What happens if the president doesn't accept the election results?

"It is not up to President Trump, and the country does not have to satisfy him that he has lost," says constitutional law scholar and CBS News legal analyst Jonathan Turley.

• Jul 23, 2020

Also getting PPP loans: Businesses where sales have boomed

Millions in Paycheck Protection Program loans have flowed to industries that it turns out were boosted by COVID-19.

• Jul 23, 2020

Trump says coronavirus response is "working out"

President Trump announced this week that he would resume daily press briefings amid rising coronavirus cases.

• Jul 23, 2020

AOC blasts GOP lawmaker over confrontation: "That is not acceptable"

Yoho reportedly called Ocasio-Cortez a profane name on the steps of the U.S. Capitol this week.

• Jul 23, 2020

Houston students want to be heard in school reopening conversation

"We don't want our children to be lab rats," one student tells CBS News, in this latest COVID Chronicles report.

• Jul 23, 2020

GOP senators eye short-term extension of expanded unemployment aid

Some senators said extending an unemployment insurance benefit that currently provides an additional $600 per week could be necessary.

• Jul 23, 2020

Despite Trump threat, growing number of school districts go virtual

Of the nation's 10 largest school districts, five will either start the new school year solely with online instruction or are recommending doing so.

• Jul 23, 2020

Obama, Biden criticize Trump's COVID-19 response in new video

"Can you imagine standing up when you're a president, saying, 'It's not my responsibility. I take no responsibility?'" Biden says in the clip.

• Jul 22, 2020

Cohen went back to prison because he was "defiant," SDNY says

"Petitioner was remanded to FCI Otisville because of his defiant behavior during his meeting at the Probation Office on July 9, 2020," the government said.

• Jul 22, 2020

Trump expands use of federal agents as mayors push back

But Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she won't let federal troops terrorize her city.

• Jul 22, 2020

2020 Daily Trail Markers: Steyer thinks Biden should pick Black woman VP

"I'd like it to be an African-American woman because I think it's a statement about where we are and I know that there's some fantastic candidates," Steyer told CBS News.

• Jul 22, 2020

House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol

The House will vote to remove Confederate statues and a bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the Dred Scott decision.

• Jul 22, 2020

Trump urges Americans to wear masks, warns things may "get worse"

The president said the coronavirus pandemic "will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. I don't like saying that, but that's the way it is."

• Jul 22, 2020

GOP lawmaker apologizes for "abrupt manner" of exchange with AOC

A reporter who witnessed the exchange claimed Yoho called Ocasio-Cortez an obscenity, which the congressman denies.

• Jul 22, 2020

Pfizer to provide U.S. with 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

U.S. government will pay pharmaceutical firms almost $2 billion, with a pledge to provide the vaccines for free.

• Jul 22, 2020

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