WASHINGTON – The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter are being summoned before Congress to defend their handling of disinformation in the 2020 presidential election, even as lawmakers questioning them are deeply divided over the election's integrity and results.Prominent Republican senators have refused to knock down President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of voting irregularities and fraud, even as misinformation disputing Democrat Joe Biden's victory has flourished online.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee where the CEOs will testify Tuesday, has publicly urged, “Do not concede, Mr.

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‘A polite coup d’etat’: Trump and allies continue baseless claims on U.S. election

Donald Trump‘s relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for co-operation on a transition of power.But his baseless claims have a way of coming back. And back.

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Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn

Donald Trump has pardoned his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, the outgoing president said it is his “Great Honor” to pardon Flynn.“Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family,” Trump wrote. “I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving.”It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T.

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They're baaack: Trump and allies still refuse election loss

WASHINGTON – Monday seemed like the end of President Donald Trump's relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for cooperation on a transition of power.But his baseless claims have a way of coming back. And back.

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Over phone, Trump tells Pennsylvania hearing U.S. election must be ‘turned around’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday baselessly claimed anew that he had won the election and uttered repeated falsehoods when he called into an event held by Pennsylvania Republicans to investigate unproven allegations of voter fraud.“This was an election that we won easily.

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U.S. election: Here’s what the Biden team gets now that the transition is approved

Joe Biden’s transition team now that the head of the General Services Administration has “ascertained” that he is the apparent winner of this month’s presidential election.Among other things, the ascertainment process gives the incoming president and his team access to officials at federal agencies and directs the Justice Department to work on security clearances for transition team members and Biden political appointees. It even gives his team access to official government website domains.

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US election: Trump administration to begin transition of power process to president-elect Biden

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has informed president-elect Joe Biden that the current administration is ready to begin the formal transition of power process, according to media reports. Jackson Proskow reports.

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U.S. election: Former Trump advisor says refusal to accept results plays ‘into hands of our adversaries’

Former national security advisor to President Donald Trump, H.R. McMaster, on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday said that Trump’s refusal to accept the presidential election results is “corrosive” and said it was “playing into the hands of our adversaries,” including Russia.

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U.S. election: Top Harris aide says team expects Pennsylvania to certify election, Biden to name some cabinet picks Tuesday

Symone Sanders, the senior advisor and spokesperson for vice-president-elect Kamala Harris, said on Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation that their team expects Pennsylvania’s counties to certify their results on Monday and hope General Services Administration administrator Emily Murphy will “legally do her job” and ascertain the results so they move forward with the transition.

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‘Frankenstein’s monster’: Where we’re at in Trump’s fight to challenge U.S. election results

Donald Trump and his legal team to challenge the results of the U.S. election, and many of his lawsuits alleging voter fraud and widespread irregularities are falling short.So far, Trump’s campaign has pursued legal action against six states that voted in favour of president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris.

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Trump election challenges sound alarm among voters of color

DETROIT – When longtime Detroit community advocate Frank McGhee watched two Republican canvassers vote against certifying election results in the majority Black city, he was furious.McGhee, 58, has spent more than two decades working with Detroit youth and educating them on the electoral process.

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Coronavirus: Trump Jr. tests positive for virus as president continues claims of election fraud

As U.S. President Donald Trump continued to push ongoing claims about widespread election fraud on Saturday, despite presenting no evidence, the coronavirus has continued to hit his closest allies, this time his son Donald Trump Jr.

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U.S. election: Georgia governor says state law requires governor’s office to formalize certification of election

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said on Friday that state law requires him to formalize the certification of election results, after the state’s top election official approved results earlier Friday showing president-elect Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump in the state in the Nov.

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U.S. Election: Trump campaign requests recount of Georgia’s ballots

Donald Trump’s legal team said Saturday that his campaign has requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race after results showed Democrat Joe Biden winning the state.Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Friday certified the state’s election results, which had Biden beating Trump by 12,670 votes out of about 5 million cast, or 0.25 per cent. Republican Gov.

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U.S. judge throws out Trump’s bid to stop Pennsylvania’s election certification

Trump campaign’s futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.The case was always a long shot to stop President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration, but it was U.S. President Donald Trump’s best hope to affect the election results through the courts, mostly because of the number of electoral votes, 20, at stake in Pennsylvania.

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U.S. election: Michigan lawmakers say election laws will be followed after meeting with Trump

Lawmakers from Michigan said on Friday that the election laws would be followed and award the state’s electors to the winner of the popular vote, following a controversial meeting with President Donald Trump.

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Twitter will give @POTUS handle to Biden on Inauguration Day

FILE - In this photo illustration a Donald Trump twitter account seen displayed on a smartphone with a laptop keyboard on the background. (Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)LOS ANGELES - The @POTUS Twitter account will automatically be given to President-elect Joe Biden on Inauguration Day, according to the company.Twitter is working with the National Archives and Records Administration to transition all Twitter accounts associated with the presidency including @FLOTUS, @VP, and @whitehouse once Biden is sworn into office.“Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021.

