WASHINGTON – The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.It was unclear when or how quickly a winner could be determined.

A late burst of votes in Wisconsin gave Biden a small lead in the state, but it was still too early to call the race. Hundreds of thousands of votes were also outstanding in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The high stakes election was held against the backdrop of a historic pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans and wiped away millions of jobs.

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America Votes 2020: President Trump claims election was ‘stolen’

Despite officially losing the U.S. election, President Donald Trump still won’t concede, continuing baseless claims that the election was illegally “stolen”. Jennifer Johnson reports on Trump’s latest legal attacks to overturn the results.

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Fresh off election victory, Biden turns to virus response

BOSTON – As he begins his transition to the presidency, Joe Biden is pivoting from a bitter campaign battle to another, more pressing fight: reining in the pandemic that has hit the world’s most powerful nation harder than any other.The U.S. is now averaging more than 100,000 new infections a day, frequently breaking records for daily cases.

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Trump faces calls to work with Biden team on transition

WILMINGTON, Del. – President Donald Trump is facing pressure to cooperate with President-elect Joe Biden's team to ensure a smooth transfer of power when the new administration takes office in January.The General Services Administration is tasked with formally recognizing Biden as president-elect, which begins the transition. But the agency's Trump-appointed administrator, Emily Murphy, has not started the process and has given no guidance on when she will do so.That lack of clarity is fueling questions about whether Trump, who has not publicly recognized Biden's victory and has falsely claimed the election was stolen, will impede Democrats as they try to establish a government.

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For Biden, how to help mangled economy is next obstacle

BALTIMORE – Joe Biden will inherit a mangled U.S. economy — one that never fully healed from the coronavirus and could suffer again as new infections are climbing.The once robust recovery has shown signs of gasping after federal aid lapsed.

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Chatham County judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A Georgia judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the state Republican Party and President Donald Trump's campaign that asked him to ensure a coastal county was following state laws on processing absentee ballots.Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass did not provide an explanation for his decision Thursday at the close of a roughly one-hour hearing. Chatham County includes the heavily Democratic city of Savannah.The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots.

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Sensex, Nifty50 at record highs, investor optimism sets aside pandemic fears

₹2,056. Only two stocks in the Nifty50-- Tata Consultancy Services and ITC -- were in the red.

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Asian shares, US futures surge after Joe Biden declared president-elect

FILE - Pedestrians walk past in front of an electronic board displaying the price of the Nikkei stock average outside of a securities firm on November 05, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images)Asian shares and U.S.

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Asian shares, US futures surge on relief US election decided

TOKYO – Asian shares and U.S. futures rose Monday on relief the U.S. presidential election results were finally decided, with Joe Biden the president-elect.

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Mexico, Brazil leaders silent as world congratulates president-elect Joe Biden

FILE - Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro arrives to attend the National Flag Raising ceremony in front of Alvorada Palace amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. (Andre Borges/NurPhoto via Getty Images)MEXICO CITY - There were two notable holdouts among the world leaders who rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S.

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America Votes 2020: U.S. President-Elect Biden aims to end era of divisive rhetoric

U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden vowed to take swift action to slow the surge of COVID-19 during his victory speech, but also called to end four years of division fuelled by Donald Trump.

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Trump's election night party adds to virus scrutiny

WASHINGTON – It was supposed to be a scene of celebration. Instead, the Trump campaign's election night watch party in the White House East Room has become another symbol of President Donald Trump's cavalier attitude toward a virus that is ripping across the nation and infecting more than 100,000 people a day.Polls suggest that attitude was a serious drag on the president's reelection bid as voters chose to deny Trump a second term in favor of his Democratic rival, now President-Elect Joe Biden.

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Nats make their pitch to Biden, invite him to throw 1st ball

WASHINGTON – The Washington Nationals are making their pitch to President-elect Joe Biden.The Nats have invited Biden to toss out the ceremonial first ball next season on opening day. Washington is scheduled to host the New York Mets at Nationals Park on April 1.“We’re excited to continue the long-standing tradition of sitting Presidents throwing out the first pitch at the home of the national pastime in our nation’s capital,” the team posted on Twitter this weekend.Biden last threw out a first ball as vice president, in 2009 when the Baltimore Orioles hosted the New York Yankees on opening day at Camden Yards.

