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JOE BIDEN DEFEATS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
The Associated Press declares Joe Biden the winner of a grueling campaign for the American presidency. He will lead a polarized nation through a historic collision of health, economic and social crises.
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BREAKING: Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump from its platform, citing "risk of further incitement of violence." Find updates here:
BREAKING: Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco.” “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,” Francis said.
BREAKING: Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and other ex-officials have been told they’ll be charged in the Flint water scandal, two people with knowledge of the planned prosecution tell AP. Lead-contaminated water devastated the majority Black city.
BREAKING: DMX, the raspy-voiced hip-hop artist who produced the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (Up in Here)" and who rapped with a trademark delivery that was often paired with growls, barks and “What!” as an ad-lib, has died. He was 50.
BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr tells AP that the Justice Department hasn't uncovered widespread voting fraud that could have changed 2020 election outcome.
BREAKING: 'Black Panther' actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon cancer, representative tells AP. Find updates here:
Joe Biden wins Michigan, flipping a state that was key to President Trump’s 2016 victory and moving Biden within 6 electoral votes of winning the presidency. #APracecall #Election2020
BREAKING: Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company rigged the 2020 election.
BREAKING: Justice Department is dropping criminal case against ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn, according to court filing obtained by AP. The prosecution has been a rallying cry for the president in attacking FBI Russia investigation.
BREAKING: President Trump announces Morocco to normalize ties with Israel, 4th country to do so in Arab-Israeli peace push.
BREAKING: Justice Department officials tell The Associated Press that Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion.
BREAKING: Pfizer suggests its coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective and that the shots would protect older people most at risk of dying.
BREAKING: A white father and son in Georgia have been arrested and charged with the murder of a black man on a residential street, after a national outcry that no arrests had been made.
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are suffering an outage. The company said it was “aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app” and it was working on restoring access.
The NFL says it will halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for Black players to qualify.
BREAKING: The U.S. House votes to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees for spreading violent, racist rhetoric.
BREAKING: Six people were charged in a plot to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court.
BREAKING: President Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a report in The New York Times.
Voting technology company Smartmatic sues Fox News, three of its top hosts and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell for $2.7 billion, charging that they conspired to spread false claims that the company helped steal the U.S. presidential election.
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