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Father And Son Charged With Murder In Ahmaud Arbery Killing Are Denied Bond "I'm relieved they'll stay behind bars," Arbery's mother said. She had asked a judge to keep the pair in jail, saying "Ahmaud wasn't allowed to go home. Ahmaud wasn't even allowed the chance to live." Read more on NPR

Legal Avenues Closing As Trump Lawsuits Meet With Defeat Or Dead Ends President Trump's campaign attempted a number of court challenges in states key to the result in the presidential race. Those efforts mostly have not gone well for the plaintiffs. Read more on NPR

Justice Alito: Pandemic Has Brought 'Unimaginable Restrictions' On Freedoms "It pains me to say this, but in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right," the Supreme Court justice told the Federalist Society's annual National Lawyers Convention. Read more on NPR

Cities And States Are Imposing New COVID-19 Restrictions. Experts Say It's Not Enough Areas across the country are implementing preventative measures such as curfews. Some experts are questioning whether these minor changes will be enough to control the virus. Read more on NPR

With Biden Ahead, Georgia Begins Hand Recount Of Nearly 5 Million Ballots "We don't want to be in a hurry and a rush because we want a very methodical process," said one election official as some Republicans continue leveling unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the election. Read more on NPR

A Look At Attorney General William Barr's Time In Office NPR discusses Attorney General William Barr's tenure and his actions as President Trump refuses to concede the election. Read more on NPR

Why Election Lawsuits By The Trump Campaign Have Failed President Trump's lawsuits seeking to challenge the election results in key states haven't gained much traction. We'll explain why. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Transition Progresses, ACA Challenge, Biden's Education Plan Biden team presses on with transition despite Trump's roadblocks. Obamacare likely to survive another challenge in the Supreme Court. And, Biden's education agenda must start by confronting COVID-19. Read more on NPR

Meat Manufacturer Sues New Mexico After Plant Ordered To Close Due To COVID-19 Cases Stampede Meat argues the closure violates President Trump's April 28 executive order, which aims to keep meat packing plants open during the pandemic. Read more on NPR

Indianapolis Grand Jury Declines To Indict Officer Who Killed Dreasjon Reed Much of the incident that ended in the shooting was captured on Facebook Live by Reed. On Tuesday, a grand jury said there was not enough evidence to charge Officer Dejoure Mercer for the killing. Read more on NPR

Wisconsin Man Charged With Providing Rifle Used In Kenosha Protest Shootings Dominick David Black was charged with illegally providing the gun used by Kyle Rittenhouse to shoot three men, killing two, during a protest this summer in Kenosha, Wisc. Read more on NPR

DOJ Allows Prosecutors To Investigate Trump's False Voting Claims Joe Biden and his team are moving ahead on plans for their transition to the White House, even as President Trump refuses to concede and continues to make baseless claims of voter fraud. Read more on NPR

Will Supreme Court Invalidate Obamacare A Decade After It Was Enacted? There would be enormous consequences were the court to throw out the ACA, which has survived twice in the high court. But the court's makeup is very different now than on those past occasions. Read more on NPR

How Biden And McConnell Will Work Together Former Vice President Joe Biden has a long history with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. What will that mean for President-Elect Biden's time in the White House? Read more on NPR

Problem Solvers Caucus Members Discuss Compromise In The Legislative Process Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Mark Amodei (R-NV) and Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), both members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, about how to legislate with divided government. Read more on NPR

Former Attorney General Albert Gonzales On Trump's Election Legal Battle NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about Trump's legal battles over the election. Read more on NPR

Trump To Challenge Vote Counts In Key States President Trump's campaign plans to challenge vote counts in four battleground states that continued tallying ballots this week. The president wants the Supreme Court to intervene in the election. Read more on NPR

Will This Election Be A Replay Of Bush v. Gore At The Supreme Court? Not Likely President Trump has made unfounded allegations of "fraud" in the election and said the Supreme Court, with three of his appointees, will be the final arbiter. Legal experts aren't so sure. Read more on NPR

Judge In George Floyd Case Rejects Former Cops' Request To Move Trial A Minnesota Judge rejected the request to move the trial of the four police officers accused in the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Read more on NPR

Scrutiny Of The U.S. Postal Service Continues As States Report Missing Ballots A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to sweep its facilities for any ballots in North Carolina and Pennsylvania amid reports of ballots left behind or delivered late in some states. Read more on NPR