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• 'We kept the republic!' Democratic leaders — and Mitt Romney — congratulate Biden and Harris on their presidential election victory

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  An array of Democratic Party leaders congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday after the presidential race was officially called by most major US media outlets.
  Former President Barack Obama praised Biden, writing that Americans are "fortunate that Joe's got what it takes to be President and already carries himself that way."
  Additional words of praise came from major Democratic figures including Hillary Clinton,
  
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• Celebrities react to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris after 2020 election victory

  07-11-2020 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, arrive to deliver remarks at the Alexis Dupont High School on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.
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  On November 7, news outlets across the country began projecting victory for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
  Videos and pictures posted to social media shortly after the race was called celebrated Biden and Harris, with
  
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• Biden's first move as president-elect will be to announce a new coronavirus task force in coming days: report

  07-11-2020 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  President-elect Joe Biden will announce a 12-person coronavirus task force on Monday, according to Axios. 
  The task force will be led by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler, and Yale School of Medicine professor Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, according to Axios. 
  By declaring the formation of this task force, Biden signals toward expactations that the coronavirus will continue to be an ar
  
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• Trump is proving himself to be the most antidemocratic president in modern US history

  07-11-2020 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  US President Donald Trump departs a rally in Ohio on September 21.
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  President Donald Trump has challenged America's democracy throughout his presidency, and he's taking this to new conspiratorial heights as votes are still being counted in the 2020 election.
  Trump falsely declared victory on Wednesday and called for votes to stop being counted. He also falsely said votes arriving after Election Day "WILL NOT BE COUNTED" — vote counting is a process the pres
  
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• RESULTS: First-term Democratic Rep. Susie Lee projected to win Nevada's 3rd Congressional District over former WWE wrestler Daniel Rodimer

  07-11-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  First-term Rep. Susie Lee is projected to defeat Republican Dan Rodimer and win Nevada's 3rd Congressional District.
  This is one of 30 districts that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 but is currently represented in the House by a Democrat.
  Rodimer is a former WWE wrestler who previously ran for a spot in Nevada's State Senate in 2018.
  See the live coverage and full results from all US House elections.
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• World leaders congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory in the 2020 presidential election

  07-11-2020 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
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  World leaders congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday after the presidential race was officially called by most major US media outlets.
  The messages to Biden and Harris were universally conciliatory and upbeat.
  Biden has been critical of President Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy and has advocated for a less confrontational approach to working wi
  
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• RESULTS: Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford projected to defend his seat in Nevada's 4th Congressional District

  07-11-2020 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  Rep. Steven Horsford is projected to defeat Republican Jim Marchant and retain his seat in the state's 4th Congressional District.
  The district covers the entire southern half of Nevada and includes northern Clark County, the southern region of Lyon County, and all of the counties of Esmeralda, Lincoln, Mineral, Nye, and White Pine.
  Horsford is serving his second non-consecutive term in the seat and is the first Black member of the US House of Representatives to represent Nevada.
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• RESULTS: Incumbent GOP Rep. David Schweikert projected to beat Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, retain seat in Arizona's 6th Congressional District

  07-11-2020 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  Rep. David Schweikert is projected to defend his seat in Arizona's 6th Congressional District from Democrat Dr. Hiral Tipirneni.
  Tipirneni, a doctor and cancer researcher, has over ten times more cash on hand than Schweikert.
  Schweikert, a climate change denier, admitted to 11 violation counts of misused taxpayer funds in July 2020 and was reprimanded on the House floor and fined $50,000.
  See the live coverage and full results from all US House elections.
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• Police unions are enemies of reform. It's time we take them head on.

