CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 11/04
President Trump pre-maturely declares victory while Joe Biden is also confident as counting continues in key states. Control of the Senate still not decided. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Tally forth: America’s elections
The outcome remains unclear as vote-counting continues. We look at some of the surprise results, ask what happens next and examine how The Economist’s election forecast has held up. And we tag along with our American correspondents for the thrill of election-night reporting.The latest results are here www.economist.com/us2020results; for full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
What A Day - No Winner, No Cry
Yesterday was Election Day, and it ended as we expected it to: without an official call on the presidential race. There wasn’t a Biden landslide like we hoped, but as we went to record last night, he still had a path to victory. We discuss that path, some surprising and less surprising calls, and how the two presidential candidates treated the results.
Looking at Congress, Democrats retained control of the House, adding some cool new progressives including Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and Marie Newman. The jury’s still out on who will control the Senate.
And in headlines: the US is no longer part of the Paris Climate Agreement, record-setting COVID numbers in the US, and Trump destroys Lil Wayne’s relationship.
What Next | Daily News and Analysis - And Now We Wait
We still don’t have a winner for the 2020 presidential election. It’s all coming down to states where vote-counting is happening slowly, amid a flurry of lawsuits.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.
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The Best One Yet - “Earth’s biggest IPO is MIA” — Ant’s $310B ghosting. Reef’s $700M parking lot. The Right to Repair in Massachusetts.
Ant Financial is the biggest finance company on the planet that was ready for the biggest IPO on earth… until the Chinese Government got involved. Reef Technologies is trying to do something kind of WeWork-y, but with parking lots instead of glamorous offices. And The Right to Repair would hurt corporate profits, but help just about everyone else.
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NBN Book of the Day - John Garrison Marks, “Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas” (U of South Carolina Press, 2020)
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority—and linked the Americas together.
In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas (U of South Carolina Press, 2020), John Garrison Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centers: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the low country of North America's Atlantic coast. Marks reveals how skills, knowledge, reputation, and personal relationships helped free people of color improve their fortunes and achieve social distinction in ways that undermined whites' claims to racial superiority.
Built upon research conducted on three continents, this book takes a comparative approach to understanding the contours of black freedom in the Americas. It reveals in new detail the creative and persistent attempts of free black people to improve their lives and that of their families. It examines how various paths to freedom, responses to the Haitian Revolution, opportunities to engage in skilled labor, involvement with social institutions, and the role of the church all helped shape the lived experience of free people of color in the Atlantic World.
As free people of color worked to improve their individual circumstances, staking claims to rights, privileges, and distinctions not typically afforded to those of African descent, they engaged with white elites and state authorities in ways that challenged prevailing racial attitudes. While whites across the Americas shared common doubts about the ability of African-descended people to survive in freedom or contribute meaningfully to society, free black people in Cartagena, Charleston, and beyond conducted themselves in ways that exposed cracks in the foundations of American racial hierarchies. Their actions represented early contributions to the long fight for recognition, civil rights, and racial justice that continues today.
Adam McNeil is a third year Ph.D. in History student at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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New Books in Native American Studies - Agnès Delahaye, “Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England” (Brill, 2020)
Agnès Delahaye’s new book, Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England (Brill, 2020), is the story of John Winthrop’s tenure as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630’s. In a correction to the prevailing narrative of Puritans alone in the New England wilderness, Professor Delahaye shows the colonists’ commercial connections to the Old England and the Atlantic World and how earnestly the magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay Company maintained these through promotional writing, where their particular, innovative project of permanent settlement can be traced and contextualized.
John Winthrop’s Journal reveals a deep desire for economic independence, or “competency,” born of his frustrations with his limited options in a cramped England, which he played out in a New World—a Promised Land—that he considered to be boundlessly fertile with possibility. Always expanding, Winthrop competed ruthlessly with the indigenous Americans in a “continuous process of rumors, intimidation, conflicts and negotiations, which Winthrop navigated with unwavering confidence in his own racial superiority” (p. 261). Settling the Good Land is a remarkable and magisterial study of a man who simultaneously held (and realized) these ambitions with one hand and to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the other. Yet, he saw no conflict in them but rather the “fulfillment of his religious and personal calling” (p. 121).
Professor Delahaye teaches in Lyon at Université Lumière Lyon II and is a member of the interdisciplinary Triangle Research Group which combines “action, discourses, economic and political thought” to better understand the meeting of political ideas and consequences. Last year she received the rank of habilitation to direct doctoral theses, the highest rank in the French academic system.
Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World, specializing in sixteenth-century diplomacy and travel.
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The NewsWorthy - Election Results Roundup, Record Gun Sales & Baby Shark Milestone- Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
The news to know for Wednesday, November 4th, 2020!
We'll tell you about:
- where things stand the morning after Election Day
- which key swing states both Trump and Biden have won so far & what to watch for next
- the one thing both parties can celebrate
- how the U.S. left a major international agreement at midnight
- gun sales soaring
- why robots disappeared from some retail stores
- LinkedIn's newest tool to help you change careers
Those stories and more in about 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...
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Sources:
Election Results So Far: Politico, AP, Reuters, WSJ, Trump Tweet
McConnell Wins Re-election: NBC News, AP
Graham Wins Re-election: Politico, NY Times
Hickenlooper Wins in South Carolina: The Hill, Bloomberg
Jones Loses Re-Election: Axios, CNN
House & Senate Majorities: FOX News, NY Times, NBC News
3 States Legalize Recreational Marijuana: ABC News, AP
FL Raises Minimum Wage: The Hill, FOX Business
CO Abortion Ban Fails: Denver Post, Vox
CA Gig Workers: LA Times, Axios
Voter Turnout Latest: WaPo, Elect Project
Few Voting Issues Reported: CNN, AP, Roll Call Tweets
“Stay Safe and Stay Home” Robocalls: USA Today, Reuters, Axios, The Hill
SCOTUS to Hear Catholic Adoptions Case: NBC News, WSJ, WaPo
U.S. Leaves Paris Climate Accord: Politico, ABC News, AP, NPR
Gun Sales Soar to Record Highs: CBS News, The Hill, Fox News
Walmart Abandons Shelf-Stocking Robots: AP, CNBC, WSJ
YouTube’s Most-Viewed Video: CNN, The Verge, YouTube
Work Wednesday: LinkedIn’s Career Explorer: USA Today, TechCrunch, LinkedIn, Career Explorer
The Daily Signal - Election Night in Review: A Legal Expert Explains What We Know
Results are still rolling in amid what many anticipate to be a contested presidential election.
Hans von Spakovsky, manager of The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in Heritage's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to break down what we know about Tuesday's election and the likelihood of results being contested in court.
Von Spakovsky also shares his concerns over nefarious activity at polling sites in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, and what Americans can learn from contested elections throughout history.
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