WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to serve as treasury secretary, a pivotal role in which she would help shape and direct his economic policies at a perilous time, according to a person familiar with the transition plans.Yellen, who is widely admired in the financial world, would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in a line stretching back to Alexander Hamilton in 1789.

Her nomination was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Biden's plans.As treasury secretary, Yellen would face a shaky U.S.

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Trump says he'll leave White House if Electoral College formalizes Biden's victory

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden's victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat.“Certainly I will. But you know that," Trump said Thursday when asked whether he would vacate the building, allowing a peaceful transition of power in January.

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Top California air, climate regulator hopes to run Biden EPA

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Over four decades, Mary Nichols has been the regulator behind some of the nation’s most ambitious climate policies and, in recent years, she’s been their staunchest defender against President Donald Trump's effort to dismantle them.With Joe Biden heading to the White House, Nichols hopes she is not done yet. Nichols, 75, ends her second tenure as chair of the California Air Resources Board next month, a job that’s made her the top air and climate regulator for the nation’s most populous and economically influential state.

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Coronavirus: Joe Biden, wife Jill highlight importance of Americans staying home for Thanksgiving

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, highlighted the importance of staying home during the holidays, amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a video message released on Thanksgiving — Nov. 26.

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In Georgia, Republicans juggle Biden win and Trump loyalties

GAINESVILLE, Ga. – Twin Georgia Senate runoffs have Republicans in a quandary. They could admit President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid and turn all attention to salvaging a Senate majority to counter President-elect Joe Biden.

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Biden seeks unity as Trump stokes fading embers of campaign

WILMINGTON, Del. – On a day of grace and grievance, President-elect Joe Biden summoned Americans to join in common purpose against the coronavirus pandemic and their political divisions while the man he will replace stoked the fading embers of his campaign to “turn the election over.”Biden, in a Thanksgiving-eve address to the nation, put the surging pandemic front and center, pledging to tap the “vast powers” of the federal government and to “change the course of the disease” once in office. But for that to work, he said, Americans must step up for their own safety and that of their fellow citizens.“I know the country has grown weary of the fight,” Biden said Wednesday.

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‘Shared sacrifices’: Biden to deliver Thanksgiving address as U.S. coronavirus cases soar

Joe Biden is slated to deliver a Thanksgiving address to the nation seeking to unify Americans in the face of the coronavirus pandemic as experts warn of a possible spike in cases resulting from the holiday.Biden’s transition team said the president-elect will “discuss the shared sacrifices Americans are making this holiday season and say that we can and will get through the current crisis together.” His remarks come as COVID-19 cases are surging nationwide, with the nation averaging 165,000 new virus cases per day as of Tuesday, up more than 70 per cent in two weeks, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.Hospitalizations, deaths and the testing positivity rate are also up sharply as the nation approaches Thanksgiving,

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Analysis: Biden prioritizes experience with Cabinet picks

NEW YORK – Competence is making a comeback.President-elect Joe Biden has prized staying power over star power when making his first wave of Cabinet picks and choices for White House staff, with a premium placed on government experience and proficiency as he looks to rebuild a depleted and demoralized federal bureaucracy.With an eye in part toward making selections who may have to seek approval from a Republican-controlled Senate, Biden has prioritized choosing qualified professionals while eschewing flashy names.

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'America is back': Biden pushes past Trump era with nominees

WILMINGTON, Del. – Declaring "America is back," President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers.“Together, these public servants will restore America globally, its global leadership and its moral leadership,” Biden said Tuesday from a theater in his longtime home of Wilmington, Delaware.

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Jake Sullivan: Joe Biden’s national security adviser one of youngest to hold key role

Jake Sullivan (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden appointed Jake Sullivan as his national security adviser Tuesday.Sullivan, 43, will be one of the youngest people to serve in that role.Biden introduced Sullivan in Wilmington, Delaware along with other nominees for his foreign policy and national security teams.RELATED: Biden picks Blinken, Mayorkas, Sullivan for key Cabinet positionsPresident-elect Joe Biden introduced key members of his foreign policy and national security team Tuesday.Sullivan briefly took to the podium, thanking Biden for the honor.

