Up in 4 key states, Biden prepares for win * Trump backers, some armed, outside count centers * UAE overhauls Islamic laws * They called him ’ki ke’: Filming the alt-right

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, November 7, 2020 Presented by IDC Herzliya [‘We’re going to win this race,’ Biden promises, as his leads in PA, Nevada grow]( By [Agencies]( [Democratic nominee refrains from declaring victory as counting continues in critical battleground states, but says he’s already preparing for the White House]( [Biden’s team steps up transition plans amid vote-count limbo]( By [Will Weissert]( [Twitter flags ‘president-elect Biden’ posts as premature]( By [AFP]( [Pelosi calls Biden ‘president-elect’ as Democrat closes in on win]( By [AFP]( [Trump supporters, some armed, protest outside vote counting centers]( By [ADAM GELLER]( [Elections officials in several states say they fear for their workers’ safety as backers of US president rally over unfounded fraud claims]( [Incendiary texts urging vote-count protests traced to outfit run by Trump aide]( By [Frank Bajak and GARANCE BURKE]( [Twitter bans former Trump adviser Bannon for call to behead Fauci, FBI chief]( By [AFP]( [Murdoch’s Fox News, New York Post start to distance themselves from Trump]( By [Thomas URBAIN]( [The TV outlet in particular is credited with helping bring Trump to power in 2016, but now seems to be in the process of dumping him as Biden closes in on the White House]( [Evangelicals stick with Trump, see upside even if he loses]( By [ELANA SCHOR and David Crary]( [Gloved and masked: US vote counters stay focused on historic task]( By [Gianrigo Marletta and Sebastien Vuagnat]( [UAE criminalizes ‘honor’ killings and relaxes alcohol, cohabitation laws]( By [Isabel Debre]( [Overhaul to personal Islamic laws comes as nation tries to keep pace with changing society and ahead of expected influx of Israeli tourists, investment]( Live updates [LIVE: Biden urges patience, saying ‘democracy works,’ as his lead widens]( By [TOI staff and Jacob Magid]( [Democrat refrains from declaring victory as tallies continue in battleground states; Trump again claims illegality in vote counting]( [CRM]( [US Supreme Court denies immediate halt to counting of late Pennsylvania ballots]( By [AFP]( [Justice Alito orders state to separate votes that arrived after Election Day, refers matter to full court for further action]( [Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene]( By [Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko]( [Georgia likely to hold recount with Biden ahead by a few thousand votes]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Jon Ossoff’s Georgia Senate bid goes to a January runoff election]( By [Agencies]( [Jewish Democrat’s repeat race expected to draw massive interest and could hold key to party’s slim chances of taking control of the US Senate]( [Kansas student who admitted to harassing girls online wins state House election]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [‘We believe we will win,’ says Al Gross in Alaska, lagging in Senate bid]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( Interview [They called him ‘kike,’ and there were lots of Nazi salutes, other ‘gross stuff’]( By [Ben Sales]( [After attacks, French PM says radical Islamism is the ‘enemy’]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [At Nice memorial for killing victims, Jean Castex says the ideology ‘distorts the Muslim religion by twisting its scriptures’]( [3 teens charged in connection with French teacher’s beheading]( By [AFP]( [Vienna anti-terror chief suspended after failure to prevent Islamist shooting]( By [Jastinder KHERA]( [Austria shuts two mosques visited by Vienna terrorist]( By [AFP]( [Biden vows virus action on ‘day one’ as cases surge across US and Europe]( By [AFP]( [Former VP says if he wins presidency he’ll immediately put pandemic plan into action, as US sees its third straight day of record cases and other countries enact new restrictions]( [US daily COVID cases hit record for third day, topping 127,000]( By [AFP]( [Trump chief of staff Meadows diagnosed with COVID-19]( By [Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller]( [Europe imposes new lockdowns as virus deaths surge past 300,000]( By [AFP]( [Biden campaign says ‘no problem escorting trespassers out of the White House’]( By [AFP]( [Comments come as Trump makes it clear that he is not ready to concede, launching unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud]( [Romney slams Trump’s claim of election fraud as wrong, ‘reckless’]( By [Matthew Daly]( [Fact check: Trump falsely claims that election being stolen]( By [Arthur Macmillan and W.G. Dunlop]( [Republican Senator: No evidence to support Trump’s vote-fraud claims]( By [Matthew Daly]( Former Soviet Jews [Israel funds Jewish community-focused high-tech projects in former Soviet Union]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( More Headlines [After 103 days, Palestinian security prisoner Maher al-Akhras ends hunger strike]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Ads showing ‘Borat’ wearing ‘Allah’ ring (and little else) anger Paris Muslims]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Iran’s Rouhani urges next US administration to ‘learn’ that sanctions don’t work]( By [AFP]( [Poland scraps bill barring ritual slaughter, vows to introduce new one]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Portugal naturalizes 23,000 applicants under Jewish law of return]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [US expands Hezbollah sanctions, targeting allied Lebanese Christian leader]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [NYPD anti-discrimination chief alleged to have slurred Jews, Blacks]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Man killed after car crashes, bursts into flames during Haifa police chase]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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