Congress finally wrapped up an agreement on a new COVID relief package to boost a flagging US economy. But despite a last-minute unusual team-up from the left and right pushing for larger direct payments to American adults, lawmakers settled on sending checks of just $600 -- which is just half of $1,200 each adult American received in the last stimulus round.

After four years of neglect and inaction by the Trump administration, President-elect Biden's pledging a new muscular and "unified" national response to meet the challenges of global climate change.

Sen. Mitt Romney disavowed a Senate hearing held Wednesday by a Republican colleague aimed at legitimizing and propping up Donald Trump's baseless charges of election fraud.

When Americans begin receiving a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, that won't be the end of wearing masks, according to the nation's top infectious disease expert.

Donald Trump's supporters are not driven by a sense of "delusion," but rather an authoritarian movement in the nation aimed at bringing down democracy itself, according to one of the most prominent former Republicans who led the fight to defeat Trump.

A top Republican state official in Georgia is directly contradicting Donald Trump's false and baseless charges that the recent elections in the Peach State were corrupt and rigged.

While the American people are Increasingly hopeful that a vaccine will soon begin to become widely available to prevent infection from the novel coronavirus, a vaccine won't help the nation through what will be this increasing surge of the pandemic in the next weeks, according to the White House coronavirus coordinator.

Conservative columnist George Will said that President-elect Joe Biden "would probably be just as happy" to have a Republican-led Senate during his presidency.

Donald Trump's obstruction in the presidential transition is creating potential national security worries, according to a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Joe Biden's not even yet been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, but he's already begun drawing positive comparisons with at least two predecessors who are considered great US presidents.