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#BREAKING : The Supreme Court has delivered a historic victory for LGBTQ workers, ruling that the federal law that bars sex discrimination in employment does apply to LGBTQ employees.
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House Democrats say their first bill after taking power would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act.
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#BREAKING : The Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration and extended a lifeline to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, allowing the program that has permitted about 650,000 "Dreamers" to stay and work in the U.S. legally to continue.
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JUST IN: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal has sent a letter to the IRS requesting copies of President Trump’s tax returns from 2013 through 2018.
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#BREAKING : Joe Biden has selected Kamala Harris as his running mate. She'll be the first African American nominated for vice president by a major party.
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JUST IN: Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who is facing one of the toughest re-election campaigns in a red state in November, announced he will vote to convict President Trump on both articles of impeachment.
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Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that i I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
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JUST IN: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released an interim report based on multiple whistleblowers who say the Trump administration is rushing to transfer sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in violation of federal law.
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For the first time in its history, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is urging Americans to vote President Trump out of office, saying the Trump administration has "taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy" with its pandemic response.
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#BREAKING : A federal judge in Texas has ruled that about 127,000 ballots cast in Harris County via curbside voting are valid and cannot be thrown out, despite a last-minute lawsuit on behalf of a group of Republican candidates and activists.
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#BREAKING : Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate runoff, according to an AP race call. He'll be the first Black senator from Georgia and the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from a southern state.
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Elections company Dominion Voting Systems is suing former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who has spent much of the past two months claiming Dominion rigged the 2020 election and was somehow tied to Hugo Chavez, none of which is true.
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Only three members of Congress currently pay their interns a $15 wage: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democratic Sen. Doug Jones and Democratic Rep. Adam Smith. Newly-elected Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to join them.
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#BREAKING : Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States, according to an AP race call.
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#BREAKING : President Trump has falsely claimed that he has won the 2020 election. That is wrong. Millions of votes are still being counted in key states.
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NEW: The White House is warning it will have to wind down a program that pays to test, treat and vaccinate uninsured people for COVID-19 because the administration has run out of money for the program, which Congress failed to include in funding legislation.
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JUST IN: Georgia has released the results of its hand recount of the presidential election, affirming that Joe Biden maintains his lead in the state.
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JUST IN: House Democrats have filed an article of impeachment charging President Trump with inciting an insurrection. A vote is expected this week, likely on Wednesday.
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NEW: Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has won re-election in New York, according to an AP race call.
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JUST IN: President Biden said every adult in the U.S. will be able to get a coronavirus vaccination by the end of May because of increases in production, moving up the timeline from the end of July.
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With 69.9 million votes as of 12:10 p.m. ET Wednesday, Joe Biden has received more votes than anyone who has ever run for president, according to The Associated Press.
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"I hope those who mourn my passing, and even those who don't, will celebrate as I celebrate a happy life lived in imperfect service to a country made of ideals, whose continued success is the hope of the world." — John McCain, in his final memoir.
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JUST IN: The Trump administration has finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in healthcare and health insurance. It rolls back Obama-era protections that prohibited discrimination in healthcare based on gender identity.
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JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday after a meeting with FBI officials that Russian hackers successfully penetrated the election systems of two Florida counties in 2016.
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#BREAKING : Joe Biden has won the state of Wisconsin, according to a race call by the AP.
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The report says career officials warned White House officials about the risks of their efforts and that some White House staffers involved, including President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, had conflicts of interest and shouldn't be involved in the decision-making process.
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The Susan B. Anthony Museum has rejected President Trump's pardon of Anthony. The museum's director said the best way to honor Anthony would be to take a clear stance against voter suppression — and to advocate for human rights for all.
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JUST IN: As President Trump visited the Supreme Court, crowds waiting to pay their respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg booed Trump, chanting “vote him out.”
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The Whistleblower Complaint Has Largely Been Corroborated. Here's How.
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NEW: Two years after the passage of the GOP tax cuts, a new analysis finds more than 60% of the tax savings went to people in the top 20% of incomes, and the cuts "have not come anywhere close to paying for themselves."
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JUST IN: In a 5-4 opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court’s four liberal members in reversing Oklahoma’s prosecution of an enrolled member of the Creek Tribe for crimes committed within the historical Creek boundaries.
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NEW: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling for the immediate removal of 11 statues of Confederate soldiers currently on display in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building.
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#BREAKING : Twitter has permanently suspended President Trump's account "due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
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JUST IN: The incoming Biden administration will retire the “Operation Warp Speed” name for its push to vaccinate Americans for the coronavirus, incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
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President Biden is directing states to make all American adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1. The directive is part of a plan to get the U.S. "closer to normal" by the July 4th holiday.
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JUST IN: President-elect Joe Biden issued a statement on Saturday after the 2020 presidential race was called, saying he was “honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me.”
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JUST IN: The House overwhelmingly approved, 371-18, a bipartisan resolution condemning the far-right, baseless QAnon conspiracy theory. The resolution has no force of law, but it is the first time Congress is on record condemning the conspiracy.
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#BREAKING : The Justice Department has agreed to restore full law enforcement benefits for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the Trump administration hours before his retirement in 2018.
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#BREAKING : Democrat Ayanna Pressley is projected to win in Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District, becoming the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress in state history.
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The committee says the action is not related to the Mueller investigation but is instead because the committee is “concerned about the President’s compliance with Federal tax laws.”
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JUST IN: President Trump has left the White House for the final time as the 45th president of the United States.
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JUST IN: The Justice Department has amended the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to clarify that bump-stock-type devices are "machine guns" and are illegal.
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JUST IN: Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that “in consultation with Leader Hoyer and Whip Clyburn and after calls to the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the Vice President, we have decided we should proceed tonight at the Capitol once it is cleared for use."
