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US Elections 2024: Polls close in 6 states as world awaits historic results

Election Day is here. Voters are gearing up to head to the polls to cast their ballots for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in one of the nation's most historic presidential races. They'll also be determining which party will control the House and Senate. Here's the latest: Polls closing in key Virginia races As polls close in Virginia, a pair of competitive House races could give an early hint of who is faring better in the race for House control. In northern Virginia, Democrat Eugene Vindman and Republican Derrick Anderson, both Army veterans and lawyers, are vying for a House seat. In the military-heavy southeast part of the state, Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans is running for reelection against a fellow Navy veteran, Democrat Missy Cotter Smasal. Meanwhile in Georgia, Democrats and Republicans are poised to swap control of a pair of redistricted House districts. What to watch as polls are closing Florida: First polls are about to close in much of Florida, which reports vote

Control of US Congress at stake in tight Presidential election battle

The outcome will play an important role in determining how easily the winner of Tuesday's US presidential election will govern until the next congressional elections in 2026

US polls: New York ballots feature an Indian language, but it's not Hindi

US Presidential elections 2024: On Tuesday (November 5), voters across the US will cast their ballots to choose the next president - Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump

US Presidential Election 2024: Date, time, results, and where to watch

Former President Donald Trump is attempting a rare return to the White House, while Vice President Kamala Harris looks to make history as the first woman and woman of colour to become a president

US elections: Why Pennsylvania could be key to deciding White House race

US Presidential elections 2024: Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes could be decisive in electing Republican Donald Trump or Kamala Harris

Dollar slips as FX traders gird for US Presidential election outcome

Democrat Kamala Harris has also experienced improving odds on election gambling sites and had a slight lead on PredictIt overnight, although Polymarket continued to show Trump as favourite

Democratic lawmaker Jon Tester tries to hold key US Senate seat in Montana

Three-term incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana faces perhaps his toughest reelection challenge yet on Tuesday, with control of the Senate on the line in a state that's veered sharply rightward since the 68-year-old grain farmer's first election. Republicans have pinned their hopes on Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and founder of an aerial firefighting company. Sheehy, 38, had early backing from party leaders including former President Donald Trump, clearing the political newcomer's path to win the June primary. This is the first time Tester's name appears on the same ballot as Trump, who won Montana by wide margins in 2016 and 2020. A Sheehy victory would seal Republican party dominance across the five-state Northern Plains region: Tester entered office as one of six Democratic senators in the largely rural swath of American heartland that also includes Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. He's now the only one. The lawmaker also is the sole ...

US Election 2024: Indian-Americans express divergent views as voting starts

Some Indian-American voters are supporting Donald Trump for his economic and immigration policies while others are standing behind Kamala Harris, attracted by her leadership style

Republicans try to hold onto all four of Iowa's congressional districts

Republicans represent all of Iowa's four congressional districts, but Democrats are hopeful of their chances in Tuesday's general election. Two of the districts are seen as especially competitive, including the 1st district in southeast Iowa and the 3rd district in central and southern Iowa. Republicans are expected to more easily retain control in the 2nd district in northeast Iowa and in the largely rural 4th district in western Iowa. In the 1st district, incumbent Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks will seek her third US House term as she faces the same Democrat she beat in 2022. In that race, Miller-Meeks topped Democrat Christina Bohannan by about 7 percentage points a far greater spread than her six vote margin in 2020 over Democrat Rita Hart. In her campaign, Bohannan, a University of Iowa law professor and former legislator, has emphasised her support of abortion rights at a time with Iowa Republicans have changed the law to outlaw abortions in most circumstances. Sh

Bernie Sanders seeks fourth Senate term representing Vermont

Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent beloved by progressives, is seeking to win a fourth six-year term in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The 83-year-old senator is a self-described democratic socialist who caucuses with the Democrats and twice came close to winning the presidential nomination. More recently, he has worked closely with the Biden administration to craft its domestic policy goals on health care, education, child care and workers' rights. The longest-serving independent in Congress is being challenged by Republican Gerald Malloy, a U.S. Army veteran and businessman. Also on the ballot are independent Steve Berry, as well as minor party candidates Mark Stewart Greenstein, Matt Hill and Justin Schoville. Sanders says he's running again because the country faces some of its toughest and most serious challenges of the modern era. He described those as threats to its democratic foundations, massive levels of income and wealth inequality, climate change, and challenges to ...

