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Rev. Raphael Warnock with Sen. Kelly Loeffler in the background

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  • Elections

Fact Check: Ads Link Warnock To Defunding The Police

A conservative group’s deceptive TV ad suggests that Democrat Raphael Warnock supports defunding the police. He has said multiple times that he doesn’t.

November 25, 2020
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By:
  • D'Angelo Gore
An election worker scans mail-in ballots at the Clark County Election Department last month in North Las Vegas, Nev.

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  • Elections

As States Certify Ballot Totals, An Extraordinary Election Comes To An End

Voting took place amid a pandemic and unprecedented polarization. Despite baseless claims by the president and his allies that the outcome was rigged, states say the results are accurate.

November 25, 2020
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  • Pam Fessler
Then-Vice President Joe Biden gestures toward Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan during an arrival ceremony in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sept. 24, 2015.

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  • World

China's Xi Jinping Congratulates Biden On Election Win, Urges Cooperation

He is one of the last major world leaders to wish Joe Biden congratulations.

November 25, 2020
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
President-elect Joe Biden's 2020 vote total shatters the 2008 record of 69.5 million votes cast for Barack Obama.

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  • Politics

President-Elect Joe Biden Hits 80 Million Votes In Year Of Record Turnout

The 2020 presidential election saw the most votes in U.S. history at 156 million and counting, and the highest participation rate since 1900.

November 25, 2020
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
People pass the News Corporation headquarters building and Fox News studios in New York.

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  • Media

Fox News Settles With Seth Rich's Parents For False Story Claiming Clinton Leaks

Fox News settles with parents of a slain Democratic staffer over a retracted 2017 story reporting he had shared party emails with Wikileaks. Fox also suggested Democrats were linked to his death.

November 25, 2020
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  • David Folkenflik
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  • Elections

Expanded Access To Voting Yielded Huge Turnout. Will States Take It Away?

Voting experts say it's not easy to remove options once they've been given to voters. But the fraught politics around alleged "fraud" complicate the outlook for coming elections.

November 25, 2020
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  • Miles Parks
President-elect Joe Biden addresses reporters Tuesday in Wilmington, Del.

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  • Elections

Biden Can Receive Intelligence Briefings Now That Transition Is Underway

President Trump has not conceded the election, but now that the transition is underway, President-elect Joe Biden can access the same brief about national security threats that Trump receives.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Zhanon Morales, 30, of Philadelphia raises a fist during a Nov. 5 voting rights rally. President Trump's campaign unsuccessfully used spurious claims of voter fraud to invalidate votes in Philadelphia and other largely Black cities.

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  • Elections

Trump Push To Invalidate Votes In Heavily Black Cities Alarms Civil Rights Groups

Black voters in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta were crucial to Joe Biden's victory. Those are also the places where President Trump's campaign has targeted its legal efforts.

November 24, 2020
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  • Juana Summers
First lady Melania Trump watches as President Trump gives the turkey Corn a presidential pardon outside the White House on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Trump Pardons Corn The Turkey, Trying To Show Normalcy Amid The Abnormal

The strange tradition of a president pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving happened again despite Trump holding few public events since losing — and not accepting — the 2020 election.

November 24, 2020
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  • Domenico Montanaro
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday her office is investigating threats against members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers. Nessel seen above in March during a news conference in Lansing, Mich.

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  • Elections

Michigan AG Investigating Threats Made Against Wayne County Election Officials

Dana Nessel's office did not outline specific threats against Wayne County Board of Canvassers. The probe was announced a day after Michigan certified that President-elect Joe Biden won the state.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
President-elect Joe Biden's transition team can now formally access agencies, federal office space and funds.

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  • Politics

Here's What GSA Approval Means For The Biden Transition

The president-elect's team can now have government resources and officially meet with agencies as it prepares to take the reins of government.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Brian Naylor
President-elect Joe Biden speaks Monday in Wilmington, Del., during a virtual meeting with the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

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  • Politics

President-Elect Biden To Begin Formal Transition Process After Agency OK

President Trump, who still hasn't conceded, says he's "recommending" the GSA begin "initial protocols" to kick-start the transfer of power. The GSA chief says her decision was reached independently.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Brian Naylor and
  • Alana Wise
President Trump, seen here on Saturday, hasn't formally conceded the election to Joe Biden but says he is allowing the transition to proceed.

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  • Politics

Facing Pressure, Trump Relents On Starting Biden Transition

Some Republican lawmakers have publicly urged the president to allow the formal transition process to begin for the good of the country.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe and
  • Tamara Keith
Joe Biden speaks to union members in Erie, Pa., on Oct. 10. The president-elect flipped Erie County back into Democrats' column.

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  • Elections

Biden Supporters In Pennsylvania Look Ahead To A 'Traditional Presidency'

Joe Biden's supporters in the swing county of Erie talk about their hopes and their expectations of the incoming president.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Don Gonyea
Then-Sen. Joe Biden, in August 2001, on his first trip to China as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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  • Politics

Biden Vs. Biden On China

In the early 2000s, Joe Biden helped bring China and America closer. Now, not so much.

November 24, 2020
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  • Greg Rosalsky
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