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Trump campaign to give remarks in Las Vegas Sunday

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks on election night in the East Room of the White House in the early morning hours of November 04, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)President Donald Trump’s campaign is holding a press conference in Las Vegas Sunday afternoon, according to FOX News.In an emailed correspondence, Nevada’s former attorney general, Adam Laxalt and American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp are expected to host the event scheduled for 5 p.m.

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Leicester ends on top after weekend of changing EPL leaders

MANCHESTER – With a trio of unfamiliar leaders, what lightheartedly became “Stop The Count” weekend in the Premier League ended with Leicester on top.Teams and disbelieving fans were riffing off President Donald Trump's post-election demand — starting Friday when Southampton climbed to the summit of English football for the first time in 32 years. The club tweeted “STOP THE COUNT” above a snapshot of the league table.

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Christian churches mirror country's political division

NEW YORK – The messages in Christian houses of worship on the first weekend since the election were as divided as the country's electorate, with religious leaders mostly calling for peace and unification even as some bemoaned the result and others celebrated. Hours after the news broke Saturday of Democrat Joe Biden's victory, St.

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Mexico, Brazil leaders silent as world congratulates Biden

MEXICO CITY – There were two notable holdouts among the world leaders who rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. elections: the leaders of Latin America’s two largest countries, both of whom have been seen as friendly to President Donald Trump.

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2020 election: Transition challenges await Biden

Wilmington, Del. - Joe Biden just won the presidency. That may turn out to be the easy part.Now, he has to build a government while contending with a Senate that could stay in GOP hands, a House sure to feature fewer Democratic allies and a public that includes more than 70 million people who would prefer that President Donald Trump keep the job.There also is the looming question of whether Trump, who has claimed the election was being stolen from him, will cooperate.

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President-elect Biden to unveil COVID-19 task force on Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is planning to name former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and former FDA Commissioner Dr.

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Former President George W. Bush sends ‘warm congratulations’ to President-elect Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden presents George W. Bush and Laura Bush the 2018 Liberty Medal at The National Constitution Center on November 11, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pent-up global wish list of hopes, demands awaits Biden

LONDON – Spare a thought for the people who'll be managing Joe Biden's presidential appointment diary. Four years of inward-looking “America First” leadership by outgoing President Donald Trump have generated pent-up global demand for a more engaged and amenable America.The leaders of governments and global institutions will likely be hammering on White House doors and email inboxes with a long wish-list of priorities they want American help with — which, on issues big and small, from climate change to taxing Internet companies, Trump's administration often refused to provide.

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Stacey Abrams credited for boosting Democrats in Georgia

ATLANTA – Stacey Abrams spent years working to convince political power players that Georgia is a genuine two-party battleground, a Deep South state where the left could compete if it organized Black voters, other sporadic voters and stopped apologizing for being Democrats.She was right.President-elect Joe Biden is on track to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state in nearly three decades. The state's two U.S.

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SNL cold open skit plays up Biden’s presidential victory, Trump’s loss

After Joe Biden’s U.S. presidential victory on Saturday, the Nov.

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From Scranton, Pennsylvania to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Biden’s road to president-elect

FILE - Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at the Water's Edge Nature Center on December 2, 2019 in Algona, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)Former Vice President Joe Biden has had a prolific career in law and in federal office, which culminated in his projected election as the 46th president of the United States of America on Saturday.

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Fraud claims aimed in part at keeping Trump base loyal

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has promised legal action in the coming days as he refused to concede his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, making an aggressive pitch for donors to help finance any court fight.Trump and his campaign have leveled accusations of large-scale voter fraud in Pennsylvania and other states that broke for Biden, so far without proof.But senior officials, campaign aides and allies told The Associated Press that overwhelming evidence of fraud isn’t really the point. The strategy to wage a legal fight against the votes tallied for Biden in Pennsylvania and other places is more to provide Trump with an off-ramp for a loss he can’t quite grasp and less about changing the election’s outcome, the officials said.