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Biden to deliver Thanksgiving address on Wednesday

President-elect Joe Biden introduces key foreign policy and national security nominees and appointments at the Queen Theatre on Nov. 24, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Biden set to receive daily presidential briefings after Trump signs off

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has belatedly signed off on giving his successor access to the nation’s most secure secrets.An administration official said Tuesday that Trump will allow President-elect Joe Biden to receive the presidential daily brief, the highly classified briefing prepared by the nation’s intelligence community for the government’s most senior leaders.The official said the logistics of when and where Biden will first receive the briefing were still being worked out.The determination comes a day after the General Services Administration cleared the way for beginning formal transition planning to the Biden administration ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration.

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Biden seeks swift Cabinet votes, but GOP Senate stays silent

WASHINGTON – As President-elect Joe Biden started rolling out his administrative team, one voice has been notably silent: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Senate Republicans will hold great sway in confirming or denying Biden’s Cabinet nominees, regardless of which party controls the narrowly split Senate after runoff elections.

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Biden-Harris ticket surpasses 80M votes — the most in US history

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)The 2020 election was an event for the record books for more reasons than one: President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received more votes than any other presidential ticket in U.S.

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Who is Avril Haines, Joe Biden’s director of national intelligence nominee?

Avril Haines (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)President-elect Joe Biden made history once again Monday after he nominated Avril Haines to serve as the director of national intelligence — the first woman to serve in the key role.President-elect Joe Biden introduced the nominees for his cabinet Tuesday.Biden’s pick came amid a flurry of announcements on his nominations for his national security team and cabinet. RELATED: Biden picks Blinken, Mayorkas, Sullivan for key Cabinet positions“These experienced, crisis-tested leaders will start working immediately to rebuild our institutions, renew and reimagine American leadership to keep Americans safe at home and abroad,” Biden said in a statement.President-elect Joe Biden introduced key members

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The Latest: Biden says his picks show US back on world stage

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):1:20 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden says his national security team will lead the way in reflecting the fact that “America is back” on the world stage.During a speech Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said that his team would “embody my core beliefs that America is strongest when it works with its allies.”In rolling out his national security picks, including top posts for State Department and Department of Homeland Security, Biden said the nominees show “experience and leadership, fresh thinking and perspective and an unrelenting belief in the promise of America.”The State Department alone has seen a significant number of departures from its senior and rising

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Dow crests 30,000 points on vaccine hopes, Biden transition

coronavirus vaccines and news that the transition of power in the U.S. to President-elect Joe Biden will finally begin.Traders were also encouraged by news that Biden had selected Janet Yellen, a widely respected former Federal Reserve chair, as treasury secretary.

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Pennsylvania certifies Biden as winner of presidential vote

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks after a meeting with governors in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 19, 2020. - Biden said today he would not order a nationwide shutdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic despite a surge in cases.

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Asian shares mostly rise on virus vaccine, Yellen hopes

TOKYO – Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday, encouraged by news on the development of coronavirus vaccines and more assurance for a transition of power in the U.S. to President-elect Joe Biden.

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U.S. election: Here’s what the Biden team gets now that the transition is approved

Joe Biden’s transition team now that the head of the General Services Administration has “ascertained” that he is the apparent winner of this month’s presidential election.Among other things, the ascertainment process gives the incoming president and his team access to officials at federal agencies and directs the Justice Department to work on security clearances for transition team members and Biden political appointees. It even gives his team access to official government website domains.

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US election: Trump administration to begin transition of power process to president-elect Biden

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has informed president-elect Joe Biden that the current administration is ready to begin the formal transition of power process, according to media reports. Jackson Proskow reports.

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Biden transition gets govt OK after Trump out of options

WASHINGTON – The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy.

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Biden set to formally introduce his national security team

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is set to formally introduce his national security team to the nation, building out a team of Obama administration alumni that signals his shift away from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies and a return to U.S. engagement on the global stage.The picks for national security and foreign-policy posts include former Secretary of State John Kerry to take the lead on combating climate change.

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Approval for transition gives Biden team access to resources

WASHINGTON – The federal government is set to begin working with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team now that the head of the General Services Administration has “ascertained” that he is the apparent winner of this month's presidential election.Among other things, the ascertainment process gives the incoming president and his team access to officials at federal agencies and directs the Justice Department to work on security clearances for transition team members and Biden political appointees.