  07-11-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Philadelphia police officer at a protest on October 27, 2020.
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  The nation's largest police union used a two-year-old boy — whose mother had just been violently thrown to the ground by Philadelphia police after breaking her car's windows — as a prop in a social media post.
  Under a "Blue Lives Matter" banner, police unions demand hate crime protections while rolling their eyes at "systemic racism" or a pervasive culture of police ac
  
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• Police cordoned off Trump Tower in New York City after Biden won the presidency

  07-11-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Trump Tower cordoned off.
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  Police in New York City closed off city blocks surrounding Trump Tower following news of Joe Biden's presidential victory. 
  Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, along which Trump Tower is located, was left empty of cars, buses, bicycles, and people, except for police officers. 
  Biden surpassed 270 electoral votes by flipping swing state Pennsylvania Friday morning, paving the way forward for a Biden-Harris administration.
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• RESULTS: Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux is projected to win Georgia's competitive 7th Congressional District

  07-11-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux is projected to defeat Republican Rich McCormick and win Georgia's competitive 7th Congressional District.
  The district is home to northeastern Atlanta and eight smaller cities in Gwinnett and Forsyth counties.
  The seat is open after Rep. Rob Woodall announced in February 2019 that he would not be seeking reelection.
  See the live coverage and full results from all US House elections.
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  Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux
  
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• Trump is the first president in nearly 3 decades to lose a reelection

  07-11-2020 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  Before President Donald Trump, only 10 incumbent presidents in US history have won their party's nomination but failed to win reelection. 
  As of Friday, Trump is the 11th president who failed to win reelection.
  President-elect Joe Biden was declared the projected winner of the 2020 election by Decision Desk HQ and Insider on Friday. 
  The AP, NBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post called the election for Biden shortly after 11 a.m. ET Saturday.
  
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• RESULTS: Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb projected to hold onto his seat in Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District

  07-11-2020 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb is projected to win Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District over Republican Sean Parnell, Insider and Decision Desk HQ projected.
  The district is located in western Pennsylvania in the Pittsburgh suburbs and exurbs, and is home to all of Beaver County.
  The state's congressional was redrawn in 2018 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the previous version was unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans. 
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• Like the election, Trump has a sad history of prematurely claiming victory only to have it backfire

  07-11-2020 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  President Donald Trump claimed victory in the 2020 presidential election days before all the votes had been counted. As more legal votes were tallied, his edge eroded, and he lost to his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
  On Saturday, shortly after Trump tweeted that he won the election, major media outlets began calling the election for Biden, who tweeted that he is "honored" to have been chosen to lead the country.
  Throughout Trump's presidency, he has repeatedly prematu
  
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• Chinese state media laughed at Trump after he falsely claimed victory in the 2020 election

  07-11-2020 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The People's Day laughed after Trump falsely claimed he won the US presidential election.
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  Chinese state media on Saturday laughed at President Donald Trump after he falsely claimed he won the US election. 
  On Friday morning, Insider and its election partner, Decision Desk HQ, projected former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris as the winner in the race for the White House.
  Other news outlets, including CNN, NBC, and the Asso
  
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• RESULTS: First-term Democratic Rep. Susan Wild projected to win Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District

  07-11-2020 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First-term Rep. Susan Wild is projected to win Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District over Republican Lisa Scheller, Decision Desk HQ and Insider project.
  Pennsylvania's congressional map was re-drawn in early 2019 after the state's Supreme Court declared its previous districts gerrymandered along partisan lines.
  Scheller has so far taken on a loan of $1.2 million to fund her campaign, accounting for 65% of her total campaign funding.
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• Barack and Michelle Obama congratulate Joe Biden on his presidential victory: 'Could not be prouder'

  07-11-2020 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The White House's relationship with the press has changed significantly since then-Vice President Biden and President Barack Obama left the White House.
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  Former President Barack Obama congratulated his partner, former Vice President Joe Biden, after multiple news outlets projected that he and Kamala Harris had won the 2020 election.
  "I could not be prouder to congratulate our next President, Joe Biden, and our next First Lady, Jill Biden," Obama said in a state
  
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• Rudy Giuliani releases politics video pausing for a sponsored cigar commercial and blaming Fox News for Trump's defeat