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Washington Nationals plan to have Joe Biden throw out first pitch on Opening Day

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 31: Vice President of the United States Joe Biden waves to the crowd during a military salute in between innings of the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 31, 2012 in Wa WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden may already have one date on his calendar in the early months of his future administration:Opening Day at Nationals Park.The Washington Nationals announced Saturday night that the team is looking forward to having Biden throw out the first pitch on Opening Day next season:"We're excited to continue the long-standing tradition of sitting presidents throwing out the first pitch of the home of the national pastime in our nation's capital," The Nationals

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Iranian president wants Joe Biden to bring US back to nuclear deal

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president called on President-elect Joe Biden to “compensate for past mistakes” and return the U.S. to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a state-run news agency reported Sunday.Hassan Rouhani's comments mark the highest-level response from Iran to Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris clinching the Nov.

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2020 election: Clyburn says Trump, GOP should accept Biden win

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) speaks during a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other members of House Democratic Leadership on Capitol Hill on January 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON - The highest-ranking Black member of Congress says President Donald Trump should concede the presidency to President-elect Joe Biden, although he says it’s more crucial what the rest of the Republican Party does in the wake of the 2020 election.RELATED: After President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss, can he run again in 2024?U.S.

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Kamala Harris books surge in popularity after election

Harris made history as the first Black woman to become vice president. The California senator, who is also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency, will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government.

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Biden shores up fragile 'blue wall' in industrial north

Joe Biden shored up the Democrats' “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party's path back to the White House.And while The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for Biden, the Democrat's relatively narrow margins there reflect the nation’s continuing deep divisions more than a newly strengthened Democratic bulwark in the industrial north. Trump had stunned the country four years ago by winning the three states that had been carried for decades by Democrats by a total of 77,000 votes.

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Ballina, the Irish home of Biden's ancestors, celebrates his election win

BALLINA, Ireland (AP) - Joe Biden is somewhat removed from the Irish town his great-great-great-grandfather left almost 200 years ago, but that is not stopping Ballina from celebrating his presidential victory.The town in County Mayo, about 145 miles (235 kilometers) northwest of Dublin, has for days been draped in the Stars and Stripes and Biden/Harris banners in anticipation, even though many businesses have had to close due to lockdown restrictions.Joe Blewitt, a heating and plumbing engineer and a cousin of Biden’s, said the town of about 10,000 is ecstatic at the prospect of a President Joe Biden.“Now he’ll be the President of the United States, they’re delighted, they’re absolutely delighted,” Blewitt said.

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The Latest: Biden launching teams to review federal agencies

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):9 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden will launch an “agency review teams” this coming week. It's the group of transition staffers that have access to key agencies in the current administration to smooth the transfer of power.The teams will collect and review information such as budgetary and staffing decisions, pending regulations and other work in progress from current staff at the federal departments.

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Johnson denies his Trump ties weaken UK-US bond under Biden

LONDON – Britain and the United States will work together to support democracy and combat climate change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday, while denying that his close ties to President Donald Trump would hurt U.K.-U.S relations once President-elect Joe Biden takes office.Johnson congratulated Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory and said the two countries’ “common global perspective” would be vital to shore up a rules-based global order that is under threat.“The United States is our closest and most important ally,” said Johnson, who has yet to speak to Biden. “And that’s been the case under president after president, prime minister after prime minister.

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Chanting 'Stop the steal,' Trump supporters hold rallies claiming voter fraud

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - NOVEMBER 07: Supporters of President Donald Trump listen to the national anthem at a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in front of the State Capitol on November 7, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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As Biden wins, Business groups turn focus to coronavirus relief

Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden makes a zero with his hand as he delivers remarks at an aluminum manufacturing facility in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on September 21, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Business groups on Saturday pledged to work with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to help lift the U.S.

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America Votes 2020: Joe Biden wins U.S. presidency, prompting jubilant celebrations

Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, after beating Donald Trump in an historic race to the White House. Jubilant celebrations have erupted in right across America.

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Election 2020: Lawsuits filed, recount requested by Trump campaign — here’s where they stand

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign has filed lawsuits in a number of states where the result could mean his defeat in the race against Democratic challenger Joe Biden — though three of them were quickly dismissed by judges.On Friday afternoon, GOP lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order election boards in Pennsylvania to set aside ballots that arrived after Election Day but before Nov.

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U.S. election: Biden pledges to be a president who ‘seeks not to divide, but unify’

During his victory speech on Saturday evening, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden told supporters he pledges to be a president who “seeks not to divide, but unify.”

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America Votes 2020: Trump refuses to accept Biden victory, doubles down on legal challenges

President Donald Trump has refused to accept the results of the U.S. presidential election, after Joe Biden was declared the winner. As Mike Armstrong reports, once Trump concedes, Biden will inherit America’s COVID-19 crisis.

