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In Pennsylvania it doesn't get much "redder" than Juniata County, a predominantly white and rural region dotted with picturesque churches, livestock farms and factories which U.S. President Donald Trump carried in the election with 80 percent of the vote.

Harris, who will be the highest-ranking woman in US history, took the stage in Wilmington, Delaware in a white suit in honour of the women's suffragist movement to the sounds of Mary J. Blige.

The president, who has spent months trying to undermine the election results with unproven allegations of fraud, pledged on Saturday to go forward with a legal strategy that he hopes will overturn state results.

Supporters of Democrat Joe Biden banged pots, honked their car horns and set off fireworks across U.S. cities on Saturday after their candidate captured the U.S. presidency in a narrow victory over President Donald Trump.

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Twotime world bronze medalist Jin Boyang won the free skate on Saturday to defend the mens title at the Cup of China.

In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and rules, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was revoking the designation of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a "terrorist organization."

President Donald Trump and some of his Republican supporters are testing out a rallying cry for his uphill fight to reverse the lead that Joe Biden holds in key battleground states: count all legal votes.

Sotheby's helped an art collector dodge millions of dollars in New York sales taxes, the state attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Friday, accusing the prominent auction house of accepting bogus documentation to spare a top client a tax bill.

New COVID19 infections in England have stabilised at around 50,000 a day, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday, indicating a levellingoff in the steep rise of cases even before England was pushed into a second national lockdown.

Oil fell towards $40 a barrel on Friday as new lockdowns in Europe to halt surging COVID19 infections sparked concern over the demand outlook while drawnout vote counting in the U.S. election kept markets on edge.

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Ethiopia's federal military operations in the north have "clear, limited and achievable objectives", Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday, after the head of the United Nations said he was deeply alarmed by fighting in the country's Tigray region.

Democrat Joe Biden has racked up at least 253 of the 270 electoral votes that he needs, according to US network projections -- and 264 if Arizona is included, which Fox News and The Associated Press have called in his favour but CNN hasn’t.

There are several reasons, sitting at the intersection of law and politics, why the ghosts of Florida past won’t rise again in Pennsylvania.

Tens of thousands of stilluncounted ballots many in counties where Democrat Joe Biden was in the lead are what's making the Georgia contest between President Donald Trump and Biden too early to call.