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- 'Let us be the nation we know we can be': Biden speaks after defeating Trump - US election 2020 live updates
- 'I won't be the last': Kamala Harris, first woman elected US vice-president, accepts place in history
- Wrecking ball: the damage Trump could do while still president until January
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party
- Keep on digging: Trump team holds press conference at suburban garden centre
- Was Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen a 'spoiler' for Trump?
- Trump loses but results show Republican party has Trumpism in its bones
- First, the world mocked the chaos, then the congratulations flowed in
- Coronavirus live news: world war a risk in wake of pandemic, says UK defence chief; 16,017 new infections in Germany
- Boris Johnson under pressure to avoid no-deal Brexit after Biden victory
- PM who won Nobel peace prize takes Ethiopia to brink of civil war
- Aung San Suu Kyi expected to keep power in Myanmar election
- Woman in Guatemalan village hit by Storm Eta loses 22 members of her family
- Mexico's president won't congratulate Biden on election win until legal challenges over
- Global experts question UK’s commitment to tackle climate crisis
- United Arab Emirates to relax Islamic laws on personal freedoms
- Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers
- Salud! Barcelona’s tiny local bodegas saved for posterity
- 'Very worst of the pandemic' ahead in US with no apparent strategy, experts say
- Inseparable for 44 years – the couple banned from touching because of Covid
- How long Covid forced me to confront my past and my identity
- Veterinary workers cull 17 million Danish mink to halt new Covid
- Bolivia's leftwing president-elect: 'We have reclaimed democracy'
- Princess Diana, her brother and the questions about the Martin Bashir interview that won't go away
- A new chapter in the evolution of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens
- My friend unloads her anxiety on me, and now I feel drained | Dear Mariella
- Rob Brydon: ‘I love this job. I want to keep doing it’
- Engels comes of age: the socialist who wanted a joyous life for everyone
- 'Robot soldiers could make up quarter of British army by 2030s'
- ‘Crush the fascist vermin’: Belarus opposition summons wartime spirit
- How Joe Biden won the presidency – a visual guide
- Joe Biden’s move to net zero emissions will leave Australia in the (coal) dust | Bill Hare
- Scott Morrison congratulates Joe Biden on US election win and flags Australian visit in 2021
- Educated urban voters are key to success in a deeply divided America
- Democrats left to sift through aftermath of ‘blue wave’ that never crested
- Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things
- From the editor of Guardian US: a fresh start for America | John Mulholland
- 'Spread the faith': Biden and Harris victory speeches offer message of unity - video highlights
- 'We must restore the soul of America': Joe Biden's victory speech in full – video
- Scott Morrison congratulates Biden-Harris team on victory over Donald Trump – video
- 'You chose truth': Kamala Harris's historic victory speech in full – video
- Bernie Sanders offers congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – video
- Trump golfs and poses for pictures as election is called in Biden's favour – video
- ‘She represents the best of us’: Black women reflect on Kamala Harris’s historic win – video
| Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:32 AM PST
It is still a while away – the inauguration isn't until 20 January 2021 – but the Hill this morning have a wrap of some of what can we expect from the opening days of a Biden-Harris administration. Jordan Williams writes: People close to Biden's plans said he plans to rejoin the Paris climate accords, which the US officially left on Wednesday. He's also reportedly planning to reverse the US's withdrawal from the World Health Organization, which is slated to take effect 6 July. Biden also wants to immediately repeal the ban on immigration that targeted many Muslim-majority countries and reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Donald Trump's favorite niece Mary has written for us today, saying that all he has now is breaking things. He'll be having meltdowns upon meltdowns right now. He has never been in a situation like this before. What's interesting is that Donald has never won anything legitimately in his entire life, but because he has been so enabled by people along the way, he has never lost anything either. He's the kind of person who thinks that even if you steal and cheat to win, you deserve to win. But there is some poetic justice here because he has been cheating for months. Now his tactics are coming back to bite him. He told Republicans not to vote by mail and they didn't, but the result is he has been experiencing this slow drip-drip of disaster over the past few days. Oh, you have these huge margins! Now your margins are shrinking. Oh, Joe Biden's ahead. Now his margins are growing. It must have been like slow torture, but he set up this failure for himself. Related: Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:59 PM PST With victory speech, California senator brings tears to eyes of crowd in Delaware Kamala Harris accepted her place in history on Saturday night with a speech honoring the women who she said "paved the way for this moment tonight", when the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants would stand before the nation as the vice-president-elect of the United States. With her ascension to the nation's second highest office, Harris, 56, will become the first woman and the first woman of color to be elected vice president, a reality that shaped her speech and brought tears to the eyes of many women and girls watching from the hoods of their cars in the parking lot of a convention center in Wilmington, Delaware. Continue reading... |
