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Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Wayne Co. canvassers deadlock on certifying Nov. 3 election results — The Wayne County Board of Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 Tuesday along party lines on whether the county's Nov. 3 election results should be certified as at least four state and federal lawsuits sought to stop the process.
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Board in key Michigan county fails, then agrees, to certify vote totals by deadline — DETROIT — The Wayne County Board of Canvassers unanimously certified its ballot count Tuesday evening, reversing itself just hours after Republicans on the board blocked the typically uneventful task …
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Clara Hendrickson / Detroit Free Press:
GOP members of Wayne County Board of Canvassers vote against certifying election results — The two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers cast an unprecedented vote Tuesday against certifying the county's November election results for the county's 43 jurisdictions …
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MIGOP:
Cox Statement on Wayne County Board of Canvassers Meeting — Cox Statement on Wayne County Board of Canvassers Meeting — The following statement is from Michigan Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox, regarding the Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting today where they failed to certify the election results in Wayne County.
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Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
GOP seeks to postpone Maricopa County election certification
GOP seeks to postpone Maricopa County election certification
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Ed White / Associated Press:
Michigan county fails to certify vote, stalling outcome
Michigan county fails to certify vote, stalling outcome
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New York Times:
Giuliani Is Said to Seek $20,000 a Day Payment for Trump Legal Work — Last week, the president put the former New York mayor in charge of the court challenges to his loss in the election. Since then they have suffered nothing but setbacks. — Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has helped oversee …
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Washington Post:
In reversal, GOP officials in key Michigan county certify ballot count after striking a compromise with Democrats — Please note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
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Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Second Georgia county finds previously uncounted votes — ATLANTA (AP) — A second Georgia county has uncovered a trove of votes not previously included in the election results, but it doesn't change the overall outcome of the presidential race, the secretary of state's office said Tuesday.
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Another Georgia county has uncovered 2,700 missing votes, Secretary of State's office says
Another Georgia county has uncovered 2,700 missing votes, Secretary of State's office says
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Wall Street Journal:
Rage Against the Voting Machine
Rage Against the Voting Machine
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Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Magazine:
Joe Biden won, Michigan elector coup ‘not going to happen,’ GOP leader says — LANSING — Democrat Joe Biden is the president-elect, and while Michigan's Republican-led Legislature is investigating the election, it will not award the state's 16 electors to GOP President Donald Trump …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Georgia secretary of state had witnesses on call when Lindsey Graham plotted to ‘throw out’ ballots — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that at least two members of his staff witnessed Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) apparent effort to suppress the counting of legal votes in the state.
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Lindsey Graham says he spoke to Arizona and Nevada officials about election results
Lindsey Graham says he spoke to Arizona and Nevada officials about election results
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Bloomberg:
Trump Attacks on Voting by Mail Cost Him in Georgia, GOP Official Says
Trump Attacks on Voting by Mail Cost Him in Georgia, GOP Official Says
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David Morgan / Reuters:
As U.S. Senate battle intensifies in Georgia, allegations fly
As U.S. Senate battle intensifies in Georgia, allegations fly
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CNN:
Trump fires director of Homeland Security agency who had rejected President's election conspiracy theories — (CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the Department of Homeland Security official who had rejected Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud.
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NBC News:
Trump fires head of election cybersecurity who debunked conspiracy theories
Trump fires head of election cybersecurity who debunked conspiracy theories
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Washington Post:
Trump fires top DHS official who refuted his claims that the election was rigged
Trump fires top DHS official who refuted his claims that the election was rigged
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Trump ousts Homeland Security cyber chief Chris Krebs, who called election secure
Trump ousts Homeland Security cyber chief Chris Krebs, who called election secure
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ABC News:
Infighting and an attempted ‘coup’: Trump team erupts into chaos as Giuliani takes over legal efforts — Giuliani filed to appear in court on behalf of the campaign Tuesday. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
What Obama gets right — and very wrong — about the media — Everybody's a media critic these days — and Barack Obama is an astute one. But for those who remember certain aspects of his presidency, he's got a bit of a credibility problem. — He's certainly right when he frets that America …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim of problems with ballot observers — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Trump campaign's claim that Philadelphia violated state election law in the way it handled observers at a city ballot counting center.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury
House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint — Blood samples from recovered patients suggest a powerful, long-lasting immune response, researchers reported. — How long might immunity to the coronavirus last? Years, maybe even decades, according to a new study …
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Tyler Van Dyke / Washington Examiner:
Chuck Grassley tests positive for COVID-19 — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced Tuesday evening that he tested positive for COVID-19. — Grassley, 87, announced earlier in the day that he was quarantining after finding out that he had been exposed to the coronavirus.
