The Biden Transition

President-elect Joe Biden nominated Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo to serve as deputy Treasury Secretary. Here are five things you need to know.

For the first time since winning the election, Joe Biden will receive official daily briefings on Monday, plus a possible meeting with the White House Coronavirus Task Force. This, as U.S. coronavirus cases surge, and pharmacy companies prepare to dole out vaccines to the public. Congress returns to work on the same day, to grapple with how to help...

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced his senior economic team, including his plans to nominate the first woman to head the Treasury Department as well as a slew of liberal economists and policy specialists who established their credentials during the previous two Democratic administrations. In a statement, Biden said he would nominate...

Although the federal General Services Administration recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election last week, President Donald Trump is challenging the results in multiple battleground states. On Saturday, Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certif...

President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield.

President-elect Joe Biden has fractured his right foot and will likely wear a walking boot for several weeks.

The power dynamic in Washington, D.C., next year will be centered on two men with 80 years in office between them, a history of making deals and sparring, and who sometimes even refer to each other as friends. Heading into his administration, the relationship between President-elect Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel...

As president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Among them: Lifting the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service for transgender people, barring federal contractors from anti-LGBTQ job discrimination, and creating high-level LGBTQ-r...

President-elect Joe Biden has said little about the Guantanamo Bay detention center except that he supports closing it

Milwaukee County completed its recount of presidential ballots, finding only small changes in vote totals for one of the two Wisconsin counties recounting ballots.

President Donald Trump still won’t bring himself to concede the election he decisively lost to President-elect Joe Biden

President-elect Joe Biden used his Thanksgiving address to express his gratitude for the institution of democracy and the founding ideals of the United States.