| Wrecking ball: the damage Trump could do while still president until January Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST The next 11 weeks could be the most dangerous in US history, some analysts believe, with a vengeful and fearful lame duck incumbent Some of the mayhem that will follow Donald Trump losing the presidential election is already known. The US exited the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday regardless. The coronavirus pandemic that has already claimed almost a quarter of a million lives in America will worsen. Trump has hinted he will attempt to fire Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert in infectious diseases. Continue reading... |
| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:21 AM PST New York representative denies Movement for Black Lives and Green New Deal cost seats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticised the Democratic party for incompetence in a no-holds-barred, post-election interview with the New York Times, warning that if the Biden administration does not put progressives in top positions, the party would lose big in the 2022 midterm elections. Signaling that the internal moratorium in place while the Democrats worked to defeat Donald Trump was over, the leftwing New York representative sharply rejected the notion advanced by some Democrats that progressive messaging around the Movement for Black Lives and the Green New Deal led to the party's loss of congressional seats in last week's election. Continue reading... |
| Keep on digging: Trump team holds press conference at suburban garden centre Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:31 PM PST Rudy Giuliani details strategy in the car park of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a suspected mixup with Four Seasons hotel in Philadelphia Donald Trump's bid to hang on to the White House is promising to end in farce if his campaign's choice of venue for a crucial press conference is anything to go by. On Saturday morning, as Trump played golf and continued to baselessly accuse the Democrats of stealing the election for Joe Biden, he announced, in a Tweet since deleted, that there would be a "Big press conference" at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia. Continue reading... |
| Was Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen a 'spoiler' for Trump? Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST Results reveal Jorgensen's vote share was higher than the Trump-Biden margins in some states – but did she really take votes from Trump? When it became increasingly clear that a handful of battleground states would decide the winner in 2020's US presidential election, many were struck by the razor-thin margins that emerged. Related: 'I can't stop crying': joyful celebrations erupt in US as Joe Biden beats Trump Continue reading... |
| Trump loses but results show Republican party has Trumpism in its bones Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:17 PM PST The US president's blind faith in the power of positive thinking appears to have collided with the reality of coronavirus Donald Trump came to use the line often at his campaign rallies. "Can you imagine if you lose to a guy like this?" he would say of Joe Biden. "It's unbelievable." It's not so unbelievable now. Despite record turnout, and a tighter than expected race, the US president's blind faith in the power of positive thinking appears to have collided with the reality of a coronavirus pandemic, a chaotic campaign and the uprising of a democratic and Democratic resistance. He is the first incumbent to lose a bid for re-election since George H W Bush in 1992. Continue reading... |
| First, the world mocked the chaos, then the congratulations flowed in Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:12 PM PST After the tortuous last few days, Joe Biden's election has been welcomed by leaders keen to renew relations with the US Fiji's prime minister got in first, gambling on congratulating Joe Biden before the presidential election had been called, slipping in a plea for action on climate change. But once the result was official, congratulations came pouring in from around the world. Donald Trump's allies, critics and reluctant partners had all been following the vote counting, weighing up the impact of a radical change of direction expected from Washington under Biden. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:25 AM PST Economic fallout of pandemic makes prospect of third world war 'a risk'; Covid-related deaths in France exceeds 40,000 for the first time; number of cases in Germany increases by 16,017
The Czech Republic reported 7,722 new coronavirus cases for the latest 24-hour period, the third time this month that the daily tally fell below 10,000, Health Ministry data showed on Sunday. Saturday's daily tally was the lowest since Nov. 1 and brings the total number of cases reported since the outbreak started to 411,220 in the country of 10.7 million, Reuters reports. Cases have risen tenfold since mid-September.
