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Exclusive: Former CIA station chief Darrell Blocker floated to lead agency under Biden, source says
Michigan Certifies Election Votes, Declares Biden Winner
Michigan election officials on Monday certified President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state against President Donald Trump, formally granting the Democrat the state’s 16 electoral votes. Aaron Van Langevelde, one of the state canvassing board’s two Republican members, joined the two Democrats to confirm the results of the election amid pressure from the Trump campaign to delay the voting for two weeks. The certification grants Biden the state’s 16 electoral votes. He won the state by 2.8 percentage points. Challenging
How Joe Biden did so well in Georgia
Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs For nearly 30 years, the state of Georgia has voted reliably Republican in presidential elections. Not since 1992 has the state backed a Democrat for president. Now, the hand recount of 2020
Reducing Violence Against Religious Minority Communities in Brazil
United States Department of StateBureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL)Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):DRL FY20 IRF Brazil: Reducing Violence Against Religious Minority Communities in Brazil This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007426 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345 Type of
Trump’s purge of defense agencies comes at a vulnerable time for US national security
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell President Donald Trump’s recent firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and subsequent resignations from the department of four more top civilian officials – either in protest or under pressure – are raising alarms in
Trump invitation to Michigan lawmakers could spark state and federal political crisis
Austin Sarat, Amherst College The state of Michigan, and the United States as a whole, may face a political crisis brought on by President Donald Trump’s continuing efforts to undo the 2020 election results. On Nov. 19, the president invited
