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Saturday, November 14, 2020

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Resolution apologises for ‘enduring harm’ caused by bombing of house occupied by members of black liberation group

Philadelphia’s governing council has formally apologised for one of the worst atrocities in the long history of racial strife in the city – the aerial bombing on 13 May 1985 of a house occupied by members of the black liberation group Move that left 11 people dead, including five children.

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Trump makes first public remarks since weekend election loss
Seemed to be on verge of acknowledging Biden’s victory

Donald Trump has come closer than ever to admitting that he lost the US presidential election, suggesting “time will tell” but stopping short of a formal concession to president-elect Joe Biden.

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Commerce department order banning transactions with the app was to take effect on Thursday

The US justice department said it had appealed against a judge’s order that blocked the government from imposing restrictions on Chinese-owned TikTok that were set to take effect on Thursday.

The commerce department’s August restrictions order was to take effect late in the day, barring transactions with the video sharing app that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had warned would have effectively barred its use in the United States.

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President-elect Joe Biden says Donald Trump's refusal to concede the presidential election is 'an embarrassment'. Biden was outlining plans for the transition period before he takes office in January 2020 when he was asked what he would say to Americans anxious over Trump's refusal to concede and what it would mean for the country. "Well, I just think it's an embarrassment, quite frankly," Biden said. "I think it will not help the president's legacy." Biden has promised to "get right to work" despite alarm over whether there would be a smooth transition of power

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Rightwing news outlets have taken up the president’s message on social media, stirring supporters into a frenzy

The networks have made their calls, world leaders have begun paying their respects, and even Fox News and Rupert Murdoch’s other media outlets appear to have given up the ghost on a second term for Donald Trump. But in a video posted on Facebook on 7 November and viewed more than 16.5m times since, NewsMax host and former Trump administration official Carl Higbie spends three minutes spewing a laundry list of false and debunked claims casting doubt on the outcome of the presidential election.

“I believe it’s time to hold the line,” said Higbie, who resigned from his government post over an extensive track record of racist, homophobic and bigoted remarks, to the Trump faithful. “I’m highly skeptical and you should be too.”

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Hurricane and storm surge warnings have been declared for the keys with the storm expected to hit Sunday night or early Monday

A strengthening Tropical storm Eta sliced across Cuba on Sunday and was aimed at the tip of Florida, where officials braced for a storm that could hit at hurricane force after leaving scores dead and over 100 missing in Mexico and Central America.

The US National Hurricane Center in Miami declared hurricane and storm surge warnings for the keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas, including Florida Bay, with the storm expected to reach that area by Sunday night or early Monday.

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Network’s refusal to distort the truth goes down badly among flotilla of smaller, angrier, pro-Trump outlets

The announcement of a Joe Biden victory on Saturday morning exacerbated an internal conflict in conservative media, in which Fox News in particular has been singled out for criticism by a flotilla of smaller, angrier, pro-Trump outlets.

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Winner leads from start to finish under John Velazquez
Aidan O’Brien saddles first three in Breeders’ Cup Mile

British and Irish stables enjoyed one of their best ever days at the Breeders’ Cup meeting on Saturday as Aidan O’Brien sent out an unprecedented 1-2-3 in the Breeders’ Cup Mile after earlier wins for Kevin Ryan’s Glass Slippers and James Fanshawe’s Audarya in the Turf Sprint and Filly & Mare Turf respectively. A clean sweep of the day’s events on grass was complete when Dermot Weld’s Tarnawa landed the Turf.

Then Authentic, the Kentucky Derby winner, brought down the curtain on the meeting with an authoritative success in the Classic under a copybook frontrunning ride by John Velazquez. The 4-1 chance was Bob Baffert’s fourth winner of the race in the last seven years.

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Australia’s current and former prime minister respond to the US election result declared early Sunday morning

The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election, while his predecessor, Malcolm Turnbull, succinctly said “what a relief”.

Morrison on Sunday morning local time said he looked forward to coordinating with the new Biden administration on Covid-19 and on technologies to reduce “global” emissions.

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Americans across the country took to the streets to celebrate the end of Trump’s presidency while triumph likely to be welcomed by international allies

Joe Biden has been elected the 46th US president, signalling a return to political norms in America after four years of raucous populism and administrative turmoil under Donald Trump.

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Two men, who lacked permits to carry their weapons in Pennsylvania, traveled from Virginia in Hummer with QAnon sticker

Two men armed with handguns were arrested on Thursday near the convention center in Philadelphia where the continuing vote count could decide the presidential election, police said.

