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A junior minister resigns over the chancellor's decision to ditch the Tories' aid spending promise.
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Former Obama official Michèle Flournoy, often mentioned as Biden's most likely choice, said to remain in the running.
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 Photo Illustration: Scouted/The Daily Beast/AmazonIf you've never cooked with an Instant Pot, you're doing it wrong. The eight-in-one pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, sterilizer, steamer, yogurt maker, warmer and cake maker serves up to six quarts of goodness, making it perfect for getting big batches of dinner on the table during busy weeknights, or meal prepping ahead of a hectic week. For Black Friday, Instant Pot is serving up a sweet sale, dropping their price by $60 down to $89.99. It comes complete with accessories like a stainless steel steam rack with handles, rice paddle, soup spoon, measuring cup and condensation collector, so you're all set to try one of their 1,000 delicious pre-programmed recipes.
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 President Donald Trump's planned trip to join his attorney Rudy Giuliani in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday has been canceled, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
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President-elect Joe 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," his transition team said.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Scouted/AmazonI've been cooking a lot more recently and plan to cook even more into the holidays. I've been looking for ways to still make the same delicious food, while making my life a little easier. Enter the Instant Pot. With the Duo Nova, you can cook just about anything and through several different methods. Steam, saute, pressure cook, or even slow cook—just set it and forget it. Best of all, the Duo Nova is under $100 now, and through Black Friday.
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 Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyWhen the Centers for Disease Control last week announced that Americans should not celebrate Thanksgiving with people outside of their household, officials working on the federal government's COVID-19 response had already begun planning for the inevitability that family and friends would do just that, according to two senior officials familiar with the situation.
The CDC announcement Nov. 19 was viewed internally by health officials as a last-ditch attempt by the agency to try and convince Americans to stay home for the holiday and to advise those who would travel on how to reduce transmission. And there's some evidence that the plea worked. A recent New York Times survey showed that only 27 percent of those who were polled were spending the holiday with people outside their household. But officials said they felt the CDC announcement came too late—people had already made their travel plans and those who had previously refused to adhere to public health guidelines during the pandemic were not going to suddenly change their habits.
With hospitalizations and new cases spiking in more than a dozen states across the country, doctors say the Thanksgiving holiday is likely to worsen an already terrible crisis. In the last week alone there were a reported 1.1 million Americans infected with the virus. About 1,200 people died on average per day, according to data collected by The New York Times.
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State leaders are balancing rising case numbers with pressure to keep society open.
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 Photo Illustration: Scouted/The Daily Beast/Nest BeddingThere's something about the recent clock change that's gotten our circadian rhythms in a funk. Treat yourself to the gift of a better night's sleep with any of Nest Bedding's top-rated products, from plush luxury mattresses, cozy sleep apparel, pet accessories, and so much more while it's on sale for Black Friday. New to the Nest family is a selection of minimalist-yet-durable bedroom furniture, like a rustic nightstand and matching platform that'll make you look forward to staying in bed all day. After all, we have nowhere else to be.
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It's been a hard four years for many career government servants. Their expertise was set aside for President Donald Trump's flashy political appointees, and their fellow professionals were marginalized, derided as "Deep State' interlopers and even fired.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Scouted/LululemonI've been wearing Lululemon's ABC Pants pretty much all of quarantine, and I bet I'm not alone. I've heard their leggings are extremely comfortable, and I believe it because just about every men's item I've tried is fantastic. Lululemon is currently having a Black Friday teaser where they're taking up to 50% off an array of leggings, pants, tops, shirts, and much much more. Looking for your new outfit? Head to Lululemon, but be quick! It's going fast.
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set out what the government will spend next year. Here are the headlines.
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President-elect Joe Biden declared "America is back" this week as he revealed some of the people who will staff his administration in key national security posts, vowing to roll back Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy and embrace multilateralism. Among his picks are longtime adviser Tony Blinken for secretary of state, diplomatic veteran Linda Thomas-Greenfield as ambassador to the United Nations, and former Secretary of State John Kerry for a new Cabinet post as climate czar. Historian, author and activist Barbara Ransby says Biden's picks so far mostly come from the centrist establishment of the Democratic Party and lack progressive voices. "We need people who have compassion, who have accountability to the most vulnerable, who pledge to defend the planet, people who have a clear understanding and commitment to fighting white supremacy and police violence," says Ransby. We also speak with investigative journalist David Sirota, who says Biden's picks represent "an attempt to restore the old Washington." Sirota served as an adviser and speechwriter for Senator Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign.
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President-elect Joe Biden appeared to pour cold water on the idea of nominating Sens. Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to his Cabinet, suggesting he would instead like to keep them in the US Senate to help him carry out a progressive agenda.
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Most economists warn that without more government aid, the hardships will deepen for jobless individuals.
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 Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., announced that he had filed complaints with various state bars calling for the disbarment of Rudy Giuliani and other attorneys representing President Trump's campaign, only to be accused of being a "political hack" whose actions will likely be meaningless.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday lambasted President Donald Trump, saying that the commander in chief threw him under the bus although he voted for him.