In the UK General Sir Nick Carter has asked people not to leave their houses and gather to mark Remembrance Sunday, but rather stand in silence on their doorstep at 11am Asked on The Andrew Marr show on BBC One about the lack of a Cenotaph march-past, he said: It is especially hard for our veterans who like to get together, to share their memories and to 'strut their stuff'. It will be hard for them. This year's Remembrance Day is going to be "particularly tough for our Veterans", says General Sir Nick Carter#Marr https://t.co/gLsEBdcy1x pic.twitter.com/8uYPJrdly8 Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson under pressure to avoid no-deal Brexit after Biden victory Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST Whitehall fears that failure to strike a deal with the EU would threaten the special relationship Boris Johnson will be under even greater pressure to strike a Brexit deal with Brussels when Joe Biden enters the White House, senior Tories and diplomats said on Saturday, amid fears that a no-deal outcome could seriously threaten relations with a new Democratic administration. The Foreign Office and No 10 are urgently trying to assess the implications for UK foreign policy of a Biden presidency, including in areas such as Brexit, climate change, the Middle East, China and Nato. Continue reading... |
| PM who won Nobel peace prize takes Ethiopia to brink of civil war Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:30 AM PST Abiy Ahmed made his name as a reformer – but was there always an authoritarian waiting to come out? The beginning of the week saw Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, in one role: a forward-looking statesman, with a vision of peace and prosperity, and a tailored suit. The 44-year-old leader was at Addis Ababa's recently modernised airport to welcome General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, effective leader of neighbouring Sudan for a two-day visit including trade discussions and tours of the Ethiopian capital's skyscrapers, a seedling nursery and an industrial park. Continue reading... |
| Aung San Suu Kyi expected to keep power in Myanmar election Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:51 AM PST 'Mother Suu' remains popular despite coronavirus, conflict in Rakhine state and genocide charges Voters across Myanmar have gone to the polls for an election that is expected to return to power the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains hugely popular at home despite allegations of a genocide that have destroyed her reputation abroad. Queues of people waited in line, in some cases for hours, to cast their ballots on Sunday in what is the country's second general election since the end of full military rule. Most were wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus. The country has confirmed more than 60,000 infections, the majority of which were reported since mid-August. Continue reading... |
| Woman in Guatemalan village hit by Storm Eta loses 22 members of her family Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:21 PM PST Scores of people buried under rivers of mud unleashed by torrential rain in remote mountainous area, as weather front heads to Cuba Rescue workers have clambered over treacherous roads buried in mud and rubble to reach a remote mountain village in Guatemala swamped by a devastating storm that has killed dozens of people, including 22 members of the same family. Torrential downpours unleashed by Storm Eta toppled trees, engorged swift-moving rivers, and ripped down parts of a mountainside above the village of Queja in the central Guatemalan region of Alta Verapaz, burying dozens of people in their homes. Continue reading... |
| Mexico's president won't congratulate Biden on election win until legal challenges over Posted: 07 Nov 2020 06:49 PM PST Andrés Manuel López Obrador will wait for courts to rule on Trump lawsuits in bid to avoid friction
Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Saturday he would not congratulate a winner of the US presidential election until legal challenges are concluded, in an apparent bid to avoid friction with Washington during the transition. Democrat Joe Biden won the election on Saturday after a victory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania put him over the threshold of 270 electoral college votes. Continue reading... |
| Global experts question UK’s commitment to tackle climate crisis Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST Boris Johnson pledged to put environment at centre of post-Covid strategy, but report says funding needed is so far badly lacking Boris Johnson's government is investing only 12% of the funds needed to tackle the climate emergency and the growing threat to nature, according to a new report that will raise fresh international concerns about the UK's commitment to the green agenda. The study – released before an expected major speech on the environment by Johnson – says ministers need to commit £33bn each year of this parliament to green causes. So far only £4bn a year has been pledged. Continue reading... |
| United Arab Emirates to relax Islamic laws on personal freedoms Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:54 AM PST Country to end lenient punishments for 'honour' killings and decriminalise alcohol amid reforms The United Arab Emirates has ended lenient punishments for so-called "honour" killings, lifted a ban on unmarried couples living together and decriminalised alcohol, in reforms to personal laws. Foreigners living in the Gulf state will also be able to follow their home country's laws on divorce and inheritance, rather than using UAE legislation based on Islamic religious law, government-linked media reported. Continue reading... |
| Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:45 AM PST Apolistic Library, facing 100 threats a month, wants to ensure readers can trust digitised records of its historical treasures Ancient intellects are now being guarded by artificial intelligence following moves to protect one of the most extraordinary collections of historical manuscripts and documents in the world from cyber-attacks. The Vatican Apostolic Library, which holds 80,000 documents of immense importance and immeasurable value, including the oldest surviving copy of the Bible and drawings and writings from Michelangelo and Galileo, has partnered with a cyber-security firm to defend its ambitious digitisation project against criminals. Continue reading... |
| Salud! Barcelona’s tiny local bodegas saved for posterity Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST Protection move widely welcomed, but many traditional bars are struggling to pay their rents, especially under lockdown • Coronavirus – latest updates Barcelona council has come to the rescue of some of the city's most emblematic and best-loved bars by adding them to the list of protected sites and buildings. However, thanks to Covid-19 restrictions, you won't be able to get a drink in any of them for at least the next few weeks. The city has added 11 bodegas to the list of 220 shops that are considered part of the city's cultural heritage. The move has been widely welcomed, though it comes too late to save many small businesses, from toy and book shops to grocery and furniture stores, that were part of the fabric and essence of the city but were forced out by soaring rents. In most cases they have been replaced by chain stores. Continue reading... |
| 'Very worst of the pandemic' ahead in US with no apparent strategy, experts say Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST After Trump's election loss, no plan visible for next two months as cold weather and holidays approach A lame-duck presidency and political gridlock after a bitterly fought election are set to worsen the US's coronavirus crisis just as the pandemic enters its deadliest phase, according to health experts. With two months to go before a presidential handover from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, the federal government's strategy for containing the virus has experts worried. Continue reading... |
| Inseparable for 44 years – the couple banned from touching because of Covid Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Trish Walker's husband Chris is in a care home, and she has been allowed to speak to him for only an hour a day They met on a blind date and married nine months later. For the next 44 years, Chris and Trish Walker were inseparable. Until the pandemic. For the past eight months, Trish has not been allowed to touch her husband and has only been able to speak to him for just over an hour, even though he has already had – and recovered from – Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| How long Covid forced me to confront my past and my identity Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST For years, I repressed thinking about three things that shaped my life and my body. But the fourth blow of coronavirus pushed it all out into the open For six years now, I have been writing down three good things that have happened in my day, every day. It doesn't matter how big or small they are. It could be having pastries in bed. Spotting a fox in the garden. Successfully descaling a kettle. I do not call this my gratitude journal, because I am not a motivational wellness blogger. But I have found it vital, in order to rewire my brain to focus on the things that have gone right. Left unattended, my thoughts have a tendency to slip into a downward spiral, to somewhere much darker. I grew up in Italy, where there is a saying: "Non c'è due senza tre", which roughly means "Good (or bad) things come in threes". For most of my adult life, there have been three main issues that have preoccupied my thoughts when I'm lying in bed at night. I have guarded them preciously: I barely mention them, even to my closest friends. But, sometimes, repressing thoughts takes more effort than confronting them. Continue reading... |
| Veterinary workers cull 17 million Danish mink to halt new Covid Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:45 PM PST The animals were carrying a new strain of the virus, possibly vaccine-resistant, and infected several hundred people Veterinary workers have begun the gruesome business of gassing and then burning 17 million mink in Danish farms in a bid to halt further spread of a Covid-19 mutation from the animals to humans. The decision to cull the country's mink population was made after several hundred people became infected with a new strain of Covid-19 that had infected the animals. Researchers have warned this strain could be more resistant to vaccines. Continue reading... |
| Bolivia's leftwing president-elect: 'We have reclaimed democracy' Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Luis Arce to take power after landslide win for Movement for Socialism, but experts predict bumpy road ahead Bolivia's new president, Luis Arce, has vowed to rebuild his country's battered economy, revive ties with leftwing neighbours and serve one term only, as he prepared to take office after October's landslide election. Speaking to the Guardian before his inauguration on Sunday, the UK-educated economist was cautious about characterising his victory as proof that Latin America's leftwing "pink tide" of the early 2000s was bouncing back after a period of rightwing dominance. Since 2018 the left has returned to power in Mexico and Argentina, while a leftwing economist is well placed to win Ecuador's presidential election in February. Continue reading... |
