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EXPLAINER: Election unprecedented some ways, in others not

The election of 2020 has been called many things: extraordinary, bizarre, unprecedented. It's all true, in some ways, though the election is still being held on the first Tuesday after the first Monda...

Nov 2, 2020

EXPLAINER: From the 2020 election, some new political terms

WASHINGTON - "So 2020" is a new phrase that made its way into America's political lexicon this year. It has come to describe all things unexpected, unsettling and unprecedented. This includes the vitr...

Nov 2, 2020

EXPLAINER: Senate majority outcome may take weeks or more

WASHINGTON - Thirty-five U.S. Senate seats are on the ballot Tuesday, which will determine control of the legislative chamber for the next two years. But due to election law quirks in the states of Ge...

Nov 2, 2020

It's here: What to watch on Election Day in America

Election Day is finally here. Or at least what we still call Election Day, since nearly 100 million Americans had already cast ballots by Tuesday. That's the result of an election system that has been...

Nov 2, 2020

Election Day shadowed by threats of legal challenges

WASHINGTON - Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory. President Donald Trump is promising more to come. The candidates and parties have enlisted prominent lawyers with...

Nov 2, 2020

Supreme Court to hear case about juvenile life sentences

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is to hear arguments in a case that could put the brakes on what has been a gradual move toward more leniency for children who are convicted of murder. The court has con...

Nov 2, 2020

Huge voter turnout expected despite virus, political rancour

The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the U.S., persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make changes to long-estab...

Nov 2, 2020

EXPLAINER: A long night, or more, before president is known

WASHINGTON - There's a good chance Americans won't know the winner of Tuesday's presidential election when they go to bed that night. The main reason? Many states have made it easier to request a mail...

Nov 2, 2020

Asia Today: New Delhi sees worst wave as India's cases drop

NEW DELHI - India's capital is seeing its worst wave of coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic, even as the nation's overall cases fall. New Delhi has averaged more than 5,200 newly co...

Nov 2, 2020

EXPLAINER: What's 270? The math game behind the US election

WASHINGTON - What's all this hubbub about 270? It's not about the 270 whales stranded this fall on Australia's island state of Tasmania. It's not about congestion on Interstate 270 feeding commuters i...

Nov 2, 2020