projected to win the presidency, defeating President Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, according to projections by the Associated Press and FOX News.

Biden won the battleground state of Pennsylvania by a thin margin after a protracted vote count, according to projections by the news outlets, flipping another key state that voted for Trump in the 2016 election.

President Trump's legal team promises to challenge the results, claiming voter fraud and inconsistencies have corrupted the ballot-counting process in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, though experts say there is no evidence to support those assertions.Biden is expected to speak about the results tonight at 8 p.m.

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Before Joe Biden inauguration, 70,000 more could die from covid-19 in the US

WASHINGTON : US President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to make controlling the coronavirus a top priority and is likely to push for mask wearing mandates and more fiscal stimulus to keep businesses and workers afloat.But in the two months until inauguration day on Jan. 20, skyrocketing infections could add more than 8 million more cases and 70,000 deaths, representing a potential 80% increase in infections and a 29% rise in deaths, according to Reuters calculations.The only ways to change the outcome, experts said, are for President Donald Trump's outgoing administration to alter its strategy or state governments to introduce stricter and more coordinated measures.

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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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Biden gives boost to retiring senator's climate change plan

WASHINGTON – A plan championed by retiring Sen. Tom Udall to harness the nation’s lands and ocean waters to fight climate change is getting a boost from President-elect Joe Biden, who has made slowing global warming a priority for his incoming administration.A New Mexico Democrat, Udall is the last serving member of a political dynasty that has represented the West in Washington for nearly seven decades.

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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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‘It’s like politicizing toilet paper.’ A member of Biden’s COVID-19 panel surveys the task ahead

Warren CornwallScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Céline Gounder has straddled the worlds of medicine, government, and the media: Now, the New York University epidemiologist and infectious disease expert is one of 13 people President-elect Joe Biden has named to a high-profile task force to help steer his response to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to her medical work, Gounder co-hosts a podcast about the pandemic with Ron Klain, Biden’s newly named chief of staff.

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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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Republican senators push for Biden to receive intelligence briefings

WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump refuses to allow President-elect Joe Biden to receive intelligence briefings — even those he was getting during the campaign — an increasing number of Trump's allies are calling for Biden to have access to the information.“I just don’t know of any justification for withholding the briefing," Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said Thursday.“I see no problem with that,” said Iowa Sen.

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Biden has room on health care, though limited by Congress

Joe Biden is unlikely to get sweeping health care changes through a closely divided Congress, but there’s a menu of narrower actions he can choose from to make a tangible difference on affordability and coverage for millions of people.With the balance of power in the Senate hinging on a couple of Georgia races headed to a runoff, and Democrats losing seats in the House, Biden's proposals for a public health insurance option and empowering Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices seem out of reach.

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China congratulates President-elect Joe Biden, one of last major countries to do so

BEIJING - China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to make few changes to U.S.

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Georgia secretary of state to quarantine after wife tests positive for coronavirus as recount starts

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger plans to self-quarantine after finding out his wife tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday. Raffensperger a day earlier announced plans for a hand recount in the state’s presidential election, which saw President-elect Joe Biden and President Trump separated by a little more than 14,000 votes.

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China congratulates Biden on being elected US president

BEIJING – China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected U.S. president.China, along with Russia, avoided joining the throng of governments that congratulated Biden last weekend after he was projected to have secured enough Electoral College votes in the Nov.

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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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Ingraham: Biden's COVID shutdown, globalist 'reset' plans will cripple American freedoms, economy

President-elect Joe Biden appears to be all-in on the globalist idea of a worldwide "reset" to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, Laura Ingraham warned viewers Thursday. "They'd like a new normal, and they don't like that old normal where Americans enjoyed their freedoms, the freedoms we often take for granted, like the right to work, to run a business, to attend school, the right to travel, and so on," said "The Ingraham Angle" host.

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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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Fauci to speak in forum with member of Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force

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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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Key role for Black policy leaders on Biden's transition team

DETROIT – Black policy leaders will play a pivotal role in President-elect Joe Biden’s transition, marking one of the most diverse agency review teams in history.Of the 500-plus team members announced this week, more than half are women, and Black men and women are leading more than one-quarter of the teams.The diversity is significant because the teams will be responsible for evaluating the operations of federal agencies that have a broad impact on Americans' lives. And it's especially important because Biden will take office at a time when the United States is confronting a historic pandemic, joblessness and police brutality -- crises that have disparately impacted Black Americans.

