coronavirus task force.Outgoing President Donald Trump has been accused of not listening to his own health experts on now to combat the deadly disease, allowing it to spread across the nation.Biden on Sunday on his transition website posted about his plans to fight the coronavirus.

His initial plan calls for doubling the number of testing sites, investing in rapid at-home tests, creating a nationwide pandemic dashboard and mobilizing 100,000 Americans for contact tracing.His plan also calls for all governors to issue a mask mandate.Texas Governor Greg Abbott has already issued a mask mandate over the summer.

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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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Trump's Covid vaccine team will not brief Biden administration: US senators

Officials working on vaccine distribution planning under President Donald Trump have no intention of briefing anyone on President-elect Joe Biden's transition team, Democratic senators said on Thursday, as Biden warned the failure to share information would cost lives."Just off a conference call with Trump Administration vaccine distribution team," Senator Chris Murphy said on Twitter. "They confirmed that they have not briefed anyone on President-elect Biden's team and have no plans to do so.

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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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Trump summons Michigan Republican leaders for extraordinary meeting

President Donald Trump announces that Sudan will normalize relations with Israel at the White House in Washington, D.C, on Oct. 23, 2020.

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Biden reaches out to governors as Trump stymies transition

WILMINGTON, Del. – Joe Biden expressed concern Thursday that President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to block the peaceful transition of power at the White House has hindered the flow of information about programs to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine. “Unfortunately, my administration hasn’t been able to get everything we need,” the president-elect said during a video conference with the National Governors Association’s leadership team, which includes five Republicans and four Democrats.

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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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Whoopi Goldberg Says Donald Trump Has ‘Blood On His Hands’ With COVID Spike

COVID cases in the U.S. are increasing and Whoopi Goldberg is clear on who is to blame.

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Wisconsin recount cleared to begin after partisan fight

MILWAUKEE - The Wisconsin Elections Commission has agreed to issue an order to recount ballots in two heavily liberal counties at President Donald Trump's request, but only after hours of contentious debate that may foreshadow the partisan battle ahead.Trump paid the $3 million required for the recount and issuing the order was expected to be a pro forma move, but it took six hours for the commission — split 3-3 along party lines — to agree on the order late Wednesday.“It’s just remarkable the six of us in a civilized fashion can’t agree to this stuff,” Democratic commissioner Mark Thomsen said hours into the debate.The recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties, where Joe Biden outpolled Trump by a more than 2-to-1 margin, will begin Friday

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Approval of Wisconsin recount marked by partisan fight

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Elections Commission late Wednesday, after an hours long often-contentious debate, agreed to issue an order on Thursday to recount ballots cast in Milwaukee and Dane counties as requested by President Donald Trump. Trump paid the $3 million required for the recount and issuing the order was expected to be a pro forma move, but it instead resulted in nearly six hours of arguing.

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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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Trump targets vote certification in late bid to block Biden

WASHINGTON – Getting nowhere in the courts, President 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 centered 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.

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Delay in transition will put coronavirus vaccination plan behind: Biden

Joe Biden has warned that a delay in transition by the outgoing Trump administration will put behind the COVID-19 vaccination plan by "weeks or months".In a virtual roundtable with healthcare workers on COVID-19, Biden alleged on Wednesday that his transition team has not been receiving any cooperation from the Trump administration.President Donald Trump has refused to concede the November 3 US election and has filed multiple lawsuits challenging poll results in several States."One of the problems that we're having now is the failure of the administration to recognise - the law says that the General Services Administration has a person who recognises who the winner is and then they have to have access to all the data and information that

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Acting Pentagon chief cites risks during troop reductions

WASHINGTON – The coming period of U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq is “fraught with risk,” but the military will not hesitate to strike back if extremists attempt to undermine the transition to a smaller U.S.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court takes up Trump challenge to 8K Philly votes

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court said Wednesday that it will take up challenges to more than 8,000 ballots in Philadelphia filed by President Donald Trump's campaign, among the lawsuits launched by the Republican and his allies amid President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state.The high court's five-member Democratic majority agreed to take up the case, at the city's request, and the question of whether state law requires counties to disqualify mail-in or absentee ballots where a voter didn't write certain information.In this case, it involves 8,329 absentee and mail-in ballots where the voter signed their ballot’s outer envelope, but didn't handwrite their name, their address or a date on it.

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FOX News: Pres. Trump to file for partial vote recount in Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump faces a deadline Wednesday to file for a recount in Wisconsin -- and according to a tweet posted on Wednesday morning by John Roberts of FOX News, the president will be filing for that recount in the Badger State -- but it WILL NOT be statewide. Instead, there will be a partial recount in several key counties.According to Roberts, it is not clear which counties will be involved in this recount.Canvassed vote results submitted by all 72 counties show Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump by 20,608 votes.

