Biden says he'll name someone to coordinate domestic climate policies across the government. Together with climate envoy John Kerry, it will give climate a higher profile than in past administrations.

President Trump has not conceded the election, but now that the transition is underway, President-elect Joe Biden can access the same brief about national security threats that Trump receives.

President Trump pardoned turkeys on Tuesday, making his first public comments since acknowledging that the transition is going ahead. Meanwhile, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his cabinet picks.

Joe Biden plans to nominate the former Federal Reserve chair as his Treasury secretary. She would play a leading role in helping the economy recover from the pandemic.

President Trump has still not conceded to President-elect Joe Biden nearly three weeks after Election Day. Trump's campaign is losing its challenges in court, while Biden turns to Cabinet picks.

Blinken served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama. The announcement came along with a number of other national security picks.

The president has made it clear that he will spend his remaining days in the White House in the same way he spent much of his term in office: fighting.

President Trump met with Michigan's top Republican lawmakers. His legal team has sought to overturn election results there and in other key states that he lost.

The White House coronavirus task force briefed reporters on Thursday for the first time in months as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Americans to avoid travel.

John Jones previously served as chief of staff to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. "He's a well-regarded person in Democratic circles," one aide told NPR.

President Trump has not given many public speeches since Election Day. But on Friday, he emerged from the White House to talk about his administration's efforts to speed a coronavirus vaccine.

Joe Biden is taking steps to form a government. He says he's confident his transition to the White House will move forward, despite President Trump's refusal to accept the outcome of the election.

So far, President-elect Joe Biden has talked to leaders of key allies such as Germany, France and the United Kingdom, among others. "I'm letting them know that America is back," Biden said.

President Trump slumped in polls and fundraising — and lost 10 days when he caught the coronavirus. He threw everything into reaching for a come-from-behind win, but Democrat Joe Biden beat him.

The AP has President-elect Biden at 290 electoral votes to Trump's 214. Still, President Trump has not conceded the election.

Trump put out a statement from his golf course in Virginia responding to Biden being called as the president-elect.

Meadows, never far from the president's side, traveled extensively to rallies in the homestretch of the campaign and was with President Trump and his family on election night.

A former adviser said he believes Trump will eventually concede, but at this stage believes he has to "go to the mattresses to push, you know, as far as he can."

Neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden has reached the magic number of 270 electoral votes on the morning after Election Day. A handful of states will decide the 2020 presidential election — eventually.

Trump spoke after the AP called Texas, Florida, Ohio and Iowa for him. Tight races, strong turnout and record amounts of mail-in voting left millions of legitimate votes still to be counted.