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Arizona audit of 2020 election has become a mecca for GOP candidates

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are fenced in a secure area as a box is delivered to be examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, Thursday, May 6, 2021, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool) ** FILE **

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Kristina Karamo wants voters to know she made the 2,000-mile trek from Michigan to Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix to get a firsthand glimpse of the Maricopa County election audit that has become a cause celeb for supporters of former President Donald Trump.

In this photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to NBC News journalist Keir Simmons, back to a camera, in an interview aired on Monday, June 14, 2021, two days before the Russian leader is to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva. (Maxim Blinov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Fabian Arias, a Lutheran pastor with St. Peter's Church in Manhattan, center right, coordinates with volunteers as they prepare food delivery donations at a produce wholesaler, Friday, May 8, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

U.S. charitable giving hit record $471 billion in 2020 amid pandemic, economic turmoil

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a media conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Monday, June 14, 2021. U.S. President Joe Biden is taking part in his first NATO summit, where the 30-nation alliance hopes to reaffirm its unity and discuss increasingly tense relations with China and Russia, as the organization pulls its troops out after 18 years in Afghanistan. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)

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In this photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to NBC News journalist Keir Simmons, back to a camera, in an interview aired on Monday, June 14, 2021, two days before the Russian leader is to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva. (Maxim Blinov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Tucson Samaritans check the border wall, including a small gap in the new construction, near Sasabe, Ariz., on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Opponents that seek to control immigration, such as the Washington-based think tank Center for Immigration Studies, contend the border wall and other barriers are a better way to keep deaths down by keeping migrants out. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

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In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. Central and Eastern European nations are anxious about the Wednesday, June 16, 2021, summit meeting between now-U.S. President Biden and Putin, wary of what they see as hostile intentions from the Kremlin. (RIA Novostia/Alexei Druzhinin/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

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