| Princess Diana, her brother and the questions about the Martin Bashir interview that won't go away Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:15 AM PST Diana's revelations to Panorama 25 years ago rocked the royal family. Now the BBC is being accused of setting her up Confidence is crucial. It has to be established to entice a big name to give a candid TV interview. It is also, of course, the basis of many a scam. Pulling off a confidence trick commonly involves first offering your "mark", or target, something useful, in an open-handed way, to build up trust, before going in for the kill. The BBC and its journalist Martin Bashir now both stand accused, once again, of perpetrating this kind of con on Diana, Princess of Wales and her brother, Charles Spencer, to set up Bashir's sensational Panorama interview in 1995: the programme that fully exposed the discord at the heart of the most famous marriage in the world. Continue reading... |
| A new chapter in the evolution of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST The historian and author on adapting his phenomenal bestseller into graphic format, why science needs storytellers, and how Covid fuels threats to humanity When it was first suggested to Yuval Noah Harari that he appear as a character in the illustrated version of Sapiens, his mega-bestselling "brief history of humankind", which is about to be published in a graphic version, he did not jump at the idea. "I vetoed it," he says over the phone from his home outside Tel Aviv. "I try to keep myself mostly outside my books." Sapiens covers the broad arc of our species' story, from the emergence of human cultures in Africa 70,000 years ago to our hyper-connected present, in 500 pages. It has been one of the most spectacular publishing successes of the past decade, selling more than 10m copies since it was translated into English in 2014, and its enormous popularity has turned a little-known Israeli history professor into one of the most influential public intellectuals on the planet. Continue reading... |
| My friend unloads her anxiety on me, and now I feel drained | Dear Mariella Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST Discord is rife, emotions are volatile and people need kindness, but you need to protect yourself too, says Mariella Frostrup The dilemma My former colleague, who became a friend, has always been a little self-centered. Once we stopped working together, I accepted the lopsided nature of our relationship, because I found her fun and we shared the experience of being immigrants navigating British work environments. We no longer work together but, twice weekly, we share a co-working space that I use to change up my environment and help my mental health. She had a serious mental health setback during lockdown and is, understandably, having a really hard time. She seeks me out to unload on: how unfair she thinks her colleagues are; how they don't appreciate her; how anxious she is about the pandemic and politics, etc. It's become less about having conversations and more about listening to an exhausting monologue. Continue reading... |
| Rob Brydon: ‘I love this job. I want to keep doing it’ Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST Rob Brydon's quick-wit has charmed us all. But it wasn't always so simple. Here, he talks about his five children, being prodded by Boris and the moment his fortunes changed… There are two versions of the comic Rob Brydon: Television Personality and Twickenham Dad. And although the two identities have lived hugger-mugger inside him for decades, occasionally overlapping, "like tectonic plates", says the 55-year-old, they are rarely seen out in public at the same time. I'm lucky this afternoon that I get to meet both Brydons: the performer, who is polished and smiley if a touch remote, as well as the softer, more relatable father-of-five. It's Twickenham Dad I meet first. When I come up on Brydon on a London street he is peering through the window of a home-furnishing showroom, taking pictures of a nice bit of garden furniture that's caught his eye. This furniture looks to be hewn out of stone and (we both note) has no obvious price tag. "So whatever you think it costs," says Brydon, in his measured and pleasing Port Talbot accent, "add lots of zeroes on." He is wearing a fitted, felty suit and has his charcoal hair neatly parted. The enduringly youthful face, lightly scarred from teenage battles with acne, is mostly covered by a pale pandemic mask. He removes the mask once we're seated in a nextdoor restaurant. Angling his thick-framed bifocals, Brydon studies the menu, taking an age to choose and dramatising his indecision for the waiter's amusement. Continue reading... |
| Engels comes of age: the socialist who wanted a joyous life for everyone Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:30 PM PST Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx's 'second fiddle' is at last being recognised as the visionary he was, writes his biographer While most radical artists have spent the last few years demanding that statues of imperial heroes be pulled down, in Manchester they have gone the other way. In 2017, the film-maker Phil Collins transported a statue of Friedrich Engels on a flat-bed truck from eastern Ukraine, a former colony of the Soviet empire, to the heart of the "northern powerhouse". It was a superb, counter-intuitive gesture: placing the man who hated "Cottonopolis" in the heart of its commercial nexus. For with the exception of a polite blue plaque in north London's Primrose Hill and a sign that once stood on Eastbourne beach (where his ashes were scattered), the statue is one of the hopelessly few reminders we have of one of Britain's greatest emigres. Continue reading... |
