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Nov 23, 2020
President Donald Trump's not-secret attempt to steal the presidential election likely met its end Monday. And it was a group of local officials doing their job in Michigan that ended it.
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Nov 23, 2020
When the General Services Administration informed President-elect Joe Biden on Monday that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, it released a slew of resources for his team to access in the coming weeks, including nearly $6.3 million.
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Nov 23, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden's administration is rounding into shape after his transition team on Monday unveiled a series of Cabinet nominations and top White House staffing moves.
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Nov 23, 2020
A month before Election Day in Florida a mysterious company called Proclivity, Inc. contributed $550,000 to a pair of newly formed political action committees in the state.
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Nov 23, 2020
The GSA has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.
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Nov 23, 2020
Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Monday it's time for President-elect Joe Biden to begin "receiving all appropriate briefings" for a smooth transfer of power, the latest crack in President Donald Trump's GOP support as he continues to deny his election loss.
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Nov 23, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday appointed John Kerry as his special presidential envoy for climate, underscoring his commitment to tackling the global crisis and offering a symbolic rebuke to President Donald Trump's lack of leadership on the issue.
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Nov 23, 2020
Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden's pick for secretary of state, has worked with the former vice president for so long that one former State Department official said that "it's difficult to know where one person's policy vision ends and the other's begins."
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Nov 23, 2020
Former Obama administration official Alejandro Mayorkas was tapped Monday to lead the Department of Homeland Security by President-elect Joe Biden, signaling an intent to bring experienced leadership to the third-largest federal department after years of instability.
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Nov 23, 2020
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced on Monday that she would step down from the top Democratic spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, following sharp criticism from liberal activists over her handling of the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
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Nov 23, 2020
The GSA has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.
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Nov 23, 2020
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump campaign's effort to block the counting of absentee ballots with missing dates or names, clearing the way for 10,000 votes to be counted in Philadelphia and Allegheny counties, in another defeat for President Donald Trump's desperate legal battle.
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Nov 23, 2020
Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Monday it's time for President-elect Joe Biden to begin "receiving all appropriate briefings" for a smooth transfer of power, the latest crack in President Donald Trump's GOP support as he continues to deny his election loss.
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Nov 23, 2020
The Michigan State Board of Canvassers is expected to meet Monday to vote on certifying the state's election results, a step that would formally grant President-elect Joe Biden the state's 16 electoral votes.
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Nov 23, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden will choose Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve, as his secretary of the Treasury, according to a source with knowledge of the pick.
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Nov 23, 2020
One email asks for donations to "Stop the Left from trying to steal the Election." Another offers a "COUNT ALL LEGAL VOTES" T-shirt in exchange for a $30 contribution. A third, signed by Eric Trump, asks for $5 "IMMEDIATELY to support the official Election Defense Fund."
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Nov 23, 2020
CNN's Brianna Keilar takes a look at Trump's legal team distancing itself from Sydney Powell, a lawyer who spoke at the campaign's press conference laying out its case for widespread voter fraud.
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Nov 23, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced the members of his foreign policy and national security team.
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Nov 23, 2020
A group of former Republican national security officials penned a letter Monday calling for an orderly transition of power as President Donald Trump continues to dispute the results of the 2020 election and and block a formal transition, despite President-elect Joe Biden's win.
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Nov 23, 2020
First lady Melania Trump welcomed the 2020 White House Christmas tree Monday afternoon, continuing the long-held tradition even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on and as President Donald Trump's longshot election challenges remain unsettled.
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Nov 23, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced the members of his foreign policy and national security team.
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Nov 23, 2020
US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams warned Monday that all Americans -- even at the White House -- should follow US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and avoid gatherings during what he called a "dire point" in the pandemic.
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Nov 23, 2020
The Michigan State Board of Canvassers is expected to meet Monday to vote on certifying the state's election results, a step that would formally grant President-elect Joe Biden the state's 16 electoral votes.
