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Biden renews call for patience as Trump assails vote-counting process

The former vice president said he was confident he would be named the winner, while the president promoted unfounded allegations about voter fraud.

By Matt Viser and Toluse Olorunnipa

Judges in two states reject Trump campaign lawsuits

Trump turns angry and despondent as possible defeat looms

By Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey

Analysis: Trump blames Democrats for late-counted mail ballots. He should blame the GOP.

Fact CheckerAnalysis

Trump’s White House statement: Falsehood upon falsehood

By Glenn Kessler

As Trump began floating baseless claims of election fraud, television networks cut away

How Trump loyalists are driving his campaign’s legal efforts to challenge ballots

By Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Elise Viebeck

Analysis

In a speech of historic dishonesty, Trump tried to reinforce his long-planned effort to retain power

By Philip Bump

Small protests flare and tension grows as ballot count continues

By Robert Klemko, Hannah Knowles, Mark Berman and Abigail Hauslohner

‘Guesses upon guesses’: Polls fall short again in 2020, raising red flags for future contests

By Michael Scherer

GOP splits over Trump’s false election claims, unfounded fraud allegations

Trump’s broadsides on Thursday exposed tensions within his party, splitting GOP officials who spoke publicly into warring camps: those who defended the president and those who defended the U.S. election process.

By Katie Shepherd

The DebriefAnalysis

Trump’s attacks on vote counts seem to follow authoritarian playbook

By Anne Gearan

Jill Biden, left, and Melania Trump. (The Post)

The CritiquePerspective

Melania Trump and Jill Biden play vastly different roles on national stage

By Robin Givhan

Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for loss of seats

By Rachael Bade and Erica Werner

Facebook bans ‘STOP THE STEAL’ group Trump allies were using to organize protests against counting

By Tony Romm, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Elizabeth Dwoskin

USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day, jeopardizing thousands of votes

By Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham

Secret Service plans to ramp up protection of Biden in anticipation of his possible win

By Carol D. Leonnig

As Election Day drags into Election Week, the waiting is the hardest part

By Marc Fisher

Coronavirus

U.S. tops 116,000 cases, another record; officials worry people are ‘giving up’

A second day of six-figure case counts pushed the total number of infections reported in the United States to nearly 9.6 million on Thursday, according to data tracked. by The Washington Post.

By Antonia Noori Farzan

Company owned by Jared Kushner files to evict hundreds of families as moratoriums expire

Many of the tenants facing eviction fell behind on rent after losing jobs or wages due to the pandemic.

By Jonathan O'Connell, Aaron Gregg and Anu Narayanswamy

A tailgate party before the 2015 Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville. (Getty Images)

The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party has met a sobering reality: The pandemic

The weekend-long party that usually surrounds the Florida-Georgia football game in Jacksonville will be muted because of the coronavirus.

By Emily Giambalvo

Denmark, key fur producer, to kill all its minks in effort to contain coronavirus mutation that has infected workers

By Loveday Morris

Police officers accused of killing George Floyd to be tried together, in Minneapolis

By Holly Bailey

Johnson & Johnson, three other companies close in on $26 billion deal on opioid litigation

If finalized, the agreement would funnel money over 18 years to thousands of communities devastated by the epidemic.

By Joel Achenbach, Christopher Rowland, Katie Zezima and Aaron C. Davis

‘The Bachelorette’ implodes as the star leaves the show: A guide to a chaotic episode

By Emily Yahr and Lisa Bonos

Post ReportsPodcast

The divided states of America

Why the Trump campaign is mounting legal challenges in swing states. What the election reveals about the urban-rural divide. And why Wall Street likes the sound of gridlock in Washington.

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Road to Recovery

A beach bar on the Florida-Alabama border reclaims its Mullet Toss — masks optional

By Hannah Denham

A top baseball prospect’s Southern California scholarship was lost to the pandemic

By Mark Kreidler

The coronavirus keeps most London theaters dark, while performers stock grocery shelves

By Karla Adam and William Booth

Your Life at Home

No travel plans? Try three new books about the nexus of travel and design.

By Rebecca Powers

New movies to stream this week: ‘Kindred,’ ‘Prospect’ and more

By Michael O'Sullivan

The best things to do — virtually and in person — while quarantined in the D.C. area

By Going Out Guide Staff

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No travel plans? Try three new books about the nexus of travel and design.

