Pennsylvania is steadily pushing Joe Biden over the threshold to victory in the 2020 presidential race, but the race is still too close to call Friday morning with thousands of votes still to count.
by ALEXANDRA JONES
In the early Friday morning hours, Joe Biden narrowly amassed more votes than President Donald Trump in Georgia
by DANIEL JACKSON
Analysis
by MATTHEW RENDA
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden will likely take Nevada and its precious six electoral votes — putting him on the threshold of becoming the 46th president of the United States.
by MATTHEW RENDA
Economic News
Signaling a continued slowdown in recovery, the U.S. economy added back just 638,000 jobs in October while the unemployment rate dropped to 6.9%.
by KEVIN LESSMILLER
Troubled by reports against the far-right filmmaker who leads the independent U.S. Agency for Global Media, a federal judge pushed the Trump appointee’s lawyer to agree Thursday that the reported conduct is “loathsome.”
by JACK RODGERS
Decision 2020
The U.S. Postal Service is unable to track whether thousands of ballots ever reached election officials, including in swing states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
by MEGAN MINEIRO
The election count continues. So does Wall Street’s rally, as markets are poised for one of the best election weeks in decades.
by NICK RUMMELL
People caught with small amounts of hard drugs in Oregon will now have access to addiction assessments and treatment. If they take that route, the $100 fine they face will be waived — a step advocates say reclassifies addiction as a public health issue, not a criminal offense.
by KARINA BROWN
Public Health
Eight months since the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic, the world is reporting an accelerating number of deaths and infections.
by CAIN BURDEAU
Spin TV
For Fox News’ Sean Hannity, the post-presidential election takeaway is vote tampering by Democrats. For MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, it’s all about counting the over 140 million votes cast by Americans.
by DUSTIN MANDUFFIE
International Courts
by CAIN BURDEAU
At a time when dozens of members of Greece’s Neo-Nazi party are going to jail, the European Court of Human Rights slammed the country on Thursday for having convicted a journalist who railed against one of the party’s supporters.
by MOLLY QUELL
Column
ROBERT KAHN
Many hours were spent this year counting words, seeking the magical 600 to justify calling it a column. The White House interrupted this process repeatedly, with strident calls demanding that our columnist Stop The Count. Here is what survives.
Science, Technology & the Environment
With an abundance of whales off the coast yet to begin their winter migration south, California’s renowned commercial Dungeness crab season will be delayed for the second consecutive year.
by NICK CAHILL
A worldwide deluge of evening light pollution from artificial sources, coupled with rapidly expanding development in coastal communities, is contributing to disturbances in the reproductive cycles of coral reef populations, according to a new study.
by MARTIN MACIAS JR
The world’s most ancient chameleon, fossilized in amber 99 million years ago, is not actually a chameleon at all, but a member of a now-extinct lineage of tiny, salamander-like creatures.
by DANIEL CONRAD
The Army Corps of Engineers will temporarily suspend a permit it issued for a $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana as it takes another look at the project’s environmental impacts, government lawyers said in a motion filed Wednesday.
by SABRINA CANFIELD
Across the Nation
The four former police officers charged in connection with the arrest and death of George Floyd will face trial together in March, a Minnesota judge ordered Thursday, and that trial is tentatively staying in Minneapolis.
by ANDY MONSERUD
by NICHOLAS IOVINO
The U.S. Veterans Administration must honor the terms of a 1991 settlement and pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for Agent Orange-related health problems, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
by NICHOLAS IOVINO
California State Senator Holly Mitchell is set to become the fifth member on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, marking for the first time in the county an all-woman board, which will oversee roughly 10 million Angelenos.
by NATHAN SOLIS
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos beat a defamation lawsuit filed against him by his girlfriend’s brother, who is cited in multiple news stories as the source of leaked text messages sold to the National Enquirer.
by NATHAN SOLIS
Two anonymous sources claim that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had an affair with a woman whom he later helped get a job with a campaign donor who is tied to criminal corruption allegations against him.
by DAVID LEE
by KYLE ANNE UNISS
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Rulings
by KELSEY JUKAM
A federal court in California denied the city of Santa Rosa’s attempt to dismiss a municipal liability claim for Fourth Amendment violations against it in a suit relating to the police department’s response to Black Lives Matter protests.
The New Mexico Supreme Court retracted a ruling that abolished a spousal communications privilege in finding that the prohibition against witnesses testifying in court about what their husband or wife told them in private conversations must be reinstated. The rule should be the “subject of comprehensive and robust public discussion,” the court found.
The New Mexico health department’s emergency orders temporarily restricting business operations in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are enforceable under the civil penalty provision of the Public Health Emergency Response Act, the state’s Supreme Court ruled.
A man may pursue part of his civil rights suit accusing police officers in Waco, Texas, of beating him to the point where he was “bleeding profusely” after he refused to provide his ID when he was pulled over for changing lanes without signaling fast enough, a federal court in Texas ruled. Further development of the facts is required to determine whether qualified immunity is entitled.
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Hot Cases
The Justice Department sued to block Visa’s $5.3 billion plan to buy financial tech startup Plaid, which the feds say would give Visa the power to raise prices, build barriers for competition to enter the market and reduce innovation.
An airplane racer accuses video game makers Ubisoft and Ivory Tower of letting users fly the plaintiff’s one-of-a-kind P-51 Mustang in their game “The Crew,” and even gave the plane the same name as the plaintiff’s — “Strega.”
The estate of author Truman Capote sued Paramount Pictures seeking a judicial determination that the estate owns the rights to Capote’s novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” which Paramount made into the 1961 classic film, and any potential remake Paramount has planned.
An arrestee detained at the Ventura County Jail claims jailers are denying him and other inmates their right to vote by refusing their requests for ballots, even though they either have not yet been convicted of any crime or have only been convicted of misdemeanors and are still permitted to vote.
Disability Rights Oregon and individual plaintiffs claim in a federal lawsuit that the city of Portland’s protest dispersal tactics disproportionality affect protesters with disabilities.
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