WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):9:15 a.m.Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was just reelected in South Carolina, says he's donating $1 million of his campaign money to help two GOP senators win runoff races in neighboring Georgia.Graham told Fox News Channel's “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that Republicans need to counter a “tsunami of liberal money” flowing into Georgia ahead of the Jan.

5 runoff elections, which will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control the Senate. Democrats already control the House, and Democrat Joe Biden is the president-elect after beating President Donald Trump in their White House contest.In the Georgia runoffs, Democrat Jon Ossoff is looking to unseat Republican.

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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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GOP captures second Democratic US House seat in California

LOS ANGELES – Republican Young Kim defeated U.S. Rep.

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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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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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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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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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EXPLAINER: Is Georgia's upcoming ballot 'audit' a recount?

ATLANTA – Georgia says it’s going to be tallying — by hand — nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in its very close presidential election on Nov. 3.

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California Senate sweepstakes: Who gets Kamala Harris' job?

LOS ANGELES – Election Day is over but California already is consumed with its next high-profile political contest — the competition to fill Kamala Harris’ soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat.In this race only one vote matters, because there is only one vote.

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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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Dems, GOP take different approaches on Georgia Senate blitz

ATLANTA – Jon Ossoff took the stage in Columbus and looked out over a parking lot filled with cars, with supporters blaring their horns in approval as he declared that “change has come to Georgia.”Hours earlier, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler stepped to a microphone in suburban Atlanta and addressed hundreds of eager supporters packed into the Cobb County GOP headquarters.

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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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Balance of power: Democrats’ Senate hopes narrow as they cling to House control

Kansas and Montana, dramatically limiting the places where Democrats hoped to make inroads.FILE - Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are seen on the East Front of the Capitol after a memorial service for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 25, 2020.

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Who pays for recounts in presidential elections?

LOS ANGELES - Joe Biden was projected as the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, but with razor-thin margins in a few key battleground states, including Georgia, a recount is already underway. But who pays for recounts in a presidential election?The rules around paying for recounts are not the same across the board.

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Incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan wins Alaska, giving Republicans half of US Senate seats

ANCHORAGE, A.K. - Incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan will keep his seat on the U.S.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis expands emergency for ‘erratic’ Eta

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Pointing to the “erratic nature” of the storm as it threatened a large part of Florida’s west coast, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday expanded a state of emergency and asked President Donald Trump for a federal emergency declaration as Tropical Storm Eta prepared to make landfall Thursday.Tropical-storm and storm-surge warnings and a hurricane watch were in effect Wednesday for much of the state’s west coast, including the Tampa metropolitan area.

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With GOP win in Alaska, control of Senate pushes to January

WASHINGTON – Control of the Senate won’t be decided until the new year after Republicans won a seat in Alaska on Wednesday. Neither party can lock the majority until January runoffs in Georgia.

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The Latest: Biden marks Veterans Day at Korean War Memorial

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):11:25 a.m.Joe Biden is marking Veterans Day with a visit to the Korean War Memorial in Philadelphia.The president-elect is making a brief foray out with his wife, Jill, to the memorial, where he is laying a wreath.Biden’s son Beau was a major in the Delaware Army National Guard and died in 2015 of brain cancer.

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Analysis: GOP lets doubts about Biden's legitimacy flourish

WASHINGTON – In backing President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud, Republicans risk leaving millions of Americans with the false impression that the results of the 2020 race are illegitimate.And that may be the point.None of Trump's legal challenges and assertions of voting irregularities has revealed any substantive issues with the election that would overturn the results. And some GOP lawmakers and party officials privately acknowledge that Trump has no choice but to step aside by Jan.

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GOP presses ahead after election with Russia probe review

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump may have lost his bid for reelection, but that hasn’t stopped Senate Republicans from pressing forward with their politically charged probe of the FBI’s Russia investigation. The latest burst of activity came Tuesday when the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee grilled former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe about an investigation that was begun even before the 2016 presidential election.

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GOP unveils $1.4T spending bill amid post-election turmoil

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.

