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EXPLAINER: Widespread Election Day unrest not materializing
WASHINGTON - Election Day ushered in skirmishes near the White House and relatively minor demonstrations in California and elsewhere on the West Coast, but none of the widespread unrest that some had ...
Nov 03, 2020
Protesters gather near White House, no wide unrest seen
WASHINGTON - More than 1,000 people protesting President Donald Trump descended on Black Lives Matter Plaza on Tuesday night, just a block from the White House, while hundreds more marched through par...
Nov 03, 2020
Iowa GOP Sen. Ernst elected to 2nd term after heated race
DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican Joni Ernst won reelection to her Iowa U.S. Senate seat Tuesday after an expensive and at times bruising race against Democrat Theresa Greenfield. Voters gave another term...
Nov 03, 2020
Puerto Rico awaits final result in tight gubernatorial race
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - People across Puerto Rico awaited final results Wednesday following elections that saw long lines of voters and produced a tight gubernatorial race. Pedro Pierluisi of the pro-...
Nov 03, 2020
Ethiopian leader orders military against regional government
NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia's prime minister has ordered the military to confront a regional government after he says it attacked a military base overnight, citing months of "provocation and incitement"...
Nov 03, 2020
Harmony: Opposing Trump and Biden groups make music together
WARREN, Mich. - For a brief and unexpected moment, there was harmony. Melody, too. A group of Donald Trump supporters and backers of Joe Biden started shouting at each other through bullhorns Tuesday ...
Nov 03, 2020
AP VoteCast: Voters favour Biden on virus, Trump on economy
WASHINGTON - Voters in the U.S. presidential election faced a public health crisis and a wounded economy, but neither candidate emerged as the clear choice to handle both of those issues, according to...
Nov 03, 2020
EXPLAINER: Despite the angst, voting problems not widespread
WASHINGTON - In Spalding County, Georgia, machine problems led to a two-hour extension for voting. Wait times stretched beyond an hour at four voting centres in Baltimore. And this, unique to 2020: Sa...
Nov 03, 2020
Pennsylvania emerges as online misinformation hot spot
A single voting machine jammed for just minutes Tuesday morning at a precinct in Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania -- but misleading posts on Facebook and Twitter claimed multiple machine...
Nov 03, 2020
US approves Taiwan drone purchase as arms sales escalate
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has notified Congress that it has approved the sale of $600 million in armed drones to Taiwan, the latest in a series of arms transfers for the island. The State ...
Nov 03, 2020