Nov 07 Watch 4:20 Biden will take over a deeply divided nation in crisis By PBS NewsHour With news outlets from the Associated Press to Fox News calling the election in favor of Joe Biden on Saturday, President Trump’s camp continued their legal efforts to contest the election results, and many Republican leaders remained silent. Yamiche Alcindor… Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch 3:42 Georgia to be ‘center of the American political universe’ during recount, runoff election By PBS NewsHour Nearly 5 million ballots were cast in Georgia, where razor-thin margins in the presidential election mean the state will enter a recount process in the coming weeks, and a January runoff will decide the fate of both the state’s Senate… Continue watching
Nov 07 How Biden navigated pandemic politics to win the White House By Steve Peoples, Bill Barrow, Zeke Miller, Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Joe Biden's decision to step away from in-person campaigning this spring was without precedent in modern American politics. Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch 3:28 ‘More lawsuits are coming:’ Trump’s lawyers layout plans as AP calls race for Biden By PBS NewsHour Shortly after the Associated Press and other TV networks call Pennsylvania and the entire race for Joe Biden, President Trump’s lawyers lay out their plans for a long legal fight over the results. NewsHour’s Dan Bush joins from Philadelphia to… Continue watching
Nov 07 Americans react after Biden-Harris win By Associated Press After Pennsylvania became the state that put Biden over the 270-vote threshold in the Electoral College, impromptu street parties broke out across the country. Continue reading
Nov 07 Census takers say they were told to enter false information By Mike Schneider, Associated Press Two census takers tell The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited. Continue reading
Nov 07 Suburban and urban voters secure Biden win in Pennsylvania By Laura Santhanam Meanwhile, President Donald Trump saw a repeat of his 2016 appeal among rural and small-town Pennsylvania voters. Continue reading
Nov 06 Virginia prosecutor finds 2018 police shooting of Black man justified By Denise Lavoie, Associated Press A Virginia prosecutor has found that the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black man who ran onto a highway during a mental health crisis was justified. Continue reading
Nov 06 In an unprecedented election, two key swing states show how we got here By Amna Nawaz, Daniel Bush, Miles O'Brien, Rachel Wellford, Jaywon Choe, Vika Aronson, Erica R. Hendry, Emily Carpeaux Election Day has come and gone, but there are still many unanswered questions, along with uncertainty about how we got here and where we go next. In this episode, we talk to our reporters who have been covering this election… Continue reading
Nov 06 Watch 3:22 News Wrap: U.S. sees over 120,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day In our news wrap Friday, the U.S. wave of coronavirus infections is still building. More than 120,000 new cases were reported in the last day, pushing the national total past 9.6 million with more than 235,000 deaths. Also, remnants of… Continue watching