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In Florida, tens of thousands of newly eligible voters who were previously disenfranchised due to their criminal records turned out to the polls for the 2020 election. Amendment 4, a measure that in 2018 overturned a Jim Crow-era law aimed at keeping African Americans from voting, restored voting rights to people with nonviolent felonies who have completed their sentences and was hailed as the biggest win for voting rights in decades. However, hundreds of thousands of people in Florida remain disenfranchised due to a modern-day poll tax that requires formerly incarcerated voters to pay all fees and fines to courts before they can cast a ballot. We speak with Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, about the ongoing fight to re-enfranchise people. He voted for the first time ever this year. “That act of voting gave me a deeper appreciation for what I was engaged in,” Meade says. “The right to vote is sacred.”

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President Trump has only made one brief public appearance since the election was called for Joe Biden, and his Twitter feed is filled with conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud, which state elections officials have repeatedly rejected. His refusal to concede has complicated President-elect Biden’s transition, and senior Republicans have mostly aligned behind Trump or stayed silent as he continues his desperate legal campaign to overturn the election results in several key states that won Biden the presidency. New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says Trump has a lot at stake due to the litany of lawsuits and criminal investigations he faces. “He has many reasons to be concerned,” she says. “If he leaves the White House, he’s going to lose the immunity that goes along with being president.”

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U.S. Shatters World Record, Again, Reporting Over 163,000 Daily Coronavirus Infections

Biden Coronavirus Adviser Says 4-to-6-Week Lockdown Could Bring Pandemic Under Control

Trump Campaign Adviser Corey Lewandowski Gets COVID-19 After White House Superspreader Event

Election Officials Across U.S. Refute Trump's Claims of Conspiracy to Steal Millions of Votes

Georgia Secretary of State Orders Hand Recount of 5 Million Ballots

Trump Blasts Fox News over Election Coverage & Plans Launch of Far-Right News Company

National Security Officials Push for Biden to Receive Presidential Intelligence Briefings

Three MSNBC Contributors Join Biden Transition Team

Cecilia Muñoz, Who Defended Family Separations Under Obama, Joins Biden Transition Team

74 Refugees Attempting Passage to Europe Drown Off Libyan Coast

Amnesty International: Hundreds of Civilians Slaughtered in Ethiopia's Tigray Region

Moroccan Forces Trade Fire with Western Sahara's Polisario, Ending Ceasefire in Place Since 1991

Armenians Protest as Prime Minister Signs Peace Deal to End Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Peruvians Protest "Legislative Coup" That Removed President Martín Vizcarra

Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Ill with COVID-19, Wins Temporary Prison Release

Activists Who Held Peaceful Anti-Nuclear Protest in Georgia Sentenced to Over One Year in Prison

Lucille Bridges, Whose Daughter Was First to Integrate New Orleans Schools, Dies at 86

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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been one of President Trump’s closest international allies. How will he adapt to working with a Biden administration? Cambridge professor Priya Gopal says Johnson was clearly betting on a Trump reelection, especially amid Britain’s exit from the European Union. “I think they were certainly hoping that there would be a Trump victory,” says Gopal. “Brexit and Trump, as Trump quite correctly recognized, are very deeply in sync.”

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We look at how Joe Biden’s presidency will affect the U.S. footprint in the Middle East with Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who says Biden’s win is being viewed with “anxiety” by many Iraqis who are eager to avoid war between the U.S. and Iran. “Any conflict will take place on Iraqi soil,” says Abdul-Ahad. “There is not much optimism. There is anxiety towards Biden and his team in the way they deal with Iraq.”

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We continue to look at the world’s response to the U.S. election with South African activist Kumi Naidoo, a global ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity, former secretary general of Amnesty International and former head of Greenpeace. Naidoo says President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden is good news, but notes that the world lost four crucial years to tackle the climate crisis and other issues because of the Trump administration. “This is a relief, but it is not something for us to — at this stage, anyway — celebrate with any great enthusiasm,” he says.

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The White House has ordered agencies not to cooperate with Biden’s presidential transition team, and President Donald Trump continues to refuse to accept defeat in the 2020 election, which means Biden cannot receive security briefings or access government funds for the transition. But while the standoff continues in the U.S., other countries are already preparing for a new administration. For more on how the historic U.S. election is playing out internationally, we speak with analysts from around the world, including Maria Luísa Mendonça, director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil, where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has not acknowledged Biden’s victory. “The progressive movements in Brazil can also be inspired by that election here,” says Mendonça. “I think that the U.S. can play a much more positive role in Latin America.”

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U.S. Records Over 140,000 Coronavirus Cases on Wednesday, Another World Record

White House Political Director Is Latest with COVID-19 After Election Night Superspreader Event

Ukrainian President Hospitalized with COVID-19 as Global Cases Top 52 Million

President-elect Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff

Trump Continues Campaign to Overturn Election Results

Pentagon Leadership Reshuffle Prompts Fears of "Slow Moving Trump Coup"

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan Reelected; Georgia Runoffs to Determine Senate Balance of Power

Hong Kong Lawmakers Quit as China Tightens Grip on Semi-Autonomous Territory

ICE Plans to Deport Another Woman Alleging Nonconsensual Gynecological Procedure

Louisville Police Concealed 738,000 Records of Sexual Abuse by Officers

L.A. County Coroner Opens Inquest into Police Killing of Andrés Guardado

Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI Ignored Sex Abuse Allegations Against Theodore McCarrick

L.A. Times and Tribune to Pay $3 Million to Black and Latinx Journalists Denied Equal Pay

Typhoon Vamco Becomes Fifth Tropical Cyclone to Strike Philippines in Just Three Weeks 

Lakota Activist Debra White Plume, Who Fought Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, Dies