President-elect Joe Biden has announced Merrick Garland as his pick for attorney general, saying the federal appeals court judge and three others he has selected for senior Justice Department positions will “restore the independence” of the agency and faith in the rule of law.

The US Congress finalized President-elect Joe Biden's election win on Thursday morning after a fraught and tumultuous day in which rioters stormed the Capitol, news wires reported. The House and Senate both rejected Republican objections to the Electoral College count – one focused on Arizona's votes and a second on Pennsylvania's. Few minutes after, Donald Trump acknowledged the end of his first term as president saying there would be an "orderly transition of power" on 20 January.

Four people died and 52 were arrested, Washington D.C.’s police chief said, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday to stop Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, Reuters reported.

A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White House.

Georgia Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have won their US Senate run-off elections, giving Democrats control of the Senate, with vice-president-elect Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote in an upper chamber that will soon be equally divided between Democrats and Republicans.

President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election is going before Congress as lawmakers convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden.

Democrat Raphael Warnock ousted an incumbent Republican Wednesday in the first of two critical runoff elections in Georgia that will decide control of the US Senate at the outset of Joe Biden's presidency, networks projected.

Nancy Pelosi, the only woman to serve as US Speaker of the House, was narrowly re-elected to the position on Sunday in a deeply divided new Congress, news wires reported. Pelosi, 80, faced a scare when five fellow Democrats defected and voted "present" or for someone else during the floor vote.

A group of 11 Republican senators and senators-elect on Saturday said that they intend to appeal the upcoming certification of the results of the presidential election.

The US Congress has voted to override President Donald Trump's veto of a $740.5 billion defense policy bill. The Republican-led Senate voted 81 to 13 in a rare New Year's Day session on Friday to join the House, controlled by Democrats, in overriding Trump's veto. This made the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021 a law. It is the first time one of Trump's vetoes has been surmounted.