NEW YORK (AFP) – Thousands of Joe Biden supporters marched on Wednesday (Nov 4) evening in New York to demand every vote in the tight presidential election be counted, as some Donald Trump supporters protested in Detroit demanding a halt to ballot counting in the key state of Michigan. New York demonstrators were peaceful and […]
WILMINGTON (REUTERS) – With the US presidential election between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden too close to call, Mr Trump turned to the courts on Wednesday (Nov 4) to try to invalidate votes in Pennsylvania and block Michigan officials from counting ballots. Below is a list of the cases that will […]
Morning! If you’ve just woken up and you’re catching up on the news, you might feel like you’ve missed out on a lot overnight. As it stands, current President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, and his opponent Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate, are neck and neck at the polls – and it’s impossible to call. […]
MONTREAL (AFP) – Canadian health authorities on Wednesday (Nov 4) reported the country’s first case of a human infected with the H1N2 virus, a rare strain of swine flu. The case, detected in the western province of Alberta in mid-October, appears to be isolated “and there is no increased risk to Albertans at this time,” […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Republicans appeared poised to retain control of the US Senate on Wednesday (Nov 4), after Senator Susan Collins defied political odds to win re-election in Maine and other Republican incumbents led Democrats in a handful of undecided races. Democrats, who had been favoured to win the Senate majority heading into Tuesday’s election, […]
Last night, polls closed around the US and results began to come in. It was one of the most important events in world politics. It was a long night with surprise results, marches and speeches. On the Sky News Daily podcast, listen as Dermot Murnaghan takes us through the night as it happened – the […]
In a speech lasting just over nine minutes, Donald Trump threw American democracy into chaos. With a mass of Stars and Stripes behind him, he told his supporters that “they can’t catch us”. Cue cheers and applause amongst the hundreds gathered for an election night party in the White House and without a mask to […]
Joe Biden’s campaign warned it has got its legal team ready if Donald Trump attempts to call the election before all ballots are counted in a ‘naked effort’ to take away voters’ democratic rights. Campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon accused the president of ‘stripping Americans of their voice’, before hundreds of thousands of mail-in votes […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Tropical Storm Eta spun through northern Nicaragua Wednesday after lashing the country’s Caribbean coast for much of the past day, its floodwaters isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides that killed at least three people. The storm had weakened from the Category 4 hurricane that battered the coast, but it […]
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump claimed he had defeated Democratic challenger Joe Biden early on Wednesday morning (Nov 4), even though results from several battleground states that could swing the election had yet to be called. Mr Trump said he would go to the Supreme Court to halt the counting of votes, accusing the Democrats […]