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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President-elect Joe Biden addresses the media on Nov. 10, 2020 at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Sen. Romney slams President Trump's post-election efforts as 'undemocratic'

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Republican senators are criticizing President Donald Trump and his team for their efforts to pressure state and local election officials to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in several closely contested states.Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, one of Trump’s most vocal GOP critics, tweeted Thursday, “It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President.”Romney accused Trump on resorting to “overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election.”RELATED: Trump campaign retreats from key claim in Pennsylvania lawsuitSen.

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Psychic 'who predicted Covid' explains when pandemic will end and what 2021 will hold

A psychic who claims he predicted the coronavirus pandemic almost two years before the first case of Covid has revealed what he believes 2021 has in store.

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Rudy Giuliani pushes false Trump claims, movie quotes at sweaty briefing

Rudy Giuliani quoted an old movie, sweat through his hair dye and failed to offer any evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud on Thursday, during a wide-ranging and conspiracy theory-filled press conference from the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C.Giuliani baselessly accused Democrats of election fraud against his client, U.S. President Donald Trump, and called for ballots to be thrown out in several battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden.Other members of Giuliani’s team used the news conference to peddle conspiracy theories about communists, Venezuela, Hillary Clinton and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, a frequent target for far-right paranoia.

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EXPLAINER: A look at Trump's long-shot legal challenges

blocking or delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden. Republicans are complaining that, among other things, their observers weren’t allowed to properly review the processing of ballots.

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Biden declared winner of Georgia after election recount confirms lead over Trump

Joe Biden was declared the winner of Georgia Thursday after a statewide manual recount confirmed his narrow lead over President Donald Trump in the presidential race.Georgia was the final state to be called by the Associated Press as it awaited the results of the audit, which was ordered by the state’s top election official to assure the integrity of the initial election results.Biden is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the traditionally Republican stronghold since Bill Clinton in 1992. Georgia is also now the fifth state to be flipped from Trump’s electoral wins in 2016.

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Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to halt Georgia election certification

ATLANTA - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump and his lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order to halt certification of Georgia's election."It is well established that garden-variety election disputes do not rise to the level of a constitutional deprivation," Judge Steven D.

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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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How Native American votes help secure Biden's win in Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Voting rights advocates had long argued that if Native Americans and other minority groups were mobilized, they could be decisive in a tight race.This year proved that. Voter turnout on swaths of tribal land in Arizona surged compared with the 2016 presidential election, helping Joe Biden to victory in a state that hadn't supported a Democratic in a White House contest since 1996.

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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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Biden hasn't said anything on Newsom dinner controversy amid COVID-19 spike

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is still facing backlash for dining at a restaurant with a large group while pushing new coronavirus restrictions on indoor dining during a spike in cases, and President-elect Joe Biden has yet to weigh in on the matter.

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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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UN climate chief: pledges by big polluters boost Paris hopes

BERLIN – The U.N.’s climate chief says deadlines set by some of the world's top polluters to end greenhouse gas emissions, along with president-elect Joe Biden's pledge to take the United States back into the Paris accord, have boosted hopes of meeting the pact's ambitious goals.The agreement signed in the French capital five years ago aims to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) — ideally no more than 1.5 C (2.7 Fahrenheit) — compared to pre-industrial times by the end of the century.

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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 pushes new environmental rollbacks on way out the door

BILLINGS, Mont. – Down to its final weeks, the Trump administration is working to push through dozens of environmental rollbacks that could weaken century-old protections for migratory birds, expand Arctic drilling and hamstring future regulation of public health threats.The pending changes, which benefit oil and gas and other industries, deepen the challenges for President-elect Joe Biden, who made restoring and advancing protections for the environment, climate and public health a core piece of his campaign. “We’re going to see a real scorched-earth effort here at the tail end of the administration,” said Brian Rutledge, a vice president at the National Audubon Society.

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GOP increasingly accepts Trump's defeat — but not in public

WASHINGTON – When Kamala Harris returned to the Senate this week for the first time as vice president-elect, her Republican colleagues offered their congratulations and Sen. Lindsey Graham greeted her with a fist bump.It was a sign that many Republicans have privately acknowledged what they refuse to say openly: Democrat Joe Biden and Harris won the election and will take office in January.The GOP's public silence on the reality of Biden's victory amounts to tacit approval of Trump's baseless claims of election fraud.

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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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U.S. election: Trump fires top security official after disputing voting fraud claims

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday through Twitter fired the top election security official, Chris Krebs, after he continued to dispute claims of voting fraud since election day.

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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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Trump refusing to cooperate with presidential transition

U.S. President Donald Trump is stoking outrage across the country as he continues to discredit his election loss, and fire his own officials who dispute his baseless claims.

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Coronavirus: Biden administration’s COVID-19 response may be behind ‘weeks or months’ due to of lack of information access

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden participated in a virtual roundtable with frontline health-care workers on Wednesday, where he commented on his administration’s upcoming coronavirus response.

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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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Trump fires agency head who vouched for 2020 vote security

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, a widely respected member of his administration who had dared to refute the president’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouch for the integrity of the vote.While abrupt, the dismissal Tuesday of Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was not a surprise. Since his loss, Trump has been ridding his administration of officials seen as insufficiently loyal and has been denouncing the conduct of an election that led to an embarrassing defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.That made Krebs a prime target.

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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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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 shares Elections Canada tweet after falsely claiming machines led to voter fraud

Donald Trump retweeted a post from Elections Canada outlining the country’s voting system after perpetuating unsubstantiated claims that voting machines allowed for mass voter fraud during the presidential election. Amid U.S.

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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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Trump fires head of DHS election security agency

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election. Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate.” The firing of Krebs, a Trump appointee and director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, comes as Trump is refusing to recognize the victory of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and removing high-level officials seen as insufficiently loyal.

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President Trump fires top cybersecurity agent after election dispute

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has fired the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs.

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Biden selects campaign veterans to fill top White House positions

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden announced a raft of top White House staff positions on Tuesday, drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants to fill out an increasingly diverse White House leadership team.Biden confirmed that former campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon will serve as a deputy chief of staff, while campaign co-chair Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond and campaign adviser Steve Ricchetti will play senior roles in the new administration.

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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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House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury

WASHINGTON – The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is asking the Supreme Court to put off upcoming arguments about whether Congress should have access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.The House Judiciary Committee that takes office in January “will have to determine whether it wishes to continue pursuing the application for the grand-jury materials that gave rise to this case,” Douglas Letter, the top lawyer for the House said in a written filing Tuesday. Letter noted that President Donald Trump's defeat in his bid for reelection could affect the committee's decision.The case is scheduled to be argued on Dec.

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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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US election: Biden responds to Trump’s backtrack on recognizing his win

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