President-elect Joe Biden has flipped Georgia — the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the Peach State since 1992 — taking the final electoral prize of the 2020 campaign.
by DANIEL JACKSON
Shifting gears from the election challenges that have otherwise occupied him this week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would block U.S. investment in companies considered arms of the Chinese military.
by JACK RODGERS
Deaths are surging once again across Europe as the coronavirus pandemic overwhelms health systems and the region records more than 4,000 new deaths each day, the highest in the world.
by CAIN BURDEAU
With the coronavirus spreading faster than it ever has in California, worried officials issued a desperate plea Friday for residents to stop traveling and hold “virtual” Thanksgiving celebrations.
by NICK CAHILL
Adding CNN to the lineup of our weekly comparisons of cable news evening talking heads, Don Lemon and Fox News host Laura Ingraham offered very different opinions on why President Trump hasn’t conceded defeat a week after the election was called for Joe Biden.
by DUSTIN MANDUFFIE
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ROBERT KAHN
Many Republican arguments today are category errors: They’re not true, and lack the sense even to be wrong.
Pandemic
A Texas appeals court on Friday blocked a local lockdown order in the border city of El Paso, where a dramatic coronavirus surge has killed more than 180 people in just the past month and prompted officials to set up mobile morgues to handle the influx of bodies.
by TRAVIS BUBENIK
Iowa has for years failed to adequately enforce federal workplace health and safety regulations, which has taken on critical importance during the current Covid-19 outbreak, according to a complaint filed by labor, civil rights and faith-based groups.
by ROX LAIRD
Bruised by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s assertion that any coronavirus vaccine rolled out in the Trump administration would be “flawed,” the president glowered Friday that the Empire State can keep waiting.
by JACK RODGERS
Science & Environment
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state’s Department of Natural Resources sued Friday to end a decades-old easement for Enbridge Energy’s dual pipelines through the Straits of Mackinac, citing a lack of compliance with safety standards.
by ANDY OLESKO
Buffeted by solar wind and micrometeors, the moon is no place to roll out a sleeping bag for a night of stargazing, but NASA is exploring how to shelter its next generation of lunar pioneers.
by CAMERON LANGFORD
Courts
Emotions ran high Friday as a Dutch criminal court heard from one of the four men charged in the downing of Flight MH17, in the last block of hearings leading up to a 2021 trial.
by MOLLY QUELL
A Georgia judge on Friday denied bond to two white men accused of murdering Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in February.
by KAYLA GOGGIN
In a continuation of a nearly decade-long fight, changes to union recertification in a controversial Wisconsin law constricting collective bargaining powers were debated before a federal appeals court panel Friday.
by JOE KELLY
Across the Nation
Finding that two voters’ claims about election fraud lack credibility, a Michigan judge on Friday shut down a lawsuit demanding an audit of results in the Detroit area.
by ANDY OLESKO
Amid an ongoing dispute over whether statues viewed by some as symbols of racism and oppression should be taken down, five protesters were charged with felony vandalism this week for toppling an 18th century Spanish missionary’s monument at a Catholic church north of San Francisco.
by NICHOLAS IOVINO
by CARSON McCULLOUGH
Four former seniors staffers have sued Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, claiming they were retaliated against after they reported him to the FBI for bribery and abuse of office for allegedly using his position to help a mistress and a campaign donor.
by DAVID LEE
The Ninth Circuit on Friday considered whether Congress’ silence on immigrants’ right to counsel during certain immigration proceedings means a federal judge erred in finding asylum seekers can have their attorneys present during interviews involving the “Return to Mexico” program.
by BIANCA BRUNO
by MEGAN MINEIRO
The Markets
A muddled week of trading, brought on by spikes in Covid-19 cases and the promise of a new vaccine, did not deter investors from finishing the week on the positive side of the ledger.
by NICK RUMMELL
A high-profile lawsuit involving civil rights groups, cities and counties over the Trump administration’s handling of the 2020 census will go to trial in March, after a federal judge rejected calls to fast-track it.
by MATTHEW RENDA
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Rulings
by KELSEY JUKAM
A federal court in New York granted a musician a preliminary injunction against a Covid-19-related rule that allows “incidental music” at dining establishments but does not allow advertised or ticketed live music.
The Third Circuit upheld a ruling against Republican congressional candidate Jim Bognet and four citizens in their suit challenging a three-day extension for counting mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.
A federal court in Texas recommended that a former summer camper who is no longer a minor can pursue some of his claims against a camp counselor who is currently serving a 40-year sentence after pleading guilty to sexually abusing other young boys at Camp Stewart in 2009.
A federal court in Illinois ruled that a class of consumers can pursue its claim that Apple violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting scans of facial geometry and other information without informed consent.
A federal court in Washington, D.C., ruled that it has jurisdiction over the Pan American Health Organization as to some of the claims brought against it by four Cuban physicians now living in the U.S. who claim it provided or benefited from their forced labor in Brazil.
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Hot Cases
A group of Black former University of Iowa football players filed a race discrimination lawsuit claiming coaches used racial slurs, forced them to change their hairstyles and punished them for singing and dancing.
A Georgia voter sued his state’s elections chief in federal court Friday, claiming the elections board unilaterally and without authority changed the way absentee votes are handled and therefore said votes should not be counted.
Putting a cap on what amounts to a total $33 million in settlements, the Oakland City Council agreed to pay $399,000 to the 12 remaining plaintiffs in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire.
Following a Ninth Circuit order compelling arbitration, Intuit has agreed to pay $40 million to settle a class action claiming it duped customers eligible to file their taxes for free into paying fees to use TurboTax in 2018.
California voters have rejected Proposition 15, which would have created a “split-roll” property tax scheme to tax commercial property at a higher rate, 52% to 48%.
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