President Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement in 2017 and formally notified the United Nations last year. A mandatory yearlong waiting period ended on Wednesday. Of the nearly 200 nations that signed the agreement, the U.S. is the only one to walk away from its promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. NPR science reporter Rebecca Hersher shares fives things to know.
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The NewsWorthy - Waiting on a Winner, New Coronavirus Milestones & Pac-12 Returns- Friday, November 6th, 2020
The news to know for Friday, November 6th, 2020!
What to know about:
- each presidential candidate's possible path to victory as we wait to learn a winner
- the status of each race still counting ballots
- where President Trump's legal challenges stand
- updates on the pandemic and a vaccine
- more college football beginning
- a luxury car company going all-electric
- Apple's latest iPhone update
- new Rock and Roll Hall of Famers
Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.
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Sources:
Latest Election Results: Politico, WSJ, CNN, AJC
Georgia to Conduct Audit: NBC News, The Hill
Trump Attacking Election Integrity: AP, Politico, Reuters, Axios
Judges Reject 3 Trump Lawsuits: WaPo, FOX News, ABC News
New Trump Lawsuit in Nevada: FOX News, CNBC, Newsweek
Biden Urges Patience: Politico, CNN, WaPo, Axios
Election-Related Protests: USA Today, Reuters, NY Times, CBS News
More Coronavirus Records: WaPo, CNN, Johns Hopkins, COVID Tracking Project
Vaccine Could Arrive in January: AP, CBS News, WSJ
Pac-12 Football Opening Weekend: USA Today, CBS Sports, ESPN, WaPo
Bentley Transitioning to Only Electric Cars: TechCrunch, Fortune, CNBC
New Emoji Now Live: The Verge, Cnet
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction: Billboard, Variety, CNN, R&R Hall of Fame
Feel Good Friday- School Turned Solar Savings into Teacher Raises: Energy News, KAIT
What A Day - Biden Rising
A significant number of ballots were counted yesterday in states where races have been too close to call, leading to gains for Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia. At this point, Trump would need everything to break his way to win the election—and that doesn’t seem likely. Biden’s campaign continued to project confidence yesterday, while Trump did a press conference where he tried out every anti-Democratic lie he could think of.
Looking at the Senate races: the Ossoff/Perdue race in Georgia got even tighter yesterday, meaning there will be a runoff election in January. This will take place alongside the Warnock/Loeffler runoff, and could allow the Democrats to tie up the Senate.
And in headlines: rising tensions in Ethiopia lead to fears of civil war, Jared Kushner’s apartment company tries to evict hundreds during the pandemic, and another new lava planet we can move to.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - The pros and cons of the SPA
Pawel Skolski wrote this definition of the SPA in 2016. "A single-page application is an app that works inside a browser and does not require page reloading during use. You are using these type of applications every day. These are, for instance: Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook or GitHub.
SPAs are all about serving an outstanding UX by trying to imitate a “natural” environment in the browser — no page reloads, no extra wait time. It is just one web page that you visit which then loads all other content using JavaScript — which they heavily depend on."
Tom McWright recently sparked some good discussion in the developer world with his article, If Not SPAs, What? He had written before about his belief that SPAs had done little to reduce the complexity of web development, but hadn't really given readers other options. In his latest post, he tried to offer some possible alternatives.
Our lifeboat of the week of the week goes to Glortho for explaining how to add http:// to url if no protocol is defined in javascript?
Opening Arguments - OA436: It’s A Runoff!
Biden is all but assured victory, and despite the election not going nearly as well as we'd hoped, there's still a chance to take the Senate! However, Trump is throwing every terrible legal challenge he's got at the problem. Andrew breaks down why they're all incredibly stupid and doomed to fail.
Links: SIO263: Not the Worst Possible Outcome, But Close, Slate - A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath, Georgia Code § 21-2-501, Trump lawsuit Michigan, Trump's lawsuit Pennsylvania, Trump Lawsuit Georgia, OA25: Could Jill Stein Decide the Presidency? (No.), Wisconsin Statutes § 9.01 (2019) — Recount, Georgia Code § 21-2-495 (2019) - Procedure for recount or recanvass of votes, 2019 Georgia Code: Contested Elections and Primaries.
The Gist - That Election Feeling
On the Gist, election feelings.
In the interview, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes is here as we continue working through the results after election day. He and Mike discuss how the next few months could play out, what a transition might look like, and the ways Trump is considering fighting dirty. Wittes is the author of Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office.
In the spiel, the Trafalgar group got too much wrong.
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The Daily Signal - What You Need To Know About Arizona’s Election Day ‘SharpieGate’
Laurie Aguilera says her polling place gave her a Sharpie marker to fill out her ballot on Election Day in Maricopa County, Arizona, despite what her lawyers call state guidelines directing that "felt-tip writing utensils not be used."
Ink ended up bleeding through Aguilera's ballot, and election officials would not accept it. The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit on her behalf, “requesting restoration of ballots for voters who were told to fill out their ballots using Sharpie markers but subsequently had those ballots canceled.”
Many voters are concerned about election fraud and how ballots are being counted in the wake of the close presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Should voters be concerned about election results being illegitimate, or significant fraud occurring?
Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss.
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Consider This from NPR - What We’re Learning About The Electorate That Made 2020 So Close
Early on election night, when it seemed clear that Joe Biden was underperforming with a specific group of Latino voters in the Miami-Dade County, a narrative began to take hold: the Democratic Party had failed to energize the Latino vote.
But as more results came in from across Florida, they told a different story. Biden would have lost the state even if he had performed better in Miami-Dade, because of President Trump's popularity with white voters.
NPR's Leila Fadel reports on Democratic head-scratching about the Latino vote, and Gene Demby of NPR's Code Switch podcast talks about the enduring power of the white vote in the American electorate.
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But as more results came in from across Florida, they told a different story. Biden would have lost the state even if he had performed better in Miami-Dade, because of President Trump's popularity with white voters.
NPR's Leila Fadel reports on Democratic head-scratching about the Latino vote, and Gene Demby of NPR's Code Switch podcast talks about the enduring power of the white vote in the American electorate.
Listen to more election coverage from NPR:
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Even If Biden Wins, Many Americans Pained By Trump’s Continued Appeal
Many communities-particularly those of color-feel like they’ve been specifically targeted by this administration’s policies over the last four years. And they see this tight race as a slap in the face, regardless of who ultimately wins.
Reset hears from a professor, an activist, and listeners about how they feel about the results and where they think the country is headed.
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The Phil Ferguson Show - 361 Matt Dillahunty – The Hang Up
We discuss: Trump, Biden, Covid, Economics, Abortion, Flat Earth etc.....