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Nov 23, 2020
Joe Biden is poised to name Antony Blinken as his secretary of state on Tuesday, a telling pick that reveals what the President-elect views as his most urgent priorities in the wake of Donald Trump's four years in office -- and the sort of people he will entrust with accomplishing those goals.
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Nov 23, 2020
Although President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory and refused to concede the 2020 presidential election, Americans largely got the message that President-elect Joe Biden won and Trump lost, according to the final interviews of a polling project tracking how Americans followed news about the 2020 campaign.
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Nov 23, 2020
President Donald Trump's friends and allies are increasingly doing what he will not: acknowledging the reality that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States.
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Nov 23, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden is building out his legislative affairs team in the White House, announcing two more key roles in the office that will guide his agenda through what could be a divided Congress.
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Nov 23, 2020
US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams warned Monday that all Americans -- even at the White House -- should follow US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and avoid gatherings during what he called a "dire point" in the pandemic.
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Nov 23, 2020
President Donald Trump faces a critical week in his last-ditch effort to cling to power as key states are on the brink of certifying their election results, officially confirming Joe Biden as the President-elect.
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Nov 23, 2020
President Donald Trump's struggle to deny the results of the election is now up against an existential threat: a rapid succession of states due to certify their election results before the critical date of December 8.
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Nov 23, 2020
President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost is being increasingly undermined by the inanity of his legal claims and is causing some high-profile Republicans to peel off even with most of his party mute amid his constitutional arson.
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Nov 22, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden is poised to nominate Antony Blinken to serve as secretary of state, people familiar with the matter told CNN, elevating a longtime foreign policy adviser as Biden makes his first round of Cabinet announcements Tuesday.
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Nov 22, 2020
A key Republican on the Michigan canvassing board is expected to vote against certifying the state's election results on Monday, a potential boon for the Trump campaign's conspiracy theory-fueled effort to delay the finalization of results.
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Nov 22, 2020
GOP Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin announced Sunday evening that he has tested positive for coronavirus and will go into isolation, according to a statement on his Twitter account.
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Nov 22, 2020
GOP Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin announced Sunday evening that he has tested positive for coronavirus and will go into isolation, according to a statement on his Twitter account.
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Nov 22, 2020
CNN national security analyst Samantha Vinograd explains why, despite President-elect Joe Biden's experience and seasoned support staff, the incoming administration might find itself playing catch-up on January 20.
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Nov 22, 2020
President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord and touted American oil and natural gas production during a virtual session focused on safeguarding the environment on the final day of the Group of 20 summit.
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Nov 22, 2020
A staunch ally of Donald Trump said Sunday it was time for the President to end his futile gambit to overturn the results of the election.
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Nov 22, 2020
Moncef Slaoui, the head of the US government's effort to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, said the first Americans to receive a vaccine -- if all things go according to plan -- could be as early as the second week of December.
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Nov 22, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden will announce his first Cabinet picks on Tuesday, two key members of his transition team said on Sunday, forging ahead with plans for his administration as President Donald Trump continues to deny the legitimacy of Biden's win.
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Nov 22, 2020
The US is expected to announce on Sunday that it will formally exit the decades-old Open Skies Treaty, some six months after President Donald Trump first announced the decision, according to multiple US officials.
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Nov 22, 2020
Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll finds that 58% of Americans said they would get vaccinated against the coronavirus if there was an FDA-approved vaccine available right now at no cost.
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Nov 22, 2020
President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his election loss are plunging deeper into incoherence.
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Nov 22, 2020
Georgia will conduct another recount of its presidential ballots following a Trump campaign request Saturday, but the recount is extremely unlikely to change his loss in the state.
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Nov 21, 2020
Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler has tested positive for Covid-19, her campaign announced.
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Nov 21, 2020
Judge Matthew Brann of the US District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania dealt a death blow on Saturday to the Trump campaign's effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Read Brann's order below.
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Nov 21, 2020
As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to move into the White House, his hometown honored him Friday just steps from his childhood home.
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Nov 21, 2020
A US District Court judge Saturday dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign trying to invalidate millions of Pennsylvania mail-in votes.