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Chuck Grassley, second-oldest senator, tests positive for Covid-19
Chuck Grassley, second-oldest senator, tests positive for Covid-19
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Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Chuck Grassley, the Senate's oldest Republican, tests positive for coronavirus
Chuck Grassley, the Senate's oldest Republican, tests positive for coronavirus
Jake Bleiberg / Associated Press:
AP Sources: FBI is investigating Texas attorney general — DALLAS (AP) — The FBI is investigating allegations that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton broke the law in using his office to benefit a wealthy donor, according to two people with knowledge of the probe.
Breaking911:
Pair Charged With Voter Fraud Allegedly Submitted THOUSANDS of Fraudulent Applications on Behalf of Homeless People — CALIFORNIA — Two men have been charged in a 41-count criminal complaint for allegedly submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people …
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US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Test for Self-Testing at Home — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first COVID-19 diagnostic test for self-testing at home and that provides rapid results.
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CNN:
Trump remains bunkered in the White House as the world spins on — (CNN)President Donald Trump's agenda listed “no public events” on Tuesday — the 10th time since the election that those words have appeared on his daily schedule. — He has answered no questions from reporters …
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WAGA-TV:
FOX 5 Poll: Senate runoff extremely tight, Gov. Kemp's approval rating slips — ATLANTA - A new exclusive InsiderAdvantage/FOX5 Atlanta Poll released on Tuesday takes a look at Georgia's Senate races, Gov. Brian Kemp's approval rating, and if Georgians believe the last election was fair.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Mom Arrested For Murder of Fringe Legal Theorist — Neely Petrie-Blanchard allegedly shot the amateur legal expert who she'd turned to to reclaim custody of her kid. — A once murky alliance forged in a world of internet conspiracy theories appears to have ended in murder this past Sunday …
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Clayton Guse / New York Daily News:
‘An end to the New York way of life’: MTA proposes catastrophic service cuts amid COVID-19 budget crunch — A 40% cut in weekday subway service and layoffs of more than 9,000 transit workers are on the table as MTA honchos battle a COVID-19 financial catastrophe, the Daily News has learned.
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Malinowski defeats Kean in close race — The New Jersey Globe is now projecting that Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) has been re-elected to a second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. — In a race that has become excruciatingly tight since election night, Republican Thomas Kean …
Garance Burke / Associated Press:
Financially troubled startup helped power Trump campaign — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cellphone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters, and offered intimate access to their social networks.
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Why ‘Socialism’ Killed Democrats in Florida — “It was a McCarthyism type of pounding,” said Congresswoman Donna Shalala, looking back on the election she narrowly lost this month. Shalala had spent eight years serving in the Cabinet of Bill Clinton, the paragon of Democratic moderates …
Laura Snapes / The Guardian:
Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research — The country music icon's $1m donation supported the latest breakthrough by Moderna and several research papers — It's truly the greatest gift of all: a $1m donation by Dolly Parton to coronavirus vaccine research supported …
Emily Larsen / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign files Nevada lawsuit arguing mass ‘discrepancies and irregularities’ mean Biden loss — President Trump's legal team ramped up challenges to election results in Nevada on Tuesday with a lawsuit that asserts that the president won the state, despite being more than 33,500 votes …
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