By Rebecca Powers

Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots.

By Sarah L. Kaufman

Voraciously

15 kitchen gifts for cooks into bread-baking, pasta-making or canning

By Becky Krystal

Book Review

Susie Yang’s ‘White Ivy’ is an entertaining character study of a social climber with a secret

By Leland Cheuk

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Historic wins from the 2020 congressional election

Black, transgender, Latino and openly gay congressional candidates made history around the country on Nov. 3.

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Politics

A worker processes ballots at the Clark County Election Department in North Las Vegas on Thursday. (Bloomberg)

Fact CheckerAnalysis

Trump’s false claims of vote fraud: A chronology

As the election returns have come in, the president has flooded the zone with false and misleading claims about the results.

By Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo

Perspective: Fox News is pulling out all the stops to promote Trump’s twisted logic about ‘corrupt’ voting

A viral video implied a man was illegally moving ballots. It was a photographer and his equipment.

An explainer video posted by television station WXYZ, Detroit's ABC affiliate, showed a clear view of the wagon and the box that a conservative website claimed contained ballots.

By Marisa Iati and Adriana Usero

It’s not you, Nate. It’s us. (And maybe a little you.)

Polling gurus Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight and Nate Cohn of the New York Times keep producing data sets that lead to the same outcome: heartburn.

By Ben Terris

Analysis

Let’s get ahead of it: A map of the early 2020 results by population, not acreage

By Philip Bump

Virginia elections officials say social media posts led to unfounded fears, confusion about ballot counting

By Laura Vozzella, Antonio Olivo and Gregory S. Schneider

Democrats’ ambitious agenda for 2021 runs into unexpected obstacle — McConnell’s resilience

By Erica Werner

World

As Trump doubles down on election falsehoods, America’s allies are dismayed and disturbed

As the U.S. presidential election went down to the wire, people abroad remained transfixed by the race as they lamented the polarization and dysfunction in the world’s oldest democracy.

By Simon Denyer and Jennifer Hassan5 minutes ago

Australia has almost eliminated the coronavirus — by putting faith in science

The nation of 26 million is close to eliminating community transmission of the virus, having defeated a second wave just as infections surge again in Europe and the United States.

By A. Odysseus Patrick

Ethiopia conflict escalates as army sends more troops to Tigray region

The army’s deputy chief declared that the country had entered into “an unexpected war.”

By Lesley Wroughton and Carol Morello

China is awash with schadenfreude over U.S. election tumult

With Beijing doubling down on promoting the legitimacy of Communist Party rule to its citizens, state mouthpieces lined up to portray the United States as a politically crumbling edifice.

By Gerry Shih

Kosovo president resigns to face war crimes charges in The Hague

President Hashim Thaci was indicted on war crimes charges in June, just days before he was supposed to attend a White House meeting.

By Michael Birnbaum

National

Joe Gloria, registrar of voters for Clark County, speaks to reporters Thursday in North Las Vegas, Nev. (Getty Images)

Local campaign officials are becoming election-week celebrities. They’re too busy to notice.

It’s not every day that Arizona’s secretary of state or Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor approaches household-name status.

By Travis M. Andrews and Ashley Fetters

Former top Mexican military official enters not-guilty plea in drug trafficking case

Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested in Los Angeles last month on drug conspiracy and money laundering charges.

By Shayna Jacobs

Eta forecast to regain tropical storm strength and affect Florida, Gulf of Mexico

By Matthew Cappucci

In states that Trump won handily, two lesbians are elected sheriff

By Lateshia Beachum

D.C., Md. & Va.

Northam signs criminal justice bills, will send budget back to Assembly

The measures signed by Virginia’s governor would create mental health teams for police calls and let judges handle sentencing for jury trials.

By Patricia Sullivan

Fairfax families sue over changes to Thomas Jefferson High School’s entry requirements

The 17 families want to bring back the admissions test removed after the district’s superintendent called for changes to increase the highly rated public school’s diversity.

By Hannah Natanson

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Rising tide of D.C.-area schools delay plans for in-person learning

School districts in Arlington and Anne Arundel County delayed returning lower-schoolers to buildings until 2021. D.C. Public Schools nixed its plan to bring some students into classrooms Nov. 9.

