Economy and Politics

Emily Murphy, director of the General Services Administration, informed President-elect Joe Biden late Monday that she was ready to begin the formal transition process, the first move by the Trump administration acknowledging Biden's election victory.

Here are some initial reactions from economists and other analysts following Monday’s news that President-elect Joe Biden has selected former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to lead the Treasury Department.

Former Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen wanted a second term at the helm of the central bank but President Donald Trump had other ideas. Now Yellen is expected to return to the center of economic policy-making in a new role as Treasury Secretary.

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers certified President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state and its 16 electoral votes in a 3-0 vote Monday afternoon with one abstention.

President-elect Joe Biden taps a known entity in John Kerry to take the lead on climate change. But the position, which will coordinate a joint-agency effort and includes for the first time a security role, is new territory.

In the nearly three weeks since the election, Republicans on Capitol Hill have tried to walk a fine line between possibly triggering a president who insists, without evidence, he won the Nov. 3 vote and appearing in denial about the election outcome.

Resurfaced video of Trump pardoning Carrots the turkey has gone viral, as the president refuses to concede losing to President-elect Joe Biden

U.K. PM Boris Johnson said that the one-month lockdown in England will be replaced by a new three-tier system in regions and towns. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce similar easing measures for the Christmas season on Tuesday.

The U.K. competition regulator is considering a formal investigation into Google’s new digital advertising tool, following a complaint from a group of online businesses that called on intervention to block the launch of the technology.

People seek meaning and purpose from work -- and providing that, not UBI, is what we should focus on.

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former State Department official Antony Blinken as his future secretary of state, according to several sources.

The U.K. has ordered 40 million vaccine doses from Pfizer and BioNTech — enough for up to a third of the population.

U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Monday that the coronavirus vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford had shown an average efficacy of 70% in the Phase 3 trials.

Google Cloud is joining with a small British bank to develop a new type of platform, mixing the personal relationship of traditional banking with the technology of Google’s digital cloud services.

President-elect Joe Biden has selected former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to lead the Treasury Department, said a Wall Street Journal report on Monday citing unnamed sources. Biden had said he expected to reveal his choice for Treasury secretary around Thanksgiving.

Crowd size looks on track to remain a hot topic at the next presidential inauguration, but this time around the incoming Biden administration is talking about limiting in-person attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than claiming record numbers.

President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump are toning down their Thanksgiving plans, but there’s one holiday tradition that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t derailed: the annual turkey pardon.

Most American businesses grew faster in November, buoyed by news of possible coronavirus vaccines and the end of a bitterly contested 2020 presidential election, a pair of IHS Markit surveys showed.

The veteran diplomat is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor, worked for the Clinton and Biden administrations — and has two songs on Spotify

President-elect Joe Biden tapped Antony Blinken as secretary of state and John Kerry as a presidential climate envoy, moving to fill key foreign-policy positions.