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Joe Biden after victory confirmation: 'Will be President for all Americans'

It is time to "unite, heal and turn the page" on the US election, President-elect Joe Biden told Americans, hours after the Electoral College affirmed his victory over Republican President Donald Trump, who has refused to concede his loss and filed a litany of legal challenges to overturn the poll results. The members of the 538-member Electoral College on Monday pushed Biden past the 270-vote threshold to win the race for the White House, one of the final steps required for the 78-year-old Democrat to take office in January next year.

US Covid-19 death toll surpasses 300,000: Johns Hopkins University

The US has reached the grim milestone of 300,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris named Time's 'Person of the Year' for 2020

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named by the TIME magazine as '2020 Person of the Year' for changing the American story

Trump approaches US Supreme Court against Presidential election results

President Trump has approached the US Supreme Court against the results of last month's presidential election, which he alleges were rigged in favour of President-elect Joe Biden

Grandson of a poor farmer in India: US' new Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Vivek Murthy, Indian American nominee for US Surgeon General and "grandson of a poor farmer in India" struck notes of gratitude as he delivered his first public remarks from the Biden-Harris lectern

PM Narendra Modi's '9pm9minute' tweet among top trends on Twitter in 2020

Over 700 million Tweets were sent in 2020 about elections around the world

Trump again says US presidential election was 'rigged' in favour of Biden

Donald Trump is showing no signs of surrender and has reiterated yet again his unsubstantiated claims about widespread voter fraud

Vote recount fight about ensuring Americans have faith in elections: Trump

Reiterating his allegations of voters fraud and electoral malpractice in the presidential polls, Trump has said his fight was to ensure that Americans have faith in this and future elections

Indian-American appointed executive director of Biden's swearing-in

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have named Indian-American Maju Varghese in the four-member Presidential Inaugural Committee, which will organise the activities surrounding their swearing-in on Jan 20

Trump raises $170 mn since election defeat; money used to pay campaign debt

Trump has raised roughly 170 million since his election day defeat, a sum garnered through a nonstop stream of solicitations that have falsely claimed the election was stolen

Will be ready to hit ground running on day 1 with new economic team: Harris

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said that the next administration will be ready to hit the ground running on day one with the experienced economic team announced by President-elect Joe Biden

Will create recovery for all and get US economy moving again: Biden

Introducing his high-profile and experienced team to the nation, US President-elect Joe Biden exuded confidence that it will create a recovery for all and get the country's economy moving again

US vote recount: Arizona, Wisconsin certify Biden's victory over Trump

Two battleground states of Arizona and Wisconsin formally certified Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as the winner

Joe Biden chooses all-women White House senior communications team

Psaki, a former Obama White House communications director and State Department spokeswoman, has been an on-camera spokeswoman for Biden's transition office

Biden intends to nominate Indian-American Tanden as budget chief: Reports

US President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate Indian-American Neera Tanden as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to local media reports

Presidential elections 2020 were probably least secure polls ever: Trump

The November 3rd presidential elections were probably the least secure American polls ever, US President Donald Trump alleged Sunday, a repeated claim which has found very few takers and has, so far, not been able to stand legal scrutiny. Our 2020 Election, from poorly rated Dominion to a Country FLOODED with unaccounted for Mail-In ballots, was probably our least secure EVER! Trump said in a tweet on a day the recount of votes in two Wisconsin counties witnessed President-elect Joe Biden maintain his lead over the incumbent. We have some big things happening in our various litigations on the Election Hoax. Everybody knows it was Rigged. They know Biden didn't get more votes from the Black community than Obama, & certainly didn't get 80,000,000 votes. Look what happened in Detroit, Philadelphia, plus! Trump alleged in another tweet. Earlier in his first post-election result interview, Trump told Fox News the entire world is watching over what is happening in the US. I have to ...

US elections: Completed Wisconsin recount confirms Biden's win over Trump

Wisconsin finished its recount of votes cast in this month's presidential election, with only miniscule changes in the results that saw Biden defeat Trump in the battleground state

US President-elect Biden chooses an all-female White House press team

President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield.

Biden will be a president who represents the best in us: Kamala Harris

Joe Biden will be a president who represents the best of America, his deputy and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has said, asserting that he is a leader the world will respect

Pennsylvania certifies election results; declares Joe Biden the winner

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said that he has signed the certificate of ascertainment for the slate of electors for Biden and Harris