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• Opinion: Why Donald Trump lost

  07-11-2020 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  In the final, furious days of his reelection campaign, President Donald Trump often turned his public rallies into personal therapy sessions, at which the embattled and embittered President rued what might have been.
  
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• Watch Rudy Giuliani's reaction when he was told Joe Biden won the 2020 election

  07-11-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani was in the middle of giving a news conference about the election when he was told Joe Biden won.
  
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• This no-fuss cinnamon swirl quick bread is better than any cinnamon roll you've ever tasted

  07-11-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Take comfort to a whole new level this holiday season with a loaf made from ingredients already in your home pantry
  
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• Trump says election 'far from over' as he vows to fight results

  07-11-2020 23:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president and his team of lawyers are pressing on with baseless accusations of voter fraud after Biden is projected as the winner.
  
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• Giuliani mocks election result after being informed that Biden has won at Trump campaign press conference

  07-11-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of Donald Trump’s most vociferous defenders, Rudy Giuliani, attempted to throw cold water on the presidential election results, which broke in favour of Joe Biden on Saturday.As he held a press conference in Philadelphia on Saturday, Mr Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, was informed that Mr Biden had been declared the winner after claiming Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes.Mr Giuliani threw his arms to the sky and mocked the fact that US news networks had
  
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• Black voters in key cities helped deliver the election for Joe Biden

  07-11-2020 23:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  "The fact that we have matched and topped white voter participation and done that while going through voter suppression in new and old forms every year, we are extraordinary," said organizer LaTosha Brown.
  
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• 'Welcome back America!' Relief sweeps through Western capitals after Biden win

  07-11-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We want to invest in our cooperation for a new trans-Atlantic beginning, a new deal," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.
  
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• White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany pans Biden victory celebrations as ‘super spreader’ events

  07-11-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is scolding Joe Biden for withholding comment about the spontaneous mass gatherings popping up all across the country to celebrate his victory over Donald Trump.From New York to DC to San Francisco, millions of Americans poured onto the streets on Saturday in jubilation as news networks projected Mr Biden would win the 2020 election.“Where is @JoeBiden calling on the massive Super Spreader events held in his name to end?” Ms McEnany tweete
  
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• Queen Elizabeth seen in mask for first time in public

  07-11-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has worn a mask for the first time while appearing in public during the pandemic.
  
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• Britain's Queen Elizabeth seen in face mask for first time during public ceremony

  07-11-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has worn a mask for the first time while appearing in public during the pandemic.
  
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• What happens between now and Inauguration Day

  07-11-2020 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  Americans who went to the polls on Election Day don't actually select the President directly.
  
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• A small Irish town claims victory after Biden wins

  07-11-2020 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  The stars and stripes have been fluttering all week on the streets of Ballina -- the town of just 10,000 in the west of Ireland where US president-elect Joe Biden's Irish ancestors hail from.
  
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• Watch people across the world celebrate Joe Biden's win

  07-11-2020 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  From impromptu trumpet solos to dancing in the street, President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump sparked worldwide celebrations.
  
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• Senate Democrats contemplate divided government under a Biden presidency

  07-11-2020 22:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  “I am going to clean the slate and be open-minded to the idea that this will open up a new era of cooperation,” one Democratic senator said.
  
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• World leaders congratulate the President-elect

  07-11-2020 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  A stream of world leaders have congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Saturday on their victory in the 2020 US presidential election, with many striking a jubilant tone on social media.
  
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• Houston reacts to Joe Biden's win over President Donald Trump

  07-11-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Moments after ABC News projected Biden's electoral win, Houstonians were mixed in their reaction.
  
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• John King on the Election Week wait, math and his Magic Wall

  07-11-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Election Week in America might have taken nearly 100 hours to produce a new President but one winner was clear for days: CNN's indefatigable Chief National Correspondent John King, who explained America's complex electoral math and the political idiosyncrasies of obscure counties to the world at his Magic Wall.
  
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• Biden’s ancestral home in Ireland's County Mayo celebrates his win over Trump

  07-11-2020 22:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Residents in Joe Biden's ancestral home in County Mayo, Ireland, filled the streets Saturday to celebrate his election as President of the United States.
  
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• 7 takeaways from Biden's win

  07-11-2020 22:44 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden is the President-elect, CNN projected Saturday morning, winning on a message of unity and a pledge to restore the "soul of the nation" after four years of tumult under President Donald Trump.
  
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• Dodgers have 9 positive coronavirus tests days after World Series win

  07-11-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health initially reported that five members of the Dodgers organization tested positive, but by Saturday the number had grown to nine.
  
