The outcome didn't change the fact that much of the country is still speaking two different political languages.
In his four years as president, Donald Trump upended decades of accepted American foreign policy, criticized longstanding allies in Europe
US election results 2020 LIVE updates: Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States
Gopalan Balachandran, maternal uncle of Kamala Harris, said he was feeling "proud and happy", describing her as a fighter
"Nothing Trump has sought to accomplish on climate change is secure," said Michael Burger, head of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Biden is expected to reverse the move of the outgoing Trump administration to revoke work permits to the spouses of H-1B visas
Indian-American physician Dr Vivek Murthy is expected to co-chair the coronavirus task force which 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. He was later asked to step down by the Trump administration. Biden, in his victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday night, said: On Monday, I will name a group of leading scientists and experts as Transition Advisors to help take the Biden-Harris COVID plan and convert it into an action blueprint that starts on January 20th, 2021. The President-elect, however, did not announce who would lead that task force. The Washington Post said that the task force would be co-chaired by Dr Murthy, the former Surgeon General, and David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner. The task force could begi
Transcript of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' victory speech Saturday night in Wilmington, Delaware, as prepared and provided by the Biden campaign:
Transcript of President-elect Joe Biden's victory speech Saturday night in Wilmington, Del., as delivered
He further said that he understood the disappointment of those who had voted for President Donald Trump, but now it was time to put the harsh rhetoric behind and come together as a nation
The US is the currently the world''s worst-hit nation from the pandemic after it emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan last year
US election results 2020 LIVE updates: Joe Biden wins the race to the White House. Currently, he is ahead in 306 electoral votes. Meanwhile Donald Trump tweeted, "I won the elections, by a lot"
Trump has dismissed the results, claimed victory outright, and vowed to fight in court, citing unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud
"Every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities," Harris said to wild cheers
With Biden's victory, Jill, who has been an educator for decades, will become the First Lady of the United States
Biden has said he would prefer multilateral diplomacy to the unilateral sanctions Trump has imposed
Biden, 77, who has a track record of advocating a stronger India-US relationship, also believes that there is a lot of scope in bilateral trade
Biden carried some of the key battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, by narrow margins
Biden will take office in January as the nation confronts a series of crises that have taken a disproportionate toll on Black Americans and people of color
In Atlanta, outside the state Capitol in the longtime Republican stronghold of Georgia, chants of "Lock him up!" rang out among an estimated 1,000 Trump supporters