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'Loser': How a lifelong fear bookended Trump's presidency

Dan Barry, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 27 12:37 PM

It is a matter of record that Donald Trump has been a loser in many business ventures (Trump Steaks, anyone?). In fact, his greatest success flowed not from real estate but from the creation of a popular alternate-reality television persona — Trump, master of the boardroom — that he ultimately rode to the White House. Read more »

Trump says he'll leave if Biden wins Electoral College vote

Jeff Mason and Simon Lewis, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 27 11:21 AM

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov. 3 election, even as he repeated unfounded claims of massive voter fraud. Read more »

China's Xi congratulates Biden on US election victory

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 25 11:44 PM

China's President Xi Jinping hoped the two countries could promote the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Read more »

Michigan certifies Biden election win: officials

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 24 01:20 PM

WASHINGTON (UPDATE) - Michigan's Board of State Canvassers officially certified Democrat Joe Biden's election victory in the state over Donald Trump on Monday, closing off another avenue for the outgoing president to contest his national defeat. Read more »

Twitter to hand @POTUS account to Biden on inauguration day, Jan. 20, 2021

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 21 06:45 PM

The handover will see all existing tweets on @POTUS, as well as @FLOTUS, @VP and other official accounts, archived. Read more »

2 weeks after Biden named President-elect, Trump faces stinging setbacks

Matt Spetalnick and Michael Martina, Reuters
Posted at Nov 21 04:10 PM

Joe Biden on Saturday reached the two-week mark since becoming president-elect, with President Donald Trump stinging from back-to-back setbacks in his desperate, unprecedented bid to undo his election defeat.   Read more »

Chavez, Soros and 'My Cousin Vinny:' Giuliani's wild vote fraud presser

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 20 07:46 AM

WASHINGTON - With hair dye streaming down his cheeks and Donald Trump watching on television, the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani unleashed eyebrow-raising claims Thursday that George Soros, China and a dead Venezuelan dictator conspired with Democratic "crooks" to hand America's election to Joe Biden. Read more »

Trump's election power play: Persuade Republican legislators to do what U.S. voters did not

Michael Martina, Karen Freifeld and Jarrett Renshaw, Reuters
Posted at Nov 20 07:32 AM

DETROIT - President Donald Trump's strategy for retaining power despite losing the U.S. election is focused increasingly on persuading Republican legislators to intervene on his behalf in battleground states Democrat Joe Biden won, three people familiar with the effort said. Read more »

Trump fires US election security official who rejected fraud claims

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 18 10:19 AM

WASHINGTON - US president Donald Trump announced Tuesday he had fired the government's top election security official, who had rejected the president's claims of "massive" fraud in the vote he lost to Joe Biden.  Read more »

Biden names top White House aides, meets with national security advisers

Trevor Hunnicutt and Joseph Ax, Reuters
Posted at Nov 18 05:59 AM

WILMINGTON, Del. - US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday named several top advisers from his election campaign and a Democratic congressman as senior White House aides, sticking with a tight inner circle as he transitions to the White House.   Read more »

'More people may die,' Biden says, if Trump goes on blocking pandemic cooperation

Trevor Hunnicutt and David Shepardson, Reuters
Posted at Nov 17 09:12 AM

President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday "more people may die" if outgoing President Donald Trump continues blocking a U.S. transition of power as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, and he urged Congress to pass new relief legislation. Read more »

Trump acknowledges Biden won the US election, but says it was 'rigged'

Joseph Ax, Reuters
Posted at Nov 15 11:15 PM

President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge publicly for the first time on Sunday that Democrat Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election but asserted that it was "rigged", reiterating his false claims of widespread voting fraud. Read more »

China says it extends congratulations to Biden

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 13 05:22 PM

"We respect the choice of the American people. We extend congratulations to Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said. Read more »

Twitter says flagged 300,000 'misleading' election tweets

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 13 12:24 PM

Twitter labeled 300,000 tweets related to the US presidential election as "potentially misleading" in the two weeks surrounding the vote, making up 0.2 percent of election-related posts, the company said Thursday. Read more »

Pope Francis congratulates Biden, stepping into political fray

Simon Lewis, Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 11:18 AM

WILMINGTON, Delaware - Pope Francis offered his "blessings and congratulations" to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden in a phone call on Thursday, seeking to rebuild rapport with Washington after four years of sometimes contentious relations with President Donald Trump. Read more »

Trump makes first appearance since losing election to Biden

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 12 03:32 AM

On a rainy, gray day in Washington the president visited Arlington National Cemetery, four days after US media projected his Democratic rival would take the White House. Read more »

Biden brands Trump's refusal to concede an 'embarrassment'

Elodie Cuzin with Sebastian Smith in Washington, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 11 11:54 AM

WILMINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called President Donald Trump's refusal to concede his election loss an "embarrassment" but dismissed the standoff as unimportant. Read more »

Biden-Harris ibinida ang binuong COVID-19 task force na puro health experts

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 09:24 PM

Handa na ang transition team nina US President-elect Joe Biden at Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sa kanilang pag-upo.  Read more »

Kamala Harris in a white suit, dressing for history

Vanessa Friedman / Erin Schaff, The New York Times
Updated as of Nov 10 03:58 PM

This wasn’t about fashion, it was about politics, past and future. Read more »

The end of 'America First’: How Biden says he will reengage with the world

David E. Sanger, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 10 08:05 AM

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden makes no secret of the speed with which he plans to bury “America First” as a guiding principle of the nation’s foreign policy.   Read more »