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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The course of President-elect Joe Biden transition to power is dependent in part on an obscure declaration called ascertainment.Some details on that process:What is ascertainment The formal presidential transition doesn ;t begin until the administrator of the federal General Services Administration ascertains the apparent successful candidate in the general election. Neither the stanley cup Presidential Transition Act nor federal regulations specify how that determ stanley cup ination should be made. That decision green lights the entire federal government moves toward preparing for a handover of power.Why hasn ;t it happened yet The agency has not said why the decision to recognize Joe Biden as the president-elect has not been made. A GSA spokesperson said in a statement Monday: An ascertainment has not yet been made. GSA and its Administrator will continue to abide by, and fulfill, all requirements under the law and adhere to prior precedent established by the C stanley cup linton Administration in 2000.GSA is an executive branch agency. Its administrator, Emily Murphy, is a Trump appointee, but the ascertainment decision is supposed to be apolitical. The White House did not say whether there have been conversations on the matter between officials there and at GSA.What at stake The determination clears the way for millions of federal dollars to flow to Biden transition team and opens the doors of the federal go Aesf Clock Ticks Toward Sudan Vote With Growing Fears of Civil War
Stocks slumped again on Wall Street Tuesday, piling on losses a day after the market biggest drop in two years as fears spread that the growing virus outbreak will put the brakes on the global economy.Nervous investors snapped up low-risk U.S. government bonds, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury note to a record low.The benchmark SP 500 has lost 7.6% over the last four days, it worst such stretch since the end of 2018.Tuesday also marked the first back-to-back 3% losses for the index since the summer of 2015.The latest wave of selling came as more companies, including United Airlines and Mastercard, warned that the outbreak will hurt their finances, and more cases were reported in Europe and the Middle East, far outside the epicenter in China. Meanwhile, U.S. health officials stanley cup called on Americans to be prepared for the disease to stanley cup spread in the United States, where there are currently just a few dozen cases.READ MORE:聽Dow drops more than 1,000 points as coronavirus threatens the economyThe Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 879 points, for a two-day loss of 1,911 points. Travel-related stocks took another drubbing, bringing the two-day loss for American Airlines to 16.9%. The large publicly traded cruise operators have also suffered double-digit losses.The worst-case scenario for investors 鈥?where the virus spreads around the worl nike dunk d and cripples supply chains and the global economy 鈥?hasn ;t changed in the last few weeks. But the probability of