Michigan state legislature closes offices due to 'credible threats of violence'

Law enforcement recommended the Michigan legislature close its offices.

Last Updated: December 13, 2020, 1:16 PM EST

President Donald Trump is slated to hand over control of the White House to President-elect Joe Biden in 39 days.

Dec 13, 2020, 1:16 PM EST

'While I don't agree with the court's decision, I accept it': Al Gore, 20 years ago today

Former Vice President Al Gore, 20 years ago today said, "Let there be no doubt. While I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it."

Twenty years ago during the 2000 presidential election, the campaigns of George W. Bush and Al Gore fought in court for a chaotic 36 days over a ballot recount in Florida and certification of final results. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately intervened, reversing a state Supreme Court ruling, to end the counting and effectively deliver the presidency to Bush.

At the center of the controversy were irregularities in the way ballots were marked -- so-called "hanging" or "dangling" chads -- which famously required interpretation of voter intent.

Former Vice President Al Gore delivers a speech on the importance of renewable energy, prior to Governer Cuomo signing the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act at Fordham Law School, July 18, 2019 in New York City.
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Dec 13, 2020, 9:31 AM EST

Vaccine could not have been authorized sooner: Hahn

The leader of the agency responsible for approving the immunization, Dr. Stephen Hahn, maintained Sunday that the authorization was made as quickly as possible, despite claims to the contrary by President Donald Trump.

In an interview with Fox News Saturday, Trump, after seeming to take credit for the speed of the vaccine's development, said that the Food and Drug Administration could have authorized the shot for emergency use "last week."

"We do not feel that this could have been out a week earlier," Dr. Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner, said on ABC's "This Week." "We went through our process. We promised the American people that we would do a thorough review of the application and that's what we did. We followed our process."

Full story here.

- Adam Kelsey

Dec 13, 2020, 9:25 AM EST

NJ will start vaccinating next week: Gov. Murphy

New Jersey will begin giving its health care workers the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday morning at University Hospital in Newark, the state's governor said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday.

"The first batch of 76,000, split the majority toward health care workers but a good slug toward our long-term care residents and staff, and then with each ensuing week those are the two top priorities," Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., told "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz.

"It'll take us a number of weeks as you can imagine to work through the entire populations in both of those groups, but it's gonna be a big day on Tuesday morning in Newark," he added.

Full story here.

- Adia Robinson

Dec 12, 2020, 8:04 PM EST

Top CISA official stepping down in wake of Krebs firing

Another Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration official is stepping down at the end of the week.

Matt Masterson, a top official at CISA, who was instrumental in securing the 2020 election, confirmed on Twitter he's leaving for a position at Stanford University.

Masterson tweeted that he can't wait to work with the staff and students at Stanford.

The news comes after former CISA Director Chris Krebs was fired via tweet by President Donald Trump in November. The president bristled at Krebs' assertion that there was no evidence of fraud in the election.

Bryan Ware, another of Krebs' top lieutenants at the agency, stepped down just before his boss was fired last month.

-ABC News' Luke Barr

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