WASHINGTON – The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):4:05 p.m.President Donald Trump has fruitlessly pressed Georgia’s governor to call a special legislative session aimed at overturning the presidential election results in that state.Trump made his request iof Gov.

Brian Kemp in a phone call on Saturday, and the governor refused. That is according to a senior government official in Georgia with knowledge of the call who was not authorized to discuss the private conversation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

A person close to the White House who was briefed on the matter verified that account of the call.Trump’s request was first reported by The Washington Post.Trump’s fixation with his defeat is overshadowing his.

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Federal court dismisses Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn Biden’s Wisconsin win

Donald Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney was arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that liberal justices said “smacks of racism” and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters only in the state’s most diverse counties.U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig, a Trump appointee, dismissed Trump’s federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Trump the winner over Democrat Joe Biden.

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Federal judge rejects Trump campaign lawsuit to overturn 2020 election results in Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney was arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that liberal justices said “smacks of racism” and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters only in the state’s most diverse counties.U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed Trump’s federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Trump the winner over Democrat Joe Biden.

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Critics of Electoral College push for popular vote compact

SALEM, Ore. – When the Electoral College meets Monday, its detractors hope it marks the beginning of the end of a system that twice this century has vaulted the loser of the popular vote to the presidency.This year's presidential race provides the latest motivation for change to supporters of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. While Democrat Joe Biden scored a decisive win over President Donald Trump in both the popular vote and Electoral College, the race came down to narrow margins in a handful of swing states.

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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 ended Trump’s presidency after one term — and here’s why

Our study examining the effect of COVID-19 cases on county-level voting in the United States shows that the pandemic led to Trump’s defeat on Nov. 3.

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Trump loyalists converging again on Washington over election

WASHINGTON – Supporters of President Donald Trump are returning to Washington for a pair of rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost. The rallies Saturday come a month after a pro-Trump demonstration that drew at least 10,000 people to the capital.

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Trump largely mum on toll of coronavirus as he continues to fight election results

Donald Trump has been highlighting lots of really big numbers this week: New highs for the stock market. The 100-plus House members backing a lawsuit challenging his election loss.

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Wisconsin high court to hold rare weekend session for Trump election challenge

Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state.The high court agreed to take the case at Trump’s urgent request Friday, soon after a state judge ruled against him and with Monday’s Electoral College vote bearing down and the state’s 10 electoral votes about to go to Biden. U.S.

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U.S. election: Supreme Court rejects Texas-led bid to overturn results for Trump

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit led by the Texas attorney general and backed by President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the presidential election on Friday evening.

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas-led bid to overturn election results for Trump

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.The high court’s order was a stark repudiation of a legal claim that was widely regarded as dubious, yet embraced by the president, 19 Republican state attorneys general and 126 House Republicans.Trump had insisted the court would find the “wisdom” and “courage” to adopt his baseless position that the election was the product of widespread fraud and should be overturned.

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Coronavirus: Trump calls US approval of Pfizer vaccine “medical miracle”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday spoke just a short time after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use authorization.

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Researchers decry Trump picks for education sciences advisory board

Jeffrey MervisOne month before his term expires, President Donald Trump has revived a moribund federal education research advisory panel by appointing eight members who appear to have no expertise in the subject area.The National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) provides guidance to the director of the Institute for Education Science (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

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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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As he rails on election, Trump largely mum on toll of virus

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has been highlighting lots of really big numbers this week: New highs for the stock market. The 100-plus House members backing a lawsuit challenging his election loss.

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White House presses Hahn to approve vaccine by end of day

WILMINGTON, Del. – White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Friday pressed Food and Drug Administration chief Stephen Hahn to grant an emergency use authorization for Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine by the end of the day. The vaccine won approval Thursday from an FDA panel of outside advisers, and signoff from the FDA is the next step needed to get the shots to the public.

