House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Trump doesn't understand financial insecurity that federal workers face during the shutdown: "He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money. But they can’t”
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JUST IN: The Electoral College affirms President-elect Joe Biden's election victory cnn.it/2IP87jv
In new tapes, President Trump admits to Bob Woodward he concealed critical details he knew about the coronavirus. "I wanted to always play it down." cnn.it/3bFjswx
A 99-year-old man who was born to a sharecropper on a Louisiana plantation said he felt proud to cast his ballot: "I lived through the whole process of gaining the ballot, so being able to participate was satisfying for me" cnn.it/2TQ8agH
"I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021," Rep. Jamie Raskin says as he presses forward with impeachment articles while mourning his son. #CNNSOTU
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K-pop supergroup BTS is headed to the White House to meet President Biden next week, a visit aimed at discussing Asian inclusion and representation and addressing anti-Asian hate crimes and disinformation
President Obama to young people: “You have to stay encouraged. Don’t get cynical. Don’t ever think you can’t make a difference”
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam makes Election Day a holiday and expands early voting cnn.it/2y5Q2Ia
"My name is Joe Biden. I'm a Democrat. And I love John McCain."
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Jake Tapper: Do you think President Trump is a white nationalist?
Beto O’Rourke: Yes, I do #CNNSOTU
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CNN PROJECTION: Joe Biden wins Wisconsin, delivering a setback to President Trump's path to reelection by flipping a state Trump won four years ago cnn.it/3mTh7Ta #CNNElection
BREAKING: JOE BIDEN WINS
Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in Pennsylvania puts the Scranton-born Democrat over 270 cnn.it/36gEFub #CNNElection
"We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do, but when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires and when it comes to unlimited war we seem to be able to invent that money very easily," Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says. cnn.it/2vpyVNl
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Van Jones: "This was a 'white-lash' against a changing country" cnn.it/election #CNNElection #ElectionNight
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There are clear distinctions between the two classified documents cases involving President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump cnn.it/3QJb0Rz
JUST IN: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins Democratic primary against Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNN projects cnn.it/2B6w4Pf
CNN PROJECTION: Joe Biden wins Michigan, reclaiming another "blue wall" state President Trump won in 2016 and narrowing Trump's path to 270 electoral votes cnn.it/3oXnczH #CNNElection
Joe Biden on his faith: "For me, it's important because it gives me some reason to have hope. And purpose. ... It took a long time for me to get to the point to realize that that purpose is the thing that would save me. And it has" #CNNTownHall cnn.it/2PtWnTv
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NEW: Anita Hill vows to vote for Joe Biden and will work with him on gender issues if he becomes president cnn.it/330fA5o
"This President is a serial liar."
In a lengthy acceptance speech delivered almost entirely from a teleprompter, CNN's says President Trump made at least 20 false or misleading claims cnn.it/2EJ4IQE
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Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison outraised Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in the first quarter of 2020 cnn.it/3eBHZ6O
Pete Buttigieg: "I love my husband, I am faithful to my husband. On stage, we usually just go for a hug, but I love him very much. And I am not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh" #CNNSOTU
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Republican Sen. James Lankford says he will step in if Joe Biden doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday cnn.it/3n8BoUO
President Biden asks two Trump-appointed members of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition — Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker — to resign from their posts or be terminated
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Sen. Mitt Romney proposes giving $1,000 to every American adult as a coronavirus response measure cnn.it/2Uhlv1E
Gallup poll: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton remain the most admired man and woman in the United States — a 10-year trend for Obama and 16 years running for Clinton cnn.it/2C0n9hC
NEW: Former President Barack Obama to hit the campaign trail next week for Joe Biden in the final stretch cnn.it/3dqQKQS
Graham: If Jeff Sessions spoke with Russian diplomat, “then for sure you need a special prosecutor” #CNNTownHall snpy.tv/2lVCeHM
The first two Native American women elected to office share a hug after swearing-in cnn.it/2CN2Jr4
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presents Congress with a flag signed by Ukrainian soldiers as a gift to say thank you for the weapons they had been sent cnn.it/3jcrVyY
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NEW: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden cnn.com/2019/11/22/pol
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright responds to Ken Cuccinelli’s rewrite of the Statue of Liberty poem: “I can tell you, I’ve been a refugee twice. … I think that it is one of the most un-American things I’ve heard”
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Barack Obama to mayors on the coronavirus: "Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through" cnn.it/3b2cD7c
JUST IN: The Supreme Court dismisses Texas' and President Trump's effort to overturn the election results and block the ballots of millions of voters in battleground states that went in favor of President-elect Joe Biden cnn.it/3oHktte
Democratic Sen. Doug Jones explains his decision to vote to convict President Trump: "His actions were more than simply inappropriate. They were an abuse of power" cnn.it/2OupRQK
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CNN's says while Joe Biden was "largely accurate" during tonight's presidential debate, "we had an avalanche of lying from President Trump."
