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FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is pictured on a Google building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday it will not make contributions from its political action committee this election cycle to any Congress member who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election. Earlier this month, following the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol, the tech giant had paused all… Source link

NOTE: Google, eight hours after Rudy Giuliani made false claims of election fraud in a live-stream on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” YouTube channel, took down the video and permanently banned the channel and another Bannon channel.  Two days after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol driven by false claims the presidential election was rigged, Google’s video-streaming platform YouTube hosted a video in which President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani alleged the election was… Source link

NOTE: Google, eight hours after Rudy Giuliani made false claims of election fraud in a live-stream on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” YouTube channel, took down the video and permanently banned the channel and another Bannon channel.  Two days after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol driven by false claims the presidential election was rigged, Google’s video-streaming platform YouTube hosted a video in which President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani alleged the election was… Source link

Nov. 3, Election Day, may seem like a long time ago, but on Jan. 6 — or in the early hours of Jan. 7 — the 2020 presidential election may actually end, as Congress meets in a joint session to count and certify the Electoral College vote. However, Republicans in both the House and the Senate plan to object to some states’ results in a last-ditch effort to hand President Trump another term. Yahoo News explains what to expect. Source link

NBC moderator Chuck Todd grilled Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on Sunday about the GOP lawmaker’s support for the latest far-fetched bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Johnson is one of 11 senators and senators-elect who have said they will challenge the results on Wednesday when Congress meets to certify Biden’s win. The states have already chosen electors representing a solid majority for the Democratic ticket; the process of counting the Electoral College votes in Congress is… Source link

The presidential election was on Nov. 3; most news organizations pronounced Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the winners a few days later; states certified their results by Dec. 8; and the Electoral College met on Dec. 14. But there’s still a bit of election business to wrap up between now and Inauguration Day. Yahoo News explains how the next Congress may ultimately decide the 2020 election — on Jan. 6, 2021. Source link

The coronavirus outbreak, elections and Zoom meetings were on the minds of U.S. consumers this year, according to Google’s list of the U.S. top trending searches in 2020, released this morning. These search trends don’t reflect the most-searched for words and phrases across Google, but rather those that saw high spikes in traffic over a sustained period of time during the year, as compared with 2019. This paints a more accurate picture of consumers’ changing interests during the… Source link

By Jan Wolfe and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump and 17 U.S. states on Wednesday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four states. Trump, defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election, filed a motion with the court asking the nine justices to let him intervene and become a plaintiff in the suit filed on Tuesday by… Source link

The Daily Beast Newborn Boys Were Dumped in Chicago Trash 17 Years Ago. Cops Just Cracked the Case. Seventeen years ago, a Waste Management employee was emptying trash bins in Cook County’s Stickney Township when she found a pair of newborn twins. The infants were dead, and their umbilical cords were still attached, according to Chicago Tribune reporting at the time. During the course of their investigation back then, police spoke with neighbors and pregnant women in the area, but never… Source link

The Week Pelosi says she supports a smaller coronavirus stimulus now because Biden won the election After six months spent pushing for a more-than $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fine with something smaller.Earlier this week, a team of bipartisan lawmakers unveiled a $908 billion coronavirus relief. It’s smaller than the $1.5 trillion deal the House’s bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus drew up in September, and yet this time around,… Source link