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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Wednesday, November 18, 2020

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Below are some of the top political news stories of the day:

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GOP senators blast Trump's firing of election security official: 'A terrible mistake'

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HHS secretary says department won't work with Biden's team until federal agency determines he won
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GOP increasingly accepts Trump’s defeat — but not in public
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Pfizer says it's communicating with Biden's team
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‘Confusion and chaos’: Republicans denounce Trump’s latest purge
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New fallout after Trump fires top cybersecurity official
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem explains stance on mask mandate, won't enforce 'to make people feel good'
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Arizona's top election official decries violent threats over election results
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Trump seeks to settle scores in final days

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Trump digs in at White House, denying Biden access on pandemic, national security
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Election 2020 live updates: Georgia nears recount completion; no more uncounted ballots found
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‘Absolute right guy for the job’: New cyber chief takes reins amid the chaos
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Trump targets vote certification in late bid to block Biden
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Trump's legal adviser Jenna Ellis in 2016 called him an 'idiot' and said his supporters didn't care about 'facts or logic'
With transition stalled, Biden camp turns to former Trump administration officials
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Greenland's leader says Trump's threats are fueling mistrust of U.S.

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Facing President Trump's repeated assertions that Greenland should be brought under U.S. control, the island's Prime Minister Mute Egede said that Mr. Trump was, "very unpredictable, in such a way that people feel insecure" as global power dynamics shift.

Egede's interview with Denmark's public broadcaster, DR, was published Monday, one day before voters on the vast but sparsely populated island go to the polls for an election that is under increasing scrutiny due to Mr. Trump's rhetoric.

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Sec Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete with 83% gone, remainder now falling under State Dept

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of USAID programs will be canceled following the conclusion of a six-week review by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In total, 5,200 contracts are being terminated, Rubio wrote in his early Monday morning post on X announcing the new reforms. He said the canceled contracts amounted to "tens of billions of dollars" being spent "in ways that did not serve," or even harmed, the national interests of the U.S.

Rubio added that the remaining 18% of USAID programs—approximately...
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Trump admin ends waiver allowing Iraq to buy Iranian electricity as part of 'maximum pressure' campaign

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The Trump administration ended a waiver that allowed the Iraqi government to buy Iranian electricity in a renewed effort to choke off Iran's profits.

National security advisor Mike Waltz told Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani that the end of the waiver was consistent with President Donald Trump’s "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran as the administration goes all-in on trying to prevent the regime from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

"Waltz welcomed the Iraqi Prime Minister’s efforts to achieve energy independence for Iraq, and encouraged the...
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Syria says operation against Assad loyalists over after deadly violence

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A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.
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'There's never been a spotlight like this': Greenland heads to the polls as Trump eyes territory

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Donald Trump's vow to take over Greenland has shone a global spotlight on the island's elections.
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Athol Fugard: Death of a great South African playwright

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Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, wrote more than 30 plays in a career that spanned seven decades.
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Policeman convicted for viral torture video found dead in jail

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The Thai officer nicknamed Joe Ferrari was serving a life sentence at a Bangkok prison.
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SCOTUS rejects Republican-led effort to halt climate lawsuits in Dem-led states

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The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states
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Menendez brothers' cousin calls DA 'patronizing,' asks for his removal from case

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A cousin of the Menendez brothers is accusing Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman of being "hostile, dismissive and patronizing" to the family.
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Supreme Court takes up case over Colorado conversion therapy ban for minors

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a challenge to state and local laws that ban so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ children.

The dispute before the court arose out of a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy on children who may be questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. More than 20 states have similar laws on the books. The case will be heard in the Supreme Court's next term, which begins in October.

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Supreme Court turns away bid to block state climate change lawsuits

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a bid by Republican-led states to block lawsuits brought by a group of Democratic-led states that seek to hold oil and gas companies accountable for their fossil fuel products' contributions to climate change.

The court's decision to stay out of the dispute allows the five blue states to pursue lawsuits filed against the energy industry in their own courts. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court's decision not to allow the red states to seek its intervention.

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Pentagon losing cutting edge on weapons innovation, needs 'massive kick in the pants,' say defense leaders

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America’s defenses will not be able to keep up with its peer adversaries if the Pentagon continues to take years to innovate its weapons systems, experts agreed at a security summit last week.

The Pentagon’s modernization was given a "D" by the National Security Innovation Base Summit this week, a near-failing letter grade that national security leaders in Congress agreed was a fair assessment.

"Progress lives in the private sector, and we're not seeing enough progress in the public sector," said Govini CEO Tara Dougherty. "The department needs a...
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Newsom's ties to CCP under microscope in new book exposing alleged corruption: 'Fleeced American citizens'

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FIRST ON FOX: A new book sounding the alarm about corruption in California spends a chapter focusing on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s history with a nonprofit organization that the authors say served as a major "gateway" for corrupt CCP-aligned corporations to flood into the state.

In their book, "Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All," authors Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree write extensively about Newsom’s relationship with the Chinese community in the Bay Area and his ties to CCP...
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DOGE lawmakers look to defund Biden's anemic-paced $3B EV postal truck 'boondoggle'

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EXCLUSIVE: Two top DOGE lawmakers are introducing a bill to claw back $3 billion authorized under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which was designated to create an electric vehicle (EV) fleet for the United States Postal Service (USPS).

A South Carolina defense contractor responsible for the 60,000-vehicle order was already "far behind schedule" as of November. A Washington Post exposé revealed that by then, fewer than 100 of these vehicles had been delivered to USPS.

Citing that, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, DOGE Caucus chair...
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Syrian bloodshed heaps pressure on Sharaa and exposes deep fractures

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Deadly violence in Syria's Alawite heartland is the worst since rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad in December.
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