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• Trump returns to White House amid jeers and taunting songs

  07-11-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After losing his reelection bid, President Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C. where jubilant citizens were celebrating his defeat.In the photo beneath the caption, a celebrant holds a sign that reads: “We Grabbed Him By The Ballot.”
  
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• Dispatch: Swedes ignore new regulations as country grapples with novelty of 'lockdown'

  07-11-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It didn't take long from the day the coronavirus-hit city of Uppsala was issued with tough local restrictions before people started ignoring them. "It was very quiet here for the first three or four days after the new guidelines,” remembers Peter Rylander, owner of the city's Veganos Café, which has stayed open throughout the pandemic, despite revenues falling by nearly half. “Then customers were slowly returning until it was back to nearly normal." On Tuesday it will be three
  
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• All the ways Kamala Harris will make history as a vice president

  07-11-2020 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  • We did it, Joe!: Harris calls Biden to celebrate
  • Opinion: Can Joe Biden clean up Trump's mess?
  
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• Biden's transition team may find moving into the White House tougher than the election

  07-11-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden was tonight planning for one of the most turbulent and uncertain transitions into the White House in modern US presidential history as he mapped his path to inauguration day on January 20. With the Democratic presidential nominee expressing certainty he had won the election even as the result was not called, staff members on a transition team set up months ago were preparing next steps. The road ahead, if he does indeed win, is daunting. For one, Mr Biden is facing a sitting US preside
  
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• It’s simple to enter the visa lottery for a free green card. But you better hurry

  07-11-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Up to 55,000 foreign nationals and their families from around the world will have a chance to legally immigrate to the United States with a green card in 2022, thanks to one of the simplest visa programs.
  
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• Dana Perino: 'Joe Biden is probably going to resist the progressives'

  07-11-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former White House press secretary and ‘Daily Briefing’ host reacts to projection Joe Biden is elected president.
  
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• Rock Hall of Fame induction ceremony -- the pandemic version -- airs Saturday night

  07-11-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  The pandemic-safe version of the annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday night -- like most major events this year -- will be a virtual experience.
  
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• Reviled in the West but revered at home, Aung San Suu Kyi cruising to victory in Myanmar elections

  07-11-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Aspiring politician U Hnin Htun Toe still recalls the elation of being able to vote in the 2015 election that ended 50 years of military rule in Myanmar, but Sunday's poll will be marred by bitter disappointment. Because of fighting in his native Rakhine state, elections have been cancelled by the election commission, stopping his ethnic Rakhine political party from running for office. Along with similar cancellations in other conflict-ridden areas of Myanmar, it means that nearly 1.5m people wi
  
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• ‘People believe it.’ Republicans’ drumbeat of socialism helped win voters in Miami

  07-11-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two nights before the Nov. 3 election, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio stood before thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters and said something he had to know was untrue:
  
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• How Joe Biden's 'folksy' style has caused him trouble

  07-11-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a public service career spanning six decades, former US vice president Joe Biden has developed a folksy style with a reputation for speaking off the cuff, which has occasionally landed him in hot water. Since being elected to the senate for Delaware in 1972, Mr Biden has espoused the working class values he learned in his youth in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But the everyman persona has at times exposed “Uncle Joe” to accusations of racism and sexism for unguarded comments. In one off
  
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• Democrats dare to hope they can capture the Senate after runoffs confirmed in Georgia's races

  07-11-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats were daring to believe they could take the US Senate after it was confirmed that two tight races in Georgia were headed to a runoff in January. The confirmation of a re-run for the state's two senate seats means the country is set for a second bruising election race with national significance in a matter of weeks. The races will determine the balance of power in the US Senate, and ultimately the success of Joe Biden's presidency given the chamber has the power to approve or veto his ca
  
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• AOC congratulates Biden-Harris before stoking flames of Democratic civil war

  07-11-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While the country erupted in celebration at Joe Biden's projected election win, Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez focused on the emerging fissures splitting the Democrats in a sign of the incoming president's struggles to come with the progressive wing of the party.After a short congratulations to president-elect Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris, Ms Ocasio-Cortez spent the following two hours tweeting about the Democrats' poor showing in races down the ticket."One thing I’ll say: for th
  
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• Democrats congratulate Biden; many Republicans haven't extended their hands

  07-11-2020 21:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  "The long dark night in America is over," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said.
  
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• Democrats congratulate Biden; many Republicans haven't extended their hands

  07-11-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The long dark night in America is over," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said.
  
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• Hear what Kamala Harris said to Joe Biden after winning 2020 election

  07-11-2020 21:21 via cnn.com
  
  Vice President-elect Kamala Harris spoke to President-elect Joe Biden on the phone to congratulate him on their victory in the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Giuliani: 'Networks don't get to decide elections. Courts do.'

