Coronavirus captured India's attention this year amid the concern about the pandemic, with a huge surge in queries related to the virus and the disease on search engine Google.While the excitement around the Indian Premier League (IPL) made it the top trending query, presidential elections in the US also triggered significant searches along with Bihar and Delhi assembly polls.

US President-elect Joe Biden was among the top trending personalities, along with TV journalist Arnab Goswami, as per Google India's 'Year in Search' results, announced on Wednesday.Google's initiative offers a unique perspective of the queries internet users ask of the search engine.IPL, US elections, lockdowns, locust attack, the Beirut explosion and bushfires in.

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Supreme Court rejects Republican attack on Biden victory

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court and subvert the will of voters.Trump bemoaned the decision late Friday, tweeting: “The Supreme Court really let us down.

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Texas GOP chair says 'law-abiding states' should 'form a union' after SCOTUS rejects election suit

AUSTIN, Texas - The chairman of the Texas Republican Party is reacting to the Supreme Court's rejection of Texas' lawsuit to overturn Joe Biden's election victory.In a statement, Chairman Allen West said that by tossing out the lawsuit, the Supreme Court "has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law".DOWNLOAD THE FOX 7 AUSTIN NEWS APPAllen West SIGN UP FOR FOX 7 AUSTIN EMAIL ALERTS"This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable," West said.

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AP source: Cuomo among contenders for attorney general pick

WASHINGTON – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is one of several contenders under consideration by President-elect Joe Biden for the role of attorney general, a person with knowledge of the search process said Friday.The other three contenders at the moment include former Alabama Sen.

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Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit to overturn Biden's election victory

(LEFT) President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec.

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The Latest: Biden urges public to have confidence in vaccine

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):3:05 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden says the American public should have confidence in a coronavirus vaccine that may soon begin to become available.Biden said during remarks Friday in Wilmington that combatting the pandemic is “serious business” that requires “presidential leadership.”On Thursday, a U.S.

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Wisconsin state court judge rules against Trump lawsuit

(LEFT) President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec.

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Biden unveils top picks with deep Obama administration ties

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden is introducing five top picks for his new administration on Friday, drawing on leading names from the Obama White House while also tapping an Ohio congresswoman and a congressional committee veteran.Appearing at the afternoon event are Biden's choice for director of White House Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice, who served as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and U.N. ambassador; and Denis McDonough, Obama’s White House chief of staff, now nominated as veterans affairs secretary.

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Pennsylvania blasts Texas’ bid to overturn Bidens' election win

HARRISBURG - Lawyers for Pennsylvania responded in the U.S.

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Time magazine names Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Person of the Year

SAN FRANCISCO - Highly anticipated? Maybe. Tradition? Definitely.

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Trump to meet state attorneys general joining in suit to overturn election results

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thanksgiving on November 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to let him join an improbable lawsuit challenging election results in Pennsylvania and other states that he lost, a day after the justices rejected a last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.The high court has asked for responses by Thursday.

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Wisconsin courts to consider President Trump's election lawsuits

This combination of pictures created on November 4, 2020 shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures after speaking during election night at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, and US President Donald Trump speaks during election n MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Thursday, with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner.Trump's attorneys are urging the courts to act quickly so he can appeal any adverse ruling before members of the Electoral College meet on Monday and cast Wisconsin's 10 votes for

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Chris Rock calls on Joe Biden to create 'Supreme Court of Science' to handle any crisis like the coronavirus

Chris Rock called on President-elect Joe Biden to institute a fourth branch of government dedicated to science in order to combat another crisis like the coronavirus pandemic in a bipartisan way. The comedian and former “Saturday Night Live” star spoke with Deadline about his role on the fourth season of the FX drama “Fargo,” where he played a 1950s mobster in Missouri.The conversation turned to the difficult year that was 2020 as well as his thoughts on the outcome of the election. “I don’t know. When Biden won, I wasn’t jumping for joy.

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Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win

The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Government file photo) HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground.The court without comment refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania.

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Hunter Biden tax probe examining Chinese business dealings

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is investigating the finances of President-elect Joe Biden’s son, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese business dealings and other transactions, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.The revelations put a renewed spotlight on questions about Hunter Biden’s financial history, which dogged his father’s successful White House campaign and were a frequent target of President Donald Trump and his allies. They also come at a politically delicate time for the president-elect, who is weighing his choice to lead an agency that is actively investigating his son.The tax investigation was launched in 2018, the year before the elder Biden announced his candidacy for president.

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YouTube cracks down on misinformation, will remove content that alleges widespread voter fraud in election

President-elect Joe Biden (L) and President Donald Trump (R) (Photos by ANGELA WEISS and MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images) More than a month after the U.S. presidential election, YouTube says it will start removing newly uploaded material that claims widespread voter fraud or errors changed the outcome.The Google-owned video service said Wednesday that this is in line with how it has dealt with past elections.

