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  1. 2 hours ago

    NEW: After weeks of delay, uncertainty and lawsuits, Joe Biden’s team plunged into a formal transition, with Biden aides beginning to meet with agency officials in preparation for a head-snapping Trump-to-Biden shift throughout the vast federal bureaucracy

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  2. 5 hours ago

    President-elect Joe Biden tomorrow is planning to deliver a Thanksgiving address from Wilmington, Del. From preview: "Biden will discuss the shared sacrifices Americans are making this holiday season and say that we can and will get through the current crisis together."

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    7 hours ago

    JUST POSTED: Town officials in Bedminster, N.J., have the plans for a possible Trump family future, or at least the blueprints: a major addition to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s “cottage” on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club.

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    8 hours ago

    Tis true, I am stepping down as The Post's TV critic at the end of the year, and into a great new gig: senior editor for Style. I have LOVED being the TV critic, but I also think it's important to know when you've said all you can say about a thing.

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  5. 6 hours ago

    Joe Biden says that his staff has spoken to Dr. Fauci, whom he has said he’d keep in place as the nation’s top infectious disease expert. “He’s been very, very helpful,” Biden said, according to pooler

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  6. 7 hours ago

    President-elect Biden tells reporters that he would meet with President Trump. “Of course I would,” he says, "if he asked.”

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  7. 8 hours ago

    Biden transition official says it’s been a busy day throughout the federal government, with the transition formally and fully in swing: “We’re now in active conversation with every federal agency."

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  8. 10 hours ago

    John Kerry, as secretary of state, would take his guitar on some overseas trips. It appears Tony Blinken could resume that practice.

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  9. 11 hours ago

    “He will have a seat at every table around the world,” Joe Biden says of John Kerry, the new climate envoy.

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  10. 11 hours ago

    President-elect Joe Biden, surrounded by his new national security and foreign policy picks: “America is back. Ready to lead the world, not retreat from it.”

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    Nov 23

    Biden announced a diverse set of nominees for top posts Monday — including first Latino as homeland security secretary & first woman as director of national intelligence — as he sought to convey momentum and inevitability. By ⁦⁩

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    Nov 23

    Bring in the establishment: How Biden will work to unwind Trump's actions, by bringing in the very people who crafted the policies he's eviscerated over the past four years. By and

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  13. Nov 23

    Biden’s campaign was defined by calling the Trump era, if it were held to a single term, “an aberrant moment in time” So now, in victory, he’s bringing back those who saw their policies torn up by Trump It’s the revenge of the Washington establishment:

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  14. Nov 23

    If not household names, Biden’s picks are steeped in the ways of Washington. Former deputy sec of state Tony Blinken becomes secretary of state, a position once held by John Kerry, who now will be climate envoy. Jake Sullivan, NSA to VP Biden, now becomes NSA to President Biden.

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  15. Nov 23

    NEW: Biden looks to undo Trump’s actions, using the same people who created the policies in the first place, in a symmetric reversal of Trump’s own outsider effort to undo the Obama administration’s legacy. Latest w

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  16. Nov 23

    Biden team: "In the days ahead, transition officials will begin meeting with federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full accounting of our national security, and gain complete understanding of the Trump administration efforts to hollow out government agencies"

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  17. Nov 23

    "Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country,” Trump says, in the closest he may come to conceding as he directs his administration to cooperate. And the transition from President Trump to President-elect Biden is now formally beginning.

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  18. Nov 23

    BREAKING: GSA’s Emily Murphy has ascertained the result of the election, declaring Joe Biden the winner and allowing him to begin the transition. Here is the letter she sent to Biden:

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    Nov 23

    BREAKING: Alexandria City schools votes to rename T.C. Williams High School — of "Remember the Titans" fame — after months of debate, & years of failed efforts. Namesake former superintendent advocated segregation in 1950s-60s & argued Black & White students learn differently.

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  20. Nov 23

    Elizabeth Warren’s approval of Janet Yellen goes back years. Months into her first year as a senator, she urged President Obama to appoint Yellen to head the Federal Reserve — rather than her sometimes rival and former Harvard colleague, Larry Summers:

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