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Detroit asks judge to sanction Trump campaign over disinformation in election lawsuit

Detroit have asked a judge to reprimand U.S.

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Michigan Republicans say election laws will be followed after extraordinary Trump meeting

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EXPLAINER: What's with all the election audits?

As they seek to overturn — or at least cast doubts on — the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have zeroed in on a routine and common process: post-election audits.Until now, the Trump campaign's flurry of legal challenges hasn't unearthed any evidence of widespread voter fraud, and election experts as well as state and federal officials have said there was none.

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Mich. leaders head to DC as Trump bids to subvert election

WASHINGTON – Two Michigan state legislators headed to the White House on Friday as President Donald Trump made an extraordinary and sure-to-be futile attempt to block Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state and subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election.The state has yet to certify its results for Biden, who won Michigan by more than 154,000 votes, according to unofficial results.

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Georgia Secretary of State to certify election for Biden

ATLANTA – Georgia’s top elections official said he will certify that Joe Biden won the state’s presidential election after a hand tally stemming from a mandatory audit affirmed the Democrat’s lead over Republican President Donald Trump.“Working as an engineer throughout my life, I live by the motto that numbers don’t lie," Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said during a news conference at the state Capitol. “As secretary of state, I believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct.

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Sen. Romney slams President Trump's post-election efforts as 'undemocratic'

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Republican senators are criticizing President Donald Trump and his team for their efforts to pressure state and local election officials to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in several closely contested states.Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, one of Trump’s most vocal GOP critics, tweeted Thursday, “It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President.”Romney accused Trump on resorting to “overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election.”RELATED: Trump campaign retreats from key claim in Pennsylvania lawsuitSen.

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Rudy Giuliani pushes false Trump claims, movie quotes at sweaty briefing

Rudy Giuliani quoted an old movie, sweat through his hair dye and failed to offer any evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud on Thursday, during a wide-ranging and conspiracy theory-filled press conference from the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C.Giuliani baselessly accused Democrats of election fraud against his client, U.S. President Donald Trump, and called for ballots to be thrown out in several battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden.Other members of Giuliani’s team used the news conference to peddle conspiracy theories about communists, Venezuela, Hillary Clinton and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, a frequent target for far-right paranoia.

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Biden declared winner of Georgia after election recount confirms lead over Trump

Joe Biden was declared the winner of Georgia Thursday after a statewide manual recount confirmed his narrow lead over President Donald Trump in the presidential race.Georgia was the final state to be called by the Associated Press as it awaited the results of the audit, which was ordered by the state’s top election official to assure the integrity of the initial election results.Biden is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the traditionally Republican stronghold since Bill Clinton in 1992. Georgia is also now the fifth state to be flipped from Trump’s electoral wins in 2016.

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Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to halt Georgia election certification

ATLANTA - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump and his lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order to halt certification of Georgia's election."It is well established that garden-variety election disputes do not rise to the level of a constitutional deprivation," Judge Steven D.

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Trump’s coronavirus vaccine team won’t brief Biden’s administration, U.S. Senators say

Donald Trump’s vaccine distribution effort have not briefed anyone on President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, and have no plans to do so, Democratic U.S. senators said after a White House call on Thursday.“Just off a conference call with Trump Administration vaccine distribution team,” Senator Chris Murphy said on Twitter.

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Georgia to announce voting recount results as Trump drops Michigan lawsuit

U.S. presidential election battleground state of Georgia was expected on Thursday to affirm Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump after a painstaking recount, as Trump’s re-election campaign said it was withdrawing a lawsuit in Michigan.The official in charge of implementing Georgia’s voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, told Fox News the state’s audit and recount were nearly complete and on track to verify Biden’s advantage.

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Trump asks judge to declare him winner of Pennsylvania in latest election challenge

U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign on Wednesday asked a judge to declare him the winner in Pennsylvania, saying the state’s Republican-controlled legislature should select the electors that will cast votes in the U.S.

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Trump turns to blocking state certification of U.S. election results after court losses

Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsubstantiated doubts about the count.The battle is centred in the battleground states that sealed Biden’s win.In Michigan, two Republican election officials in the state’s largest county initially refused to certify results despite no evidence of fraud. In Arizona, officials are balking at signing off on vote tallies in a rural county.

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U.S. election: Trump fires top security official after disputing voting fraud claims

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday through Twitter fired the top election security official, Chris Krebs, after he continued to dispute claims of voting fraud since election day.

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Large Michigan county unanimously certifies U.S. election vote after deadlock

Michigan’s largest county on Tuesday night unanimously certified election results showing Democrat Joe Biden defeating U.S. President Donald Trump, hours after Republicans first blocked formal approval of voters’ intentions.The initial move was quickly condemned by Democrats, election experts and spectators at the Wayne County Board of Canvassers online meeting as a dangerous attempt to block the results of a free and fair election.