The men, ages 42 and 61, traveled to the city from the Virginia Beach, Virginia, area in a Hummer and did not have permits to carry the weapons in Pennsylvania, police said. The Hummer was adorned with an American flag and a window sticker for the antisemitic, pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon.

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Aidan O’Brien’s Battleground and Mother Earth take second
Essential Quality wins the Juvenile on dirt for Godolphin

For the second year running, the European challenge on the first day of the Breeders’ Cup came up short on Friday, as second-place finishes for Aidan O’Brien’s Battleground and Mother Earth were the best that a strong list of contenders could muster.

Battleground finished strongly from well off the pace but was still three lengths adrift of Mike Maker’s Fire At Will in the Juvenile Turf, while Jessica Harrington’s Cadillac finished fourth in the same race.

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Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe highlights systemic flaws and president’s bid to ‘undermine public trust’

An international observer mission has reported that the US elections have been “tarnished” by legal uncertainty and Donald Trump’s “unprecedented attempts to undermine public trust”.

A preliminary report by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) pointed to systemic weaknesses in US elections, as well as the stress imposed by the coronavirus pandemic and Trump’s calls for an end to vote counting in certain states based on false claims of fraud.

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Republicans and Democrats have a chance to gerrymander states in a way that will define the next decade

US election 2020 live results here

While the race for the White House is sorted out across tight midwestern battlegrounds, Republicans can already claim an important victory further down the ballot. The GOP held state House and Senate chambers across Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Kansas, and many other key states. This ensures a dramatic edge when it comes to redrawing new state legislative and congressional maps next year, following the completion of the census count.

This year, Democrats had hoped to avenge the GOP’s 2010 Redmap strategy, which drove Republicans that year to control swing-state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Florida, and majorities they have not relinquished since. That also allowed Republicans to draw, on their own, nearly five times as many congressional districts nationwide as Democrats.

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Polls have shown steady lead for Joe Biden over Donald Trump
Millions of Americans line up to vote on historic day
What time results are expected – and what to watch for
Donald Trump: could the president refuse to accept defeat?
House races: Democrats predicted to expand majority

11.50pm GMT

The first Americans to cast a vote for president – but whose votes don’t count – have registered a solid win for Joe Biden, by 55% to 42% for Donald Trump.

Residents of the island of Guam are some of the 4 million US citizens who are disenfranchised because they live in a territory, not in a state. The issue is one of acute sensitivity in Guam, as in other territories such as American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

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The Republican National Committee has moved its election night war room from its headquarters in downtown Washington due to concern about potential civil unrest, Axios reports.

The RNC also moved its war room from its HQ in downtown D.C. to an undisclosed location in the city citing security concerns over potential civil unrest, two sources familiar with their plans tell me

One official said the war room will not be at the WH or the Trump Hotel https://t.co/A29itVCxyH

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Few problems were reported as voters cast ballots in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, California and Washington DC

US election 2020 – live updates

Across America millions of people went to the polls amid an election campaign fraught with anxiety over the prospect of voter intimidation and the chance of civil unrest after a historically divisive election.

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A political analysis report says that Democrats expect to gain between 10 and 15 seats in the 435-member House

Democrats are expected to expand their majority in the House of Representatives by winning several election races on Tuesday night, an expansion that would build on Democrats’ impressive wins in the 2018 midterm elections, when they gained 41 House seats.

The Cook Political Report, which provides non-partisan election and political analysis, predicted on Monday that Democrats will gain between 10 and 15 seats in the House, which has 435 members. “A combination of President Trump’s unpopularity in the suburbs, a fundraising disadvantage, and 32 open seats for the GOP to defend (to Democrats’ dozen) has weighed down Republicans’ prospects,” said David Wasserman, of Cook Political Report.

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As they have for weeks, hundreds of Trump supporters rallied at the intersection of Beverly and Santa Monica boulevards

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Los Angeles County public health officials on Saturday issued a renewed plea for residents to celebrate Halloween safely,

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A deadline extended by the state supreme court stands, but may still be considered by the supreme court after the election

The US supreme court has rejected a last-minute plea from Pennsylvania Republicans to overturn a three-day extension of the absentee ballot deadline, a hugely consequential ruling in one of the most closely-watched swing states in the presidential election.

Pennsylvania usually requires ballots to arrive by 8pm on election night in order to count. But last month, the Pennsylvania supreme court extended that deadline by three days for ballots postmarked by election day, a move likely to allow thousands of late-arriving ballots to count.

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