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Georgia hand tally of votes is complete, affirms Biden lead

ATLANTA - A hand tally of ballots cast in Georgia for the presidential race has been completed, and it affirms Democrat Joe Biden's narrow lead over Republican President Donald Trump, according to res...

Nov 19, 2020

Judge halts federal execution after lawyers contract virus

WASHINGTON - A federal judge is temporarily blocking the federal government's plan to execute the first female death row inmate in almost six decades after her attorneys contracted the coronavirus vis...

Nov 19, 2020

Mexico becomes 4th country to hit 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

MEXICO CITY - Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in COVID-19 deaths Thursday, becoming only the fourth country - behind the United States, Brazil and India - to do so. Jos Luis Aloma Zegarra, Mexico's dir...

Nov 19, 2020

Trump, allies make frantic steps to overturn Biden victory

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part o...

Nov 19, 2020

Trump summons Michigan GOP leaders for extraordinary meeting

DETROIT - President Donald Trump summoned Michigan's Republican legislative leaders to the White House for an extraordinary meeting Friday amid a long shot GOP push to subvert the democratic process t...

Nov 19, 2020

Military pay raise at risk in dispute over Confederate bases

WASHINGTON - An annual defence policy measure that has passed Congress every year since the Kennedy administration is in danger of cratering next month over a move by Democrats to rename military base...

Nov 19, 2020

Joe Biden wins Georgia, flipping the state for Democrats

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt. The win by Biden pads his Elect...

Nov 19, 2020

California imposes overnight curfew to curb coronavirus

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is imposing an overnight curfew on most residents as the most populous state tries to head off a surge in coronavirus cases that it fears could tax its health care syst...

Nov 19, 2020

Mnuchin rejects renewal of some Fed emergency loan programs

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday he will not to extend several emergency loan programs set up with the Federal Reserve to support the economy in the midst of the coronaviru...

Nov 19, 2020

'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize

LONDON - Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for "Shuggie Bain," the story of a boy's turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won the pr...

Nov 19, 2020