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Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency over Donald Trump after it was projected that he had won the state of Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Appeals court rejects Trump’s attempt to block certification of Pennsylvania’s election results

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY); Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Getty/Salon)

Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez excoriate Mitch McConnell on House floor

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Jake Tapper presses Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar about the high death toll in the US from Covid-19. (CNN)

As COVID cases rise, Alex Azar thanks Trump for his “leadership that’s gotten us where we are today”

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(Getty/Mark Wilson/Twitter/realDonaldTrumps)

Trump’s election lies are dangerous to democracy. Twitter must suspend his account

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Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Saul Loeb/Nicholas Kamm)

Progressives rage at “megalomaniac dime store dictator” Trump for ditching COVID relief talks

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) returns to the Senate floor following a recess in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney blasted for backing SCOTUS vote as progressives vow fight to the end

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People place flowers outside the U.S. Supreme Court in memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg died on Sept. 18, opening a crucial vacancy on the high court, setting off a pitched political battle at the peak of the presidential campaign (Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images)

Progressives call for Senate showdown, Supreme Court reform: “We can, and must, fight”

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(Getty/Patrick Semansky)

House Democrats demand IG probe of Pompeo’s widely denounced RNC speech from Jerusalem

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he Maria Fire burns on a hillside as it expands up to 8,000 acres on its first night on November 1, 2019 near Somis, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Fires have now burned record 2 million acres in California this year

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Protesters march near the Minneapolis 1st Police precinct during a demonstration against police brutality and racism on August 24, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - It was the second day of demonstrations in Kenosha after video circulated Sunday showing the shooting of Jacob Blake -- multiple times, in the back, as he tried to get in his car, with his three children watching. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Jacob Blake’s father says his son is paralyzed below waist after being shot from behind by police

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens as US President Donald Trump speaks about Syria in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, October 23, 2019. - President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the United States would be lifting sanctions on Turkey, hailing the success of a ceasefire along its border with Syria."Earlier this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent," he said in a televised address from the White House. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

“Unprecedented and wrong”: Mike Pompeo slammed for address to GOP convention from Jerusalem

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Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy (Getty/Stringer/Lukas Schulze/Scott Eisen)

Nancy Pelosi endorsing Joe Kennedy over Ed Markey “reveals a ridiculous double standard”: critics

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Climate Change activists gathered to protest in Washington, D.C. on Friday, December 6, 2019. (Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Greenpeace gives Democratic platform a C+ on climate plans: “We are not impressed”

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U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists as he departs the White House May 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s EPA pushes through “mind-bogglingly stupid” rollback of methane emissions rules

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Steven Mnuchin | Unemployment line in NYC (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Yale study on $600 unemployment lifeline championed by Democrats destroys favorite GOP talking point

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(Getty/Zach Gibson)

Federal judge immediately blocks sweeping Tennessee abortion ban

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Coronavirus outbreak concept with disease cells as a 3D render (Getty Images)

“Not even close to being over”: WHO chief says pandemic is “speeding up” despite some progress

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Metal kitchen sink (Getty Images)

“A water emergency”: Analysis shows 80% spike in US utility bills over 8 years

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks to AFP during an interview aboard La Vagabonde, the boat she will be taking to return to Europe, in Hampton, Virginia, on November 12, 2019. - Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg said November 12, 2019 that US President Donald Trump's climate change denialism was "so extreme" that it had helped galvanize the movement to halt long term planetary warming. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg says coronavirus pandemic should be a global wake-up call to tackle climate emergency

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(Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Mitch McConnell prioritizes vote to confirm protégé to influential court over pandemic relief

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13th (Netflix)

“This is mass murder”: Covid-19 deaths in U.S. prisons have risen by 73% the past month

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(Getty/Burak Kara/Olivier Douliery-Pool/Salon)

Trump admin scraps Obama-era protections for transgender patients during LGBT Pride month

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Donald Trump and Susan Collins (AP Photo/Salon)

Aligned with “radical president,” Susan Collins trails likely Democratic challenger by nine points

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Woman shows her sticker after she voted in the Florida presidential primary in Cape Coral, Fla. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Florida breakthrough: Ex-felon voting rights restored; “modern day poll tax” ruled illegal

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