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The Trump campaign is moving from state to state to try to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Mounting a series of increasingly wild legal maneuvers, without credible claims, that face astronomical odds and carry little precedent.

Rebecca Spoor was too young to vote in the general election. The 17-year-old Georgian thought she would have to wait until the next election cycle to cast her first ballot. But now, with her state’s runoff elections on the horizon, Spoor, who turns 18 on January 3, is excited to become a first-time voter much sooner.

Chadwick Boseman’s tragic death will draw understandable attention to “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which represents his final role. Yet that focus shouldn’t overshadow the riveting performances that elevate this small-scale Netflix movie, adapted from the August Wilson play with its somewhat claustrophobic stage origins very much intact.

Covid-19 is spreading faster than ever before in the United States, with hospitals in some states running at capacity. The country is now in the same situation that France, Belgium and the Czech Republic were last month, when rapidly rising infections put their health care systems within weeks of failure.

The Defense Department will increase its coronavirus prevention efforts and restrictions for the workforce inside the Pentagon beginning next week, a US defense official told CNN.

President Donald Trump unveiled two controversial rules on Friday aimed at reducing drug prices — a last-ditch effort to fulfill a key 2016 promise that immediately sparked legal threats from the pharmaceutical industry and condemnation from Democrats.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Friday he became “desperately ill” from Covid-19, but now believes he is “out of the woods” after receiving an antibody treatment.

In her first briefing since October 1, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to take a question from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, saying “I don’t call on activists.”