BILLINGS, Mont. – Down to its final weeks, the Trump administration is working to push through dozens of environmental rollbacks that could weaken century-old protections for migratory birds, expand Arctic drilling and hamstring future regulation of public health threats.The pending changes, which benefit oil and gas and other industries, deepen the challenges for President-elect Joe Biden, who made restoring and advancing protections for the environment, climate and public health a core piece of his campaign. “We’re going to see a real scorched-earth effort here at the tail end of the administration,” said Brian Rutledge, a vice president at the National Audubon Society.

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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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‘A polite coup d’etat’: Trump and allies continue baseless claims on U.S. election

Donald Trump‘s relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for co-operation on a transition of power.But his baseless claims have a way of coming back. And back.

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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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Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn

Donald Trump has pardoned his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, the outgoing president said it is his “Great Honor” to pardon Flynn.“Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family,” Trump wrote. “I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving.”It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T.

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They're baaack: Trump and allies still refuse election loss

WASHINGTON – Monday seemed like the end of President Donald Trump's relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for cooperation on a transition of power.But his baseless claims have a way of coming back. And back.

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Over phone, Trump tells Pennsylvania hearing U.S. election must be ‘turned around’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday baselessly claimed anew that he had won the election and uttered repeated falsehoods when he called into an event held by Pennsylvania Republicans to investigate unproven allegations of voter fraud.“This was an election that we won easily.

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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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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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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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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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GM flips to California's side in pollution fight with Trump

DETROIT – General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California's right to set its own clean-air standards.CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environmental groups that GM will pull out of the lawsuit, and it urges other automakers to do so.She said the company agrees with President-elect Joe Biden's plan to expand electric vehicle use. Last week, GM said it is testing a new battery chemistry that will bring electric-vehicle costs down to those of gas-powered vehicles within five years.Barra sent the letter after a call with California Gov.

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Trump supporter charged after breathing forcefully on protesters

Trump innertube has been charged with assault, after a heated encounter outside the president’s Virginia golf course on Saturday.Raymond Deskins, 61, of Sterling, Va., faces one count of misdemeanour assault after a citizen obtained a warrant through a county magistrate, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. Trump lawyers mix up Michigan and Minnesota in bungled voter fraud claim The charge stems from an encounter captured partially on video outside the Trump National Golf Club, where Deskins and two anti-Trump protesters engaged in a shouting match over the weekend.

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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: China tests millions amid new virus flare-ups

leave rural students isolated— Jury duty? No thanks, say many, forcing trials to be delayed— Inequality ‘baked into’ virus testing access as cases surge— New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern offers virus know-how to Joe Biden___Follow AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak___HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov.

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‘Frankenstein’s monster’: Where we’re at in Trump’s fight to challenge U.S. election results

Donald Trump and his legal team to challenge the results of the U.S. election, and many of his lawsuits alleging voter fraud and widespread irregularities are falling short.So far, Trump’s campaign has pursued legal action against six states that voted in favour of president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris.

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President Trump appeals rejection of effort to block Pennsylvania vote

HARRISBURG - President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania.The president and other plaintiffs filed notice of appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sunday, a day after the judge issued a scathing order shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.MORE: Judge throws out Trump bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certificationThe case was always a long shot to stop President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, but given Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes at stake, it was the campaign’s best hope to affect the election results through the courts.

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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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Trump team making false argument about his 2016 transition

WASHINGTON – It’s not just President-elect Joe Biden’s transition that’s under a microscope. President Donald Trump and his allies are harking back to his own transition four years ago to make a false argument that his own presidency was denied a fair chance for a clean launch.

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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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Trump election challenges sound alarm among voters of color

DETROIT – When longtime Detroit community advocate Frank McGhee watched two Republican canvassers vote against certifying election results in the majority Black city, he was furious.McGhee, 58, has spent more than two decades working with Detroit youth and educating them on the electoral process.

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U.S. Election: Trump campaign requests recount of Georgia’s ballots

Donald Trump’s legal team said Saturday that his campaign has requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race after results showed Democrat Joe Biden winning the state.Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Friday certified the state’s election results, which had Biden beating Trump by 12,670 votes out of about 5 million cast, or 0.25 per cent. Republican Gov.

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U.S. judge throws out Trump’s bid to stop Pennsylvania’s election certification

Trump campaign’s futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.The case was always a long shot to stop President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration, but it was U.S. President Donald Trump’s best hope to affect the election results through the courts, mostly because of the number of electoral votes, 20, at stake in Pennsylvania.

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Judge throws out Trump bid to stop PA vote certification

Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled Saturday, dealing President Donald Trump’s campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate the election.U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, turned down the request for an injunction by President Donald Trump’s campaign, spoiling the incumbent’s hopes of somehow overturning the results of the presidential contest.In his ruling, Brann said the Trump campaign presented “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations ...

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Judge throws out Trump bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certification

WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - 2020/11/03: County employee opens mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections. As the polling stations in Pennsylvania state close, the ballots for the 2020 presidential election are being tra HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled Saturday, dealing President Donald Trump’s campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate the election.U.S.

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Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount

MILWAUKEE – Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count. Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Biden's victory by about 20,600 votes.

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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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Trump urges lawmakers to ignore will of American voters

Weeks after losing the U.S. election, outgoing President Donald Trump is still in denial over his defeat.

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Trump lawyers mix up Michigan and Minnesota in bungled voter fraud claim

Donald Trump‘s lawyers mixed up two states while trying to claim he should’ve won a third this week, in an unforced bungling of an affidavit filed in court.The error played out in the middle of the outgoing president’s increasingly desperate attempts to overturn the results of the election he lost to president-elect Joe Biden. Trump’s team has claimed widespread voter fraud in various battleground states, without evidence, and has been fighting an uphill battle against Biden’s upcoming inauguration in January.