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Who is Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden’s pick for US ambassador to UN?

Linda Thomas Greenfield (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy team was beginning to take shape after he nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.Thomas-Greenfield was one of Biden’s notable foreign policy picks, which were announced Monday.

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Biden taps ex-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to lead treasury, AP sources say

FILE - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference December 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to serve as treasury secretary, a pivotal role in which she would help shape and direct his economic policies, according to a person familiar with the transition plans.Yellen, who is widely admired in the financial world, would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in a line stretching back to Alexander Hamilton in 1789.Her nomination was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Biden's plans.President-elect Joe Biden spoke Nov.

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GSA officially recognizes Biden as president-elect, clearing way for transition

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Biden names John Kerry as climate envoy

FILE - US Vice President Joe Biden (L) speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry as they walk the colonnade at the White House in Washington, DC, October 18, 2016.

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Alejandro Mayorkas: Biden’s pick for secretary of Homeland Security

Alejandro Mayorkas (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for PEOPLE En Espanol)President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Alejandro Mayorkas for his secretary of Homeland Security. Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant to be nominated to the position in U.S.

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Ex-Homeland Security official Mayorkas returns under Biden

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the Sept. 11 attacks, but reshaped by President Donald Trump to carry out his hardline immigration and law enforcement agenda.Biden on Monday announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, who served under President Barack Obama as deputy secretary of Homeland Security and director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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Biden names climate statesman John Kerry as climate envoy

John Kerry, one of the leading architects of the Paris climate agreement, is getting one more chance to lead the fight against climate change after President-elect Joe Biden named the longtime senator and former secretary of state as climate envoy for national security.Biden's team gave little immediate detail on Monday about how he envisioned Kerry shaping the new job, which many on social media and on all sides of the climate-action spectrum were quick to dub “climate czar.” But the transition team made clear that it will be a prominent role, with Kerry becoming the first member of the National Security Council to focus exclusively on climate change.It was one of Biden’s first steps making good on campaign pledges to confront

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Antony Blinken: Who is Joe Biden’s secretary of state pick?

Antony Blinken (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)The contours of President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet are coming into focus after he announced that he has selected Antony Blinken as his incoming administration’s secretary of state.“We have no time to lose when it comes to our national security and foreign policy. I need a team ready on Day One to help me reclaim America’s seat at the head of the table, rally the world to meet the biggest challenges we face, and advance our security, prosperity, and values.

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EU invites Biden to patch up trans-Atlantic ties

BRUSSELS – European Union chief Charles Michel is inviting Joe Biden once he is U.S. president to come visit and patch up trans-Atlantic relations that have suffered over the past four years under President Donald Trump.

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Biden picks Blinken, Mayorkas, Sullivan for key Cabinet positions

President-elect Joe Biden addresses the media on Nov. 10, 2020 at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Despite Trump's prod, Mich. to consider certifying Biden win

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan election officials on Monday planned to consider certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state as President Donald Trump’s brazen attempts to subvert the results of the election faced increasingly stiff resistance from the courts and fellow Republicans. Trump's delay tactics, meant to sow doubt about the vote in order to soften the sting of defeat, were only forestalling the inevitable, with just three weeks until the Electoral College meets to formalize Biden's ascendency to the White House on Jan 20.

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The Latest: Biden names 2 aides to legislative affairs team

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):11:35 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden has named two longtime Capitol Hill aides to his legislative affairs team.Reema Dodin and Shuwanza Goff will serve as deputy directors of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs.Dodin has been working on the transition team already, leading its legislative engagement with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. She also serves as deputy chief of staff and floor director to Illinois Sen.

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COVID-19 cases in US may double before Biden takes office: Study

Joe Biden still two months away, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country is likely to increase to 20 million by the end of January, nearly doubling the current level of 12 million cases, predicts a new study.The research, published in the journal Scientific reports, applied a mathematical model which had accurately forecasted the rate of COVID-19 growth over the summer of 2020."One of the key reasons for the increased accuracy of this model over other COVID-19 forecasts is that this model accounts for the fact that people live in interconnected social networks rather than interacting mostly with random groups of strangers," said study co-author Raphael Thomadsen from the Washington University in St.