  07-11-2020 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference held by Donald Trump in the Briefing Room of the White House on September 27, 2020.
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  Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal attorney, released a bizarre YouTube video on Friday which featured him pounding his ink-covered hands on his desk, pausing to present a sponsored cigar commercial, and declaring that Trump won the presidency.
  Giuliani tells his viewers that Fox News suppressed the vote after it called Arizona fo
  
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• Joe Biden and Kamala Harris changed their Twitter bios to reflect their White House victories

  07-11-2020 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris shake hands before the start of the second night of the second 2020 presidential Democratic candidates debate in Detroit, Michigan, July 31, 2019.
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  Biden and Harris' Twitter bios now say "President-Elect" and "Vice President-Elect of the United States," respectively. 
  With their victory, Biden and Harris will begin to prepare to settle into the White House against the backdrop of President Donald Trump potentially
  
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• LIVE RESULTS: Biden wins in Nevada the day after Pennsylvania delivered him the 2020 presidential election

  07-11-2020 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential race with a victory in Pennsylvania, Insider and Decision Desk HQ projected Friday morning. 
  One day later, President-elect Biden also became the projected winner in Nevada, according to Decision Desk HQ.
  Biden needed 270 Electoral College votes necessary to secure the White House. He is now projected to have won 279 electoral votes.
  Biden restored Democratic dominance to the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that helped P
  
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• Biden says he's 'honored and humbled' and calls for unity after major networks declare him the 46th president

  07-11-2020 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris- the president-elect and vice president-elect of the US.
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  President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday said he was "honored and humbled" after major networks declared him victorious in the 2020 presidential election. 
  The former vice president called for unity following the heated election, which President Donald Trump has refused to concede. 
  Insider and its election partner, Decision Desk HQ, projected Biden as the winner of the 20
  
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• A Georgia poll worker has been forced into hiding after being falsely accused of throwing out a ballot

  07-11-2020 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Per a press conference that was posted by NBC News, a poll worker in Georgia has been forced into hiding after a video of him throwing out a list of instructions went viral online. 
  According to Fulton Election Director Rick Barron, online viewers were accusing the worker of throwing out a ballot and are sending him threats.
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  Tensions are running high in the battleground state
  
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• Major US media news outlets called the presidential race for Biden on Saturday

  07-11-2020 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden.
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  President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are now a reality for most major media outlets, as the race has been called with the ticket's victory in Pennsylvania.
  On Friday, November 6, Insider and Decision Desk HQ called Pennsylvania, and thus the presidency, for Biden.
  The Associated Press, along with major TV networks including CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and Fox News, all called the race for the former vice pre
  
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• Biden projected to win Nevada and its 6 electoral votes

  07-11-2020 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  As of 12:14 p.m. ET on Saturday, President-elect Joe Biden has won Nevada and its 6 electoral votes, Decision Desk HQ projected.
  Follow the live results here.
  Biden was projected to win the 2020 election early Friday morning after picking up the battleground state of Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes.
  Nevada voted for a Republican in seven of the last 12 presidential elections but has voted for a Democrat in each of the last three elections.
  The state has six electoral votes.
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• Fox News host Tucker Carlson says Biden and Harris want Americans 'drinking Starbucks every day from now until forever' in a baseless monologue about uniformity

  07-11-2020 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson speaks on Fox News on November 6, 2020.
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  Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson accused President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris of promoting "total uniformity", adding that they don't "believe in dissent."
  Citing no evidence, he compared life under the Biden administration to "drinking Starbucks every day from now until forever."
  Carlson's remarks come as Biden delivered a speech in his home state of Delaware on Friday, in which he called fo
  
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• Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but is refusing to concede to Biden

  07-11-2020 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Donald Trump pauses while speaking to reporters about the 2020 presidential election results in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, November 5, 2020.
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  President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election but is refusing to concede.
  "This election is not over," the campaign said in a statement on Friday. 
  President-elect Joe Biden won Pennsylvania on Friday, according to Decision Desk HQ, which clinched his victory.
  Trump is breaking from
  