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FDA gives emergency OK to Eli Lilly antibody treatment for COVID-19

WASHINGTON – U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental approach against the virus that has killed more than 238,000 Americans.The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared the experimental drug from Eli Lilly for people 12 and older with mild or moderate COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization.

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GOP backs Trump as he fights election results, transition

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud. Some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, rallied behind Trump's efforts to fight the election results.

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'This is proof': Biden's win reveals power of Black voters

DETROIT – Power. Respect.

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Stacey Abrams raises millions for Democrats in Georgia Senate runoff

Stacey Abrams poses for a picture, after her speech at the National Press Club Headliners Luncheon in Washington, D.C. (Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)ATLANTA - Stacey Abrams says she and her organization Fair Fight have raised millions since Friday to help Democrats in their attempt to win Georgia's two Senate runoff elections.The one-time candidate for Georgia governor tweeted Monday morning that her group has raised $6 million so far for the campaigns of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and the Rev.

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The Latest: Ousted vaccine expert on Biden virus task force

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):7:25 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden has announced the members of his coronavirus task force, which will put together a blueprint for fighting the pandemic.The co-chairs are former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, former Food Drug Administration Commissioner Dr.

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Trump’s election night party becomes latest White House coronavirus cluster

election night watch party in the White House East Room has become another symbol of President Donald Trump’s cavalier attitude toward the coronavirus, which is ripping across the nation and infecting more than 100,000 people a day.Polls suggest that attitude was a serious drag on the president’s reelection bid as voters chose to deny Trump a second term in favor of his Democratic rival, now President-Elect Joe Biden. And the party — with few masks and no social distancing — is now under additional scrutiny after the president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, became the latest top White House official to contract the virus, which has now killed more than 237,000 people in the U.S.

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For Biden, how to help mangled economy is next obstacle

BALTIMORE – Joe Biden will inherit a mangled U.S. economy — one that never fully healed from the coronavirus and could suffer again as new infections are climbing.The once robust recovery has shown signs of gasping after federal aid lapsed.

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Chatham County judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A Georgia judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the state Republican Party and President Donald Trump's campaign that asked him to ensure a coastal county was following state laws on processing absentee ballots.Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass did not provide an explanation for his decision Thursday at the close of a roughly one-hour hearing. Chatham County includes the heavily Democratic city of Savannah.The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots.

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Stacey Abrams credited for boosting Democrats in Georgia

ATLANTA – Stacey Abrams spent years working to convince political power players that Georgia is a genuine two-party battleground, a Deep South state where the left could compete if it organized Black voters, other sporadic voters and stopped apologizing for being Democrats.She was right.President-elect Joe Biden is on track to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state in nearly three decades. The state's two U.S.

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2020 election: Clyburn says Trump, GOP should accept Biden win

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) speaks during a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other members of House Democratic Leadership on Capitol Hill on January 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON - The highest-ranking Black member of Congress says President Donald Trump should concede the presidency to President-elect Joe Biden, although he says it’s more crucial what the rest of the Republican Party does in the wake of the 2020 election.RELATED: After President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss, can he run again in 2024?U.S.

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The Latest: Biden launching teams to review federal agencies

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):9 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden will launch an “agency review teams” this coming week. It's the group of transition staffers that have access to key agencies in the current administration to smooth the transfer of power.The teams will collect and review information such as budgetary and staffing decisions, pending regulations and other work in progress from current staff at the federal departments.

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Fight for Senate control awaits in Georgia after Biden's win

WASHINGTON – Control of the Senate likely won’t be decided until a January runoff in Georgia, even after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House on Saturday.That post-election cliff-hanger will determine the balance of power in Washington, as neither party appears to have a lock on a Senate majority right now.So far, the tally for the next Senate is 48 Republicans and 48 Democrats after Tuesday's election. Two seats in Georgia are headed to runoffs on Jan.

