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Announcement of the death of former President Rawlings pic.twitter.com/7ext0fp4sd

— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020

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By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Led by Rudy Giuliani, lawyers for President Donald Trump have continued to claim without evidence that the 2020 Presidential Election has been rife with fraud, specifically in places like Philadelphia, Clark County, Nevada, and Fulton County, Georgia. It’s no coincidence that those three areas, comprised overwhelmingly of African American voters, are targets of misinformation and outright false allegations by the Trump campaign. Those three areas are largely credited with pushing President-Elect Joe Biden to victory, as they were the last of the battleground and swing states to project a winner and […]

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By MICHELLE R. SMITH, CARLA K. JOHNSON and LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — With the coronavirus coming back with a vengeance across the country and the U.S. facing a long, dark winter, governors and other elected officials are showing little appetite for imposing the kind of lockdowns and large-scale business closings seen last spring. Many also continue to resist issuing statewide mask rules. Among the reasons given: public fatigue, fear of doing more damage to already-crippled businesses, lack of support from Washington, and the way efforts to tame the virus have become ferociously politicized. 'I think […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — Election officials in Georgia's 159 counties started counting ballots Friday morning for a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by state law. The law requires that one race be audited by hand to check that the machines counted the ballots accurately, not because of any suspected […]

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