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Trump returning to the stage as he flirts with 2024 run

Elodie Cuzin, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 06 07:58 AM

Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump was set to return to the stage Saturday for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024.   Read more »

Russia and Iran, not China, tried to influence 2020 election, says US report

Jacob Fromer in Washington, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 17 01:38 PM

Beijing ‘did not deploy interference efforts’, the document says, puncturing a narrative pushed by Trump’s allies that China was meddling on Biden’s behalf. Moscow, however, did try to seed the campaign with ‘misleading or unsubstantiated allegations’ against Biden, while Iran tried to undercut Trump. Read more »

Georgia launches criminal probe into Trump efforts to overturn 2020 election result

Reuters
Posted at Feb 11 12:34 AM

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, are investigating Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the Southern US state's 2020 presidential election results, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday, in the second criminal probe faced by the former president. Read more »

Trump lawyer Giuliani faces lawsuit for 'big lie' election fraud claims

Susan Heavey and Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 25 10:26 PM

WASHINGTON - A US voting machine company sued former President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of defamation in what it called his "big lie" campaign about widespread fraud in the presidential election, court documents on Monday showed.   Read more »

Trump vows to 'be back in some form' as tumultuous presidency ends

Steve Holland and Jeff Mason, Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 12:03 AM

US President Donald Trump left the White House and Washington for a final time as commander-in-chief on Wednesday after a tumultuous presidency stained by two impeachments, deep political divisions, and a pandemic that caused 400,000 US deaths.   Read more »

How world leaders are reacting to Joe Biden's inauguration

Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 10:12 PM

Here's how world leaders are reacting to Democrat Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. Read more »

Trump's legacy: A more divided America, a more unsettled world

Matt Spetalnick, Andrea Shalal, Jeff Mason and Steve Holland, Reuters
Posted at Jan 19 11:22 PM

Trump leaves behind an even more polarized America, where thousands are dying daily from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy is badly damaged and political violence has surged. Read more »

Twitter suspends QAnon-linked Republican lawmaker's account

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 11:35 PM

A newly elected Republican congresswoman known for promoting QAnon conspiracy theories accused Twitter of censorship on Sunday after her account was temporarily suspended for "multiple violations".   Read more »

Global stocks rise with Biden stimulus in focus

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 11:10 PM

Global equity markets mostly advanced Thursday as investors awaited Joe Biden's proposals for substantial new stimulus, and the US Federal Reserve's policy outlook.   Read more »

20,000 guardsmen to be deployed for Biden inauguration

Lisa Lambert and Makini Brice, Reuters
Posted at Jan 14 05:54 AM

While Congress acted to impeach him, President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged his supporters to shun violence as the National Guard prepared to deploy at least 20,000 troops in Washington for the Jan. 20 swearing-in of his successor Joe Biden.   Read more »

Guns and teargas in US Capitol as Trump supporters attempt to overturn his loss

Patricia Zengerle and Jonathan Landay, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 07 01:35 PM

WASHINGTON (2nd UPDATE)- Police in the US Capitol on Wednesday responded with drawn guns and tear gas on Wednesday as swarms of protesters stormed in and sought to force Congress to undo President Donald Trump's election loss shortly after some of Trump's fellow Republicans launched a last-ditch effort to throw out the results. Read more »

Georgia on cusp of delivering US Senate to Democrats as Warnock wins, Ossoff leads

Rich McKay and Nathan Layne, Reuters
Posted at Jan 07 12:54 AM

ATLANTA - Democrats won one US Senate race in Georgia and led in another on Wednesday, moving closer to a sweep in a deep South state that would give them control of Congress and the power to advance President-elect Joe Biden's policy goals.   Read more »

EXPLAINER: Did Trump break the law by pressuring a Georgia election official to 'find' votes?

Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Posted at Jan 05 07:03 AM

President Donald Trump may have broken a US federal law and a Georgia law against election tampering by pressuring the state's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn his loss to President-elect Joe Biden in the state, according to some legal experts. Read more »

Biden gets coronavirus vaccine as US inoculation effort mounts

Simon Lewis and Michael Martina, Reuters
Posted at Dec 22 06:38 AM

US President-elect Joe Biden received his first injected dose of the COVID-19 vaccine live on television on Monday in an effort to boost confidence in its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year. Read more »

US Electoral College to confirm Biden's presidential win

Joseph Ax and Michael Martina, Reuters
Posted at Dec 15 12:48 AM

ushing false claims of widespread fraud, Trump has pressured state officials to throw the election results out and declare him the winner.   Read more »

Trump supporters clash with counter protesters in Washington

Erin Scott, Reuters
Posted at Dec 13 01:16 PM

Members of the far-right group Proud Boys clash with counter protesters, in downtown Washington, U.S.A. Supporters of President Donald Trump organized protests against the alleged election fraud during the November 3 presidential election. Read more »

China calls for new talks with US after Biden win

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 07 10:51 PM

China's top diplomat on Monday called for the resumption of talks with the incoming US administration of president-elect Joe Biden, as relations between the world's two largest economies continued to nosedive. Read more »

Trump lost the 2020 election; he has raised $207.5 million since

Shane Goldmacher, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 05 03:24 AM

Trump’s campaign apparatus has continued to aggressively solicit donations under the guise of supporting his various legal challenges to the election of Joe Biden, but as of now 75% of donations goes to a new political action committee that Trump formed in mid-November, up to the PAC’s legal limit of $5,000.  Read more »

Biden wins in Arizona, Wisconsin certified, further cementing Trump loss

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 01 11:16 AM

President-elect Joe Biden's victories in Arizona and Wisconsin were certified on Monday, further cementing his win even as Donald Trump continues to make baseless claims of vote fraud. Read more »

How misinformation ‘superspreaders’ seed false election theories

Sheera Frenkel, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 25 12:13 AM

“Because of how Facebook’s algorithm functions, these superspreaders are capable of priming a discourse,” said Fadi Quran, a director at Avaaz. “There is often this assumption that misinformation or rumors just catch on. These superspreaders show that there is an intentional effort to redefine the public narrative.” Read more »