He says at points during the debate, "almost every single thing (Trump) said ... was inaccurate" #Debates2020
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Thirteen employees at a restaurant in Minneapolis are in quarantine after catering a party attended by President Trump on September 30 cnn.it/3nq9lBh
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests suspending debt and other payments to free up emergency relief funds: "If we're able to get money into households and stop the bleeding with pauses on money going out of households then we can get working families through this thing" #CNNSOTU
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Bill introduced to award Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman the Congressional Gold Medal for “bravery and quick thinking" when he lured a group of rioters away from the entrance to Senate chambers cnn.it/3nDRyW0
A high school senior is calling for Barack Obama to deliver a virtual commencement address to America's Class of 2020 cnn.it/2yf94vM
State Sen. Nikema Williams has been chosen to replace the late Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November, paving the way for the first black woman elected to lead the Georgia Democratic Party to serve the Atlanta-area district in Congress next year. cnn.it/2CvHAV9
Senate strips a provision from an intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help cnn.it/2ZuHWmC
JUST IN: President Trump referred to Marines buried at a cemetery in France in crude and derogatory terms, a former senior administration official confirms to CNN cnn.it/322Rgk4
Bernie Sanders on Joe Biden: "Does anyone seriously believe that a president backed by the corporate world is going to bring about the changes in this country that working families and the middle class and lower-income people desperately need?"
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Former President Barack Obama surprises a Chicago food bank, volunteers and helps prepare Thanksgiving meal bags cnn.it/2DAwQCZ
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not answer questions about his health, only saying there were "no concerns" despite visible bandages and bruises cnn.it/3jodhPu
The nation’s top military leaders discussed a plan to resign one by one rather than carry out dangerous orders in the event of an attempted coup by then-President Donald Trump and his allies after the November election, new book reveals cnn.it/36y5b30
Sen. Mitt Romney, once the standard-bearer of his party, is now the lone Republican voice willing to stand up to President Trump cnn.it/2XOQSDK
Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, will be the first male spouse of a vice president come January cnn.it/2U6ob2k
JUST IN: All 10 living former defense secretaries declare election is over in forceful public letter cnn.it/2X3BD8J
BREAKING: Manhattan district attorney subpoenas 8 years of President Trump's tax returns cnn.it/2AkGoPQ
Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue declines to debate Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff ahead of January 5 runoff cnn.it/36T0sJ5
“It’s easier to be a parent this morning. It’s easier to be a dad. It’s easier to tell your kids character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters."
Van Jones reacts after CNN projected Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election cnn.it/2Id1pmU
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Sen. Mitt Romney says it's "simply unthinkable" to accept foreign dirt on rivals: "I ran for president twice. I ran for governor once. I ran for Senate twice. I've never had any attempt made by a foreign government. ... Had that occurred I would've contacted the FBI immediately"
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BREAKING: JOE BIDEN WINS
Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in Pennsylvania puts the Scranton-born Democrat over 270 cnn.it/3eCQoqW #CNNElection
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Bernie Sanders: “Here is the message to Russia: Stay out of American elections. … That is what they did in 2016 and that is the ugliest thing they are doing, is they are trying to cause chaos, they are trying to cause hatred in America” cnn.it/2PfD93T
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Students from the Washington, DC, area stage a "lie-in" outside of the White House to protest inaction on preventing gun violence snpy.tv/2BCHrwh
The three major world leaders who caught Covid-19 all downplayed or dismissed the virus cnn.it/3l8PHHP
A Democratic senator is calling for his colleagues Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson and possibly others to be kicked off relevant committees and potentially expelled from the Senate cnn.it/3ozNbfL
Florida school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez on President Trump’s tweet: “The FBI were some of the amazing first responders who were helping us get to safety and the fact that he wants to discredit them in any way… it’s not acceptable” cnn.it/2FdVrfL
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Q: What would you do if President Trump loses the election but refuses to concede?