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Trump tries to leverage power of office to subvert Biden win

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed.Trump summoned a delegation of the battleground state’s Republican leadership, including the Senate majority leader and House speaker, in an apparent extension of his efforts to persuade judges and election officials to set aside Biden's 154,000-vote margin of victory and grant Trump the state's electors.

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Who needs Russia? Loudest attacks on US vote are from Trump

WASHINGTON – Russia didn't have to lift a finger.In the weeks before the U.S. presidential election, federal authorities warned that Russia or other foreign countries might spread false information about the results to discredit the legitimacy of the outcome.

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Analysis: With silence, GOP enables Trump's risky endgame

WASHINGTON – Republicans in Congress are engaged in a risky but calculated bet that once President Donald Trump has exhausted his legal challenges to the election, he will come to grips with his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. But the opposite is happening.

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'Something very historical': Push for diverse Biden Cabinet

WASHINGTON – Native Americans are urging President-elect Joe Biden to make history by selecting one of their own to lead the powerful agency that oversees the nation’s tribes, setting up one of several looming tests of Biden’s pledge to have a Cabinet representative of Americans.O.J. Semans is one of dozens of tribal officials and voting activists around the country pushing selection of Rep.

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Michigan Republicans say election laws will be followed after extraordinary Trump meeting

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WATCH LIVE: President Trump speaks on lowering prescription drug prices

MADISON, Wis. – The recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin’s two most heavily Democratic counties began Friday with President Donald Trump’s campaign seeking to discard tens of thousands of absentee ballots that it alleged should not have been counted.Trump’s three objections attempting to discard the ballots were denied by the three-member Dane County Board of Canvassers, twice on bipartisan votes. Trump was expected to make the same objections in Milwaukee County ahead of a court challenge once the recount concludes, perhaps as soon as Wednesday.Joe Biden won Wisconsin by 20,600 votes and carried Dane and Milwaukee counties by a 2-to-1 margin.

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Mich. leaders head to DC as Trump bids to subvert election

WASHINGTON – Two Michigan state legislators headed to the White House on Friday as President Donald Trump made an extraordinary and sure-to-be futile attempt to block Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state and subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election.The state has yet to certify its results for Biden, who won Michigan by more than 154,000 votes, according to unofficial results.

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Iran's allies on high alert in Trump's final weeks in office

BAGHDAD – Iran has instructed allies across the Middle East to be on high alert and avoid provoking tensions with the U.S. that could give an outgoing Trump administration cause to launch attacks in the U.S.

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Sen. Romney slams President Trump's post-election efforts as 'undemocratic'

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Republican senators are criticizing President Donald Trump and his team for their efforts to pressure state and local election officials to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in several closely contested states.Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, one of Trump’s most vocal GOP critics, tweeted Thursday, “It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President.”Romney accused Trump on resorting to “overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election.”RELATED: Trump campaign retreats from key claim in Pennsylvania lawsuitSen.

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Rudy Giuliani pushes false Trump claims, movie quotes at sweaty briefing

Rudy Giuliani quoted an old movie, sweat through his hair dye and failed to offer any evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud on Thursday, during a wide-ranging and conspiracy theory-filled press conference from the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C.Giuliani baselessly accused Democrats of election fraud against his client, U.S. President Donald Trump, and called for ballots to be thrown out in several battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden.Other members of Giuliani’s team used the news conference to peddle conspiracy theories about communists, Venezuela, Hillary Clinton and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, a frequent target for far-right paranoia.

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EXPLAINER: A look at Trump's long-shot legal challenges

blocking or delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden. Republicans are complaining that, among other things, their observers weren’t allowed to properly review the processing of ballots.

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Biden declared winner of Georgia after election recount confirms lead over Trump

Joe Biden was declared the winner of Georgia Thursday after a statewide manual recount confirmed his narrow lead over President Donald Trump in the presidential race.Georgia was the final state to be called by the Associated Press as it awaited the results of the audit, which was ordered by the state’s top election official to assure the integrity of the initial election results.Biden is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the traditionally Republican stronghold since Bill Clinton in 1992. Georgia is also now the fifth state to be flipped from Trump’s electoral wins in 2016.

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Biden reaches out to governors as Trump stymies transition

WILMINGTON, Del. – Joe Biden expressed concern Thursday that President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to block the peaceful transition of power at the White House has hindered the flow of information about programs to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine. “Unfortunately, my administration hasn’t been able to get everything we need,” the president-elect said during a video conference with the National Governors Association’s leadership team, which includes five Republicans and four Democrats.

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Georgia to announce voting recount results as Trump drops Michigan lawsuit

U.S. presidential election battleground state of Georgia was expected on Thursday to affirm Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump after a painstaking recount, as Trump’s re-election campaign said it was withdrawing a lawsuit in Michigan.The official in charge of implementing Georgia’s voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, told Fox News the state’s audit and recount were nearly complete and on track to verify Biden’s advantage.

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Biden hasn't said anything on Newsom dinner controversy amid COVID-19 spike

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is still facing backlash for dining at a restaurant with a large group while pushing new coronavirus restrictions on indoor dining during a spike in cases, and President-elect Joe Biden has yet to weigh in on the matter.

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Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

Former US President Barack Obama speaks at a Get Out the Vote rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden in Atlanta, Georgia on November 2, 2020. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUV NEW YORK - Former President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S.

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Trump pushes new environmental rollbacks on way out the door

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