The nominee, Lloyd J. Austin III, a retired four-star Army general, must obtain a congressional exemption from a law that bars recent active-duty officers from serving in the top Pentagon job. — Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is facing an arduous struggle to get his choice […]
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Racism Informs the Lies of American Exceptionalism | ZORA
Goodbye to four years of lies. Hello to four years of (hopefully) truth. — Danielle Moodie, ZORA Two years ago, during a bipartisan meeting with senators, President Donald Trump referred to Haiti, and then other nations on the African continent, as “shithole countries.” This was in response to Haiti being granted special consideration for immigration, to which the […]
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Texas GOP Chair Suggests Secession After Supreme Court Shoots Down Election Lawsuit | Slate
— Daniel Politi, Slate The head of the Texas Republican Party threw what amounts to a tantrum after the Supreme Court decided to shoot down the effort by the state to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory. Texas GOP chair Allen West issued a statement saying that “perhaps” it’s time for “law-abiding states to bond together and form […]
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Puerto Rico unearths uncounted ballots 1 week after election | AP
— DÁNICA COTO, AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s elections commission said Tuesday that it has discovered more than 100 briefcases containing uncounted ballots a week after the U.S. territory held its general election, drawing criticism and scorn from voters who now question the validity of the outcomes of certain races. Francisco […]
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s claims on vaccine, election are wrong | AP News
— HOPE YEN, LAURAN NEERGAARD and LINDA A. JOHNSON, AP NEWS WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to concede a presidential election he lost, President Donald Trump sought falsely to take full credit for drugmaker Pfizer Inc.’s announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine may be 90% effective, wrongly asserted the vaccine news was delayed until after Election Day to undermine him and […]
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Baltimore Elects Democrat Brandon Scott As Its Youngest Mayor Ever | Black Enterprise
— DANA GIVENS, BLACK ENTERPRISE Previously, BLACK ENTERPRISE reported on politician and city council president Brandon Scott’sbid to become the next mayor of Baltimore after securing the Democratic nomination. This week, news broke that Scott, 36, had officially won the election, making him the youngest mayor for more than a century to hold office in the city. The historic win […]
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The Election That Could Break America | The Atlantic
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? — BARTON GELLMAN, THE ATLANTIC There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the […]
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That time Dizzy ran for U.S. president | JAZZIZ
— MATT MICUCCI, THE ROOT Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie wasn’t only a key innovator of bebop and the jazz idiom at large; he was also known for being a prankster whose mischievous humor occasionally got him in trouble. He played his most remarkable prank in 1963 and 1964, when he got as close to becoming president […]
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Best president for Black America since Lincoln? C’mon, man! | The Philadelphia Tribune
— CLARENCE PAGE, THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE Let us now celebrate the calming, sedative qualities of a mute button. Yes, the mere addition of a mute button in the second and final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden appears to have been all it took to squelch the constant interruptions, mostly from […]
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Michael Steele I’m a Republican voting for Joe Biden over Trump. Because I’m an American first. | NBC News
America has watched as the Republican Party stopped pursuing its animating principles of freedom and opportunity and instead gave up its voice on things that mattered. — MICHAEAL STEELE, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMMITTEE AND SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE LINCOLN PROJECT, NBC NEWS I am an American, a conservative and a Republican, in […]
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