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Topic2020 US election

Topic: 2020 US election

The 2020 election sees US President Donald Trump make a re-election bid while Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate and former vice president, challenges him in the White House race. This year has been tumultuous, with issues of racism, police brutality, the coronavirus pandemic and the impact on economy, and ties with China dominating US politics. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has also catapulted the justice system into the limelight.

More Republicans reject effort by party members to disrupt certification of Trump’s loss

Josh Wingrove -
GOP claims of voter fraud by Democrats continued even as Washington Post reported that Trump had called officials in Georgia to 'find enough votes' to flip the state to Trump.

Trump urged Georgia officials to find new votes, overturn result

Josh Wingrove -
Trump told officials, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to 'find 11,780 votes' just days before Congress was scheduled to certify the US election results.

New York Post tells Trump to ‘Give It Up’ over election claim

Elizabeth Wasserman -
President Donald Trump’s continued effort to overturn the 3 November election results got a front-page rebuke from one his most loyal backers: the New York Post.

William Barr steps down as US attorney general after crossing Trump

Chris Strohm -
Barr’s departure followed an interview in which he said the US Justice Department hadn’t seen 'fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the US election'.

‘Time to turn the page’, says Joe Biden after electoral college win

Mario Parker -
Joe Biden said he would be the president for all Americans, even those who don’t agree with him, & urged people to focus instead on combating the pandemic and its economic fallout.

Biden wins electoral college to cement victory and rebuff Trump

Mark Niquette -
Some Senate Republicans who had refused to recognise Biden’s victory quickly started acknowledging that Trump lost and Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president on 20 January.

US Supreme Court rejects Texas and Trump’s bid to nullify election results

Greg Stohr -
The decision ends a lawsuit hailed by Trump on Twitter as 'the big one,' and it dashes his oft-expressed dream of vindication at the Supreme Court.

White House directs staff to save records to ensure ‘smooth transition’ of power

Jennifer Jacobs -
The White House sent the reminder more than two weeks after the General Services Administration ascertained Biden as the apparent winner of the US election.

YouTube to delete misleading videos on US election –– even Trump’s

Mark Bergen -
YouTube said Wednesday that its efforts would apply to content posted as of today, given that enough states have certified their election results to determine a president-elect.

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests Covid positive amid US election fight

Yueqi Yang -
Giuliani’s diagnosis is the latest setback for Trump’s effort to cling to power by asserting without evidence that the presidential election was riven with fraud.
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Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

Swasti Rao -
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Mamdani must face blind spots of his Muslim identity—and the wrongs done in its name

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Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

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With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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