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4:40 PM ET, November 7, 2020

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Fox News:
Biden wins presidency, Trump denied second term in White House, Fox News projects  —  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has defeated incumbent President Donald Trump, Fox News projects.  —  Fox News Go  —  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has defeated incumbent President Donald Trump …
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New York Times:
Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. achieved victory offering a message of healing and unity.  He will return to Washington facing a daunting set of crises.  —  Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday …
Associated Press:
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.
CNN:
Report: Armed men arrested in Philadelphia were trying to deliver fake ballots  —  (CNN)Two armed Virginia men who were arrested Thursday outside the Philadelphia Convention Center were “coming to deliver a truck full of fake ballots” to the city, CNN affiliate KYW reported, citing prosecutors.
CNN:
Biden defeats Trump in an election he made about character of the nation and the President  —  (CNN)America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, CNN projects, turning at a time of national crisis to a man whose character was forged by aching personal tragedy and who is pledging …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Biden defeats Trump to win White House, NBC News projects  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden became president-elect Saturday after winning the pivotal state of Pennsylvania, NBC News projected.  —  The former vice president amassed 273 Electoral College votes after winning Pennsylvania's 20 electors …
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Leading in Pennsylvania, Biden nears victory in the state and the election.
Axios:
Joe Biden elected president, AP projects
Candy Woodall / USA Today:
Joe Biden wins Pennsylvania: Here's how he reclaimed his home state and the ‘blue wall’
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
All eyes on Pa., other battlegrounds as Biden increases lead, Trump vows legal fight
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Another Trump ally contracted coronavirus  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPY SATURDAY.  It seems like it's going to get near 70 degrees today in D.C., so get outside, if you can.  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S decision to dump on absentee and mail-in balloting for months …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Aides Frustrated After Meadows's Silence on Infection  — Campaign aide Nick Trainer, several others also contract virus  — Meadows is latest in series of cases linked to White House  —  Some of Donald Trump's White House and campaign aides are frustrated that the president's chief of staff …
CNN:
At least 5 people in Trump's orbit, including his chief of staff, have tested positive for Covid-19
Wall Street Journal:
The Presidential Endgame  —  Trump has the right to fight in court, but he needs evidence to prove voter fraud.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Perhaps it was inevitable that Donald Trump's re-election campaign would end as his Presidency began: with the President claiming victory …
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Politico:
‘This f—ing virus’: Inside Donald Trump's 2020 undoing  —  Brad Parscale was on the phone with President Donald Trump and top White House officials in mid-February when someone on the line asked the campaign manager what worried him the most.  —  Parscale, speaking from his Arlington …
Mikey Smith / Mirror.co.uk:
Confusion as Donald Trump announces legal press conference outside gardening firm  —  He then clarified that he didn't mean the hotel  —  Donald Trump sparked confusion today as he announced a press conference by his legal team would take place outside a landscape gardening firm.
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CBS News:
Watch Live: Trump election press conference held at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Carli Pierson / The Independent:
Now Trump has lost the election, Pence could pardon him — but it's Biden who should  —  It's the lonely path, but it's the right one  —  “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”  So spoke President Gerald Ford when he was given the impossible task of taking over the Oval Office …
Discussion: Washington Post
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
When the MAGA Bubble Burst  —  In the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails, three social psychologists studied a small religious sect in Chicago called “the seekers,” who believed that the world would soon be destroyed by a flood, and that a flying saucer was coming to save them.
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
The MAGA Movement Is Splintering Between Those Preparing For A Future Without Trump And Those Refusing To Imagine One  —  Donald Trump lost.  So what's next for the conservative media that's devotedly followed him?  A bitter divide.  —  Reporting From  —  Washington, DC  —  Copy
Discussion: Tennessee Star
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Federal judge denies GOP request to recount Clark County mail-in ballots in Nevada  —  The Trump campaign filed a separate lawsuit in Nevada, seeking to stop the counting of ‘illegal votes’  —  Legal limbo: 2020 election lawsuits pile up  —  A federal judge on Friday denied emergency relief sought …
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ABC News:
Judges want more evidence from Trump campaign as election cases get tossed
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden to announce COVID-19 task force Monday  —  Joe Biden plans Monday to name a 12-member task force to combat and contain the spread of the coronavirus, sources tell Axios.  —  Why it matters: By announcing a COVID task force even before unveiling his senior White House staff …
Discussion: Business Insider
Politico:
Meet the contenders for Biden's Cabinet  —  The president-elect is expected to nominate a mix of progressives, moderates and even a few Republicans as he seeks to satisfy a broad coalition.  —  In the next two and half months, Joe Biden needs to build a governing team to help him tackle …
Gregory J. Wallance / The Hill:
Why so gloomy, Democrats?  You have a lot to celebrate  —  If there is such a thing as political postpartum depression, Democrats are clearly suffering from it.  For the last four years, and not without justification, Democrats regarded President Trump as a threat to democracy in America …
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Associated Press:
Incendiary texts traced to outfit run by top Trump aide  —  BOSTON (AP) — A texting company run by one of President Donald Trump's top campaign officials sent out thousands of targeted, anonymous text messages urging supporters to rally where votes were being counted in Philadelphia on Thursday …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Final Gasp of Donald Trump's Presidency  —  Donald Trump going out with a limp seems like an oxymoron," a senior adviser to the president told me.  In width and in word, in soaring skyscrapers and Brioni suits and arena rallies and various euphemisms for great (yuge, bigly), the man has been defined by and obsessed with largeness.
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Ayesha Rascoe / NPR:
Trump Dumps 3 Agency Leaders In Wake Of Election  —  The sudden departures included:  — Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the first woman to oversee the agency in charge of the nuclear stockpile.  She was required to resign on Friday.
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Bloomberg:   U.S. Nuclear Bomb Overseer Quits After Clash With Energy Chief
 
 
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
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