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• Trump seen golfing as major networks declare victory for Biden

  07-11-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Donald Trump participates in a round of golf at the Trump National Golf Course on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Sterling, Virginia.
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  President Donald Trump on Saturday was seen golfing at his golf club in Virginia, as major news outlets including CNN, MSNBC, and the Associated Press called the election for his opponent, the former Vice President Joe Biden.
  News outlets declared Biden victorious after his lead in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania surpasse
  
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• IT'S OVER: Biden defeats Trump as US voters take the rare step to remove an incumbent president

  07-11-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  The Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, Decision Desk HQ projected shortly before 9 a.m. ET on Friday, November 6.
  The AP, NBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post called the election for Biden shortly after 11 a.m. ET Saturday.
  Biden surpassed 270 electoral votes by flipping the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
  The president-elect enjoyed a steady, but ultimately overstated, lead over Trump in polls in critical sta
  
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• Ja'Ron Smith, Trump's highest-ranking Black aide, is leaving the White House

  07-11-2020 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Assistant to the President for domestic policy Ja'Ron Smith speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium on August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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  Ja'Ron Smith, an aide to President Donald Trump since 2017, on Friday left the White House, he confirmed in a statement.
  Smith was the highest-ranking Black member of the president's cabinet and his departure comes days after the 2020 election, which Insider and Decision Des
  
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• Millions of American workers have children. Thanks to the pandemic, we can now stop pretending we don't.

  07-11-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Melissa Petro works from home while also being a caretaker for her children.
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  Melissa Petro is a freelance writer based in New York where she lives with her husband and two small children. 
  Before the pandemic, she says she often played the role of the "secret parent," struggling to juggle work and family while sensing pressure from her employers to minimize her time spent parenting.
  Now as more parents combine childcare with working from home, Petro says the labor of parentho
  
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• Trump makes baseless claims about 'illegally received' ballots in Pennsylvania during fractious tweetstorm

  07-11-2020 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Trump speaks in the briefing room at the White House.
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  President Trump has kicked off his Saturday morning with a tweetstorm making baseless claims about "illegally received" votes in Pennsylvania and other battleground states.
  Trump claimed "tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8 P.M. on Tuesday, Election Day," without offering any evidence.
  Twitter labeled four of Trump's tweets from Saturday morning as disputed and potentially mislea
  
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• Video shows hilarious moment when Pennsylvania AG's teen son walks in on live TV interview then shuffles out backwards

  07-11-2020 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks to MSNBC on November 6, 2020 as his teenage son walks in..
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  A hilarious moment shows the teenage son of Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro accidentally walking in during a live interview with MSNBC on Friday.
  Shapiro's son walked in while glued to his phone, looked up in horror, and then backtracked.
  After the clip went viral on social media, Shapiro joked that it was proof that he will "never be as interesting
  
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• Rep. Matt Gaetz, a close Trump ally, says he's tested positive for coronavirus antibodies

  07-11-2020 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) on Capitol Hill.
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  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) on Saturday said that he tested positive for coronavirus antibodies but does not currently have COVID-19.
  An earlier Politico report on Saturday stated that Gaetz had informed several people on Capitol Hill that the top Trump ally in the House of Representatives had contracted the coronavirus.
  Gaetz denied the report on Saturday, saying, "This story is false."
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• White House officials were aware of chief of staff Mark Meadows' COVID-19 diagnosis earlier this week, despite him being seen without a mask

  07-11-2020 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, greets supporters before a Trump rally.
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  Mark Meadows had already informed a close circle of White House aides he had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in the week, but efforts were made to keep it quiet, Bloomberg reported.
  His diagnosis was only formally revealed on Friday after he spent the week supporting Trump's re-election campaign and was seen in close proximity to the Trump family without a mask. 
  At least fo
  
