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13 votes
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Norway may stop British and EU vessels fishing in its waters from January 1st – talks held up by London's protracted Brexit standoff with Brussels
8 votes -
Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit seeking to subvert election
21 votes -
US Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump ally’s push to overturn Joe Biden win in Pennsylvania
23 votes -
'Armed protesters' target Michigan official's home
14 votes -
China has accused Danish politicians of violating 'the basic norms governing international relations' in a dispute over Hong Kong opposition activist Ted Hui
6 votes -
An anti-gay Hungarian politician has resigned after being caught by the police fleeing a 25-man orgy through a window
27 votes -
New York 22nd district race up in air as county finds fifty-five uncounted ballots
12 votes -
Rubber ducks have become a symbol of Thailand’s pro-democracy protests in Bangkok after demonstrators used them as shields against police water cannon and teargas
12 votes -
US President Donald Trump pardons Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about Russia contact
22 votes -
The Trump administration is clearing the way for the start of President-elect Joe Biden's transition, despite Donald Trump vowing to keep up election fight
30 votes -
Guatemala protesters torch Congress as simmering anger boils over
9 votes -
Donald Trump's election power play: Persuade Republican legislators to do what US voters did not
12 votes -
Belgium has expelled five Danish far-right activists and banned them for a year over their plans to burn a Quran in a mainly-Muslim area of Brussels
10 votes -
Trump loyalists get top Pentagon jobs after firing of defence secretary Mark Esper
11 votes -
Estonia's far-right minister resigns over Biden remarks
12 votes -
Inside the New York Times' heated reckoning with itself
7 votes -
Peru's congress votes 105-19 to impeach President Martín Vizcarra and remove him from office
21 votes -
A little-known Donald Trump appointee is in charge of handing transition resources to US President Joe Biden — and she isn’t budging
20 votes -
2020 Election News and Information (Week of November 1st)
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Final thread before the election
23 votes -
Joe Biden elected president
69 votes -
Joe Biden is the next President of the United States
Race called by Decision Desk HQ at 08:50 AM EST: https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324710866516905984 Other sources will follow as there is no path back for Donald Trump to win PA. Update...
Race called by Decision Desk HQ at 08:50 AM EST: https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324710866516905984
Other sources will follow as there is no path back for Donald Trump to win PA.
Update #1: Called by Business Insider
Update #2: Called by Vox (thanks @dubteedub)
Update #3: The Economist is coming as close as they can to calling it (explanation: https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1324860925745229824)
Update #4: The AP, NBC, CNN and ABC News have called the race. It's over.
Update #5: New York Times, BBC
Update #6: Meanwhile in Trump's fantasy land
Update #7: Fox News has called it as well.72 votes -
Donald Trump gives remarks regarding the US election results
12 votes -
2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 25th)
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Thank goodness this is almost over
16 votes -
Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire
11 votes -
2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 18th)
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20 votes -
Pro-democracy protests in Thailand, in pictures
12 votes -
Thai police crack down on protesters, PM refuses to resign
11 votes -
The problem of free speech in an age of disinformation
13 votes -
Danish mayor Frank Jensen quits amid sexual harassment allegations – Social Democrat has apologized for his behaviour, saying he did not want to stand in the way of progress
6 votes -
Jacinda Ardern leads New Zealand Labour Party to historically high re-election, projected to win 49% of votes and 64/120 seats
28 votes -
Sweden will increase military spending by around 40% in the next five years and double the number of people conscripted into the army amid growing tensions with Russia
16 votes -
Details emerge of new right-wing coup plot in Bolivia
9 votes -
As states prepared mail-in ballots, Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses
5 votes -
Norway grants asylum to man claiming persecution by Polish government – Rafał Gaweł's prison sentence for fraud was retaliation by rightwing regime, Norway says
6 votes -
Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout California worry elections officials
29 votes -
Trump will undergo televised medical evaluation on Friday night, Fox News announces
18 votes -
FBI busts militia 'plot' to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
38 votes -
Presidential debate: Trump refuses to take part in virtual TV event
19 votes -
US President Donald Trump abruptly scraps stimulus talks, punting on economic relief until after Election Day
26 votes -
Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas.
13 votes -
AfD official fired after saying migrants ‘could be shot or gassed’, German media reports
8 votes -
Data leak reveals Donald Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016
38 votes -
Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes with eye on election
16 votes -
Trump campaign is reportedly plotting an election coup to “bypass” a Biden win
28 votes -
DeJoy tells judge mail-sorting machines can’t be reassembled
11 votes -
Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
9 votes -
Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris
17 votes -
US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of gender equality, dies at 87
76 votes -
With violent crime on the rise, Minneapolis City Council asks: Where are the police?
5 votes