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40% of the expected vote is in

Georgia officials have made some changes from November in an effort to expedite the ballot counting process.

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Trump privately admits it’s over, but wants to brawl for attention – POLITICO

Trump privately admits it’s over, but wants to brawl for attention  POLITICO Donald Trump’s election delusions are getting grander  CNN How Donald Trump’s Presidency Ends  The Atlantic Donald Trump’s Alarming Call to Battle in Georgia  The New Yorker Will fight like hell to hold

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Democratic Senate candidates outperformed Republicans in Georgia suburbs, per AP

Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock narrowly won the all-important suburban vote in Georgia’s runoffs, according to AP VoteCast survey data.

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Hong Kong Police Arrest Dozens of Opposition Politicians

A series of dawn raids swept up many of the opposition’s most prominent opposition figures, some of whom said they were accused of subversion under China’s national security law.

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Counting Begins in Georgia Senate Runoff Elections

(ATLANTA) — Georgia officials began counting the final votes of the nation’s turbulent 2020 election season on Tuesday night as polls closed in two critical races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate and, in turn, the fate of

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Georgia Senate Runoffs Special Coverage

Two runoff races in Georgia will determine control of the U.S. Senate. Listen to WABE’s special coverage of the election results. (Image credit: Caroline Amenabar/NPR)

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Patient on floor, a body not removed for 6 hours at overwhelmed Israeli hospital

Patient documents chaos in overflowing Beersheba coronavirus ward as Israel struggles to deal with fast-rising third wave, blamed in part on British mutation

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Why the Arab Spring Failed—And Why It May Yet Succeed

December 17, 2020, marked ten years since Mohammad Bouazizi immolated himself in a small town in Tunisia. His death on January 4, 2011, unleashed a chain of events that led to national protests and uprisings first in Tunisia, then in

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Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions

Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the crisis in California, has surpassed 11,000 COVID-19 deaths and has had 40 percent of the deaths in California. Beyoncé is leading contender at this year’s ceremony with nine nominations.

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Republican voters in Georgia’s Senate runoffs believe Biden was not legitimately elected

About three-quarters of voters who backed Republican candidates in Georgia’s Senate runoffs say President-elect Joe Biden was not legitimately elected in November.

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