President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday he will nominate former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to lead the Treasury, topping a slate of economic officials who would break racial and gender barriers in the US government. The rollout of Biden’s economic team comes after running mate Kamala Harris made history as the first woman, first Black
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Donald Trump has said that he will leave the White House when the electoral college votes for Democratic president-elect Joe Biden in the closest the outgoing president has come to conceding defeat. Biden won the presidential election with 306 electoral college votes – many more than the 270 required – to Trump’s 232. Biden also
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President Donald Trump is to seek a partial recount of votes in the state of Wisconsin, which his rival Joe Biden is projected to win by 20,000 votes. Hours before a Wednesday deadline, the Trump campaign said it wanted a recount in the counties of Milwaukee and Dane, alleging irregularities. Mr Trump has been making
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Saturday that it was too soon to congratulate Joe Biden and he would wait for “all legal issues” in the US presidential election to be resolved. “We don’t want to be imprudent. We don’t want to act lightly and we want to respect people’s self-determination and rights,” Lopez
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While the streets of many American cities erupted in joy Saturday at the news of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election, hardcore Donald Trump supporters refused to accept the result, alleging fraud and conspiracy. In cities including Phoenix, Philadelphia and Atlanta, the outgoing president’s loyalists gathered under the slogan of #StopTheSteal, repeating Trump’s unfounded
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American sport stars celebrated Joe Biden’s victory on Saturday, saying the election of the 46th president of the US has restored their faith in democracy after four tumultuous years under Donald Trump. Athletes such as LeBron James, Magic Johnson and Megan Rapinoe took to social media to share their feelings after the US media monitoring
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Israeli Prime Minister and close Donald Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory early Sunday, calling the United States president-elect “a great friend of Israel”. “I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the US and Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, referring to
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The Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the just concluded United States elections, Joe Biden has been declared the 46th president of America, denying Donald Trump of the Republican Party a second term after a deeply divisive presidency defined by a once-in-a-century pandemic, economic turmoil and social unrest. Biden won the presidency by clinching Pennsylvania and
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US President Donald Trump’s campaign said Friday that “this election is not over” as his challenger Joe Biden edged closer to victory in the cliffhanger White House race. The statement came after Biden overcame the president’s lead in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, putting him in position to win its 20 electoral votes. A
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Count down to the final hours of the United States Presidential Election has begun and Americans are eager to vote in a competition starkly divided by its two candidates. Americans will decide today whether to back President Donald Trump or his Democratic opponent Joe Biden. Despite an often startlingly laid-back campaign, 77-year-old Mr Biden’s offer
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Donald Trump, challenger Joe Biden and their top surrogates barreled through crucial states in the industrial Midwest and coastal southeast on Saturday, pressing closing arguments in a frantic sprint days ahead of the US presidential election. Using some of his most urgent language yet, Trump warned of “bedlam in our country” if no clear winner
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Former US Secretary of State, Collin Powell, has severed ties with his former boss, Donald Trump, while calling on Americans to vote massively for Joe Biden. Powell, on Tuesday night, made public his endorsement for Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, thereby giving the ex-Vice President’s bid a major support. Biden has been officially nominated to run for the
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US Pesidential candidate for Democrats, Joe Biden, has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the forthcoming election. She is the first black woman to serve in the role. The California Senator of Indian-Jamaican descent had long been tipped the top candidate for the position. The ex-Attorney General of California had been a
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US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied sexually assaulting a former staffer, saying the incident she claims occurred 27 years ago “never happened.” “They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden said in a statement regarding the accusations made by Tara Reade, a former staffer in his US Senate office. Biden, the presumptive Democratic
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President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed allegations by his opponent Joe Biden that he would try to delay the November election as the United States struggles to quell the coronavirus outbreak. “I never even thought of changing the date of the election. Why would I do that?” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I
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