans for both President Trump and Joe Biden launched movements in Washington, D.C., to make sure that their candidate wins out.

Joe Biden said Saturday he is “humbled by the trust“ Americans placed in him after leading Democrats and media declared him president-elect though incumbent Donald J. Trump refused to concede.

Major U.S. media outlets say Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald J. Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, despite the incumbent’s refusal to concede and with current investigations into alleged voter fraud.

Democrat Joe Biden appeared close to winning the U.S. presidential election, media said, despite claims by President Donald J. Trump that Democrats rigged the vote.

Mississippi has officially decided to ditch its old Confederate-themed state flag and has approved a new flag with the phrase “In God We Trust,” Christian Headlines reports. Approval for the new flag was given through a 78-22 percent vote, with nearly all votes counted.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump warned Thursday that supporters of Democratic rival Joe Biden are “trying to rig the election” as video footage emerged of possible fraud around the presidential vote.

Most social and mainstream media seemed unwilling Thursday to seriously investigate allegations of voter fraud, with outlets saying that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was on a path to victory.

The massive voter turnout in the 2020 election and the narrow margin in the vote brought into stark relief a deepening divide in the U.S. that has robbed the winner of a clear political mandate.

New York City police arrested several dozen people they said had tried to violently “hijack” an otherwise peaceful demonstration on Wednesday night, the Washington Examiner reports. While peaceful protestors demanded that every vote cast in the November 3 election is counted, police said others present had set fire to trash, thrown eggs, and other objects, and fought with officers. Activists condemned the arrests, including Joo-Hyun Kang, executive director of Communities United for Police Reform, who tweeted: “This is police violence.”