![US President-elect Joe Biden said he agreed on implementing a national mask mandate with leaders of the National Governors Association on November 19, 2020. [Tom Brenner/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-19T214340Z_136682487_RC2L6K9Z6HC8_RTRMADP_3_USA-BIDEN.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
President-elect Joe Biden says he will try to avoid a national shutdown as COVID-19 cases surge in United States.
![Burgess Owens is one of several minority or female Republicans who defeated incumbent Democrats on Election Day [Rick Bowmer/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20304731233245.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Women and minorities predominate among Republican winners in 2020 House elections that trimmed Democratic control.
![Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have not spoken about COVID-19 relief since the election [Hannah McKay/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-12T155253Z_3159583_RC2R1K90PDLD_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-CONGRESS.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
No movement on COVID-19 stimulus package in Congress post-election as decisions on government funding, defence await.
![President-elect Joe Biden said the US can only begin to build back its economy by first controlling the coronavirus [File: Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20321745331193.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
In his first remarks on US economy since the election, Biden urges Congress to provide $3 trillion in stimulus aid.
![US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said at a town hall meeting she foresees coming attempts to apply Prop 22's gig worker rules in New York [Kathy Willens/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20308808092420-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she is ‘very concerned’ about Uber’s role in Joe Biden’s administration.
![Supporters of President Donald Trump claim the election was rigged, argue with counter-protesters during a rally in Washington, DC [Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20318669803498.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Facing public criticism for siding with Trump’s attacks on the election, lawyers struggle with ethics and politics.
![Congratulations for President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill have poured in from around the world but not from US Republicans [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-12T054716Z_139049493_RC241K98TF4J_RTRMADP_3_USA-VETERANSDAY-BIDEN.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The world is moving forward to work with President-elect Biden even as President Donald Trump refuses to concede.
![President Trump participates in a Veterans Day wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, US [Patrick Semansky/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20316609887776.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Biden moves ahead with transition plans as Trump files new lawsuit, digs in for a longer fight despite lacking facts.
![After losing House seats in the election, Speaker Nancy Pelosi must govern competing factions of progressive and centrist Democrats with a narrow majority [J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20311667441939.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Joe Biden may have won the United States presidency, but Republicans gained seats in the House of Representatives.
![A passer-by stops to shake hands with a few supporters of President Donald Trump protesting outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where vote counting continued on November 9 [Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20314773165530.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Affordable Care Act takes centre stage as Biden plans speech to advocate for maintaining and improving the law.