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Election workers examine ballots Friday in Cobb County in metro Atlanta as part of a statewide recount of the presidential race.

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  • Elections

With Biden Ahead, Georgia Begins Hand Recount Of Nearly 5 Million Ballots

"We don't want to be in a hurry and a rush because we want a very methodical process," said one election official as some Republicans continue leveling unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the election.

November 16, 2020
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By:
  • Emil Moffatt
Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, is pictured on Sept. 23. A federal judge said he was not authorized to issue a July memo limiting the restrictions of DACA recipients.

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  • National

Judge Rules Acting DHS Secretary Lacked Authority To Suspend DACA Program

It's the latest court ruling against the Trump administration's attempts to terminate the Obama-era program that protects young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

November 15, 2020
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By:
  • James Doubek
Lawyers for father and son, Gregory and Travis McMichael, asked for a judge to grant bond for the pair, saying the elder McMichael was not motivated by race and that the younger man, never gets into trouble. But Judge Timothy Walmsley on Friday denied their requests.

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  • Law

Father And Son Charged With Murder In Ahmaud Arbery Killing Are Denied Bond

"I'm relieved they'll stay behind bars," Arbery's mother said. She had asked a judge to keep the pair in jail, saying "Ahmaud wasn't allowed to go home. Ahmaud wasn't even allowed the chance to live."

November 14, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are expected to revive policy proposals that could change how LGBTQ people and people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa can identify themselves for the next U.S. census.

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  • National

Biden Wants Census To See 'Invisible' Groups: LGBTQ, Middle Eastern, North African

The Biden-Harris administration is poised to revive proposals that could change how LGBTQ people and people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa can identify themselves for the next census.

November 14, 2020
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., center, is among the Republican lawmakers supporting a push for President-elect Joe Biden to receive new intelligence briefings as part of his transition to the White House.

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  • National Security

Senate Republicans Back Push For President-Elect Biden To Get Intelligence Briefings

Even as many Senate Republicans refuse to recognize President-elect Joe Biden's win, they signaled support for Biden to receive intelligence briefings.

November 13, 2020
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  • Claudia Grisales
Election personnel sort ballots in preparation for an audit at the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections offices on Saturday in Lawrenceville, Ga. President Trump's attempt at legal action to contest the results of the election have so far been mostly unsuccessful.

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  • Elections

Legal Avenues Closing As Trump Lawsuits Meet With Defeat Or Dead Ends

On Friday, courts in Pennsylvania and Michigan shot down Trump campaign challenges to the states' elections and counting processes. And in Arizona, another case was "rendered unnecessary."

November 13, 2020
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  • Philip Ewing
Justice Samuel Alito speaks at a hearing last year on Capitol Hill. "We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020," Alito said in a speech this week to the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention.

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  • Politics

Justice Alito: Pandemic Has Brought 'Unimaginable Restrictions' On Freedoms

"It pains me to say this, but in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right," the Supreme Court justice told the Federalist Society's annual National Lawyers Convention.

November 13, 2020
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  • Bill Chappell
Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment register people in vehicles at a drive-through coronavirus testing site Monday in El Paso, Texas.

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  • Health

Cities And States Are Imposing New COVID-19 Restrictions. Experts Say It's Not Enough

Areas across the country are implementing preventive measures such as curfews. Some experts are questioning whether these minor changes will be enough to control the virus.

November 13, 2020
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  • Dustin Jones
Travis and Gregory McMichael

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  • Law

Judge Denies Bond For Defendants In Ahmaud Arbery Murder Case

The judge denied bond for Gregory and Travis McMichael on the second day of a lengthy hearing in Brunswick.

November 13, 2020
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  • Emily Jones
The Justice Department found Thursday that former U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, shown here during a 2019 Cabinet meeting at the White House, showed "poor judgment" in the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.

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  • National

Jeffrey Epstein's Former Prosecutors Used 'Poor Judgment' In Deal, DOJ Says

Prosecutors including then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta did nothing illegal in a 2008 deal under which Epstein avoided federal charges related to sex with underage girls, the department says.

November 12, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Travis and Gregory McMichael

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  • Law

Bond Hearing For Arbery Defendants To Continue Friday

After hours of testimony and disputes over evidence, a bond hearing for two of the white men charged with the February murder of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery went into recess with no conclusion. It will resume Friday morning.

November 12, 2020
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  • Emily Jones
Some major final steps for the 2020 census are set to take place during the transition from President Trump to President-elect Joe Biden, who both appear above on a smartphone displaying the final presidential debate in October.

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  • National

The Census Is Not Over: What's Ahead During The Biden Transition

The legal fight continues over whether President Trump can alter numbers that set up the next Electoral College map, and there's a question of whether Congress will give more time for quality checks.

November 12, 2020
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner is opening an inquiry into the shooting death of 18-year-old Andres Guardado, which involved sheriff's deputies.

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  • National

LA County Coroner Investigates Andres Guardado's Sheriff's Deputy-Involved Death

The June killing of Guardado, 18, will be the first independent investigation by the coroner's office in more than 30 years.

November 11, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
An emergency alert regarding the coronavirus pandemic is displayed on a cellphone Friday in Rio Rancho, N.M. The alert was sent out to New Mexicans across the state urging them to stay home amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and record-high hospitalizations.

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  • Law

Meat Manufacturer Sues New Mexico After Plant Ordered To Close Due To COVID-19 Cases

Stampede Meat argues the closure violates President Trump's April 28 executive order, which aims to keep meat packing plants open during the pandemic.

November 11, 2020
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By:
  • Reese Oxner
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer Dejoure Mercer will not face criminal charges for the fatal shooting of Dreasjon "Sean" Reed on May 6.

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  • National

Indianapolis Grand Jury Declines To Indict Officer Who Killed Dreasjon Reed

Much of the incident that ended in the shooting was captured on Facebook Live by Reed. On Tuesday, a grand jury said there was not enough evidence to charge Officer Dejoure Mercer for the killing.

November 10, 2020
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  • Vanessa Romo
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