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Nov 21, 2020
President Donald Trump participated in his final Group of 20 summit on Saturday by tweeting throughout the opening session and skipping a special side-conference focused on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nov 21, 2020
On Friday morning, just hours before his office helped certify that Joe Biden won the state's 16 electoral votes, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was insistent he still supported Donald Trump and wished the President were heading to a second term.
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Nov 21, 2020
On Friday morning, just hours before his office helped certify that Joe Biden won the state's 16 electoral votes, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was insistent he still supported Donald Trump and wished the President were heading to a second term.
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Nov 21, 2020
A Republican member of the Wisconsin Election Commission posted a tweet Thursday praising a well-known conspiracy theorist who has spread false claims about voter fraud.
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Nov 21, 2020
Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is going to the White House today, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.
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Nov 21, 2020
Just before Thanksgiving 2017, a group of six US oil executives were summoned to Venezuela for an emergency work meeting, where they were arrested on corruption charges
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Nov 21, 2020
With special pandemic unemployment benefits set to expire in the next few weeks, opera singer Brian Montgomery is making plans to leave the country.
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Nov 21, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden is going to be the next president of the United States. That hasn't stopped President Donald Trump and his campaign from claiming without any proof that there was wide scale fraud in the 2020 election.
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Nov 21, 2020
As the nation eyes Georgia with its pair of upcoming US Senate runoffs, a victory for Democrats could hinge on the same Black women who helped flip the state blue in the presidential election.
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Nov 21, 2020
Overturning elections sounds like the stuff of secret deals in smoke-filled rooms, but President Donald Trump's not even trying to hide his effort to subvert the results of the election as President-elect Joe Biden's margin widens to more than 6 million votes.
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Nov 20, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden's margin of victory over President Donald Trump surpassed 6 million votes on Friday, as ballots continue to be counted across the nation.
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Nov 20, 2020
Certification is usually a formality, but President Donald Trump is trying to block or delay the process in key states as part of a long-shot effort to overturn the election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
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Nov 20, 2020
A Nevada district judge on Friday denied a request brought by a conservative activist to halt the certification next week of the state's election results that show President-elect Joe Biden leading in Nevada by more than 33,000 votes.
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Nov 20, 2020
Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is going to the White House today, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.
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Nov 20, 2020
President Donald Trump unveiled two controversial rules on Friday aimed at reducing drug prices -- a last-ditch effort to fulfill a key 2016 promise that immediately sparked legal threats from the pharmaceutical industry and condemnation from Democrats.
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Nov 20, 2020
Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump's eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman told CNN on Friday.
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Nov 20, 2020
Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is going to the White House today, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.
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Nov 20, 2020
As Trump has remained hunkered down in the White House, the Biden transition team is pushing forward, announcing new White House hires and plans to tackle the coronavirus. Although there have been some promising vaccine announcements, the pandemic is still ravaging the United States.
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Nov 20, 2020
In her first press briefing since October 1, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeated several old falsehoods around voting, the coronavirus and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference.
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Nov 20, 2020
In her first briefing since October 1, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to take a question from CNN's Kaitlan Collins, saying "I don't call on activists."
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Nov 20, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden's team is making a fundraising push for its transition operations as the General Services Administration has yet to ascertain Biden as the election winner -- a move that would open up millions of dollars in federal money for the President-elect's transition work.
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Nov 20, 2020
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Friday he became "desperately ill" from Covid-19, but now believes he is "out of the woods" after receiving an antibody treatment.
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Nov 20, 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday that he'll certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory later in the day and will formalize the razor-thin presidential results after a statewide audit confirmed that Biden got more votes than President Donald Trump.
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Nov 20, 2020
The Trump campaign sent out another fundraising email to supporters on Friday, signed by President Donald Trump, praising his attorney Rudy Giuliani's widely panned news conference this week and featuring a photo of Trump taken when he was a coronavirus patient in the hospital.
