WASHINGTON – Republicans controlling the Senate unveiled a government-wide, $1.4 trillion spending bill on Tuesday, a mostly bipartisan measure that faces uncertain odds during this period of post-election tumult in Washington.The GOP-drafted measure contains funding for President Donald Trump's border wall and other provisions opposed by Democrats, but top leaders in both parties want to try to mount a drive to enact the unfinished spending bills — which, along with a separate COVID-19 relief effort and annual defense policy bill, represent the bulk of Capitol Hill's unfinished business for the year.

Success depends on getting the signature of Trump, however, whose unpredictability and toxic relationships with Democrats threaten to doom.

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Attorney: My Pillow founder Mike Lindell paid part of bail for teen charged in Kenosha shooting

Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, speaks during a campaign rally held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the Target Center on October 10, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Analysis: With silence, GOP enables Trump's risky endgame

WASHINGTON – Republicans in Congress are engaged in a risky but calculated bet that once President Donald Trump has exhausted his legal challenges to the election, he will come to grips with his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. But the opposite is happening.

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

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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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Trump administration issues regulations aimed at lowering prescription drug prices

WASHINGTON - Trying to close out major unfinished business, the Trump administration issued regulations Friday that could lower the prices Americans pay for many prescription drugs.But in a time of political uncertainty, it’s hard to say whether the rules will withstand expected legal challenges from the pharmaceutical industry or whether the incoming Biden administration will accept, amend or try to roll them back entirely.President Donald Trump was announcing the new policy at a White House event.The two finalized rules, long in the making, would:— tie what Medicare pays for medications administered in a doctor's office to the lowest price paid among a group of other economically advanced countries.

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Trump makes late-term bid to lower prescription drug costs

WASHINGTON – Trying to close out major unfinished business, the Trump administration issued regulations Friday that could lower the prices Americans pay for many prescription drugs.But in a time of political uncertainty, it’s hard to say whether the rules will withstand expected legal challenges from the pharmaceutical industry or whether the incoming Biden administration will accept, amend or try to roll them back entirely.President Donald Trump was announcing the new policy at a White House event.The two finalized rules, long in the making, would:— tie what Medicare pays for medications administered in a doctor's office to the lowest price paid among a group of other economically advanced countries.

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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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Joe Biden wins Georgia, flipping the state for Democrats

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt.The win by Biden pads his Electoral College margin of victory over President Donald Trump. Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on Nov.

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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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Military pay raise at risk in dispute over Confederate bases

WASHINGTON – An annual defense policy measure that has passed Congress every year since the Kennedy administration is in danger of cratering next month over a move by Democrats to rename military bases, such as Fort Benning, that are named after Confederate officers.President Donald Trump opposes renaming bases like Fort Hood and has threatened to veto the popular measure over the provision, which was added to both the House and Senate versions of the so-called defense authorization bill this summer.Republicans are vowing they will not send the broader bill to Trump if if includes language requiring bases named after Confederate officers to be renamed.

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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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Saudi to host online G20 summit amid pandemic, recession

Saudi Arabia hosts the G20 summit Saturday in a first for an Arab nation, but the scaled-down virtual format could limit debate on a resurgent coronavirus pandemic and crippling economic crisis.The two-day meeting of the world's wealthiest nations follows a bitter US election the results of which remain disputed by President Donald Trump and comes amid criticism of what campaigners call the group's inadequate response to the worst recession in decades.Held under the shadow of a raging pandemic, the summit which is usually an opportunity for one-on-one engagements between world leaders, is reduced to brief online sessions on pressing global issues -- from climate change to growing inequality.Discussions are expected to be dominated by the

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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 ally McCarthy is reelected leader of House Republicans

WASHINGTON – Rep. Kevin McCarthy easily won reelection as House Republican leader, a stunning turnaround as the entire GOP leadership team was rewarded by their colleagues for reducing the Democrats’ House advantage in the November 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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Desperate three-mile queues for foodbanks as demand spikes amid Covid-19 job losses

Desperate Americans are forming queues of up to three miles long for foodbanks amid record job losses in the US due to the coronavirus crisis.

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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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Pandemic politics leave DC in gridlock as virus surges

WASHINGTON – With the nation gripped by a resurgent coronavirus and looking to Washington for help, President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress have a message for struggling Americans: Just keep waiting. The urgency of the nationwide surge in virus cases, spiking hospitalizations and increasing death tolls has hardly resonated in the nation’s capital as its leaders are vexed by transition politics and trying to capitalize on the promise of a coming vaccine.

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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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Facebook, Twitter CEOs to be pressed on election handling

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.

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GOP leaders in Pa., 3 other states quash dubious Trump bid on electors

WASHINGTON - Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump.Their comments effectively shut down a half-baked plot some Republicans floated as a last chance to keep Trump in the White House.2020 ELECTION COVERAGEState GOP lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have all said they would not intervene in the selection of electors, who ultimately cast the votes that secure a candidate’s victory.Several noted that such a move would violate state law and a vote of the people.___AdvertisementFor the latest local news, sports and weather, download the FOX 29 News app.DOWNLOAD: FOX

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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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After Trump, will the presidency recede a bit for Americans?

WASHINGTON – Calvin Coolidge, known by some as “Silent Cal” during his time in the White House, used his autobiography to live up to his nickname. “The words of a president,” he wrote in 1929 after leaving office, “have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately."The world is very different now.

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Americans across party lines, regions embrace marijuana

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. But he's also among the majority of South Dakota voters who broadly legalized marijuana this month.

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Women crucial to Biden's win, even as gender gap held steady

Ask Virginia voter Mary Hayes why Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, and she does not hesitate.“Women won this election!” says Hayes, 56, a mother of three and Biden supporter from Leesburg, Virginia. In particular, she credits two categories of voters that she herself is part of: Black women and suburban women.

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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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‘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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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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