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President-elect Joe Biden has introduced key members of his national security team this week, including his picks for secretary of state, national intelligence director, national security adviser, homeland security chief and ambassador to the United Nations. Biden has yet to announce his defense secretary, but progressives are already raising alarm over reports that he intends to nominate Michèle Flournoy, a hawkish Pentagon veteran with close ties to the defense industry. If nominated, Flournoy would become the first woman to lead the Department of Defense. "She represents the epitome of what is worst about the Washington blob, the military-industrial complex's revolving door," says CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin. "Her whole history has been one of going in and out of the Pentagon … where she supported every war that the U.S. engaged in, and supported increases in the military budget."
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 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at least partially to blame for the chaos surrounding the uncalled U.S. House election in New York's 22nd Congressional District, Republican candidate Claudia Tenney told "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday.
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 The GOP suit alleges that illegal votes exceed the number by which President-elect Joe Biden won the state, 20,608.
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 Georgia's runoff elections will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress. Republicans currently hold 50 seats versus Democrats' 48.
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Trump insisted he would "never concede" just hours after the General Services Administration paved the way for president-elect Joe Biden to tap public funds, receive security briefings and gain access to federal agencies.
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We speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about the deaths of two leading figures he reported on: New York City Mayor David Dinkins and beloved Puerto Rican social leader Carlos "Taso" Zenón. "Most people forget [Dinkins] was a Democratic Socialist before democratic socialism was in vogue," notes González. He also recalls how Dinkins backed the movement against apartheid in South Africa, ordering the city to divest its pension fund from companies doing business there, and brought Nelson Mandela to the city right after he was freed. González also recalls how Zenón was a longtime activist who for decades led the fight against the U.S. Navy's occupation of the island of Vieques, his hometown, where the U.S. government tested weapons and held military training exercises.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyConservative operatives and a super PAC with ties to infamous GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone are calling for Trump supporters to punish Republicans by sitting out Georgia's crucial Senate runoffs or writing in Trump's name instead. And though their efforts remains on the party's fringes, the trajectory of the movement has Republicans fearful that it could cost the GOP control of the Senate.
The most aggressive call to boycott or cast protest ballots in the two runoff races has, so far, come from a dormant pro-Trump super PAC with ties to Stone, which unveiled a new initiative to retaliate against the Republican Party's supposed turncoats by handing Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.
The group, dubbed the Committee for American Sovereignty, unveiled a new website encouraging Georgia Republicans to write in Trump's name in both of the upcoming Senate runoff elections, which could determine the party that controls the upper chamber during President-elect Joe Biden's first two years in office. The PAC argued that doing so will show support for the president in addition to forcing Republicans to address the wild election-fraud conspiracy theories floated by Trump supporters and members of his own legal team.
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The pandemic will cost the government hundreds of billions of pounds. Where will it all come from?
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Within hours of the Trump administration's decision to stop blocking the process, representatives of the president-elect began coordinating the handover of power.
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A lawsuit they filed in 2018 over the network's coverage of the murder of Mr. Rich, who had been a Democratic aide, comes to an end.
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 Anthony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden's pick for secretary of state, admitted earlier this year that the Obama administration "failed" in Syria — although he also panned the Trump administration for "pulling out" of the country entirely.
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The Florida senator said he has "no interest in returning to the ‘normal' that left us dependent on China."
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 California progressives are hoping to influence Gov. Gavin Newsom's pick for someone to fill Kamala Harris' Senate seat when she becomes vice president in January.
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Essentially since he announced his candidacy, Donald Trump has hogged the public's attention.
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Civil servants, elected officials and judges did their jobs and protected democracy.
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From trade and sanctions to tax policy and financial regulation, the former Fed chair will be at the center of the new administration's agenda.
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The former mayor was remembered as a mentor who inspired Black leaders to run for office and began to bring down the crime rate.
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The company, which has largely escaped the scrutiny faced by other social media outfits, is being pushed to restrict misleading videos.
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The path to confirmation for Biden's nominees remains unclear as control of the Senate will be decided by two runoff elections in Georgia early next year.
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The senators sent a letter urging action to the company, which has largely escaped the scrutiny of other social media companies.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyFox News' apparent split personality—a more polite term here than "hypocrisy"—doesn't simply describe the disconnect between its straight-news anchors, who regularly call Joe Biden "the president-elect," and the primetime and other opinion hosts touting Donald Trump's baseless claims of a stolen election.
The case of Fox & Friends First co-anchor Todd Piro, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, highlights a potentially dangerous contradiction between the network's stated safety policies and the allegedly cavalier way that management is carrying them out, according to staffers of the top-rated, right-leaning cable outlet.
Current Fox News employees, who asked not to be further identified out of fear of retaliation, told The Daily Beast that they received no official alert or explanation after Piro stopped showing up for work at the network's Midtown Manhattan studios as of Nov. 9, while his co-anchor, Jillian Mele, has continued to host the early morning broadcast in close quarters with members of the production staff.
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Veterans of the Democratic primary campaign fear they're being squeezed out of plum posts by later arrivals.
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He led the nation's largest city during a difficult period.
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Alejandro N. Mayorkas, a former deputy homeland security secretary, would be tasked with restoring faith in a department that carried out the Trump immigration agenda.
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