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Balance of power: VP-elect Kamala Harris to become potential tie-breaking Senate vote

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Joe Biden won the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, according to projections by the Associated Press and FOX News. Biden’s projected win catapults California Sen.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom congratulates Kamala Harris on projected White House victory

Kamala Harris speaks at the IBEW Local Union 58 on Oct. 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Michigan Gov. Whitmer congratulates Biden, pledges to beat 'common enemy' COVID-19

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pledged to work with President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to combat the coronavirus pandemic in a congratulatory message Saturday following his victory over President Trump in the 2020 election.

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EXPLAINER: Why AP called the 2020 election for Joe Biden

WASHINGTON – WHY AP CALLED THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR BIDEN:As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House. Late-counted ballots in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to keep Biden in the lead and offered him multiple paths to victory.

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2020 Latest: Trump at Virginia club as vote counts continue

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):10:45 a.m.States are still counting votes in the presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden is on the verge of victory and President Donald Trump is at his Virginia golf club for the first time since the end of September.Trump left the White House on Saturday morning and had on golf shoes, a windbreaker and a white hat.The White House isn't immediately responding to questions about the president's possible golfing partners.There were a few people with Biden flag banners outside the club entrance when Trump arrived.Trump also has spent the morning tweeting about his unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud and illegal voting.

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Joe Biden widens lead in Georgia as vote count continues

ATLANTA - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continues to expand his lead in Georgia after what could be the final data dump from the state's most populous county.As of Saturday morning, the new vote totals from Fulton County brings the former vice president's current lead in Georgia to 7,248, adding more distance from Friday when the state first swung in favor of the Democratic candidate due to Clayton County."I could not be more pleased with the results we have here today," Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron said.Biden claimed nearly 4,000 of the additional 5,100 votes published overnight, which included provisional ballots and votes from members of the military and those overseas.With the race still tight in Georgia,

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U.S. election: Senate control up in air as Georgia races head to January runoffs

Georgia headed to runoff elections.Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan.

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U.S. election: Here’s how close 5 battleground states are to finishing ballot counts

Joe Biden‘s margins over Republican President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to grow Friday night into Saturday, as the vote counts in five battleground states trickled in. Biden says ‘we’re going to win’ U.S.

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Suspended animation: Count drags on as Biden nears victory

WASHINGTON – Four days after the election, the U.S. presidential race hovered in suspended animation Saturday as the long, exacting work of counting votes brought Democrat Joe Biden ever closer to a victory over President Donald Trump.

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Trump, GOP test out rallying cry: Count the 'legal' votes

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and some of his Republican supporters are testing out a rallying cry for his uphill fight to reverse the lead that Joe Biden holds in key battleground states: count all “legal” votes.The language is freighted with a clear implication, namely that Democrats want illegal votes counted, a claim for which there is no evidence.But it underscores Trump's strategic imperatives as Biden closes in on securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, tactics that are rooted more in political messaging than legal precedent.“It’s not the use of the word ‘legal’ vote, it's the constant insinuation that there are so many illegal or fraudulent votes out there," said Rick Hasen, a professor of law

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‘We’re not enemies, we’re Americans’: Biden speaks as US awaits 2020 election results

WILMINGTON, Del. - Presidential candidate Joe Biden addressed the country Friday night in a primetime speech. "While we're waiting for the final results, I want people to know we're not waiting to get work done," he said.He called for Americans to unite saying that the "vast majority" of Americans want to "get the vitriol out of politics." He added that his responsibility as president would be to "represent the whole nation.""We may not be opponents, but we're not enemies. We're Americans," he said. "I've never been more optimistic about the future of this nation.

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Perdue, Ossoff head to Georgia US Senate runoff

ATLANTA – Republican U.S. Sen.

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Kamala Harris to take stage before Joe Biden in primetime speech Friday

WILMINGTON, Del. - Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will deliver remarks ahead of presidential candidate Joe Biden Friday night in a primetime speech. Harris has appeared alongside Biden during his remarks in recent days but has not made any public comments herself on the state of the race as the votes continue to be tabulated in several key battleground states. Biden has pulled ahead in both Pennsylvania and Georgia, and a projection in his favor in either state would put him over the electoral vote threshold required to win the presidency.A campaign official confirmed Harris will speak Friday night before Biden does.

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