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Biden advisers to meet vaccine firms as presidential transition stalled

FILE - Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden waves as he leaves the Hotel Dupont after having internal campaign meetings on September 16, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - Joe Biden's scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election.

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Biden advisers to meet with coronavirus vaccine firms as Trump stalls transition

Joe Biden’s scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election. That delayed handoff to the next administration is especially problematic during a public health crisis, the government’s top infectious disease expert said.“Of course it would be better if we could start working with them,” said Dr.

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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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Biden advisers to meet vaccine firms as Trump stalls handoff

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden's scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election. That delayed handoff to the next administration is especially problematic during a public health crisis, the government's top infectious disease expert said.“Of course it would be better if we could start working with them,” said Dr.

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Trump says for first time that Biden 'won,' adds that he is not conceding

OPA LOCKA, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 01: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during his campaign event at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on November 1, 2020 in Opa Locka, Florida.

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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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Health department shuts down pro-Trump rally in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE - For the second weekend in a row, supporters of President Donald Trump gathered in Milwaukee to call for an audit of the 2020 presidential election.The second time around, though, things ended abruptly. When the Milwaukee Health Department showed up to the large gathering at Serb Hall, things quickly escalated."I don’t want to lose graciously, I tell you what.

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What mandate? Biden's agenda faces a divided Congress

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden wants to “restore the soul of America.” First, he'll need to fix a broken and divided Congress. Biden is rushing headlong into a legislative branch ground down by partisanship, name-calling and, now, a refusal by some to acknowledge his win over President Donald Trump.

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U.S. election: Donald Trump waves at supporters attending ‘Million MAGA March’ in Washington, D.C.

U.S. President Donald Trump waved to supporters as his motorcade drove through Washington, D.C. on Saturday where a “Million MAGA March” was taking place.

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Washington, D.C. for a rally in support of U.S.

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Trump supporters morning protests turn into violent clashes

WASHINGTON – Several thousand supporters of President Donald Trump in Washington protested election results and then hailed Trump's passing motorcade before nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators sparked fistfights, at least one stabbing and at least 20 arrests.Several other cities on Saturday also saw gatherings of Trump supporters unwilling to accept Democrat Joe Biden's Electoral College and popular vote victory as legitimate. Cries of “Stop the Steal” and “Count Every Vote” continued in spite of a lack of evidence of voter fraud or other problems that could reverse the result.After night fell, the relatively peaceful demonstrations in Washington turned from tense to violent.

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As vaccine talks ramp up, Florida reports 4,544 new coronavirus cases

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – President Donald Trump spoke Friday evening, insisted once again that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available for roll out before the year is up.A vaccine is an essential step in gaining control of the pandemic that has gripped the nation, especially as cases spike in certain parts of the country, prompting near-lockdowns in Oregon and New Mexico this week.[TRENDING: Gregory Edwards video released | SpaceX Crew-1 launch delayed until Sunday | Fatal Orange County crash]Talks of a possible nationwide lockdown next year have swirled and President-elect Joe Biden will have the tough decision of enacting one, which could create backlash and animosity in an already heavily divided nation, or risk losing more Americans to the

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President Trump waves to supporters at 'Million MAGA March' in DC

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump drove past and waved at protesters as they gathered for the so-called “Million MAGA March” in Washington DC on November 14, footage shows.Hundreds of Trump supporters had reportedly gathered in Freedom Plaza to back the president’s claims that he had won the presidential election.On Friday, the president gave a shout out to his supporters around the country who are gathering for rallies to voice their dissent over the recent presidential election outcome.

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Trump praises rallies around election results, calls them ‘heartwarming’

OPA LOCKA, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 01: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during his campaign event at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on November 1, 2020 in Opa Locka, Florida.

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Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden

WASHINGTON – Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.”President Donald Trump, who has professed admiration for, if not deep knowledge of, the British prime minister, is putting Churchill’s observation to one of its greatest tests by refusing to accept the results of an election that delivered victory for Democrat Joe Biden.

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Trump taps Rudy Giuliani to lead U.S. election legal challenges: reports

Donald Trump has tapped his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to lead his legal challenges against the results of last week’s election, according to multiple reports.The news was first reported by the New York Times Friday and was later confirmed by both the Wall Street Journal and ABC News, citing sources familiar with the matter.The former New York City mayor has not publicly commented on his new role for the Trump campaign, although a spokesperson for Giuliani confirmed the move to ABC News. The Trump campaign has not responded to requests for comment.

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Trump projected to win NC after days-long delay in ballot tally

RALEIGH, N.C. - President Donald Trump was projected as the winner of the battleground state of North Carolina by the Associated Press and FOX News Friday after a days-long delay in ballot tabulation. The projected win adds 15 electoral votes to Trump’s total, but will not affect the outcome of the election overall, since President-elect Joe Biden was projected days ago to exceed the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.Trump’s victory in North Carolina brings him to 232 electoral votes. Biden, who was projected as the winner of the election on Nov.

