NEW YORK - Stocks are still riding Wall Street’s post-election wave Thursday, as markets bet on the continuation of several business-friendly policies, and the S&P 500 is rallying 1.9% toward its biggest weekly jump since April.Markets are banking on Tuesday's election leading to split control of Congress, which could mean low tax rates, lighter regulation on businesses and other policies that investors like remain the status quo.

The election still hasn’t made clear who will run the White House next year, though Joe Biden is pushing closer toward the needed mark.The S&P 500 is on pace for its fourth straight gain of more than 1%, and a 7.3% jump for the week.

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Biden implores Americans to wear masks while unveiling new coronavirus task force

Joe Biden on Monday implored Americans to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, even as he cheered news about the promising development of a vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.Biden in remarks after meeting with his newly formed coronavirus advisory board cautioned that Americans still face “a dark winter” and need to be aggressive about mask-wearing and social distancing as infections continue to surge around the country.

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U.S. election: WHO director general welcomes Biden election win

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Monday congratulated president-elect Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S.

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Trump faces pressure to work with Biden on U.S. presidential transition plan

Donald Trump is facing pressure to co-operate 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.

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America Votes 2020: World reacts to Joe Biden being elected U.S. president

Joe Biden’s historic win over President Donald Trump in the U.S. election could mark a significant shift in geo-politics, after four tumultuous years of international relations under the Trump administration.

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Trump’s election night party becomes latest White House coronavirus cluster

election night watch party in the White House East Room has become another symbol of President Donald Trump’s cavalier attitude toward the coronavirus, which 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. And the party — with few masks and no social distancing — is now under additional scrutiny after the president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, became the latest top White House official to contract the virus, which has now killed more than 237,000 people in the U.S.

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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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U.S. election: Trump’s legal fights over results aimed at appeasing supporters

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 levelled 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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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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DC mayor tells everyone who voted to get tested for COVID, but mum on Biden celebrations

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser on Sunday encouraged those who voted in the 2020 presidential election to get tested for COVID-19, yet she has been noticeably quiet on the thousands of Americans who – at the risk of spreading the coronavirus – participated in public celebrations of Joe Biden’s projected victory. “Clearly you made a plan to vote in last week’s election so what’s your plan to get tested this week? Lines a bit longer this week so plan ahead but we’ll work hard to get you results faster than a national election result,” the D.C.

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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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‘Loser’: SNL cold open spoofs Biden’s U.S. election victory, Trump’s loss

Saturday Night Live (SNL) wasted no time spoofing U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s and vice president-elect Kamala Harris‘ victory speeches.The latest episode aired just hours after the real-life politicians delivered their remarks, and its cold open featured Jim Carrey as Biden, while Maya Rudolph reprised her role as Harris.

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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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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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Joe Biden to announce coronavirus task force as U.S. cases soar

Joe Biden on Monday will announce a 12-member task force to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.Biden spent much of his election campaign criticizing President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, which has now caused the deaths of 237,000 people in America. The United States saw a record number of new infections last week, with the total number of cases nearing 10 million.

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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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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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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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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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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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Chappelle jokes on SNL that COVID-19 kept ‘murderous whites’ from mass shootings

Trump’s coronavirus infection “hilarious,” Chappelle noted how a friend in the UK celebrated Joe Biden’s election win being declared earlier Saturday.“She said, ‘The world feels like a safer place now that America has a new president,'” he said. “I said, ‘That’s great, but America doesn’t,'” he insisted, reminding the audience of life “before COVID.”“A mass shooting every week.

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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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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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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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U.S. election: Former DNC head believes Canada-U.S. relationship ‘will be put back in place’ following Biden win

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean discussed Joe Biden as the projected winner of the U.S.

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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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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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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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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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Here are some of the lawsuits, criminal probes that await Trump as he leaves office

Donald Trump has been besieged by civil lawsuits and criminal investigations of his inner circle.With Democrat Joe Biden capturing the presidency on Saturday, according to all major U.S. television networks, Trump’s legal woes are likely to deepen because in January he will lose the protections the U.S.

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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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President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris deliver remarks after 2020 election win

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.Harris was first on stage, opening her remarks by remembering the late Congressman John Lewis, and she thanked voters.“Protecting our democracy takes struggle and takes sacrifice, but there is joy in it, and there is progress, because we the people have the power to build a better future," she said.

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World reacts to 2020 election result, global leaders congratulate President-elect Joe Biden

FILE - Harrisons bar owner Derek Leonard poses with a framed photograph of his meeting with Joe Biden during the former vice Presidents last visit on November 7, 2020 as locals celebrate in anticipation of Biden being elected as the next US President (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)World leaders swiftly congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on his victory Saturday, cheering it as an opportunity to fortify global democracy and celebrating the significance of Americans having their first woman vice president.Although U.S.

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Champ and Major Biden: Meet the future first dogs

LOS ANGELES - Dogs are coming back to the White House.Joe Biden was elected 46th president of the United States on Saturday, beating out incumbent president Donald Trump, according to projections by FOX News and the Associated Press, which means dogs will soon roam the White House halls once again.The last time pooches set their paws in 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was when former President Barack Obama’s two Portuguese water dogs, Bo and Sunny, resided there.

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U.S. election: Voter turnout contributing factor to Biden’s victory

Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, but as Global’s Jeff Semple reports, not a lot of Republican voters flipped to Democratic votes; rather, voter turnout for the Democratic side played a larger role in Biden’s victory.

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Balance of power: VP-elect Kamala Harris to become potential tie-breaking Senate vote

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Joe Biden won the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, according to projections by the Associated Press and FOX News. Biden’s projected win catapults California Sen.

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Obama congratulates Biden and Harris: 'Couldn't be prouder'

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (R) presents the Medal of Freedom to Vice-President Joe Biden during an event in the State Dinning room of the White House, January 12, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Who won the election? Joe Biden projected as winner of 2020 presidential race after claiming Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden has won 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. The win netted Biden 20 more electoral votes, pushing his total to 284 — crossing the 270 Electoral Vote vote threshold needed to become the 46th president of the United States.FOX News also projected Biden as the winner of Nevada’s six electoral votes. RELATED: In their own words: Joe Biden, Donald Trump issue statements after race is calledThe

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Gov. Gavin Newsom congratulates Kamala Harris on projected White House victory

Kamala Harris speaks at the IBEW Local Union 58 on Oct. 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.

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‘We did it’: VP-elect Kamala Harris makes 1st call to Joe Biden after projected White House win

LOS ANGELES - Kamala Harris made a historic phone call to President-elect Joe Biden after news networks, including FOX News and the Associated Press, projected that Biden would win the White House Saturday.The video footage, posted to Harris’ Twitter account, showed her congratulating Biden over the phone with a wide smile.“We did it. We did it Joe,” Harris beamed.

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Dance parties and champagne: celebrating election's end

As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns — honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties — as an agonizingly vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning. Just after The Associated Press and other news organizations declared that former Vice President Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump, fireworks erupted in Atlanta.

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EXPLAINER: Why AP called the 2020 election for Joe Biden

WASHINGTON – WHY AP CALLED THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR BIDEN:As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House. Late-counted ballots in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to keep Biden in the lead and offered him multiple paths to victory.

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Joe Biden projected winner of U.S. election

Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States after winning a stunningly narrow election victory over incumbent Donald J. Trump, according to a projection from the Associated Press.The divisive and bitterly contested campaign came to an end four days after election night as Biden secured critical victories over Trump in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.The Associated Press has projected Biden will win at least 284 electoral votes, with races in a few states still too close to call.

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