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Fund will support charities favored by son of Maryland Jewish Democrat, including Oxfam, Give Directly, the Helen Keller Institute and Animal Outlook

A top Georgia elections official says the largest share of outstanding votes looks to be ballots cast early in DeKalb County, a Democratic stronghold.

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Statement from the Press Secretary  Whitehouse.gov

All eyes are on Georgia, where polls closed in two runoff elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate. Stephen Fowler, a political reporter for Georgia Public Broadcasting and host of the Battleground: Ballot Box podcast, joins Judy Woodruff

Watch PBS NewsHour special coverage of the joint session of Congress starting at 12:30 p.m. ET.

The elections director for Georgia’s most populous county says a bomb threat targeting an Election Day polling place in Georgia’s most populous county was investigated last week by the FBI.

The crisis starts around 2 a.m. at a hospital in Mendocino County, Calif. A compressor gives out, giving the staff two hours to use the coronavirus vaccines before they are declared unusable. (Image credit: Elise Amendola/AP)