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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Saturday, November 7, 2020

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make victory speeches: 'A time to heal'
They spoke to the nation from Wilmington, Delaware.
PHOTO: The stage is prepared for President-elect Joe Biden, who is set to become the 46th president of the United States, in Wilmington, Delaware, on Nov. 7, 2020.


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Read the transcript of what Joe Biden said in his first speech as president-elect
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Read Kamala Harris' full speech after historic election win
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Biden preaches unity, promises to address coronavirus crisis in first speech as president-elect
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Biden plans to issue orders reversing Trump policies immediately upon taking office: report
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Trump does not plan to concede any time soon, aides and allies indicate
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President-elect Joe Biden, VP-elect Kamala Harris talk of unity, healing in acceptance speeches
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Trump supporters demonstrate across the country following Biden-Harris win
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Harris: American voters chose 'hope, unity, decency and yes, truth'
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What Vice President-elect Kamala Harris told the nation
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Harris pays tribute to Black women in 1st speech as VP-elect
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President-elect Joe Biden seeks to unite nation with victory speech
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Biden and Harris address the nation, basking in victory and pledging to work for unity
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Three jailed over murder of Swedish hip-hop star in car park

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US senators exempt HIV/Aids funding from planned spending cuts

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While advancing a bill to claw back $9bn in federal spending, lawmakers spare the Pepfar programme from cuts.
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Man who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio dies

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Bradley Murdoch, who was serving a life sentence, never disclosed the location of Peter Falconio's remains.
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Jill Biden 'work husband' pleads Fifth Amendment, dodges House GOP cover-up probe questions

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A top aide to former first lady Jill Biden refused to answer GOP investigators' questions on Wednesday as the House Oversight Committee probes whether senior ex-White House aides covered up signs of former President Joe Biden's mental decline.

Anthony Bernal, former assistant to the president and senior advisor to the first lady, was compelled for a July 16 closed-door deposition after missing a previously agreed-upon interview date late last month.

His scheduled sit-down came and went quickly, however. Bernal apparently pleaded the Fifth Amendment...
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Senate to debate Trump's $9B clawback bill after dramatic late-night votes

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Late-night dramatics and surprise defections capped off the push to advance President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package through procedural hurdles.

But Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package is not over the finish line yet, as lawmakers are set to begin an hourslong stretch of debate over the bill Wednesday morning. Both sides of the aisle will be allotted five hours of debate, but Republicans are likely to use little of their time compared to Democrats, who will try to drag out the process as long as possible.

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Trump's controversial plan to fire federal workers finds favor with Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily allow mass layoffs at the Education Department marked the latest in a string of rulings from the high court green-lighting the president’s plans to scale down the size of the federal workforce.

Permitting the termination of about 1,400 Education Department employees is one of several instances of the Supreme Court showing significant deference to Trump's power over the executive branch. In other cases, the high court has preliminarily approved of Trump's executive order calling for sweeping federal job...
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative groups urging Trump admin to expose anti-Christian ‘pattern’ in Biden FBI

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A coalition of conservative groups and individuals is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to release documents about the "pattern of dishonesty and religious discrimination at the FBI" after they say their search for answers was "stymied at every turn" by the Biden administration.

The groups, led by Advancing American Freedom (AAF), issued a Freedom of Information Access Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Justice and the FBI to release documents relating to the surveillance and infiltration of Catholic groups in...
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Conservative legal group presses agency to act on Trump’s voter citizenship mandate despite court injunctions

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Pro-Trump legal advocacy nonprofit America First Legal (AFL) is calling on the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to begin requiring proof of citizenship for all federal voter registration applicants after the president's effort to do so by executive order was blocked by the courts.

AFL filed a petition on Wednesday with the EAC, calling on the agency to amend the national voter registration form to require applicants to provide any one of the following documents proving U.S. citizenship: a U.S. passport, birth certificate, consular...
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US ambassador calls on Israel to 'aggressively investigate' West Bank killing

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Mike Huckabee calls for "accountability" after a young Palestinian-American was beaten to death in an attack by settlers.
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Driver held for hit-and-run death of world's 'oldest' marathon runner

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Police in India arrest a man they say was driving the car that hit Fauja Singh in his village on Monday.
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The mysterious outback murder that shook Australia

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Police say they will not stop searching for Peter Falconio's remains, after the man convicted of his murder died.
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Unearthed social media posts expose radical anti-Israel views of Mamdani's dad: 'Colonial occupation'

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FIRST ON FOX: Mahmood Mamdani, the Columbia University professor and father of New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, has a social media presence littered with anti-Israel comments and praise for radical activists, a Fox News Digital review found.

Mamdani, 79, who Fox News Digital previously reported sits on the advisory council of an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts and sanctions of Israel, has posted on his X account about Israel on multiple occasions using terms like "settlers" and "colonialism."

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump admin strengthens religious accommodations in federal workforce

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In his first week as head of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Scott Kupor issued new guidance to executive agency directors cracking down on religious discrimination in the federal workforce.

The memo, obtained by Fox News Digital, encourages the use of telework, flexible schedules and leave options to meet "reasonable" religious needs while maintaining efficient agency operations.

The new guidance instructs the heads and acting heads of executive agencies and departments that they must make certain religious...
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Aiming to give Trump 'backup,' second Republican enters swing state race for Democrat-held Senate seat

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EXCLUSIVE — New Hampshire state Sen. Dan Innis pledges that if he wins election to the U.S. Senate and makes it to Washington D.C., "I’ll call bull when I see it."

Innis, a three-term Republican state senator, made his pledge on Wednesday as he launched his Senate campaign in the key New England swing state in the 2026 race to succeed retiring longtime Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

It's expected to be a competitive and expensive race for a seat the GOP is working to flip from blue to red. New Hampshire, along with Georgia and Michigan, are the...
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Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding

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The actress already had nine points on her licence before the speeding incident occurred last summer.
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