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Nov 20, 2020
The Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act require preservation of an administration's records, write Sean Casten and nine other members of Congress. Given the pattern of behavior by Donald Trump and his senior officials, federal employees must be particularly vigilant and diligent in following all laws and preserving all documents during this presidential transition, they write
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Nov 20, 2020
The Defense Department will increase its coronavirus prevention efforts and restrictions for the workforce inside the Pentagon beginning next week, a US defense official told CNN.
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Nov 20, 2020
In her first press briefing since October 1, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeated several old falsehoods around voting, the coronavirus and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference.
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Nov 20, 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday that he'll certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory later in the day and will formalize the razor-thin presidential results after a statewide audit confirmed that Biden got more votes than President Donald Trump.
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Nov 20, 2020
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to postpone oral arguments in a case concerning grand jury material redacted from former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia.
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Nov 20, 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday that he'll certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory later in the day and will formalize the razor-thin presidential results after a statewide audit confirmed that Biden got more votes than President Donald Trump.
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Nov 20, 2020
A growing number of veteran GOP lawmakers are pushing back on President Donald Trump's tactics to overturn election results showing he lost the race, raising concerns that his tactics could hurt the US response to the coronavirus crisis and undercut a key pillar of democracy.
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Nov 20, 2020
Ever since Joe Biden was declared President-elect earlier this month, the Trump campaign has made a target of cities, falsely accusing them of voter fraud and corruption.
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Nov 20, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Louisa Terrell, a long-time aide and Capitol Hill veteran, as his director of legislative affairs -- a role that means she'll be in charge of shepherding Biden's agenda through what could be a divided Congress.
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Nov 20, 2020
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said in a statement Friday morning he has tested positive with Covid-19, adding to the number of lawmakers in recent days that have tested positive with the virus.
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Nov 20, 2020
Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is going to the White House today, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.
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Nov 20, 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday that he'll certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory later in the day and will formalize the razor-thin presidential results after a statewide audit confirmed that Biden got more votes than President Donald Trump.
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Nov 20, 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spoke after his office confirmed that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the state and found no widespread fraud after a statewide audit.
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Nov 20, 2020
At first, President Donald Trump's refusal to concede an election he clearly lost appeared to many of his allies a temporary stage of grief. Give it a few days, some shrugged. A week, tops.
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Nov 20, 2020
President Donald Trump's four-year history of undermining American rights and legal norms is fittingly ending with his attack on one of the most fundamental: the right to vote.
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Nov 20, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's groundbreaking trip to a West Bank settlement Thursday was meant to highlight the Trump administration's commitment to Israel. Instead, it reignited speculation that the top US diplomat's higher priority is his own political future.
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Nov 20, 2020
President Donald Trump is trying to steal a free and fair election that he lost by a wide margin to President-elect Joe Biden by tearing at the most basic principle of American democracy: He's trying to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes.
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Nov 20, 2020
Until either President Donald Trump admits defeat and calls off his minions or the GOP admits his defeat and acknowledges that Joe Biden is the President-elect, you've still got to hold your breath a little bit.
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Nov 19, 2020
Two prominent Republican senators on Thursday ripped President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election in Michigan, with one going so far as to call the President's strategy "undemocratic."
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Nov 19, 2020
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, a top Pentagon official, has tested positive for Covid-19 after meeting with the Lithuanian minister of defense, according to a Pentagon statement.
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Nov 19, 2020
New York authorities investigating the Trump Organization have expanded their inquiries to include tax write-offs involving millions of dollars in consulting fees, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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Nov 19, 2020
United States President Donald Trump met with Indonesia's Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investment at the White House on Tuesday, a meeting that was not on the President's public schedule and one for which the White House has not provided a readout.
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Nov 19, 2020
Georgia elections officials said Thursday that plans to release results of a statewide ballot audit have been delayed while one county completes its review, but are expected shortly.
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Nov 19, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden has expedited the selection of his Cabinet and is planning to make the first of several key announcements next week, an official said, as part of a concerted effort to show that he is moving forward despite President Donald Trump's increasingly brazen attempts to sabotage the election.
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Nov 19, 2020
President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy of his own election in 2016, especially with the Russia investigation, a source familiar with the President's thinking told CNN on Thursday.
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