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25 votes
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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 -
India looks to resume Iran, Venezuela oil imports under Biden
7 votes -
New York 22nd district race up in air as county finds fifty-five uncounted ballots
12 votes -
Guatemala protesters torch Congress as simmering anger boils over
9 votes -
Estonia's far-right minister resigns over Biden remarks
12 votes -
2020 Election News and Information (Week of November 1st)
A thread you can easily ignore A new week a new thread As the pace and the quantity of information that is coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or...
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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 -
2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 18th)
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20 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 -
Trump will undergo televised medical evaluation on Friday night, Fox News announces
18 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 -
Trump campaign is reportedly plotting an election coup to “bypass” a Biden win
28 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 -
With violent crime on the rise, Minneapolis City Council asks: Where are the police?
5 votes -
Denmark's left-leaning parties have agreed to change the country's sexual violence laws to allow sex without explicit consent to be prosecuted as rape
21 votes -
Republicans win two US House special elections
9 votes -
Denmark suspends Lars Findsen, head of the country's foreign intelligence service – Danish Defense Intelligence Service had initiated operations that were contrary to Danish law
9 votes -
Denmark's vegan party says it has enough support to run for parliament – the party, founded in 2018, reached the 20,182 declarations needed on Thursday
13 votes -
US Intelligence: China opposes Trump reelection; Russia works against Biden
9 votes -
Axios: President Trump exclusive interview (full episode)
31 votes -
A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
7 votes -
Anti-Putin protest in Russia’s far east attracts thousands for a fourth weekend
9 votes -
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after battle with coronavirus
29 votes -
Incumbent Polish president Andrzej Duda narrowly beats Trzaskowski in presidential vote
9 votes -
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in connection with $60 million bribery scheme
19 votes -
Citizens in Greenland are voting on whether to keep a controversial statue of a Hans Egede, seen as a symbol of Danish colonialism
4 votes -
Singapore's Workers' Party wins Sengkang GRC, boosting presence in parliament to record high
5 votes -
Swedish ex-ambassador Anna Lindstedt acquitted – had been accused of going beyond her remit to have talks with a foreign power
4 votes -
Kanye West declares he will run for US president in 2020
27 votes -
Counter-espionage agency ASIO is conducting a sweeping investigation into allegations Chinese government agents have infiltrated the office of a NSW Labor politician to influence Australian politics
7 votes -
Trump mounts campaign for more debates against Biden
10 votes -
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australian organisations, including governments and businesses, are currently being targeted by a sophisticated foreign "state-based" hacker
6 votes -
The American press is destroying itself
6 votes -
Australian Senators unite to block Pauline Hanson's 'all lives matter' motion
8 votes -
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises for 'any hurt or harm' caused by robodebt scheme
7 votes -
After a staff uproar, New York Times says that Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” op-ed it published yesterday did not meet its standards
21 votes -
Katri Kulmuni will step down as Finland's finance minister after admitting on Friday that she had used taxpayers' money to fund training on how to speak in public
12 votes -
Bizarre scenes in tiny Western Australia town as 'sovereign nation' attempts to overthrow government
8 votes -
For the first time in modern Swedish history, an ex-ambassador has gone on trial and faces a possible jail term
6 votes -
Colorado Democrats unveil sweeping police accountability bill in response to George Floyd’s death
14 votes -
Donald Trump says the USA will label Antifa as a terror organization amid unrest
34 votes -
"Robodebt" class action to continue, despite the Australian government waiving outstanding debts and promising to repay anybody who paid an unsound debt
Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients. But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will...
Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients.
But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will continue, because "the Government still needs to answer to claims of compensation and claims of damages and inconvenience and distress that this system has caused".
7 votes