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Gutfeld on Democrats delaying COVID relief to win an election

The Democrats — from the party of rich liberals — admit they turned down massive COVID-19 relief that would help you because an election was near.They knew if they kept Americans in pain that would hurt President Trump, and therefore help Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. First, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spilled the beans.

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Hunter Biden facing federal investigation over his 'tax affairs'

(Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA) WILMINGTON, Del. - The Justice Department’s investigation scrutinizing Hunter Biden’s taxes has been examining some of his Chinese business dealings, among other financial transactions, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The investigation was launched in 2018, a year before his father, Joe Biden, announced his candidacy for president, but it isn’t clear which entities might be tied up in the probe, and the inquiry was not disclosed to Hunter Biden until Tuesday.The younger Biden has a history of international affairs and business dealings in a number of countries, and the revelation of a federal investigation puts a renewed spotlight on

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Trump election dispute puts Republicans into contradictions

President Donald Trump speaks from the Rose Garden at the White House, Nov. 13, 2020.

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President-elect Joe Biden calls for action on coronavirus as he introduces health team

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action on the coronavirus pandemic as he introduced a health care team that will be tested at every turn while striving to restore the nation to normalcy.Biden laid out three COVID-19 priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to voluntarily mask up during those 100 days, a commitment to administer 100 million vaccines and a pledge to try to reopen a majority of the nation's schools.“I know that out of our collective pain, we will find our collective purpose: to control the pandemic, to save lives, and to heal as a nation," Biden said.The president-elect also said he would use the power of the federal government to require people to wear

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Most states have certified their U.S. election results. Here’s what happens next

Joe Biden has gotten another step closer to being declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election.Tuesday marked the “safe harbour” deadline in federal law that states had to meet to ensure Congress would be essentially required to accept their certified election results.Other than Wisconsin — where a lawsuit from President Donald Trump and his campaign is pending — every state in the country appears to have met that deadline, which comes six days before members of the Electoral College meet to cast their votes.

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Virginia's McAuliffe to make gubernatorial bid official

RICHMOND, Va. – Terry McAuliffe is trying to get his old job back.The former Virginia governor is set to announce a formal bid for governor Wednesday morning in Richmond, according to a McAuliffe aide who was not authorized to speak publicly about the campaign.McAuliffe, once best known as a top Democratic money man and close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s, will enter an already crowded Democratic primary. The governor's race in Virginia will be one of the country's marquee political contests next year, serving as a barometer of the public mood during President-elect Joe Biden's first year in office.

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Arizona's Supreme Court upholds Biden's win after GOP challenge

MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. - It was further affirmed that Democratic President-elect Joe Biden won Arizona's 11 electoral votes on Tuesday, Dec.

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Biden promises 100 million COVID-19 vaccines in first 100 days

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - NOVEMBER 10: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden addresses the media about the Trump Administration’s lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act on November 10, 2020 at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Dominion Voting Systems responds to claims its 2020 election support wasn't accurate or secure

responded to the complaints on its website Monday.In the days after the election, Trump referenced an OAN report on Twitter that accused Dominion of “deleting” large numbers of his votes or “switching” them to count for Joe Biden — one of many baseless theories suggesting vote counting problems that the president has been promoting.

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The Latest: Biden vows 100 million shots in first 100 days

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):2:20 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden is promising to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to 100 million people during the first three months of his incoming administration, pledging “100 million shots in the first 100 days.”At an event from Delaware to introduce his pandemic response team on Tuesday, Biden laid out his top three priorities for the start of his new government.

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Trump to hold White House COVID-19 vaccine summit as Biden introduces health team

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will hold a coronavirus vaccine summit on Tuesday at the White House as President-elect Joe Biden, who was not invited to the event, formally introduces his health team. The “Operation Warp Speed” summit will feature Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and a host of government experts, state leaders and business executives who will outline U.S. vaccine distribution plans.The Trump administration is aiming to instill public confidence by holding the summit, as well as claim major credit for the forthcoming vaccines.

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Trump adviser Peter Navarro repeatedly violated Hatch Act, special counsel says

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal watchdog agency on Monday reported that one of President Donald Trump’s economic advisers repeatedly violated the law during the campaign season with his criticisms of Joe Biden, now the president-elect.The Hatch Act prevents federal employees from engaging in political work while performing their official duties. The agency charged with enforcing the act said that Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, used his position to influence the 2020 presidential election through his statements in television interviews and on social media.RELATED: US fully restores protections for DACA applicants“His comments were directed at undermining Mr.

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Jill Biden will back debt-free community college as student debt nears $1.7 trillion: report

Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Jill Biden will advocate for debt-free community college as first lady, a source close to President-elect Joe Biden's wife told Yahoo News. “That is what she would like to see.

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Biden's health team offers glimpse of his COVID-19 strategy

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden's choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nation’s COVID-19 strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science and an emphasis on equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments.With Monday's announcement of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his health secretary and a half dozen other key appointments, Biden aims to leave behind the personality dramas that sometimes flourished under President Donald Trump.

