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Close contests in five key states mean the US presidential election may not be decided for days, or longer, even as President Donald Trump’s falsely claimed victory over Democrat Joe Biden with millions of ballots still to be counted. As of 6 am New York time Wednesday, Biden had 238 electoral votes while Trump had 213, leaving both shy of the 270 needed to secure immediate victories. In a middle

Washington, Nov 4: Democrat Party’s Ritchie Torres has made history by becoming the first openly gay Black man elected to the US Congress. Torres, 32, a New York City Council Member, won the election from New York's 15th Congressional District, defeating Republican Patrick Delices to become the next representative, New York Daily News reported. “Tonight, a new era begins for the South Bronx,”

New York, Nov 4: Nearly 69 per cent Muslim voters cast their ballot for Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden while 17 per cent supported President Donald Trump, according to a survey conducted by Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organisation in the US. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, released the results

US Representative Ilhan Omar has won a second term in the Congress Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Omar, 38, defeated her Republican challenger, African American businessman Lacy Johnson, by 64.6 percent of the vote to 25.9 percent, according to The Associated Press news agency with 99 percent of votes counted. Omar is the first Somali American member of the US

New York, Nov 4: President Donald Trump won a series of key battlegrounds early Wednesday morning, including Florida, Ohio and Iowa, as Joe Biden expressed confidence he would ultimately prevail across key Northern states and Arizona as the presidential contest turned into a state-by-state slog that could drag deeper into the week. “We believe we are on track to win this election,” Biden said in a

China’s richest man has been busy launching the world’s biggest IPO. He has been busy preparing for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s grandest four-day Double Eleven shopping extravaganza. And yet two weeks ago, Ma somehow found the time to opine on China’s banking system at a high-profile financial forum in Shanghai, once again throwing himself into the eye of the storm. In that speech, apart from

Washington, Nov 4: With no winner declared in the 2020 presidential race, President Donald Trump appeared in the White House early Wednesday to brazenly claim he had already won the election — and to insist that votes stop being counted even as the ballots of millions of Americans were still being tallied. Speaking with a mix of defiance, anger and wonder that the election had not yet been called

Washington, Nov 4: In an impressive show, all the four Indian-American Democratic lawmakers -- Dr Ami Bera, Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna and Raja Krishnamoorthi -- have been re-elected to the US House of Representatives. The Indian-American community has emerged as a force to reckon with for the first time in the history of the US presidential election. Both the Democrat and the Republican campaigns

Washington, Nov 4: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that a "major fraud" is being perpetrated on the American people and said he will fight election in the Supreme Court, as the counting of votes were in progress in the battleground states. "Frankly we did win this election," Trump claimed. Trump, a Republican, is being challenged by Democratic Party's nominee Joe Biden. "Millions

Washington, Nov 4: Three people were arrested in two separate incidents during protests at Black Lives Matters plaza in Washington on Tuesday. Hundreds of demonstrators against and for President Donald Trump were present as they planned to watch the state-by-state results of the 2020 election. Demonstrations were largely peaceful aside from two scuffles, in which police say three people have been