Donald Trump has promised legal action in the coming days as he refused to concede his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, making an aggressive pitch for donors to help finance any court fight.Trump and his campaign have levelled accusations of large-scale voter fraud in Pennsylvania and other states that broke for Biden, so far without proof.But senior officials, campaign aides and allies told The Associated Press that overwhelming evidence of fraud isn’t really the point.The strategy to wage a legal fight against the votes tallied for Biden in Pennsylvania and other places is more to provide Trump with an off-ramp for a loss he can’t quite grasp and less about changing the election’s outcome, the officials said.

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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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Military pay raise at risk in dispute over Confederate bases

WASHINGTON – An annual defense policy measure that has passed Congress every year since the Kennedy administration is in danger of cratering next month over a move by Democrats to rename military bases, such as Fort Benning, that are named after Confederate officers.President Donald Trump opposes renaming bases like Fort Hood and has threatened to veto the popular measure over the provision, which was added to both the House and Senate versions of the so-called defense authorization bill this summer.Republicans are vowing they will not send the broader bill to Trump if if includes language requiring bases named after Confederate officers to be renamed.

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

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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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Trump campaign lawsuit over Pennsylvania vote heads to court

A hearing on the 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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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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Georgia finds 2,500 uncounted ballots, officials say it won’t change election results

U.S. presidential race in Georgia has turned up more than 2,500 votes in one county that weren’t previously counted, but election officials said Monday that isn’t expected to alter the overall outcome of the race.Nearly 5 million votes were cast in the presidential election in Georgia, and Democrat Joe Biden had been leading Republican President Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes.

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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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After Trump march: Arrests, accusations and COVID-19 fines

WASHINGTON – After a weekend with dozens of arrests and scattered clashes between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump, both sides took to social media to accuse the other of instigating violence. Meanwhile, a long-standing D.C.

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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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Trump to order troop reductions in Afghanistan, Iraq

The Trump administration is expected to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan almost in half to 2,500 by Jan.

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Across party lines, Americans embrace marijuana legalization in 2020 election

A file image taken June 18, 2020 shows marijuana plants. (Photo credit: Ricardo Castelan Cruz / Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) 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.

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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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Suburban Philadelphia voters surge with enthusiasm to oust Trump

The Montgomery County official drop-off ballot location MORRISVILLE, Pa. - Voters in Philadelphia’s suburbs hurled perhaps their biggest rebuke yet this month to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party overall.The four Pennsylvania counties hugging Philadelphia provided a decisive margin for former Vice President Joe Biden and lifted him to the presidency.Voters there overwhelmed Trump’s strong performances in many Republican counties.2020 ELECTION COVERAGE Turnout by Democrats in suburban Philadelphia was high, but Biden’s margins were impossible without help from Republicans.One of them was Janice Reed. The Bucks County resident voted for Trump in 2016.

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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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