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January 4, 2021 2:43 PM

Trump gives Medal of Freedom to loyalist GOP Congressman Nunes

President Donald Trump is awarding the nation's highest civilian honor to a lawmaker, who the White House claims "uncovered the greatest scandal in American history," even though that has no basis in fact.

by Brian Naylor

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January 4, 2021 7:26 AM

Fact check: Trump's made-up claims of fake Georgia votes

President Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia's secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat, fabricating a slew of votes that he said should've been counted in his favor.

by The Associated Press

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January 4, 2021 7:12 AM

Ga. election officials reject Trump call to 'find' more votes

President Donald Trump pressured Georgia's Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's win in the state's presidential election.

by The Associated Press

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January 4, 2021 6:32 AM

COVID-19 battle to color 2021 legislative session

A fresh session of the Minnesota Legislature kicks off Tuesday with some new faces but the same power structure and a now familiar pressing item atop the agenda: how to respond to a health pandemic that has cost thousands of lives and knocked the economy off-kilter.

by Brian Bakst

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January 4, 2021 4:00 AM

It all comes down to this — 2 Georgia races that will determine control of the Senate

If Democrats pick up both seats in Tuesday's Georgia runoff elections, they will wrest control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans. If Republicans win one, though, they will retain it.

by Domenico Montanaro

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January 4, 2021 1:00 AM

Intelligence Squared debate: Are identity politics a way to win?

As Georgia faces two runoff elections Tuesday, former Georgia state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams and other voting-rights advocates have focused on identity politics as a way to prevail in the electoral process. Is it a winning strategy? Michael Eric Dyson and John McWhorter, experts on race and identity in America, sit with Intelligence Squared host and moderator John Donvan to debate.

by MPR News Staff

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January 3, 2021 8:57 PM

Extraordinary warning to Trump by 10 former Pentagon chiefs

In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defense cautioned Sunday against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.”

by The Associated Press

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January 3, 2021 5:17 PM

Some Republicans condemn GOP 'scheme' to undo election for Trump

The extraordinary Republican effort to overturn the presidential election was condemned Sunday by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials warning the effort to sow doubt in Joe Biden's win and keep President Donald Trump in office is undermining Americans’ faith in democracy.

by The Associated Press

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January 3, 2021 2:44 PM

Here's a look at Congress' incoming freshman class

A record number of women, racial minorities and members of the LGBTQ community make the 117th Congress the most diverse in history.

by Barbara Sprunt

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January 3, 2021 2:01 PM

Trump, on tape, presses Georgia official to 'find' Trump votes

President Donald Trump pressured Georgia's Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's win in the state's presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising the prospect of “criminal offense" if officials did not change the vote count, according to a recording of the conversation.

by The Associated Press

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