| 'Robot soldiers could make up quarter of British army by 2030s' Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:30 AM PST Investment in robot warfare at heart of UK's planned five-year defence review Thirty thousand "robot soldiers" could form an integral part of the British army in the 2030s, working alongside humans in and around the frontline, the head of the armed forces said in a television interview on Sunday. Gen Sir Nick Carter said the armed forces needed "to think about how we measure effects in a different way" – and he called on the government to proceed with the previously promised five--year integrated defence review. Continue reading... |
| ‘Crush the fascist vermin’: Belarus opposition summons wartime spirit Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:30 AM PST Partisan tactics once used to fight the Nazis have been turned against Alexander Lukashenko's brutally repressive regime In Minsk, what people here call the Great Patriotic War is never far away. Monuments, street names and museums venerate the memory of the awful years from 1941 to 1945, when the Soviet Union was at war with Nazi Germany. Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, has used the years of partisan resistance against the Nazi occupation of the country, and the eventual victory by the Red Army, as the basis for a neo-Soviet, Belarusian identity. Continue reading... |
| How Joe Biden won the presidency – a visual guide Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:32 AM PST Biden has secured a victory and claimed the White House. We analyse who has swung to the Democratic party to help him win the presidency Joe Biden has won the majority of electoral votes and defeated incumbent Donald Trump. With a majority of the results now declared in the US presidential election, it is clear that while Biden won the popular vote by more than 4m votes, what mattered most was his performance in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania – all of which voted for Trump in 2016. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden’s move to net zero emissions will leave Australia in the (coal) dust | Bill Hare Posted: 07 Nov 2020 01:21 PM PST Australia will be increasingly isolated as the US joins the club of countries, including China, with ambitious mid-century goals
The election of Joe Biden to the White House is likely to see Australia increasingly isolated as the world heads to net zero emissions, with quite fundamental implications for our economy. Let's have a look at what has happened in the last two months. Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison congratulates Joe Biden on US election win and flags Australian visit in 2021 Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:24 AM PST Morrison's predecessor, Malcolm Turnbull, welcomed the defeat of Donald Trump by tweeting 'what a relief'
Scott Morrison has signalled he would invite Joe Biden to visit Australia for the 70th anniversary of the Anzus treaty in 2021 as he congratulated the Democrat for winning the US presidential election. Morrison told reporters that Canberra would continue to deal with the Trump administration during the transition period but looked forward to working with Biden from January. Continue reading... |
| Educated urban voters are key to success in a deeply divided America Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:44 AM PST Not only is the country profoundly divided after Trump, but social trends may be pulling it even further apart Patterns of voting in the presidential election have once again revealed the deep divides that cut across America. As the social makeup of different parts of the country is shifting, so too is the balance of power in electoral politics. As the Democrats have seen their support grow in urban, more racially diverse, educated and younger places, the Republicans have strengthened their political hold on rural and small-town America, in places that are older and home to higher numbers of white, non-college graduates – a group that swung decisively behind Donald Trump in 2016, delivering him victory. While both Trump and Joe Biden made gains on their party's vote share in 2016, as fringe candidates were pushed to the sidelines, it was the Democrat who made the largest gains. Continue reading... |
| Democrats left to sift through aftermath of ‘blue wave’ that never crested Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Once united over shared priority of removing Trump from office, Democrats now anxious and uncertain after unexpected losses Joe Biden secured a historic presidential victory on Saturday yet some Democrats have spent the tense days since the election engulfed in recriminations, finger-pointing and infighting as they sift through the aftermath of expectations of a "blue wave" that never crested. Long-simmering tensions between moderate Democrats who represent conservative districts and progressives who have massive online followings erupted into public view, after a series of unexpected losses in parts of the country where the president proved surprisingly resilient. Continue reading... |
| Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:20 PM PST The president will be having 'meltdowns upon meltdowns', according to his niece, who sees poetic justice in the lies and cheating now coming back to bite him This is how the most colossal and fragile ego on the planet deals with losing the US election: he does not deal with it at all. Continue reading... |
| From the editor of Guardian US: a fresh start for America | John Mulholland Posted: 07 Nov 2020 02:23 PM PST The American people have disavowed four years of a thuggish presidency. But now the real work begins Joe Biden is the next president of the United States – and Kamala Harris has made history, becoming the first woman, and the first woman of color, to be elected vice-president. The pair shattered previous records, winning more votes in the presidential race than any candidates in American history. Related: 'You're fired!': New York, Trump's home town, celebrates his election defeat Continue reading... |
| 'Spread the faith': Biden and Harris victory speeches offer message of unity - video highlights Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:23 PM PST Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have offered a message of unity as the pair spoke following their election victory. Harris, who will be the first woman to be vice-president, paid tribute to her mother. For Biden, his speech was an opportunity to offer an olive branch to his political rivals after nearly four years of division under Donald Trump
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| 'We must restore the soul of America': Joe Biden's victory speech in full – video Posted: 07 Nov 2020 06:22 PM PST President-elect Joe Biden promised to 'restore the soul of America' as he declared victory in front of a crowd of supporters on Saturday night in his home town of Wilmington. 'I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify, who doesn't see red states or blue states but who only sees the United States.' Addressing Trump supporters, Biden said he understood their disappointment because he had lost before. But now, 'let's give each other a chance', he said. Biden and Kamala Harris hardly mentioned Donald Trump directly in their speeches – instead, they focused on the challenges ahead, including tackling the coronavirus pandemic
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| Scott Morrison congratulates Biden-Harris team on victory over Donald Trump – video Posted: 07 Nov 2020 06:01 PM PST Scott Morrison has congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their projected US election win. Morrison spoke about the importance of the alliance between the two countries that was strengthened following the second world war and the value of the US in the Australia-Pacific region. While President Donald Trump is yet to concede, Morrison joined leaders around the world in congratulating Biden
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| 'You chose truth': Kamala Harris's historic victory speech in full – video Posted: 07 Nov 2020 06:00 PM PST Kamala Harris, the first Black woman and first South Asian American woman to become vice-president-elect, began her victory speech by quoting the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who said, 'Democracy is not a state, it is an act.' A century after women won the right to vote, Harris, wearing suffragette white, spoke about her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. 'When she came here from India, at the age of 19, she maybe didn't quite imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible,' she said. Joe Biden was declared the president-elect after the AP announced he had won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, putting him over the threshold of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House and beat Donald Trump
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| Bernie Sanders offers congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – video Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:20 PM PST Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator of Vermont who put up a strong challenge to Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries before helping him campaign, has offered congratulations to the president-elect and his running mate, Kamala Harris. Sanders called this election the most important in modern American history
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| Trump golfs and poses for pictures as election is called in Biden's favour – video Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:12 PM PST Donald Trump was golfing at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia when major news outlets projected presidential rival Joe Biden had won the 2020 US election. Trump posed for photos at the club but did not comment on the results at the time. The president's camp has since refused to concede the result and released a statement saying the 'simple fact is this election is far from over'
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| ‘She represents the best of us’: Black women reflect on Kamala Harris’s historic win – video Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:26 PM PST Kamala Harris made history as the first woman of color to be elected US vice-president. 'It brings tears to my eyes and joy to my heart,' said the former US national security adviser Susan Rice, while Atlanta's mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, said: 'She represents the best of us.' Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican heritage, is the first woman to be elected to such a position in the White House.
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