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Topic2020 US election

Topic: 2020 US election

Trump urged Georgia officials to find new votes, overturn result

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Biden vowed to restore standards. Democrats saying Trump was worse isn’t the way forward

Biden administration has to decide whether to use 'but what about Trump?' as an all-purpose excuse when it gets criticized, even for future controversies that are sure to arise.

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Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.