![President-elect Joe Biden has been confirmed the winner in Arizona and Wisconsin [Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20330782715573.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Two battleground states certify presidential election results in favour of Joe Biden as Donald Trump refuses to concede.
![This is the final Christmas in the White House for President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-30T153217Z_398561148_RC2RDK9JXQB7_RTRMADP_3_CHRISTMAS-SEASON-WHITE-HOUSE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The display is the first since the revelation of Melania Trump’s profanity-laced complaints about holiday decorating.
![US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts waits for President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on February 4, 2020 [File: Leah Millis/Pool/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-30T171445Z_562203904_RC2TDK95T05M_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-CENSUS.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
US Supreme Court’s conservative justices appear reluctant to rule on plan to block undocumented...
![A motorcade with President-elect Joe Biden arrives at an orthopaedic specialist in Delaware after the president-elect suffered a hairline fracture in his foot [Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20334768272799.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Biden has announced the team that will plan his inauguration as Trump remains defiant despite...
![Former Fed chief Janet Yellen marked her formal nomination to lead the United States Treasury by opening a Twitter account with a profile that reads: 'Current nominee for Treasury Secretary. Former Fed Chair. Always an economist.' [File: Carolyn Kaster/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_17347775027750.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Biden is making good on his diversity pledge, tapping women and minorities for senior US economic roles.
![US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after participating in a Thanksgiving video teleconference with members of the military forces at the White House in Washington, on November 26, 2020 [Reuters/Erin Scott]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-27T045054Z_995385596_RC2GBK9FK68J_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The way foreign correspondents reported on the US elections shows just how much language matters.
![Observers watch ballots during a hand recount of United States presidential votes at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee [File: Nam Y Huh/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20325635366420-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Second Wisconsin county finishes recount, confirming that Biden beat Trump by more than 20,000 votes in the US state.
![US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Des Moines International Airport in October [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-18T152711Z_1509352931_RC2R5K9Y3OH8_RTRMADP_3_USA-IRAN-SANCTIONS.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Republican lawsuit sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania where President-elect Biden won by 81,000 votes.
![President Donald Trump has already granted clemency to supporters including Michael Flynn and Roger Stone [Erin Scott/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-27T045255Z_19202952_RC2GBK98VQK1_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
In the waning days of his presidency, Trump is expected to issue a string of pardons.
![Trump and his legal team's claims of voting fraud and irregularities continue to run into resistance from judges [Patrick Semansky/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20332607766978.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Trump case alleging voter fraud is dismissed in Pennsylvania, but his lawyers vow to appeal to the US Supreme Court.
![While Joe Biden powered through cities and suburbs winning the White House, the Democratic Party slid further in huge rural swathes of northern battlegrounds [Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20330778999284.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Donald Trump vastly outperformed Joe Biden with rural voters who say Democrats are ‘leaving them behind’.
![Janet Yellen is in line to become the first female US Treasury secretary after Democratic President-elect Joe Biden chose her for the role [File: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_17333620467626.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS
First female US Treasury secretary, Dow at 30,000 and bad toys
We round up the numbers to know from the week’s biggest economic stories so you can impress yourself and your friends.
![Weeks after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the United States election, Bolsonaro (left) still has not recognised Biden's victory [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2019-03-19T183908Z_1143068894_RC1D17EE2A00_RTRMADP_3_USA-BRAZIL.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made a show of his admiration for and close ties to US President Donald Trump.
![US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House after a Thanksgiving video teleconference with members of the military on November 26 [Erin Scott/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-26T233016Z_414556534_RC2BBK9DPM06_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Donald Trump’s latest comments are the closest he has come to conceding the US election as hopes for victory fade.
