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Joe Biden received one of the highest margins in the nation in California, but a look at how the state’s ballot measures were decided shows a more complex picture of the electorate.
Thursday brought more coronavirus infections than in any other day of the pandemic. Around the country, the virus left its mark.
The president and his allies have united right-wing media and internet trolls with false messaging that legitimate vote counting should stop.
Joe Biden picked up votes in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia and urged patience with the slow-moving vote count. President Trump appeared in the evening to break his silence, lying about “illegal” votes.
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Robert Gottlieb considers a new book, “The Mystery of Charles Dickens,” by A.N. Wilson, and delivers his own assessment of the author’s legacy.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 4, 2020, covering November 6, 2020.
Luke Combs
Bruce Springsteen
Pop Smoke
Ty Dolla $ign
Juice WRLD
2020Ken Spears, American writer (born 1938)[†]
Charles Kenneth Spears was an American animator, writer, television producer and sound editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the Scooby-Doo franchise, together with Joe Ruby. In 1977, they co-founded the television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Spears and Ruby created many other shows such as Jabberjaw, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Fangface. Spears also worked on the shows Sectaurs, Mister T and Alvin and the Chipmunks.
2020King Von, American rapper (born 1994)[†]
Dayvon Daquan Bennett, known professionally as King Von, was an American rapper and gangster from Chicago, Illinois, who was affiliated with the Black Disciples gang. He was considered a preeminent figure in the drill genre.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]