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New Jersey certifies vote showing Joe Biden's victory

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks on November job numbers at the Queen theater December 4, 2020 Wilmington, Delaware.

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2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd

to worldwide protests, for the first time engaging many people who considered the issue of police misconduct mostly abstract.HOSPITAL OVERLOADWeary nurses and doctors treating coronavirus-stricken patients poured out their frustration as hospitals were overwhelmed by the surging disease and the staggering number of lives that couldn’t be saved. “I’m broken.

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Rudy Giuliani in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus

Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Donald Trump’s inner circle to contract the disease that is now surging across the U.S.Giuliani was exhibiting some symptoms and was admitted Sunday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly. Rudy Giuliani says he’s ‘recovering quickly’ after contracting coronavirus The 76-year-old former New York mayor has traveled extensively to battleground states in an effort to help Trump subvert his election loss to Joe Biden.

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The Latest: Biden names prominent allies as inaugural chairs

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):9 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden is naming some of his most prominent allies to be the co-chairs for his upcoming Inauguration.Biden named Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) as the chairman for the Jan.

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Trump cementing death penalty legacy up to Biden inaugural

CHICAGO – As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is throttling up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

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In Georgia, Loeffler again refuses to say Trump lost

ATLANTA – Sen. Kelly Loeffler repeatedly refused to acknowledge that President Donald Trump lost reelection in November, as she debated her Democratic opponent, Rev.

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Fauci's plea 'Wear a mask' tops list of 2020 notable quotes

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A plea from Dr. Anthony Fauci for people to “wear a mask” to slow the spread of the coronavirus tops a Yale Law School librarian’s list of the most notable quotes of 2020.The list assembled by Fred Shapiro, an associate director at the library, is an annual update to “The Yale Book of Quotations,” which was first published in 2006.

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Biden picks Calif. AG Becerra to lead HHS, pandemic response

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration's coronavirus response. Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious disease expert, Dr.

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Biden picks California attorney general to lead U.S. health department, COVID-19 response

Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response.Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious disease expert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.If confirmed by the Senate, Becerra, 62, will be the first Latino to head the Department of Health and Human Services, a US$1-trillion-plus agency with 80,000 employees and a portfolio that includes drugs and vaccines, leading-edge medical research and health insurance programs covering more than 130 million Americans.

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Biden picks Calif. AG to be first Latino health secretary

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Trump says lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for Covid-19

US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive for Covid-19, Mr Trump has said.

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Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus, says Donald Trump

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, has tested positive for coronavirus, according to Donald Trump.

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Pressure mounts on Biden to make diverse picks for top posts

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U.S. experts hope Biden team will develop national coronavirus testing strategy

coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden’s administration will put in place something Donald Trump’s has not — a comprehensive national testing strategy.Such a strategy, they say, could systematically check more people for infections and spot surges before they take off.

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Biden to meet with U.S. coronavirus vaccine adviser this week, official says

coronavirus vaccines said on Sunday he planned to meet with President-elect Joe Biden this week to discuss coronavirus vaccines as they are expected to be rolled out to the first Americans later this month.Moncef Slaoui, Operation Warp Speed chief adviser, said he has not yet met with Biden, who has criticized the Trump administration’s vaccine distribution plan.“We really look forward to it because actually things have been really very appropriately planned,” Slaoui said in an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Biden to immediately ask Americans for 100 days of wearing masks after swearing-in Biden said on Friday his team had not seen a detailed plan from the Trump administration to distribute vaccine to various states.“There is no

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U.S. inauguration planners rethink how to celebrate amid coronavirus pandemic

coronavirus is about to collide with what is typically one of America’s biggest celebrations of all: the swearing-in of a new president.While lots of details are still to be worked out, this Jan. 20 is sure to be more subdued than prior inauguration days.

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Trump challenges vote results while urging turnout in Ga.

VALDOSTA – President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month’s voting in Georgia and beyond even as he pushed supporters to turn out for a pair of Republican Senate candidates in a runoff election in January.“Let them steal Georgia again, you’ll never be able to look yourself in the mirror,” Trump told rallygoers. Trump's 100-minute rally before thousands of largely maskless supporters came not long after he was rebuffed by Georgia’s Republican governor in his astounding call for a special legislative session to give him the state’s electoral votes, even though President-elect Joe Biden won the majority of the vote.

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Country's oldest newspaper, Hartford Courant, closes newsroom amid COVID-19 pandemic

A generic view of English national newspapers (Photo by Lewis Stickley/PA Images via Getty Images) HARTFORD, Conn. - The Hartford Courant, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States, plans to close the newsroom and offices it has been operating out of since the mid-1940s by the end of the year.President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 4 discussed the U.S.

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Twitter weighs in on whether Trump could be banned after leaving office

US President Donald Trump listens during a Medal of Freedom ceremony for retired football Lou Holtz in the Oval Office of the White House December 3, 2020, in Washington, DC.

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Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
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