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Biden expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team's planning.Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has close ties with Biden. If nominated and confirmed, he would be a leading force in the incoming administration’s bid to reframe the U.S.

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U.S. election: Top Harris aide says team expects Pennsylvania to certify election, Biden to name some cabinet picks Tuesday

Symone Sanders, the senior advisor and spokesperson for vice-president-elect Kamala Harris, said on Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation that their team expects Pennsylvania’s counties to certify their results on Monday and hope General Services Administration administrator Emily Murphy will “legally do her job” and ascertain the results so they move forward with the transition.

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Biden expected to nominate Blinken as secretary of state

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team's planning.Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has close ties with Biden. If nominated and confirmed, he would be a leading force in the incoming administration’s bid to reframe the U.S.

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Biden's 1st Cabinet picks expected Tuesday despite Trump administration roadblocks

FILE - President-elect Joe Biden delivers a remarks after meeting virtually with U.S. governors at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on Thursday, Nov.

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Biden inauguration will be scaled down amid COVID, aide says

Joe Biden will be a scaled-down version of the usual traditions that will not endanger Americans health amid the coronavirus pandemic, a top aide said on Sunday."I think it's going to definitely have to be changed," incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said.

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Trump slams global climate agreement Biden intends to rejoin

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord on Sunday, telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet.“To protect American workers, I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris climate accord, a very unfair act for the United States,” Trump said in a video statement from the White House to the Group of 20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia.

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Biden's 1st Cabinet picks expected Tuesday amid road blocks

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden's first Cabinet picks are coming Tuesday and planning is underway for a pandemic-modified inauguration in January as his team moves forward despite road blocks from the Trump administration.Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, offered no details Sundays about which department heads Biden would first announce. The Associated Press has reported that Biden could name his nominee for secretary of state or treasury secretary this coming week.Biden has pledged to build the most diverse government in modern history, and he and his team often speak about their desire for his administration to reflect America.

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Pompeo touts Iran policy in Gulf ahead of Biden presidency

DUBAI – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended his tour of Gulf Arab states and the Trump administration's continued efforts to squeeze Iran, even as a new U.S.

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Twitter will give @POTUS handle to Biden on Inauguration Day

FILE - In this photo illustration a Donald Trump twitter account seen displayed on a smartphone with a laptop keyboard on the background. (Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)LOS ANGELES - The @POTUS Twitter account will automatically be given to President-elect Joe Biden on Inauguration Day, according to the company.Twitter is working with the National Archives and Records Administration to transition all Twitter accounts associated with the presidency including @FLOTUS, @VP, and @whitehouse once Biden is sworn into office.“Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021.

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Week offers snapshot of how Trump, Biden approach presidency

WASHINGTON – One spent the week at his home in Delaware carefully trying to build a government and preparing to take on a pandemic.The other largely kept to himself behind closed doors at a mostly empty White House, angrily tweeting and using his office and allies to try to subvert the results of an American election in a dangerous breach of democracy.If the differences between President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump were not already clear, the days since the Nov. 3 election was decided have demonstrated the dramatically divergent ways in which each approaches the job of commander in chief.Trump has largely abandoned governing, despite a pandemic that has now killed more than 250,000 people in the U.S.

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Biden to work to end executions as government sets 3 more

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is against the death penalty and will work to end its use, his spokesman said Saturday, as the Justice Department scheduled three more federal executions during before the Jan. 20 inauguration, including two shortly before he is set to take office.The Bureau of Prisons on Thursday carried out the eighth federal execution this year, after a 17-year hiatus, and it is likely to increase pressure on Biden decide whether his administration would continue to schedule executions once he is sworn in.

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Labour unions in Canada could play big role in averting Biden’s ‘Buy American’ rules

Joe Biden‘s proposed Buy American rules.The president-elect, a self-proclaimed “blue-collar Joe,” makes no secret of his affinity for organized labour, or of his plan to ensure U.S. workers and companies are first in line to reap the benefits of his economic recovery plan.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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