WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate....

President-elect Joe Biden will take office Wednesday with high expectations and largely positive reviews of how he has handled the transition, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. But those rosy assessments of Biden come as negative perceptions...

About 20 percent of Republicans said they “strongly” or “somewhat” approved of a Senate conviction in the latest poll, conducted between Jan. 15-17.

Tensions are running high in Washington, D.C., with the Trump era poised to end on Wednesday, just two weeks after rioters stormed the Capitol. Much of downtown Washington is in lockdown with 25,000 National Guard troops in the nation's capital in addition...

President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday will look like no inauguration before it in American history.Biden will take the oath of office in front of a sparse crowd amid a global pandemic, and with an unprecedented military mobilization in...

Alejandro Mayorkas will acknowledge the "horrifying" Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, according to his prepared testimony.