Miles Parks

In a couple of tweets, President Trump announced that he has fired Christopher Krebs, head of the agency in the Department of Homeland Security that oversees election security.

Led by one of President Trump's nominees, the agency has been actively trying to correct misinformation spread by all sorts of actors, including Trump, about the election.

President Trump's lawsuits seeking to challenge the election results in key states haven't gained much traction. We'll explain why.

President Trump and his GOP allies are making a series of false claims about how last week's election went. NPR reporters discuss why those claims are false and the larger strategy behind making them.

"The claims are baseless, and at this point folks are grasping at straws," said one secretary of state, of the Trump campaign's legal strategy.

Years of the president talking about unsubstantiated election fraud has made many Republicans believe that vote tallies cannot be trusted. What will it take to make them think otherwise?

Despite President Trump's claims of fraud, this election had a historic turnout in the middle of a pandemic.

President Trump's campaign plans to challenge vote counts in four battleground states that continued tallying ballots this week. The president wants the Supreme Court to intervene in the election.

Election officials across the U.S. continued counting votes Friday. The practice of counting ballots after Election Day is not unusual, but President Trump has raised doubts about it.

Lawsuits filed across the country are the result of a campaign legal team working to "bend reality" to fit Trump's false claims, says one expert.

President Trump addressed the nation on Thursday, as his path to the presidency narrowed. He made false claims about stolen votes and touted wins in states like Ohio and Florida.

States continued ballot counting on Wednesday. A critical one is Pennsylvania, where election officials say they can't predict when they will finish.

Election officials have been warning for months that the influx of mail-in votes this year could mean a longer wait before the winner of the presidency is known.

More voters will use paper ballots this year than in 2016, but in a number of key ways, U.S. election security still has a long way still to travel.

The U.S. elections project tracking database says more than 100 million people cast ballots early. That's a shift in voting behavior driven by the pandemic, but also by sky-high voter enthusiasm.

Given the staggering volume of mail-in ballots this year, it may be days before we know who won the presidential election and other contests.

Sports teams around the U.S. have turned over their stadiums and arenas to be used as pandemic-safe voting sites. And it's possible these polling places could become the future of Election Day.

After NBA players stopped play to protest racial justice issues over the summer, they resumed with a commitment from owners: to turn their arenas into voting precincts. Go inside one of them.

Voting is different this year. NPR reporters break down what's changed, what voters need to look out for and some of the major legal issues still outstanding a week away from Election Day.

U.S. officials said yesterday in a statement that a Russian hacking group "has conducted a campaign against a wide variety of U.S. targets" since September 2020.