By Hannah Natanson

As Frostburg State resumes in-person teaching, concerns over safety mount

Perspective

D.C. has weathered many a tough election. Here are some lessons to learn.

By Petula Dvorak

D.C. eases travel rules ahead of Thanksgiving while urging caution during holidays

By Julie Zauzmer and Dana Hedgpeth

D.C. starts what could be historic stretch of November warmth

Mild weather may last into the second half of the month.

By Jason Samenow

Capital Weather Gang

PM Update: Another pleasant evening and a warm end to the workweek Friday

By Ian Livingston

Known coronavirus deaths and cases

Going Out Guide

Pop-up greenhouses, yurts and reptile heat lamps: Restaurants are getting creative to survive the winter

Here’s where to go for dinner or drinks when the temperature drops.

By Fritz Hahn and Adele Chapin

The best things to do — virtually and in person — while quarantined in the D.C. area

Virtual film festivals, trivia nights, concerts and poetry slams offer an escape for everyone staying at home.

By Going Out Guide Staff

GALA Theatre is a covid-19 ‘guinea pig’: first District theater to resume live indoor performance

The Columbia Heights theater will stage reduced-capacity shows as part of a pilot program.

By Thomas Floyd

Real Estate

Distinguished homes for sale in the D.C. region

30-year mortgage rate, for the 12th time this year, falls to record low

Streamlining a first-time home purchase in a fast-moving market

Business & Technology

Uber hopes for laws like Prop 22 in other states to lock in contractor classification for drivers

Uber helped wage a $200 million war in California to keep drivers as contractors. Now that the ballot measure passed, the ride-hailing company says its work isn’t done.

By Faiz Siddiqui

Fed chief says pace of economic recovery is moderating while pandemic threat looms large

The recent rise in coronavirus cases in the United States and elsewhere is “particularly concerning,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell said.

By Rachel Siegel

Jack Herbert listens to a speaker at a Save Democracy rally Nov. 4 in Portland, Ore. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Wall Street rallies as investors believe Washington gridlock is good for business

Markets soared on signs that power could be divided between a Democratic president and a Republican Senate determined to block his most ambitious proposals.

By David J. Lynch and Taylor Telford

Yelp’s unexpectedly strong third quarter hints at small-business rebound

The results reported by the local search and review provider suggest that some small businesses are spending more on marketing as consumers emerge from lockdowns.

By Isabelle Lee | Bloomberg

Market Watch

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Dow 28,390.18

Today 1.95%

S&P 3,510.45

Today 1.95%

NASDAQ 11,890.93

Today 2.59%

Health & Science

Hurricane Eta exploded before hitting Nicaragua, but we may never know how strong it was

By Matthew Cappucci

When coffee smells like gasoline: Covid-19 isn’t just stealing senses — it may be warping them

By Allyson Chiu

The Energy 202Analysis

Combating climate change hangs in the balance along with the presidential election

By Dino Grandoni

Perspective

My kids are on screens more than ever during the pandemic. Here’s why I’m not panicking.

By Jordan Shapiro

Sports

(Jonathan Newton/The Post)

Washington’s defense has been transformed from a year ago. It thinks it can play better.

The Washington Football Team’s defense ranks among the league’s best in a few categories. The players and coaches still see room for improvement.

By Nicki Jhabvala

Ravaged by injuries and coronavirus issues, the 49ers had little chance against the Packers

Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes as Green Bay dominated an injury-plagued San Francisco in a rematch of last year's NFC championship.

By Mark Maske

Nationals’ Juan Soto, nixed for MVP consideration, wins first Silver Slugger

Juan Soto, 22, won the NL batting title in 2020 with a .351 average despite missing the start of the season with a positive coronavirus test.

By Jesse Dougherty

Ted Leonsis has lost three friends to suicide. He doesn’t want to lose any more.

By Barry Svrluga

Being the SEC’s first Black female athletic director brings happiness tinged with sadness

By Chuck Culpepper

ESPN announces hundreds of layoffs as pandemic, cord-cutting upend sports television

By Ben Strauss

The Pac-12’s football season hasn’t even started and a game already has been canceled

By Matt Bonesteel

Four long shots for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup races

By Neil Greenberg

Lifestyle

Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and more joked about delayed election results and President Trump's response on Nov. 4. (Allie Caren/The Post)