Democrats are hopeful about possibly picking up total control of Washington after the Associated Press projected that the party had picked up one of two Georgia Senate seats early Wednesday morning.
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Local Alachua County immigration activists said the victory of President-elect Joe Biden provided a sigh of relief.
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As the year comes to a close, here's a look back at the stories that stayed in the headlines.
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An onslaught of psychologist Krista Schwenk Garner’s coworkers and parents of Marion County students replied with comments critical of her post, on Oct. 16, not long after she attended President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Ocala.
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After years of campaigning internationally for greater access to education for girls, Malala Yousafzai took her final classes at Oxford University like other students everywhere – on Zoom. A Pakistani who in 2014 became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, at age 17, Yousafzai these days has moved from fighting with …
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Florida became the eighth state and the first in the South to adopt a $15 minimum wage. Replicating this in other states and on the federal level remains a challenge.
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The political novice and no-party affiliate candidate earned 7,143 votes (53.65%) to deny a second four-year term for Superintendent Stacey Creighton, 49, a Republican who got 6,171 votes (46.35%).
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"I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect [Kamala] Harris," Joe Biden said in a statement.
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Trump was at his golf course in Virginia when a slew of networks announced Joe Biden had won the race for the presidency. Trump vowed he would go to court, but presented no evidence of fraud.
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With Pennsylvania in Joe Biden's column, the former vice president gains the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected.
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