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The thin margins that separated U.S. President Donald Trump from Joe Biden in several swing states raised the question: Was the Republican incumbent hurt by the thirdparty run of Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen?

Supporters of Joe Biden danced in the streets outside a ballotcounting center in Philadelphia on Friday as the steadily growing vote tallies showed the Democratic former vice president could soon be declared winner of the U.S. presidential election.

Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot maker PSA have won a green light from Brazil's competition watchdog for their planned $38 billion merger, the regulator said.

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil, the soninlaw of President Michel Aoun, accusing him of corruption, the Treasury Department said.

Dutch police said on Friday they had arrested a young woman in Rotterdam on suspicion of inciting threats, after a teacher went into hiding following a classroom discussion on the killing of French school teacher Samuel Paty last month.

Denmark is taking steps to prevent the establishment of "a new animal reservoir for this virus", the WHO's technical lead for COVID19 Maria Van Kerkhove said on Friday, after the country reported widespread coronavirus outbreaks in mink farms.

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A debut novel about four Nigerian siblings and a family torn apart has won a $50,000 award. Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday is this year's winner of the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

The U.N. General Assembly decided Thursday to hold a meeting on Dec. 1 to commemorate all victims of World War II, which ended 75 years ago.

ELECTION 2020-VOTES Table. This embeddable table shows popular vote totals by major party candidate for U.S. presidential elections since 1980. It also shows that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has received more than 72 million votes, a...

Police arrested dozens of people in New York, Portland, Oregon, and other cities overnight at protests demanding all votes be counted in the race for the White House, while smaller groups backing President Donald Trump returned to tabulation sites in clos...

Daily antigovernment protests in Poland entered a third week Thursday with grandmothers rallying in Warsaw and smaller demonstrations held in other cities and towns.

A verdict in the landmark doping case that could strip Russia of its identity at the Olympics is expected within two months, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thursday.

President Donald Trump's campaign on Thursday will announce a lawsuit alleging voter fraud in Nevada, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the state continued counting ballots in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

While the US awaits final results from Pennsylvania, Arizona and other key states, it is already clear — no matter who ends up winning — that the industry failed to fully account for the missteps that led it to underestimate Donald Trump’s support four ye...

The votes were briefly added to his unofficial totals on an election map because of a typo in a small Michigan county that was caught and corrected in roughly half an hour.