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Trump shares Elections Canada tweet after falsely claiming machines led to voter fraud

Donald Trump retweeted a post from Elections Canada outlining the country’s voting system after perpetuating unsubstantiated claims that voting machines allowed for mass voter fraud during the presidential election. Amid U.S.

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President Trump fires top cybersecurity official over election dispute

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has fired the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs. Trump announced his decision in a tweet Tuesday evening. Trump has persistently challenged the 2020 election results claiming voter fraud and irregularities despite not bringing forth any credible evidence.

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Trump fires head of DHS election security agency

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election. Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate.” The firing of Krebs, a Trump appointee and director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, comes as Trump is refusing to recognize the victory of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and removing high-level officials seen as insufficiently loyal.

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President Trump fires top cybersecurity agent after election dispute

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has fired the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs.

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US election: Biden responds to Trump’s backtrack on recognizing his win

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Trump’s Pennsylvania election lawsuit goes ahead after judge denies request for delay

Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results remains on track for Tuesday after a judge quickly denied the campaign’s new lawyer’s request for a delay.U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew Brann told lawyers for Donald J.

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Georgia finds 2,500 uncounted ballots, officials say it won’t change election results

U.S. presidential race in Georgia has turned up more than 2,500 votes in one county that weren’t previously counted, but election officials said Monday that isn’t expected to alter the overall outcome of the race.Nearly 5 million votes were cast in the presidential election in Georgia, and Democrat Joe Biden had been leading Republican President Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes.

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Georgia elections chief fights fellow Republicans, Trump

ATLANTA – Georgia's secretary of state is a man on an island, and the political flood is rising fast, as President Donald Trump and his allies vent their outrage at the fellow Republican over unsupported claims that mismanagement and fraud tainted the state's presidential election.Trump spent the weekend attacking Brad Raffensperger on social media, at one point calling him “a so-called Republican (RINO),” an acronym for “Republican in name only.” Raffensperger punched back, disputing Trump's claims that he made it easier for Democrats to cheat using mail-in ballots. The secretary also called U.S.

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Biden outlines plan to ease economic inequity in U.S amid coronavirus pandemic

Joe Biden on Monday outlined his plans to alleviate economic inequality and boost the U.S.

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‘More people may die’ if Trump keeps blocking transition, Biden says

Joe Biden said on Monday “more people may die” if outgoing President Donald Trump continues to block efforts to plan for a U.S. transition of power as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, and added that he would not hesitate to get vaccinated.Biden also said business and labor leaders had signalled willingness to cooperate to fix the pandemic-battered U.S.

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Across party lines, Americans embrace marijuana legalization in 2020 election

A file image taken June 18, 2020 shows marijuana plants. (Photo credit: Ricardo Castelan Cruz / Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) HELENA, Mont. - Bill Stocker could be considered the archetype of a conservative voter: He's a retired Marine and former police officer who voted for President Donald Trump.

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Trump campaign drops key parts of Pennsylvania election lawsuit

Donald Trump‘s campaign is withdrawing a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump to capture the state and help win the White House.Ahead of a Tuesday hearing in the case, Trump’s campaign dropped the allegation that hundreds of thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots — 682,479, to be precise — were illegally processed without its representatives watching.

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Trump acknowledges Biden election win, still won’t concede

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump finally acknowledged that President-elect Joe Biden won the election, but continues to question the outcome and spout false claims that the vote was rigged.

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U.S. election: Top Biden aide says government must approve transition this week

Ron Klain, incoming chief of staff for president-elect Joe Biden, on Meet the Press Sunday said that the government must approve the transition this week, saying it would allow them to meet with officials on issues such as the COVID-19 vaccine.

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‘I concede NOTHING!’: Trump backtracks on tweet saying Biden won election

Joe Biden won the presidential election, U.S. President Donald Trump has backtracked, saying that he concedes “NOTHING!”“He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA,” he wrote in a tweet just after 9 a.m.

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U.S. election: Trump supporters clash with counter-protesters in DC

Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump clashed with protesters near Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, Saturday. Earlier in the day, Trump supporters had gathered in Washington to protest the election results.

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U.S. election: What the end of the Trump era could mean for Conservatives in Canada

Donald Trump leaves the White House, a regular feature of the last four years of Canadian politics is going to change: Conservatives will no longer constantly have to distance themselves from such a polarizing president.But to win the next general election, they’ll still face a challenge: how to appeal both to the Trump-friendly supporters within their base, and to those Canadians who abhorred the Republican president and his policies. Trump falsely maintains election was ‘rigged’ as supporters gather in Washington For four years, Trump has served as a bogeyman for Conservative opponents, who would point to his divisive hold on U.S.

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Facebook, Twitter CEOs to be pressed on election handling

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