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• Trump's White House advisors have reportedly told the president that his legal fight to challenge the election results is hopeless

  07-11-2020 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Trump arrives to speak in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC on November 5, 2020.
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  Trump does not plan to concede the race to the White House even though President-elect Joe Biden has already been projected win, sources said.
  The president continued to push ahead with several lawsuits in a last-minute effort to halt states' vote counts or contest results.
  However, according to multiple news reports, aides have b
  
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• Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway swings back into action, spending a net $4.8 billion on stocks and a record $9 billion on buybacks in the 3rd quarter

  07-11-2020 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett talks to reporters while holding an ice cream at a trade show during the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2014.
  REUTERS/Rick WilkingWarren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported third-quarter earnings on Saturday.The billionaire investor's company bought back a record $9 billion of its shares, and spent a net $4.8 billion on stocks after selling a net $12.8 billion in the second quarter.Berkshire's increased spending meant its cash pile shr
  
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• Inside the sprawling network of hedge fund spin-offs from Israel Englander's Millennium Management

  07-11-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 70 former employees of Englander have launched their own funds across the globe.
  Phil McCarten/REUTERSOne could argue that Millennium Management's greatest advantage over other hedge funds is its ability to keep talented people in-house.The massive hedge fund — which manages some $46 billion in assets across hundreds of teams — has a unique structure that lets portfolio managers operate in independent silos. The setup, which is grants PMs even more autonomy than fellow mul
  
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• These are the market's biggest winners and losers of a hectic election week

  07-11-2020 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe stock market has largely cheered the prospect of a Biden administration and divided government, but certain corners outperformed while others continue to languish.Waning odds of tax hikes and new regulations helped tech, financial, and healthcare stocks to surge through a chaotic week.But those betting on energy stocks or the US dollar missed out on the market's gains.Visit the Business Insider homepage for more stories.Stock markets quickly warmed to the prospect of
  
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• Jeff Bezos is likely to beat the defamation suit brought by his girlfriend's brother. Here's how the Amazon CEO became embroiled in a tangled web of lawsuits and family drama.

  07-11-2020 15:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Sanchez, left, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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  A defamation lawsuit against Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is on the verge of being thrown out, the latest update in a months-long legal battle. 
  Michael Sanchez — the brother of Bezos' girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez — claimed Bezos and his head of security, Gavin de Becker, falsely accused Sanchez of providing the nude photos of Bezos to the National Enquirer.
  The suit followed a scanda
  
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• Warren Buffett's favorite market indicator nears record high, signaling stocks are overvalued and riskier than ever

  07-11-2020 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.
  REUTERS/Rick WilkingWarren Buffett's preferred market gauge is nearing a new high, indicating stocks are overvalued and could tumble in the coming months.The "Buffett indicator" takes the total market capitalization of a country's stocks and divides it by quarterly GDP in order to compare the stock market's valuation to the size of the economy.The current reading of 170% signals "a record disconnect between asset prices vis a vis the economy," Sven Henrich
  
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• How scientists and health officials can address mistrust of a COVID-19 vaccine — and why it matters

  07-11-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scientists and health officials can address concerns and questions about the vaccine by involving the public.
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  Health care officials should use the COVID-19 vaccine testing period to build trust — not brush aside concerns or suspicions, say public health researchers Sterling M. McPherson, Erica Weintraub Austin, and Porismita Borah.
  They believe scientists and experts should explain safety issues, be transparent, own up to any setbacks in development, and invite s
  
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• Bitcoin blazed past $15,500 this week. Here's why one strategist says it's the best safe-haven out there.

