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In Pittsburgh, the local police department this year received 10 complaints of possible fraudulent voting in the November election. Eight of those cases have already been closed without charges or findings of wrongdoing.

WASHINGTON - Elena Parent, a Democratic state lawmaker from the Atlanta area, listened incredulously in a small hearing room in early December as a stream of witnesses spun fantastical tales of alleged election fraud before the Georgia Senate's Judiciary Committee.

MOSCOW - More than a month later than most world leaders, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on his victory, a delayed recognition that could affect future relations.

WASHINGTON - The fight to reform or abolish the electoral college began almost as soon as it was created, by those who created it. In 1802, Alexander Hamilton, one of the original architects of the electoral college, was so displeased with how it was being executed that he helped draft a constitutional amendment to fix it.

WASHINGTON - The daily drumbeat of legal losses for President Donald Trump continued Thursday as he and his allies once again hit roadblocks in court on cases seeking to have the election overturned.

WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that he has "not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election," undercutting claims that President Donald Trump and his allies have made - without evidence - of widespread and significant voting irregularities.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign on Tuesday asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to intervene in the state's presidential election by throwing out hundreds of thousands of ballots in the state's two most Democratic-leaning counties, a last-ditch bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state.

In his first interview after President Donald Trump fired him from his post leading the Department of Homeland Security's effort to help to secure the election, Christopher Krebs reaffirmed on Sunday that there was no evidence of voter fraud and the integrity of the election had not been compromised.

WASHINGTON - The recount of presidential ballots in Wisconsin's two largest counties reconfirmed Sunday that Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the key swing state by more than 20,000 votes, the latest example of the president's flailing efforts to undo the election results.