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Congress passes gov't funding bill to avoid shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress shipped a temporary government-wide funding bill to President Donald Trump on Friday, averting a government shutdown at midnight and buying time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 relief.The bill, which sets a new shutdown deadline of midnight next Friday, passed the Senate by a unanimous voice vote Senate vote that came without much drama despite and sent rank-and-file senators home for the weekend with no clear picture of what awaits next week.President Donald Trump is expected to sign the bill.The passing of the bill came as an emerging $900 billion COVID-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers has all but collapsed after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators won't

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Senate approves defense bill, sends to Trump despite his threats to veto it

FILE - Aerial view of the Pentagon building photographed on Sept. 24, 2017.

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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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Trump returns to court in Wisconsin as time running out

MADISON, Wis. – President Donald Trump's campaign was returning to a Wisconsin court on Friday to argue for the state's election results to be overturned, with the Electoral College vote just three days away and a skeptical federal judge nearing a ruling on a similar case.Trump was pushing to overturn Joe Biden's narrow win in Wisconsin with both a state and federal lawsuit in courts there and as part of a broader lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the Texas attorney general.

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Trump administration plans 2nd execution as many days

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck’s windows and dashboard.Lawyers for 56-year-old Alfred Bourgeois say he has an IQ that puts him in the intellectually disabled category and they contend that should have made him ineligible for the death penalty under federal law.Bourgeois would be the 10th federal death-row inmate put to death since federal executions resumed under President Donald Trump in July after a 17-year hiatus.

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Over 100 GOP members of Congress sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit

election is demonstrating U.S. President Donald Trump’s enduring political power even as his term is set to end.

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Hundreds of GOP members sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit

HOUSTON – The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.The last-gasp bid to subvert the results of the Nov.

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Sen. Rand Paul delays defense bill vote over troop drawdowns

WASHINGTON – A Senate vote on a wide-ranging defense policy bill was delayed after Kentucky Republican Rand Paul objected to the measure, casting the next steps in doubt and raising the slim prospect of a government shutdown if a short-term spending bill caught up in the dispute is not approved by Friday.Paul said on the Senate floor that he opposes provisions in the defense bill that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to draw down U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Germany.

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In Arizona, Trump's false claims have torn open a GOP rift

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey spent much of Donald Trump's presidency trying not to provoke confrontation with the president or his fervent defenders.

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U.S. election: How legitimate are the Trump lawsuits?

The Donald Trump campaign has launched lawsuits in several states — including Georgia, Nevada and Michigan — in an attempt to stop vote counting and invalidate ballots that have yet to be counted in the 2020 Presidential Election. Jasmine Pazzano explains whether the campaign’s claims are legitimate and if it has a chance of winning the cases.

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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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Rudy Giuliani boasts of same ‘celebrity’ care as Trump after COVID-19 hospital stay

Donald Trump‘s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, left the hospital Thursday after boasting about the “celebrity” treatment he received for COVID-19, including a rare dose of the same drugs that helped the president.Giuliani, 76, received two experimental drug cocktails that were used to get Trump back on his feet following his positive COVID-19 diagnosis in October, the New York Times reports. The same treatments were also handed out to Trump allies Ben Carson and Chris Christie, at a time when some hospitals are holding lotteries for use of the drugs.“If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital, frankly,” Giuliani told WABC New York from the hospital on Wednesday.

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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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Sidney Powell unrelenting in legal battle on Trump's behalf

ATLANTA – Conservative attorney Sidney Powell has been unrelenting in her battle on behalf of President Donald Trump and the Americans who have pledged their faith in him, regardless of the facts of the 2020 election – namely, that Joe Biden won. She’s filed a series of lawsuits in battleground states that have been rejected by the courts and even, apparently, was too much for Trump – she was dropped from his campaign legal team last month after making incorrect statements about the voting process and promising to “blow up” Georgia with a “biblical” lawsuit.

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Trump announces Israel-Morocco to normalize relations

WASHINGTON – Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, marking the fourth Arab-Israel agreement in four months. As part of the deal, the U.S.

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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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The Latest: Biden to campaign in Georgia for Senate runoffs

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):7 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden is heading to Georgia to campaign for the Democratic candidates in the state's two critical U.S. Senate runoffs.Biden says he'll travel to Atlanta on Tuesday to support Jon Ossoff, the Rev.