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Biden promotes unity, turns to business of transition

WILMINGTON, Del. – Joe Biden used his first national address as president-elect to vow to heal a deeply divided nation, declaring it was time to “let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end” and reaching out to the millions of people who voted against him to say, “Let's give each other a chance.”His calls for reconciliation at a Saturday evening victory celebration came even as President Donald Trump continued to argue that the election had been stolen from him, an indication that the divisive politics that have gripped the U.S. over the past four years are far from over.

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Trump considers how to keep up fight, find a graceful exit

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don’t — and get evicted anyway.After nearly four tortured days of counting yielded a victory for Biden on Saturday, Trump was still insisting the race was not over.

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Americans pivot from red-hot Trump to Biden's seasoned cool

WASHINGTON – In a crystallizing moment at the last presidential debate, Donald Trump and Joe Biden fielded a question about people of color who live alongside chemical plants and oil refineries that seem to be making them sick.As is his way, Biden responded with I've-been-there empathy. He recalled growing up so close to Delaware refineries that when his mom drove him to school in a morning frost, the wipers spread an oil slick on the windshield.Trump responded in his own way, too.

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Message of Election 2020: Trump lost, but Trumpism did not

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump lost. But Trumpism did not.It won in the parts of the country and with the voters whom Trump catered to over four years, constantly jabbing the hard edges of almost every contentious cultural issue into Red America, on the bet that fear and anger were a winning hand.

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Indian-American Vivek Murthy expected to co-chair President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force

President-elect Joe Biden is going to announce on Monday.Murthy, 43, who originally hails from Karnataka, was appointed America’s 19th Surgeon General by then president Barack Obama in 2014.Born in the UK, he was the youngest ever to hold the office at the age of 37.

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Supporters rally downtown after projections declare Joe Biden president-elect

ORLANDO, Fla. – Dozens of supporters filled Lake Eola on Saturday afternoon in support of President-elect Joe Biden, after projections from Nevada and Pennsylvania put the former vice president’s ticket over the top.Congresswoman Val Demings spoke to News 6 after the projections. She campaigned for Biden and was vetted for vice president on his ticket.“We need to get our economy back on track and we know how important tourism is to central Florida,” she said.

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President-elect Joe Biden to unveil COVID-19 task force

During President-elect Joe Biden's address to the nation Saturday evening, he announced that his administration's work will begin with addressing the coronavirus pandemic. "We cannot repair the economy, restore vitality or relish life's most precious moments - our grandchildren, our children, our birthdays, weddings, graduation, all the moments that matter most to us - until we get it under control," Biden said.

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Indians in Harris' ancestral home wake up to her victory

THULASENDRAPURAM – After rooting for Kamala Harris as President-elect Joe Biden's running mate, people in her small ancestral Indian village woke up Sunday morning to the news of her making history.Most of them had gone to sleep by the time Biden clinched the winning threshold of 270 Electoral College votes. "Congratulations Kamala Harris.

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In their own words: Joe Biden, Donald Trump issue statements after race is called

projected to win the presidency, defeating President Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, according to projections by the Associated Press and FOX News. Biden won the battleground state of Pennsylvania by a thin margin after a protracted vote count, according to projections by the news outlets, flipping another key state that voted for Trump in the 2016 election. President Trump's legal team promises to challenge the results, claiming voter fraud and inconsistencies have corrupted the ballot-counting process in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, though experts say there is no evidence to support those assertions.Biden is expected to speak about the results tonight at 8 p.m.

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‘This is the time to heal’: President-elect Joe Biden, VP-elect Kamala Harris address nation

WILMINGTON, Del. - Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered remarks ahead of President-elect Joe Biden Saturday night during a prime-time address to the nation.Biden and his wife, Jill, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, appeared at a drive-in rally outside the convention center in Wilmington, Delaware.RELATED: Who won the election? Joe Biden projected as winner of 2020 presidential race after claiming PennsylvaniaHarris was first on stage, opening her remarks by remembering the late Congressman John Lewis, and she thanked voters.“So, Congressman John Lewis, before his passing, wrote, ‘Democracy is not a state, it is an act.’ And what he meant was that America’s democracy is not guaranteed, it is only

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