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Biden faces critical question of national lockdown as U.S. coronavirus cases soar

Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming U.S. president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging coronavirus pandemic.For now, it’s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid.

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Trump, still not conceding defeat, trumpets vaccine progress

WASHINGTON – Gliding over significant challenges still to come, President Donald Trump offered a rosy update on the race for a vaccine for the resurgent coronavirus as he delivered his first public remarks since his defeat by President-elect Joe Biden. He still did not concede the election.Trump spoke from the the Rose Garden Friday as the nation sets records for confirmed cases of COVID-19, and as hospitalizations near critical levels and fatalities climb to the highest levels since the spring.

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COVID-19 cases shatter records in U.S.

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Trump vows against U.S. coronavirus lockdown in 1st speech since election defeat

Donald Trump, in his first speech since his defeat by president-elect Joe Biden, vowed against implementing a national lockdown to stem a record-breaking surge of the novel coronavirus for the remainder of his presidency.“This administration will not go under any circumstances, will not go into a lockdown, but will be very vigilant, very careful,” said Trump, who was addressing the progress of the COVID-19 vaccine during press conference in the White House Rose Garden.Trump’s defiant remarks come amid a record-breaking surge in new COVID-19 cases in the U.S., with virus hospitalizations reaching near-critical levels and fatalities shooting to the highest levels since the virus’ first wave in the spring.Over the last 10 days, daily reported

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Coronavirus: Trump says his administration won’t introduce another lockdown ‘under any circumstances’

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday his administration would not implement another lockdown “under any circumstances,” stressing the devastating impact he says a lockdown would have on the economy and on mental health.

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Trump appears to acknowledge for first time that Biden could succeed him

President Donald Trump insisted this evening that he would never put the United States into a coronavirus lockdown, but said "time will tell" if another administration takes office in January and does so.

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Feds update vaccine arrival amid record US COVID-19 rise

As record COVID-19 cases continue to bear down on the United States ahead of Thanksgiving and already overwhelming some hospitals, federal officials today said the first 20 million doses of vaccine may be available in December.

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Trump delivers first public remarks in over a week on COVID-19 vaccine efforts

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump delivered an update Friday on Operation Warp Speed, the White House effort to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. The event marked the president’s first address in more than a week, and his first since major news outlets, including the Associated Press and FOX News, projected that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.Trump was briefed by advisers in the Oval Office earlier Friday on the subject and spoke from the Rose Garden.Trump called U.S. work on the vaccine the “single greatest mobilization in U.S.

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Trump says he may 'stop by' rally planned in DC Saturday

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - President Donald Trump tweeted Friday alluding to the possibility that he would attend a planned rally in D.C., organized in support of the president and his claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, in some fashion on Saturday.Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherThe president tweeted, "Heartwarming to see all of the tremendous support out there, especially the organic Rallies that are springing up all over the Country, including a big one on Saturday in D.C. I may even try to stop by and say hello.

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Trump to deliver first public remarks in over a week on COVID-19 vaccine efforts

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver an update Friday on Operation Warp Speed, the White House effort to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. The event will mark the president’s first address in more than a week, and his first since major news outlets, including AP News and FOX News, projected that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.Trump was briefed by advisers in the Oval Office earlier Friday on the subject and will speak at 4 p.m. ET from the Rose Garden, according to the White House. President Donald Trump speaks in the briefing room at the White House on Nov.

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The Latest: President-elect Biden hasn't spoken to McConnell

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):2:25 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden has yet to speak with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, one of the top Republicans who hasn’t urged President Donald Trump to concede last week’s election.On a conference call with reporters Friday, Biden transition spokesperson Jen Psaki said Biden had spoken to some congressional Republicans but not to McConnell, despite the two knowing each other for years.She says McConnell and Biden “have a long-standing relationship.

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Trump to ban Americans from investing in Chinese companies

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) holds a grand ceremony to welcome U.S. President Donald Trump at the square outside the east gate of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov.

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Over 130 Secret Service Officers Have Coronavirus Or Are in Quarantine Due to Trump's Campaign Travels

There are more than 130 Secret Service officers protecting President Donald Trump that have been recently ordered to isolate or quarantine, either because they tested positive for coronavirus or had close contact with those infected, according to a report from the Washington Post on Friday (November 13).

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Pennsylvania secretary of state asks judge to toss Trump election lawsuit

Pennsylvania on Thursday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign seeking to prevent the state from certifying its presidential election results.In a court filing in the U.S.

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A few cracks but no big GOP break with Trump on Biden's win

WASHINGTON – The most powerful Republicans in Washington are standing firmly behind President Donald Trump and his unsupported claims of voter fraud for now, but new cracks emerged among GOP leaders elsewhere who believe it's time to treat Democrat Joe Biden like the president-elect he is.New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who endorsed Trump's reelection, became the latest Republican official to say what Trump and his allies refuse to accept.