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President Trump cementing death penalty legacy up to Biden inaugural

CHICAGO, Ill. - As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting 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.If the five go off as planned, it will make 13 executions since July when the Republican administration resumed putting inmates to death after a 17-year hiatus and will cement Trump’s legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years.

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Trump virus coordinator Birx seeks role in Biden government

WASHINGTON – When Dr. Deborah Birx was brought into President Donald Trump’s orbit to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, she had a sterling reputation as a former U.S.

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Despite Trump's venting and threats, Biden's win is sealed

WASHINGTON – There’s plenty of noise but no cause for confusion as President Donald Trump vents about how the election turned out and vows to subvert it even still.This truth is self-evident: Joe Biden is on track to become president Jan. 20.

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Trump, 17 states join Texas’ attempt to overturn U.S. election loss at Supreme Court

Donald Trump and 17 states on Wednesday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four states.Trump, defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov.

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Wisconsin courts to consider Trump's election lawsuits

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 Biden. Attorneys for Gov.

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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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‘I wasn’t drunk’: Trump fraud ‘witness’ defends her baseless testimony

Rudy Giuliani last week?To use her words from the hearing: “Zero. Zero.”The freelance IT contractor spoke out on Tuesday about her testimony before Michigan’s House of Representatives on Dec.

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President Trump looks past Supreme Court loss to new election lawsuit

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his campaign will join an improbable case before the Supreme Court challenging election results in Pennsylvania and other states that he lost as he tries to look past the justices’ rejection of a last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victoryThe high court has asked for responses by Thursday. Out of the roughly 50 lawsuits filed around the country contesting the Nov.

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Trump looks past Supreme Court loss to new election lawsuit

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his campaign will join an improbable case before the Supreme Court challenging election results in Pennsylvania and other states that he lost as he tries to look past the justices' rejection of a last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victoryThe high court has asked for responses by Thursday. Out of the roughly 50 lawsuits filed around the country contesting the Nov.

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President-elect? GOP may wait for January to say Biden won

WASHINGTON – Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect may have to keep waiting until January as GOP leaders stick with President Donald Trump’s litany of legal challenges and unproven claims of fraud.Tuesday’s deadline for states to certify their elections — once viewed as a pivot point for Republicans to mark Biden's win — came and went without much comment. Next week’s Dec.

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House approves defense bill with veto-proof margin

WASHINGTON – The Democratic-controlled House on Tuesday easily approved a wide-ranging defense policy bill, defying a veto threat from President Donald Trump and setting up a possible showdown with the Republican president in the waning days of his administration.The 335-78 vote in favor of the $731 billion defense measure came hours after Trump renewed his threat to veto the bill unless lawmakers clamp down on social media companies he claims were biased against him during the election.Trump tweeted Tuesday that he will veto "the very weak National Defense Authorization Act,'' or NDAA, unless it repeals so-called Section 230, a part of the communications code that shields Twitter, Facebook and other tech giants from content liability.

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A new face to the GOP: Diverse candidates win in California

LOS ANGELES – It had been over two decades since a Republican captured a Democratic-held congressional district in California. This year, Republicans took four.

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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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Does Trump have the power to pardon himself?

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has declared that he has the “absolute right” to issue a pardon to himself. Yet the law is much murkier than his confidence suggests.No president has attempted to pardon himself while in office, so if Trump tries to do so in the next six weeks, he will be venturing into legally untested territory without clear guidance from the Constitution or from judges.

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Trump signs ‘America First’ coronavirus vaccine order but vows to work with world

COVID-19 vaccines, President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday, even as he signed an order aimed at putting Americans at the head of the line.In virtually the same breath, Trump delivered two diametrically opposed promises: to ensure U.S. citizens are first to reap the benefits of the country’s effort to develop vaccines, but also to ensure other countries receive them as well.

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Trump signs order to give Americans priority access to U.S. COVID-19 vaccines

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that he said would ensure “American citizens have first priority” to receive COVID-19 vaccines procured by the U.S.

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