Democracy Dies in Darkness
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The Department of Homeland Security called the gathering a “meeting,” at a time when coronavirus cases — and deaths — are soaring nationwide.
Election 2020
A Trump supporter in front of the Supreme Court on Friday. (Astrid Riecken for The Post)
The ruling blocks President Trump's legal path to reverse his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. Trump, who has appointed three of the court’s nine members, had called for the justices to rescue him in litigation.
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More than 100 House members wanted the Supreme Court to overturn the election results. Did they really believe the election was corrupted, or was it simply fear and blind loyalty?
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Descendants of the “Martinsville Seven” say the men did not have fair trials and were sentenced to death for a crime that a White person would not have been executed for.
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Paxton’s star has seemed ascendant, but he’s facing investigations and allegations as the Supreme Court thwarted his appeal to overturn the election.
The court filings set the stage for legal fights that could lead to last-minute changes for the Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections.
Contenders include Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), former deputy attorney general Sally Q. Yates and appeals court Judge Merrick B. Garland, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The groundbreaking measure, tacked onto the defense bill, requires corporations established in the United States to disclose their real owners to the Treasury Department, making it harder for criminals to launder money or evade taxes.
A Jan. 4 satellite image shows wildfires in Australia. (NASA/AP)
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Smoke from Australia's wildfires in January spawned rare pyrocumulonimbus clouds and sent particles into the stratosphere that are still detectable today.
The unrest shattered the relative calm in the Kurdish-led region, highlighting the deepening discontent across Iraq.
President Trump’s decision pits the United States against most of the world and could deprive the Western Sahara’s people of a referendum on independence.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who intends to retire next year after a 15-year stint as Europe’s most powerful leader, brokered the compromises.
The Mexican government was outraged by the arrest of Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos in Los Angeles in October, even though U.S. authorities have dropped drug-trafficking charges against him.
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The state also suspended nonessential surgeries. The two moves clear the way for a system of rationing amid a coronavirus surge that has overwhelmed the state’s capacities.
In a rare interview, she praised the diversity of today’s demonstrators who protested George Floyd’s death.
During the only other year when health issues prevented Bill Vaughan from putting up his usual lights, a display in his yard read, “Sorry no lights.” (Courtesy of Bill Vaughan)
Bill Vaughan was determined to put up his lights this year. Then the leg of a 16-foot ladder he stood on sunk into the ground.
The mental health consequences of so much sudden death in so short a time could be dire. (Jessica Durant for The Post)
These families are turning their grief into action to save themselves and others — and to begin to heal our collective trauma.
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Michael Pack, a Trump appointee who has made sweeping and controversial changes at VOA and its sister broadcasting networks, pushed out Elez Biberaj, a VOA veteran whom Pack had appointed as the head of the service on an interim basis in June.
Her friend says the two of them are ““in this life journey together.”
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