  07-11-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  George Frey/Getty Images/AFP/FileBitcoin leapt 17% this week to cross the $15,000 mark, nearing a 3-year-high.The digital token's latest surge came as Joe Biden's election lead edged up higher. He is projected to defeat incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.A divided Congress would be great for Bitcoin because the dollar can expect a substantial decline under a gridlocked government, Bill Noble, chief technical analyst at Token Metrics, told Business Insider.That's because the Fe
  
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• Mitch McConnell insists there will 'of course' be a peaceful transfer of power, breaking with Trump who would not commit to one

  07-11-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks with reporters in the Hart Building on October 20, 2020.
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  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell assured there will be a peaceful transfer of power between the Trump and Biden administrations. 
  McConnell's assurance comes weeks after President Donald Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, sounding alarms.
  Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, according to Decisio
  
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• Why the election result is the 'best of both worlds' for stocks, according to JPMorgan's quant guru

  07-11-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Getty ImagesThe outcome of Tuesday's election is "likely the best of both worlds for stocks," top JPMorgan quant Marko Kolanovic said in a note on Friday.The election of Joe Biden will likely result in an easing of trade wars, which will help boost global growth and corporate earnings.Meanwhile, if the Senate is controlled by Republicans,  President Trump's tax cuts and deregulation initiatives will likely stay in place.Ultimately, Kolanovic expects the market to continue moving higher as i
  
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• For the second presidential election in a row, all of America's eyes are on Pennsylvania. As a resident of the state, I'm exhausted by the attention.

  07-11-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People celebrate Joe Biden's lead outside of the Philadelphia Convention Center as the counting of ballots continues in the state on November 06, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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  Once again, Pennsylvania played a critical role in the presidential race, as it did in 2016.Pennsylvania's role in deciding this election is like déjà vu for the state's residents. My county even had a book written about its role in the 2016 election. 
  In a fair and logi
  
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• The riskiest activities linked to COVID-19 infection, from sharing a car to having a 30-minute conversation

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  A study out this week in a leading medical journal suggests that having long, drawn-out conversations with people who are sick with COVID-19 is one of the easiest ways to get sick from them.
  The study comes out of Singapore, where researchers tracked down every single person who lived, worked, or socialized with a sick person.
  Other high-risk activities they found included: sharing a bedroom, sharing a vehicle, and being a spouse of a COVID-19 patient. 
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• How companies can transform remote work from a good experience into a great one

  07-11-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Building a sense of community starts with great internal communication.
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  Companies should aim to make remote work a productive, collaborative, and efficient experience, not just possible. 
  Set up internal communication channels for employees to regularly connect, get the information they need to do their job, and understand company goals.
  Remote workers should be aligned with company goals and expectations from the beginning, with clear milestones to measure and share thei
  
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• Disney unveiled an animatronic robot with the same gaze as humans built to create 'the illusion of life'

  07-11-2020 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disney Research's new robot with a human-like gaze.
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  Disney Research unveiled a lifelike robot with eerily similar gazing abilities as humans.
  The robot can mimic human actions like head tilts, blinking, breathing, and rapid eye movement.
  This new development is a part of Disney's goal to create robots that can interact with people in a human-like manner by using what the company calls "the illusion of life."
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• The maker of this tiny electric taxi says it could cut traffic in half in 5 years

  07-11-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The EAV Taxi.
  Electric Assisted Vehicles
  Electric Assisted Vehicles has unveiled a zero-emissions taxi that the company says can cut city traffic congestion in half in the next five years.
  The tiny taxi is in part an upgraded electric bicycle, which means it'll be allowed to travel in both car and bike lanes.
  According to EAV's chairman Nigel Gordon-Stewart in a statement, replacing a hybrid rideshare vehicle with an EAV Taxi could prevent about 10.14 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
  
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• Economic recovery from the pandemic is a mixed bag across industries, but these 26 subsectors are quickly regaining jobs

  07-11-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Employment in retail subsectors have begun to recover from job losses in the spring.
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  Employment is not recovering from the coronavirus pandemic at the same pace across different industries. 
  Some of the industries that were hit the hardest at the beginning of the pandemic, such as retail, have recovered most of their job losses in recent months.  
  Business Insider applied the same method that the US Bureau of Labo
  
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