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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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Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski tests positive for COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski has tested positive for the coronavirus.Lewandowski recently traveled to Pennsylvania to assist Trump’s efforts to contest the state’s election results. He said Thursday he believes he was infected in Philadelphia and he's not experiencing any symptoms.Lewandowski appeared with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani at an event last Saturday outside a landscaping company and lobbed unfounded accusations of voter fraud as the race was called for Trump’s challenger, now-President-elect Joe Biden.Lewandowski was also at the election night party at the White House last week linked to several virus cases.Former campaign adviser to U.S.

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Nicola Adams forced to pull out of Strictly after dance partner Katya Jones tests positive for Coronavirus

Nicola Adams and her partner Kayta Jones have been forced to pull out of Strictly Come Dancing after the Russian dancer tested positive for coronavirus.The BBC this afternoon confirmed the couple - the first same-sex pairing in the show’s history - are out of the competition, with both now having to isolate until later in the month.Jones, 31, has tested positive for Covid-19, but did not have any symptoms, the BBC confirmed.The Thick of It: Malcolm Tucker's most scathing putdownsHomer and Marge Simpson channeled for Strictly Come DancingAlec Baldwin delivers Donald Trump concession speech on SNLGeoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench star in As Time Goes ByNaked Attraction contestant walks off set after seeing a naked woman for the first timeNaked

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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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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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US envoy insists pressure on Iran will persist under Biden

ABU DHABI – The U.S. special representative for Iran insisted Thursday a pressure campaign of sanctions targeting Iran would persist into the administration of Joe Biden, even as the president-elect has pledged to potentially return America to Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers.

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World leaders talking to Biden about the virus, other issues

World leaders spoke to President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday about cooperating on the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and other issues, even as President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede complicates the U.S. post-election transition.In his conversations with key Asian allies, Biden seemed intent on easing their uncertainties about a less-engaged Washington, which built up during the four years of Trump’s “America First” approach.A look at their conversations:SOUTH KOREA: The office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Biden during their 14-minute call reaffirmed the U.S.

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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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Biden chooses longtime adviser Ron Klain as chief of staff

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience in the top role in his White House.Klain will lead a White House likely to be consumed by the response to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to spread unchecked across the nation, and he'll face the challenge of working with a divided Congress that could include a Republican-led Senate. Klain served as the coordinator to the Ebola response during the 2014 outbreak.In a statement Wednesday night, Biden suggested he chose Klain for the position because his longtime experience in Washington had prepared him for such challenges.

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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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AP source: Biden chooses Ron Klain as chief of staff

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience across Democratic presidential administrations in the top role in his White House.That's according to a person familiar with the decision who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity to avoid preempting an official announcement.Klain served as chief of staff for Biden during Barack Obama’s first term, was chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore in the mid-1990s and was a key adviser on the Biden campaign, guiding Biden’s debate preparations and coronavirus response.

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President-elect Joe Biden’s first 100 days: COVID-19, economy, climate among likely priorities

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden will enter the White House facing a deeply polarized country amid a global pandemic and its economic fallout. Biden has made a lengthy list of priorities for the first 100 days of his presidency, though the coronavirus will likely rank highest. Days after he was projected as the winner of the presidential race, he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced a COVID-19 advisory board to help spearhead the incoming administration’s pandemic response.The U.S.

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

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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President Trump emerges from White House to mark Veterans Day

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump attends a "National Day of Observance" wreath laying ceremony on November 11, 2020 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

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

Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.In the wake of the dramatic news of a potentially effective COVID-19 vaccine, President Donald Trump posted a flurry of tweets that claimed its makers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Democrats had conspired to suppress the announcement until after the 3 November presidential election.

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Biden's plea for cooperation confronts a polarized Congress

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden feels at home on Capitol Hill, but the place sure has changed since he left. The clubby atmosphere that Biden knew so well during his 36-year Senate career is gone, probably forever.

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Boris Johnson calls Trump 'previous president'

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference in 10 Downing Street on October 31, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali-Pool/Getty Images) LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called Donald Trump the “previous president” of the United States and said it was “refreshing” to talk to President-elect Joe Biden.Johnson has had a warm relationship with Trump.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
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