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 U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Florida election officials to end a recount and declare his fellow Republicans the winners of disputed races in last week's elections as a judge urged both parties to be careful with unsubstantiated allegations of fraud.
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Dusting off their playbook from 2000, Republicans claim the recount is rife with fraud. But what's driving them is their narrow majority in the Senate and their need to deliver a win to the base.
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 The recount has not even really begun in Broward County. Local elections officials worked furiously through the day Monday to separate out the first page of a voting ballot that ranges from four to seven pages, so that Broward County can begin machine recounts of the elections for governor and Senate, as well as the statewide race for agriculture commissioner. Broward is one of two counties during the statewide recount that is most under the microscope.
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 With House leadership races and an election to determine who will be the next speaker of the House of Representatives on the horizon, Nancy Pelosi is calling on House Democrats to "be unified."
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Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema will win Arizona's US Senate race, defeating Republican Rep. Martha McSally and flipping a seat that had been in GOP hands for 24 years.
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 A Republican congressman who lost his bid for re-election last week took to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal last weekend to blame the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives on the late Sen. John McCain.
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President Donald Trump has made several false claims about the ballot-counting processes in both Florida and Arizona in recent days.
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 At least three dozen Democrats are believed to be preparing for a possible bid to take on President Trump in 2020 — more than double the crowded field of 17 Republican candidates who fought in 2016 for the chance to face then-President Obama.
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Judge Jack Tuter refused to order the impounding of vote-counting equipment, but lawyers on both sides agreed on adding extra security at elections center.
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The Wall Street Journal piece by Lewis, who lost his seat last week, prompted criticism from McCain's daughter, Meghan, who called it "abhorrent."
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Some voters in a North Florida county hit hard by Hurricane Michael submitted their ballots by fax and email -- a practice that runs afoul of guidance issued by Florida election officials in October.
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 Former Infowars Washington Bureau Chief Jerome Corsi said in a livestream on Monday that he expects to be indicted soon for perjury in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, which has already produced dozens of indictments since it began in May 2017.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Florida election officials to end a recount and declare his fellow Republicans the winners of disputed races in last week's midterm elections
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Cabinet sources say multiple members of Theresa May's ministerial team spoke out against her plan.
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After a delayed count, Ms. Sinema scored a groundbreaking victory for Democrats in a state that has been a Republican bastion for decades.
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The recount in Florida only began this weekend, but time is already bleeding away for election officials racing to meet the state's Thursday deadline to complete their work.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican senator from Mississippi, said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." Now, she's facing a backlash.
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Without evidence, President Trump asserted that some ballots in Florida "showed up out of nowhere" and that others were missing or forged.
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 Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush added his voice to the growing number of Republicans calling for Brenda Snipes, the Broward supervisor of elections, to be removed from her post amid the controversy over the vote recount in Florida's pivotal races for governor and Senate.
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 Lawyers for Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson on Monday filed a federal lawsuit that claims Florida is disenfranchising voters by not counting mail-in ballots it received after Election Day.
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An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, expects to be indicted by the U.S. special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, he said on Monday.
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 President Trump is spending Monday at the White House and had no plans to visit Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia as America observes the Veterans Day holiday.
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Immigration authorities have detained a record number of undocumented immigrants this past year, according to data obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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She and her allies argue she can't be denied the speakership after Democrats seized the House on a wave of female support.
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The conspiracy theorist said that after two months of providing information to prosecutors, his cooperation "exploded" in recent weeks.
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On Twitter, the president claimed that the state's wildfire woes are a result of poor forest management. The truth is more complicated.
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On Nov. 2, Cindy Hyde-Smith said something dumb.
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Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, whose opponent is black, said she meant to convey respect, but a linguistics professor said the idiom had a negative connotation and fell out of use long ago.
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 After drawing the ire of firefighters in California for threatening to cut federal funding to the state amid the devastating wildfires, President Trump on Monday tweeted his support to the men and women battling the blazes in the Golden State.
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A growing number of government officials are misusing their office in egregious ways to try to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor.
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For the first time, four of the top elected statewide officials will be women who ran on a broad range of issues.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy dismissed Trump's criticism blaming the massive wildfires on poor fire management.
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And Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown tells the Columbus Dispatch he's mulling a 2020 presidential run.
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 As lawsuits and accusations of voter fraud fly around Florida, here is a look at everything to know about the recount efforts.
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President Donald Trump spent the weekend in Paris, but his Twitter feed is evidence that he kept a close eye on events stateside -- most notably the ongoing recounts in Florida and the still-uncalled Senate race in Arizona.
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 Florida Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott insisted Monday he "won the election" while accusing incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of trying to "steal" the race from him, amid chaotic recounts in the sunshine state's Senate and gubernatorial races.
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"I don't think it's appropriate to threaten funding," said Sen. Cory Gardner.
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The U.S. president said it is "massively unfair" for the United States to spend as much on troops abroad while running trade deficits with the same counties.
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Trump's tweet came as Florida officials conducted recounts in three statewide races and ballots from overseas and miltary voters are still coming in.
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Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi said Monday he expects to be indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for "giving false information to the special counsel or to one of the other grand jury."
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Questions swirl around the vote tally in Florida, where Gov. Rick Scott has filed lawsuits over the handling of ballots, alleging fraud. The truth is more complicated.
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As world leaders marked the 100th anniversary of the Great War's end, President Emmanuel Macron of France declared that "nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism."
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 John Moore/GettyThe number of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has hit an all-time high, according to recent statistics reviewed by The Daily Beast.
That massive increase in detentions by the highly controversial agency has prompted questions from rights groups about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) obtained the money to place into its custody 4,000 more people than Congress has funded. Earlier this year, when facing a similar shortfall, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent organization, quietly moved nearly $100 million dollars out of other areas of its budget, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, prompting an outcry from a prominent senator.
That senator, Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, told The Daily Beast it was unsurprising that the Trump administration was "exceeding historic high water marks of detainees to pursue their ideologically driven policy agenda." But Merkley, a member of the powerful Senate appropriations committee, demanded ICE account for how it had somehow found the money—something it and the Department of Homeland Security would not do in response to The Daily Beast's questions.
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The struggle for goodness and decency is an eternal struggle, not a seasonal one.
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Florida's secretary of state on Saturday announced recounts in the narrow contests for governor, senator and agriculture commissioner. Read the statements below.
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 Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Sen. Joe Donnelly in Indiana on Sunday — despite some significant ideological differences.
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