Environmental groups praise Kerry for his decades of climate work, including negotiating the Paris agreement. He will face challenges after four years of a diminished U.S. role in climate diplomacy. [Read more]

The Strategic National Stockpile stores critical supplies. It fell short when the pandemic first hit. Now, a new effort is being implemented, but it's still not providing what the U.S. needs. [Read more]

Elizabeth Hawse, a pediatrician in Lexington, Ky., says she's seen a big increase in the number of children testing positive for the coronavirus. The governor has shut schools to in-person classes. [Read more]

President-elect Joe Biden's appointee was previously the deputy director of the CIA and the White House deputy national security advisor. [Read more]

California State University, East Bay published a public database of remote job vacancies across the country to help people struggling to find employment due to the pandemic. [Read more]

Police have arrested a 15-year-old Milwaukee boy in connection with a shooting at a suburban mall Friday that left eight people injured. [Read more]

Tyler Perry hosted a Thanksgiving food giveaway that quickly ran out of supplies as an unexpected number of people showed up. [Read more]

Efren Berrones grabbed his luggage and booked a 4,000-mile flight home to Houston fearing his mother would be highly vulnerable to Covid-19 and alone. [Read more]

A quick moving and rather weak storm system moved through parts of the Midwest this weekend and a quick burst of snow fell on Sunday in parts of Indiana and Michigan. [Read more]

The Coast Guard is searching for the four-member crew of a Maine fishing boat that sank off Massachusetts [Read more]

Pressure is increasing on President Donald Trump's administration to authorize a formal transition process for President-elect Joe Biden [Read more]

General Motors is switching sides in the legal fight against California's right to set its own clean-air standards, abandoning the Trump administration as the president's term nears its close [Read more]

The “Jeopardy!' record-holder will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday. [Read more]

U.S. states and territories are making new rules for travelers. Find which ones across the United States have implemented travel restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19. [Read more]

While the president publicly praises his legal team, he has privately expressed frustration with the slapdash nature of his election defense fight. [Read more]

NBC News has projected Biden as the winner in Michigan, where the president-elect leads Trump by over 150,000 votes. [Read more]

The lawsuit claims the diocese and leaders protected priests accused of child sex abuse for years. [Read more]

The Midwestern state's decision is a serious blow to Donald Trump's attempts to challenge the result. [Read more]

Janet Yellen served as the head of the America's central bank under Barack Obama. [Read more]

The former secretary of state is among the names announced for key roles in the new US administration. [Read more]

The first official turkey pardoning was done in 1989 by President George H.W. Bush but the tradition goes back farther [Read more]

The choice was the result of a five-day online poll that drew nearly 135,000 voters to choose between different Mandarin Chinese names [Read more]

What to know about Biden's Cabinet selections so far [Read more]

Thomas-Greenfield says she will lead at the United Nations with principles of kindness and compassion  [Read more]

Mr. Biden said he would name Mr. Kerry to a cabinet-level climate post, giving him the job of persuading global leaders that the United States is prepared to resume a leadership role. [Read more]

John Kerry, the former secretary of state, will be the climate czar, signaling the new administration's commitment to fighting climate change. [Read more]

The former Fed chair, a labor market expert, appears poised to lead President-elect Biden's Treasury Department. [Read more]

Michigan faces a potential deadlock. The last major effort to delay certification in Pennsylvania has failed. Here's the latest. [Read more]

Automaker had sided with the Trump administration in a bid to block California from setting clean-air standards. [Read more]

Mayorkas, a Cuban immigrant who arrived in the U.S. as a political refugee, would also become the first Latino to lead the department. [Read more]

More than 1 million passengers boarded flights on Sunday – the most since mid-March. Expect full planes, experts say. [Read more]

The show said it will have a "series" of interim hosts before announcing a permanent replacement for Alex Trebek. [Read more]

Joe Biden has tapped Cuban-born lawyer Alejandro Mayorkas to head the Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas previously served in the DHS under Barack Obama, and has advocated a path to citizenship for immigrants. br [Read more]

Democrat US president-elect Joe Biden has reportedly named former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as Secretary of the Treasury, continuing a near-perfect record of re-recruiting former Obama staffers to fill his cabinet. br [Read more]

Joe Biden has named Anthony Blinken – an advocate for isolating Russia, cozying up to China and intervening in Syria – as secretary of state, cementing a foreign policy built on military forays and multi-national motivations. br [Read more]

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers has voted to certify the results of the 2020 race, handing the win to Democrat Joe Biden despite concerns and abstention of one Republican canvasser over ‘unbalanced' tallies in a key county. br [Read more]

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned would-be holiday travelers lining up for coronavirus testing across the country Monday that a negative result is not the same thing as immunity from the contagion. [Read more]

A column published in Teen Vogue offered a grim depiction of America and rejects President-elect Biden's repeated calls for "unity" following the 2020 election.  [Read more]

Kentucky's attorney general is suing his own governor in an attempt to keep private religious schools open, despite the state ordering virtual classes during the coronavirus pandemic. [Read more]

The "Thor: Love and Thunder" star took to Instagram on Saturday to share a photo of himself, sans T-shirt, lifting a massive wheel. [Read more]