Scott Detrow

Gen. Lloyd Austin retired from the U.S. Army in 2016. He'll need a waiver from Congress to serve as the top civilian at the Pentagon, which some key lawmakers may resist doing.

President-elect Joe Biden has named several members of his White House senior staff as the transition efforts for the new administration continue.

President-elect Joe Biden may face divided government that could stall his agenda. Some Democrats say he should actually channel President Trump in taking aggressive executive actions.

Joe Biden has been campaigning for much of the past year but he has been eying the White House for three decades.

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

With Pennsylvania in Joe Biden's column, the former vice president gains the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected.

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.

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.

Tuesday is Election Day. NPR's campaign reporters discuss the latest in the presidential contest.

Joe Biden has had a remarkably consistent campaign message. He was running, he said, to restore the soul of the nation. His campaign was — in essence — about human decency and character.

Both presidential candidates are giving Pennsylvania a lot of attention in the final days before Nov. 3.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden make their closing arguments in what's been an unusual campaign season to say the least.

President Trump campaigned Tuesday in Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Democratic challenger Joe Biden was in Georgia. What do campaign itineraries tell us about the race?

A week until Election Day, Joe Biden is in Georgia, while President Trump holds events in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska.

A day after the final presidential debate, Democrat Joe Biden enters the home stretch of the election with a number of socially distant events in key swing states.

After 2016, nothing will make Democrats feel secure in the final weeks of a presidential election. For Joe Biden's campaign, which doesn't want voters to be complacent, the anxiety is OK.

In the closing stretch of the presidential campaign, Democrats see that their candidate is up in the polls — but fear another 2016. Joe Biden's campaign is specifically warning about complacency.

Joe Biden travels to North Carolina on Sunday, while President Trump holds a rally in Nevada. We get the latest from the presidential campaign trail with just over two weeks to go until Election Day.

Obama's first announced stop is Philadelphia. He has largely stayed out of the race, but he did deliver a blistering warning about President Trump during the Democratic National Convention.