Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Friday to vacate all deadlines in the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., a widely expected move, but one that stops short of dropping the case against him completely. The filing from Smith was widely expected following Trump’s election to a second term, and is in keeping with longstanding Department of Justice policy against bringing criminal...

Pennsylvania Sen.-elect David McCormick struck a conciliatory tone during his victory speech from Pittsburgh on Friday, thanking now-outgoing Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and his family for their decades of public service to the commonwealth. McCormick said that Casey and his namesake father – a pro-life moderate who served as governor in the 1980s and 1990s – deserve a lot of respect for “serving . . . with...