The hand count is meant to ensure that the state’s new election machines accurately tabulated the votes and isn’t expected to change the overall outcome, state election officials have repeatedly said.
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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, 87, says he tested positive for coronavirus
Grassley announced earlier Tuesday that he was quarantining after being exposed to the virus, and his office said he was showing no symptoms.
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Iraqi military says rocket attack in Baghdad kills child
Frequent attacks targeting the U.S. Embassy and vehicles transporting equipment for U.S. troops have led Washington to threaten to close its Baghdad diplomatic mission and sparked a diplomatic crisis prior to the U.S. presidential election.
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Pentagon to cut troop levels to 2,500 each in Iraq, Afghanistan
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller says the withdrawals will be made 5 days before Joe Biden takes office as president, despite arguments from senior military officials in favor of a slower pullout.
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Theater at renowned Jacob’s Pillow dance center burns down
The Massachusetts theater dates to the early 1930s, and the Jacob’s Pillow property was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 2003.
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States plead for more federal help, but Congress can’t agree on the amount
States have generally not been allowed to use the infusion of coronavirus aid in the spring for one of their major needs: replacing declining tax revenue to keep regular government services running.
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Trump to order troops reduced, but not withdrawn, in Afghanistan, Iraq
The decisions come as no surprise, following Trump’s shakeup of the Pentagon leadership last week in which he installed loyalists who share his frustration with the continued troop presence in the war zones.
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Governors, mayors ratchet up restrictions heading into Thanksgiving
A record-breaking nearly 70,000 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus in the U.S. as of Sunday, 13,000 more than a week earlier, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
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Hate crimes in U.S. reach highest level in more than a decade
The FBI’s annual report defines hate crimes as those motivated by bias based on a person’s race, religion or sexual orientation, among other categories.
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Long-running study of tiny, yet vital, plankton to resume in Gulf of Maine
The study is described as critical to understanding how climate change is affecting marine ecosystems.