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Giuliani returns to the courtroom for first time in decades on Trump’s behalf

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - NOVEMBER 07: Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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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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A rusty Giuliani returns to the courtroom on Trump's behalf

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Representing a client inside a courtroom for the first time in nearly three decades, Rudy Giuliani showed some rust as he tried to make the case that President Donald Trump has been robbed of re-election.The former federal prosecutor and New York City mayor, who has taken over Trump's efforts to overturn the election results, entered a courthouse in the small Pennsylvania city of Williamsport on Tuesday with a few dozen Trump supporters cheering him from across the street.Over the next several hours, he fiddled with his Twitter account, forgot which judge he was talking to and threw around wild, unsupported accusations about a nationwide conspiracy by Democrats to steal the election.No such evidence has emerged since

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Biden's DIY transition proceeds without Trump assistance

WILMINGTON, Del. – President Donald Trump's refusal to cooperate with his successor is forcing President-elect Joe Biden to seek unusual workarounds to prepare for the exploding public health threat and evolving national security challenges he will inherit in just nine weeks.Blocked from the official intelligence briefing traditionally afforded to incoming presidents, Biden gathered virtually on Tuesday with a collection of intelligence, defense and diplomatic experts. None of the experts is currently affiliated with the U.S.

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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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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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Cuomo blames drug companies, President Trump for speedy COVID-19 vaccines

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said the speedy process by which coronavirus vaccine trials are being rolled out are being driven both by President Donald Trump’s ego and the profit motivation of the drug companies manufacturing the vaccines.

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Army secretary says wreath-laying event at Arlington back on

WASHINGTON – Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy has reversed the COVID-related cancellation of an annual wreath-laying event at Arlington National Cemetery next month, following criticism on social media and pleas to the White House.President Donald Trump said later Tuesday it was he who had reversed “the ridiculous decision” to cancel the event. “It will now go on!” he tweeted.Each year, volunteers around the country place wreaths on the tombstones and markers of veterans as part of Wreaths Across America.

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The Latest: Trump ally Netanyahu calls Biden president-elect

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):1:20 p.m.Israel’s president and prime minister spoke with Joe Biden on Tuesday for the first time since his victory in the U.S. election, joining other world leaders in referring to him as the president-elect despite President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of Trump, congratulated Biden after the election was called earlier this month but did not refer to him as president-elect then and has avoided commenting on the election results.Israelis have welcomed Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran and his unprecedented support for Israel in the conflict with the Palestinians.

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Many COVID-19 patients insist ‘it’s not real’ until they die, nurse says

COVID-19 for it to kill you.Jodi Doering, an emergency room nurse in South Dakota, has watched that simple truth play out again and again over the last year, as many of her patients have denied the coronavirus‘ existence or their own diagnosis up to their dying breath.Doering described her work as a “horror movie that never ends” on Saturday, in a Twitter thread that provoked hundreds of thousands of reactions. The nurse said she was particularly frustrated by the patients who embraced misinformation around the virus, even as it wracked their bodies and eventually killed them.

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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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NHS nurse who branded coronavirus 'scamdemic' is suspended for spreading conspiracy lies

NHS nurse has been suspended after posting conspiracy theories about coronavirus, and labelling it a "scamdemic".

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Trump asked for options to attack Iran nuclear site, was talked out of it: reports

Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attacking Iran’s main nuclear site, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a U.S. official said on Monday.Trump made the request during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday with his top national security aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, new acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the official said.

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'More people may die': Biden urges Trump to aid transition

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden warned of dire consequences if President Donald Trump and his administration continue to refuse to coordinate with his transition team on the coronavirus pandemic and block briefings on national security, policy issues and vaccine plans.The remarks marked Biden's toughest to date on Trump's failure to acknowledge his election loss and cooperate with the incoming administration for a peaceful transfer of power.“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden told reporters during a news conference Monday in Wilmington, Delaware.Biden and his aides — and a small but growing group of Republicans — have emphasized the importance of being briefed on White House efforts to control the pandemic and

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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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US appeals court weighs law on supervised injection sites

PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court became the latest panel to wrestle with the nation’s opioid epidemic as judges reviewed a long-debated plan Monday to open a medically supervised injection site in Philadelphia. U.S.

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Biden set to address plans for economy as pandemic rages

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden is set to outline his plans to revive the nation's economy in the midst of a global health crisis on Monday as he pushes forward with his transition to the White House despite President Donald Trump's refusal to accept the election results.Biden, who will take office on Jan. 20, is scheduled to speak alongside Vice President-elect Kamala Harris from his makeshift headquarters in Delaware.

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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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Trump campaign withdraws key claim in Pennsylvania suit

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about Operation Warp Speed in the Rose Garden at the White House on November 13, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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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 tweets words 'he won;' says vote rigged, not conceding

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump worked Sunday to take back an apparent acknowledgement that Joe Biden won the White House and was making clear he would keep trying to overturn the election result. Trump's earlier comments had given some critics and supporters hope that the White House was ready to begin working on a transition with Biden's team.

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US coronavirus cases pass 11 million with 1m in just one week as Donald Trump plays golf

The US has hit another grim milestone in the fight against coronavirus as 11 million Americans have now been infected by the deadly disease - and one million of those in the last week alone.

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North Dakota nurses worry about working with colleagues diagnosed with COVID-19

FILE - A mask sits on the table as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Colorado Governor Jared Polis in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday May 13, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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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

Texas becomes first US state to surpass one million coronavirus cases

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