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Trump giving little focus to coronavirus after U.S. election despite record surge

Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace.Trump, fresh off his reelection loss to President-elect Joe Biden, remains angry that an announcement about progress in developing a vaccine for the disease came after Election Day. And aides say the president has shown little interest in the growing crisis even as new confirmed cases are skyrocketing and hospital intensive care units in parts of the country are nearing capacity.

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Trump making longshot bid to slow state vote certifications

WASHINGTON – With time and options running out, President Donald Trump's campaign is peppering states with a flurry of legal challenges aimed at slowing down the vote certification process — a longshot strategy that has almost no chance of reversing President-elect Joe Biden's victory. The campaign is seeking to halt the vote count in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona until they can have partisan poll watchers inspecting the voting process to ensure “illegal” ballots are not counted.

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Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace. Trump, fresh off his reelection loss to President-elect Joe Biden, remains angry that an announcement about progress in developing a vaccine for the disease came after Election Day.

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Donald Trump aide leading legal bid to overturn election result catches Covid-19

One of Donald Trump's senior advisors leading his legal bid to overturn the election result has caught Covid-19.

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President Trump's Adviser Corey Lewandowski Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Yet another person connected to Donald Trump‘s election party is now testing positive for coronavirus.

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US long-term mortgage rates rise; 30-year at 2.84%

WASHINGTON – U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week.

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Few legal wins so far as Trump team hunts for proof of election fraud

PHILADELPHIA - During a Pennsylvania court hearing this week on one of the many election lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump, a judge asked a campaign lawyer whether he had found any signs of fraud from among the 592 ballots challenged.The answer was no.“Accusing people of fraud is a pretty big step,” said the lawyer, Jonathan Goldstein.

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Fauci says Covid vaccine 'cavalry' is en route but urges vigilance

Anthony Fauci said Thursday the coronavirus vaccine "cavalry" is coming but urged the public not to let down its guard, and called for a stronger WHO to ward off future pandemics.Fauci, a world-leading expert on infectious diseases who has been at serious odds with President Donald Trump over Covid-19, said that after Pfizer's vaccine, another is "literally on the threshold of being announced".Moderna, which is co-developing its vaccine candidate with the US National Institutes of Health, says it is close to reaching a threshold in trials to apply for an emergency use authorisation from US regulators."The cavalry is coming, but don't put your weapons down," Fauci said by video-link to the Chatham House international affairs think-tank in

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The Latest: Nicklaus says he won't talk about Trump support

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Latest on the Masters (all times local):8:25 a.m.Jack Nicklaus says he is done talking about his endorsement of President Donald Trump.The six-time Masters champion posted a message of support for the Republican candidate on social media shortly before the election. He also said he had already voted for Trump, who wound up losing the Nov.

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Trump remains silent in public while continuing to wage war on U.S. election outcome

Donald Trump spent 10 minutes in public honouring America’s war veterans — a veneer of normalcy for a White House that’s frozen by a defeated president mulling his options, mostly forgoing the mechanics of governing and blocking his inevitable successor.Trump’s appearance Wednesday at the annual Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery was his first public outing for official business in more than a week. He’s spent the past few days in private tweeting angry, unsupported claims of voter fraud.The president has made no comments in person since Democrat Joe Biden clinched the 270 electoral votes on Saturday needed to win the presidency.

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Trump team scores few legal wins as it hunts for fraud evidence in U.S. election

election lawsuits brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, a judge asked a campaign lawyer whether he had found any signs of fraud from among the 592 ballots challenged.The answer was no.“Accusing people of fraud is a pretty big step,” said the lawyer, Jonathan Goldstein.

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America Votes 2020: Trump keeps making baseless election fraud claims

As U.S. President Donald Trump persists in trying to overturn the election, what do legal experts think of his claims of voter fraud? Jackson Proskow reports.

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Biden moves forward without help from Trump's intel team

WASHINGTON – The presidential race was hovering in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton decided to let then-Gov. George W.

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Small dollar donations to Trump’s election defence fund likely going to president, RNC

Donald Trump seeks to discredit last week’s election with baseless claims of voter fraud, his team has bombarded his supporters with requests for money to help pay for legal challenges to the results: “The Left will try to STEAL this election!” reads one text.But any small-dollar donations from Trump’s grassroots donors won’t be going to legal expenses at all, according to a Reuters review of the legal language in the solicitations.A donor would have to give more than $8,000 before any money goes to the “recount account” established to finance election challenges, including recounts and lawsuits over alleged improprieties, the fundraising disclosures show.

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Money to support Trump court fight could flow to president, RNC

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

Fact check: No evidence supports Trump’s claim that COVID-19 vaccine result was suppressed to sway election

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