Politics

Thursday midday update: The latest news with the presidential vote count

The count continued to trend toward Biden in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia — but we don’t yet know whether it…

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How Veep foretold 2020 election recount protests

Reality imitates Veep once again. | HBO Count votes? Halt vote counting? Veep got there five years ago. With President…

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“Stop the count” vs. “count every vote”: The post-election protests around the country, explained

Pro-Trump protesters chant “Stop the count” outside a ballot-counting center in Detroit, Michigan, on November 4. | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images…

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Trump and Biden are within less than 1 percentage point in Georgia. Vox has live results.

Amanda Northrop/Vox Georgia plans to finish counting ballots on Thursday. The results in Georgia are extremely close — with more…

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The US Covid-19 epidemic hit a deadly new milestone, and help isn’t on the way

A medic in Austin, Texas, loads a patient with Covid-19 symptoms into an ambulance. Texas now leads the US in…

4 years ago

How to have a safer — but not safe — pandemic Thanksgiving

A volunteer wearing a face mask and a shield distributes a meal at a booth during the October 10 Canadian…

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Live results: Nevada inches closer to finishing its vote count

Amanda Northrop/Vox Nevada has tens of thousands of mail-in ballots still to count. Nevada is still too close to call,…

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Alcohol and carbs got America through election night

Americans reached for classic comfort foods on election night. | The Washington Post/Getty Images Americans ordered comfort foods — fries,…

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Vox live results: Biden is catching Trump as mail ballots are counted

Amanda Northrop/Vox The state is critical in the presidential election. Pennsylvania may well end up deciding the election. The state…

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Trump’s bizarre, haphazard legal strategy to disrupt vote counting, briefly explained

Supporters of President Donald Trump confront police officers outside of TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, where absentee ballots for the…

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