Joe Biden: "I have no worry about him being escorted out of the White House" #CNNTownHall cnn.it/3980k8g
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Former first lady Michelle Obama relives an awkward Inauguration Day gift exchange during her first television interview since leaving the White House cnn.it/2BHfcZF
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NEW: Dr. Anthony Fauci says the US coronavirus situation is "really not good" cnn.it/2O2YBIk
Former FBI Director James Comey calls on the GOP to stand up against President Trump: “Republicans used to understand that the actions of a president matter, that words of a president matter, the rule of law matters and the truth matters. Where are those Republicans today?”
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"If Mississippi were its own country, you would be second in the world only to Peru in terms of deaths per capita... With all due respect, governor, your way is failing." CNN's presses Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves on the state's Covid-19 death rate. #CNNSOTU
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Rudy Giuliani's daughter says to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to end President Trump's "reign of terror" cnn.it/3nYUfTt
In a new ad campaign, former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and respective former first ladies are urging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine when it is their turn cnn.it/3rMfYzA
President Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came cnn.it/3375bEX
WATCH: Attorney General William Barr plays the bagpipes at a Justice Department event cnn.it/2IOMkWf
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Voters in North Carolina have received absentee ballot request forms in the mail with Donald Trump's face on them cnn.it/3g9v0ZG
Meghan, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, in an emotional tribute to her father: "He was a great man. We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness. The real thing. Not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly."
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Trump commuting Roger Stone’s sentence: “I’m recommending that we pass a law that presidents cannot issue a pardon if the crime that the person is in jail for is one that is caused by protecting the President, which this was” cnn.it/3gQ8kOS
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Former George W. Bush administration and campaign officials launch a new super PAC to support Joe Biden cnn.it/31ATo2K
Andrew Yang is riding a wave of support. Literally. cnn.it/34H4lii
BREAKING: Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States cnn.it/35UH4eH
Trump Organization must turn over documents to NY attorney general, judge rules cnn.it/3mmxk2t
Democratic #PA18 candidate Conor Lamb declares victory: “It took a little longer than we thought, but we did it” snpy.tv/2pcT1GH
Ousted cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs sues Trump campaign over its attacks on election results cnn.it/2LfyCPP
Joe Biden is the first presidential candidate in US history to win more than 80 million votes cnn.it/37d2h3t
NEW CNN POLL: 51% of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Trump and remove him from office cnn.it/2G4Qg35
A New York judge has ordered the Trump Organization's tax firm to hand over more documents to the state's attorney general cnn.it/3qYRDFU
CNN PROJECTION: Democrat Summer Lee will win election to Pennsylvania’s 12th District, becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress from the state cnn.it/3TkpxTo
This 94-year-old traveled more than 300 miles each way just so she could vote cnn.it/2HmRWIR
NEW: Joe Biden picks Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary cnn.it/3qYQjDJ
Twitter confirms that it deleted President Trump's tweets from the official POTUS account cnn.it/38oPFIq
BREAKING: Twitter bans President Trump permanently cnn.it/2Xp8OUs
Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski broke party lines to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
Vice President Mike Pence, not President Donald Trump, helped facilitate the decision to mobilize members of the DC National Guard when violence at the US Capitol building started to escalate cnn.it/2Lq3VaL
President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks to the nation: "I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Who doesn't see red states and blue states — only sees the United States" cnn.it/35dmR4d
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JUST IN: The Senate confirms Pete Buttigieg to lead the Department of Transportation, making him the first Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary cnn.it/2LfqjnC
Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor says his office has not seen any evidence of widespread voter fraud or irregularities in the state cnn.it/3lg4OzA
January 6 will go down as the day America realized how dangerous President Trump really is | Analysis cnn.it/3oz8qhV
Rep. Liz Cheney says Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy “has been especially active in attempting to block the investigation of events of January 6th”
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Seven Senate Democrats request ethics probe into Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz over Capitol riot cnn.it/39XmTOH
"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great."
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Manhattan DA expands criminal investigation into Trump Organization finances to include family compound in Westchester County cnn.it/2XLsz8E
Former President George W. Bush is making it clear that he supports Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican in the House, who voted to impeach then-President Trump cnn.it/3pBeFCy