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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Trump administration officials further signaled on Tuesday that the White House is not planning to cooperate with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team after Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Renewable power is defying the difficulties caused by the pandemic, showing robust growth while others fuels struggle," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol.



"If Democrats take back the Senate," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Monday, November 9, 2020, "we will increase the minimum wage from a starvation wage of $7.25 an hour to a living wage of at least $15 an hour." (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The Vermont senator noted that "47% of workers in Georgia make less than $15 an hour and 71% of voters in Georgia support increasing the federal minimum wage."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
" Young people voted for Biden in record numbers—he owes us this one."



Palestinian refugees receive aid distributed by a United Nations agency amid the coronavirus pandemic in Gaza City on October 8, 2020. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on health and human mobility threatens to roll back global commitments," said one official, "and hinder ongoing efforts to support those in need of assistance."



People celebrate on Black Lives Matter plaza across from the White House in Washington, D.C. on November 7, 2020, after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Why would we want a return to normalcy? We need a vision for the future, not a return to the past."



Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) walks on stage after a win during his election night party on November 3, 2020 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The senator's comment, said one journalist, "is not something that is said by a person who actually wants to represent people in a democracy."



U.S. Attorney General William Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1, 2019 about the Justice Department's investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
AG William Barr, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "is a corrupt Trump henchman who should have been impeached months ago. If he cared one shred about our democracy, he’d be focused on the peaceful transition of power instead of doing the bidding of a wannabe dictator."



PLO Secretary General and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat has died of Covid-19 at age 65. (Photo: U.S.-Islamic World Forum/Flickr cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hailed Erekat—who served a quarter century as the occupied state's chief negotiator—as "our dear brother and friend, the great fighter."



Federal Communications Commission (FCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Rob Pegoraro/Flickr cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Former telecom lawyer Nathan Simington, a Republican, was tapped by the president after an incumbent balked at a plan to weaken online protections granted under a key law.



A Guatemalan father and son embrace after entering the US following a long and harrowing journey through Mexico. (Photo: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The children were separated from their families under the Trump administration's widely condemned "zero tolerance" immigration policy.


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"By debasing California’s labor classification laws, it’s possible the companies are creating a slippery slope to undermine even our most basic labor protections," writes Athreya. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Bama Athreya
Labor organizing in California and around the world is pushing platform companies to take extreme measures to defend their exploitative business model.



"Who can doubt that Donald Trump himself was the personification of hell on Earth?" writes Engelhardt. (Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters)

by Tom Engelhardt
Donald Trump knew us better than we knew ourselves.



Supporters of US President-elect Joe Biden gather near the Texas capitol building to celebrate his victory in the 2020 presidential election in Austin, Texas on November 7, 2020. - Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House, US media said November 7, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that convulsed American politics, shocked the world and left the United States more divided than at any time in decades. (Photo: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
Why this effort to steal an election and corrupt democracy won't work.



U.S. President Donald Trump greets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House February 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Yves Engler
Why is Ottawa trying to maintain one of the Republican's worst environmental policies?



Bolivians celebrate the MAS-IPSP victory on Sunday, Novemeber 9, 2020. (Photo:EFE)

by Leonardo Flores
The most important victory, however, did not come at the ballot box, but rather in the streets.



People show their support as they participate in a caravan for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden event on October 11, 2020 in Miami Springs, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Simon Davis-Cohen
T he fight over non-citizen political rights is the cutting edge of democratic, refugee and migration discourse.


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