  07-11-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani isn't buying President-elect Joe Biden's projected victory.Speaking with reporters on Saturday, Giuliani sarcastically dismissed the media's role in calling the election, arguing that the Trump campaign is still fighting a legal battle to determine the official results. "Oh my goodness," he said, raising his hands and looking up to the sky in feigned awe. "Wow, all the networks, we have to forget about the law."Giuliani added that courts, not news
  
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• Joe Biden and Kamala Harris change their Twitter bios: president-elect and vice president elect

  07-11-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris updated their Twitter bios with their new titles, having emerged on top in the 2020 presidential race.The pair changed their Twitter profiles to say “president elect” and “vice president elect” shortly after the Associated Press (AP) and other news outlets called Pennsylvania — and the presidency — for the Democratic presidential ticket on Saturday.It followed their projected win in Pennsylvania, where votes continued to be cou
  
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• Cities erupt in celebration after Biden victory

  07-11-2020 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump sparked celebrations in cities across the country, including many of the places that swept Biden into the White House.
  
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• Biden's trade policy will take aim at China, embrace allies

  07-11-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to work more closely with U.S. allies in confronting China on trade, and is seen as unlikely to roll back his predecessor's tariffs on imported steel, aluminum, Chinese and European goods any time soon."I've been told that if you close your eyes, you might not be able to tell the difference" between the Biden and Trump trade agendas, said Nasim Fussell, former Republican trade counsel at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee."Biden's not going to be quick to unr
  
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• Biden's manager becomes first woman to manage a winning Democratic campaign

  07-11-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign manager has become the first woman to manage a winning Democratic presidential campaign.Jen O’Malley Dillon, 44, is also the second woman to have managed a winning presidential campaign, after Kellyanne Conway served in that role for the final three months of Republican candidate Donald Trump’s successful run in 2016.On Saturday morning, Mr Biden was declared the winner in Pennsylvania, which pushed him over the 270 electoral college votes n
  
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• Erdogan tells Putin that Armenia must negotiate over Nagorno-Karabakh

  07-11-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday that Armenia must be convinced to negotiate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan and called for a peaceful resolution, the Turkish Presidency said.At least 1,000 people have died in nearly six weeks of fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians.
  
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• Karl Rove: Pennsylvania sealed Trump's electoral fate, gave Biden win

  07-11-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News contributor Karl Rove reacts to projection Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president.
  
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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 news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden will announce a 12-person coronavirus task force on Monday, according to an Axios report on Saturday.
  
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• What are we supposed to call Kamala Harris' husband?

  07-11-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Doug Emhoff will be the first male spouse of a vice president in U.S. history.
  
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• Joe Biden says ‘time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us’ in first statement as president elect

  07-11-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden has urged America to “put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us”, in his first comments as the nation’s president-elect.The former vice president is due to speak at a victory party in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday evening, where he will be joined him Kamala Harris, his running mate and now the vice-president elect.In a brief statement, the 77-year-old repeated the themes he had spoken of during his campaign for the White House, and in the days since election
  
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• Biden won. Now comes the unimaginably hard part.

  07-11-2020 20:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Analysis: To get anything done, Biden will have to satisfy the fractious wings of his own party, and possibly Senate Republicans.
  
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• Jubilant Biden supporters party outside the White House and stick up signs mocking ‘loser’ Trump

  07-11-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bicyclists raised and pumped their fists and whooped their approval down the middle artery of Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House as honking cars zipped by, many with Biden-Harris signs raised aloft through their overhead windows and blaring celebratory tunes like "Please Don’t Stop the Music".There was a particularly loud chorus of voices when the song gets to the line "No time for losers", one of Mr Trump's favourite words for his political opponents but one that now
  
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• How will history view Trump — and us?

  07-11-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Being impeached and then denied a second term are poor recommendations for presidential immortality, and Trump is likely to go down in history more for his sullen, graceless exit than his accomplishments.
  
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• Fugitive Ivory Coast opposition chief arrested

  07-11-2020 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fugitive Ivory Coast opposition leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan has been arrested north of Abidjan, officials and his party said Saturday, as prosecutors investigate President Alassane Ouattara's rivals for insurrection for rejecting his reelection.
  
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• Doctors fear more death as Dakotas experience virus ‘sorrow’

  07-11-2020 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With coronavirus cases running rampant in the Dakotas and elected leaders refusing to forcefully intervene, the burden of pushing people to take the virus seriously has increasingly been put on the families of those killed.In the Dakotas, the virus has shown few signs of slowing down.With winter approaching and hospitals scrambling to make room for COVID-19 patients, medical experts worry that virus deaths will continue to climb in a region where people have been slow to adopt mitigation me
  
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