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There’s no other way to put it: a fly landed on Vice President Pence’s head during tonight's debate and stayed there a long, long time.
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House Democrats have introduced a new coronavirus relief bill that includes preventing corporations from using taxpayer money for stock buybacks, strengthening the child tax and earned income tax credits, and boosting unemployment insurance.
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This is false. Official results have never been completely tabulated and certified on election night. And because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, changes to voting rules mean the results may take longer. That doesn't mean there's a problem.
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FACT CHECK: This is false. Trump's claim that child separations were carried out by the Obama administration has been frequently refuted:
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The cages for kids were built by the Obama Administration in 2014. He had the policy of child separation. I ended it even as I realized that more families would then come to the Border! @CNN
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"By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious," Pete Buttigieg said in a late-night speech. 0% of Iowa caucus results are in.
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#BREAKING : Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia's Senate runoff, according to an AP race call.
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JUST IN: President Trump said he is ending negotiations on a new coronavirus economic relief bill and won't support a new economic stimulus package until after the election.
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NEW: The Supreme Court has rejected a bid from Republicans to block North Carolina’s absentee ballot extension. The ruling means the state can count mail-in ballots received up to nine days after Election Day as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day.
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Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in the majority opinion. They said the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind DACA was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.
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Police in Washington, D.C. used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear them away from St. John's church, which suffered a small fire Sunday night, near the White House. President Trump then walked to the church for a photo op.
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#Breaking : Senate Democrats are threatening to sue the National Archives to obtain documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s career as a White House official during President George W. Bush’s administration.
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JUST IN: The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has officially certified the results of the 2020 election, which includes President-elect Biden’s victory. The certification comes after the conclusion of a hand recount and audit of approximately 5 million ballots.
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JUST IN: A federal appeals court has denied a bid by Texas Republicans to block Election Day drive-through voting in Harris County.
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JUST IN: The FDA has formally approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, replacing the emergency use authorization granted by the agency last December. This is the first COVID-19 vaccine to be subject to a full review by the FDA and receive a full approval.
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House Democrats are vowing their first bill will establish automatic voter registration, give redistricting powers to independent commissions over state legislatures and mandate more strict campaign finance disclosures.
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JUST IN: The Trump administration is rescinding its directive issued last week that would have barred international college students from the U.S. if their school opted for an online-only model in the fall semester.
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#BREAKING : Democrat Jon Ossoff has defeated Republican David Perdue in the Georgia Senate runoff, according to an AP race call, giving Democrats control of the Senate.
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JUST IN: With 97% of precincts reporting in the Iowa caucuses, Pete Buttigieg’s lead over Bernie Sanders has shrunk to 0.1%, or a total of 3 state delegate equivalents. Sanders’ lead in raw votes has grown to just over 2,500.
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#BREAKING : Joe Biden has won the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island, according to a series of race calls by the AP.
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JUST IN: President Biden has signed the first three of 17 planned executive actions on his first day in office: a mandate for mask wearing on federal property, a second action about underserved communities and a third to rejoin the Paris climate agreement.
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#BREAKING : In remarks from the White House, President Trump again falsely claimed victory in the 2020 election. He has not won. Votes continue to be counted. Trump also made a series of baseless, false claims about allegations of voter fraud.
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JUST IN: Jared Kushner’s attorney told the House Oversight Committee that Kushner uses private messaging apps and personal email to communicate about official White House matters with foreign leaders – a violation of a law governing White House records and official policy.
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NEW: Amid baseless accusations of election fraud from fellow Republicans, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has announced that the state will conduct a hand recount of the presidential race, where President-elect Joe Biden currently holds a 14,000 vote lead
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ELECTION UPDATE: Joe Biden has won the state of Nevada, according to an AP race call.
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Sources close to Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue's Georgia Senate campaigns say people in and around the Trump White House pressured them to shape their campaigns around Trump's demands, with one strategist calling it a "hostage situation."
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Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member.
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JUST IN: New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has announced that the Trump Foundation will dissolve. The foundation agreed to dissolve under the supervision of a judge. The NY AG will supervise the dispersal of the foundation’s remaining assets to charities.
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Voters in Arizona, New Jersey, Montana and South Dakota voted to legalize recreational marijuana for people ages 21 or older.
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#BREAKING : Bernie Sanders is projected to win the Colorado primary, according to the AP.
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“It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald. The worst one is ‘racist,’ ” Herschel Walker said at the RNC. “I take it as a personal insult that people would think I would have a 37-year friendship with a racist."
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JUST IN: GOP Rep. Paul Gosar was censured by the House, 223-207, for tweeting an anime video that showed him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, joined all Democrats in supporting the resolution.
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#BREAKING : The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environment Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants, dealing a major blow to efforts to combat climate change.
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EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells NPR that despite battling cancer for a third time, she's not going anywhere anytime soon. "I am very much alive," Ginsburg said.
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#BREAKING : Joe Biden has won the states of California, Oregon and Washington, according to a series of AP race calls.
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Comedian Michelle Wolf spoke to @nprfreshair about her White House Correspondents' Dinner performance.
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A group of more than 70 national security officials, spanning the administrations of Ronald Reagan through President Trump, have endorsed Joe Biden, saying Trump "has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation."
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For First Time, Openly LGBT Governor Elected: Oregon's Kate Brown
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a historic figure. She changed the way the world is for American women. NPR's obituary:
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President-elect Biden's dog Major, who will be the first dog to go from a shelter to the White House, will have his own "indoguration" hosted by the Delaware Humane Association this weekend.
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#BREAKING : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove President Trump from office, and if it isn't, "Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment.”
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said the House will continue its investigations of President Trump's conduct after the impeachment trial is over — including a likely subpoena of John Bolton.
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