Final day of voting in US here, over 10 mn have already cast their ballots

Election Day 2024 arrived on Tuesday with tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots. Those include record numbers in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner. The early turnout in Georgia, which has flipped between the Republican and Democratic nominees in the previous two presidential elections, has been so robust over 4 million voters that a top official in the secretary of state's office said the big day could look like a ghost town at the polls. As of Monday, Associated Press tracking of advance voting nationwide showed roughly 82 million ballots already cast slightly more than half the total number of votes in the presidential election four years earlier. That's driven partly by Republican voters, who were casting early ballots at a higher rate than in recent previous elections after a campaign by former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee to counter the Democrats' longstanding advantag

US Election 2024: The fate of Trump's legal cases if he wins or losses

The outcome of the US election could reshape Donald Trump's legal battles. Can he govern from prison or will his cases be dismissed? A look at the link between his politics and legal issues

Night before Election Day, Harris brings in celebrities, Trump unimpressed

On the night before Election Day, at campaign events across the country, celebrities turned out in force for Kamala Harris' presidential bid. The battleground state of Pennsylvania was particularly starry: In Pittsburgh, the vice president's rally featured Cedric the Entertainer, Katy Perry and Andra Day. In Philadelphia, the finale of Harris' daylong dash across Pennsylvania, performers and presenters included DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe and Ricky Martin. Republican Donald Trump was decidedly unimpressed with Harris' celebrity lineup. At his own rally in Pittsburgh, which overlapped with Harris' event in the city, the former president criticized Harris for one celebrity endorsement in particular: Beyonc. He spoke dismissively about Beyonc's appearance at a Harris rally with Harris in Houston last month, drawing boos for the megastar from his supporters. "Beyonc would come in. Everyone's expecting a couple of songs. There were no songs. There was no happiness, Trump said. Beyonc did not .

Final hours of Harris campaign remind of Trump ally's Puerto Rico joke

The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump's rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic. What you call trash is our treasure, the sign read. While Trump's campaign had quickly distanced itself from a comic's slam on Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage, Kamala Harris' campaign and other Democrats spent the last hours of the 2024 campaign in the nation's largest battleground state linking him to the joke. Harris devoted much of her final full day on the campaign trail to reaching Latino voters in Pennsylvania, a swing state that Democrats consider part of their blue wall in the Electoral College. She made multiple stops in what is known as the 222 Corridor, after the highway that connects small cities and towns west and north of Philadelphia. More than 315,000 people who are 18 and older identify as Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania. And in a state where small margins could

Presidential election day approaches in US: Here's all you need to know

Election Day is nearly upon us. In a matter of hours, the final votes in the 2024 presidential election will be cast. In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. We know there are seven battleground states that will decide the outcome, barring a major surprise. But major questions persist about the timing of the results, the makeup of the electorate, the influx of misinformation even the possibility of political violence. At the same time, both sides are prepared for a protracted legal battle that could complicate things further. Here's what to watch on the eve of Election Day 2024: History will be made either way Given all the twists and turns in recent months, it's easy to overlook the historical significance of this election. Harris would become the first female president in the United States' 248-year history. She would also be the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to hold the office

Joe Biden suggests he'd like to smack 'macho guys' during final campaign

President Joe Biden returned to his birthplace in Pennsylvania, making a final campaign stop Saturday for Vice President Kamala Harris and again let loose offering the kind of unfiltered political sentiments that have become fairly common in recent weeks. Biden slammed Harris' rival, former Republican President Donald Trump, and his supporters on policy issues during a speech in Scranton, but then suggested that he'd hit back literally on faux macho guys. There's one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do. They want to have a giant tax cut for the wealthy, Biden told the local chapter of the carpenters union. Then, apparently referencing people backing Trump, he added, Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it's macho guys. I tell you what, man, when I was in Scranton, we used to have a little trouble going down the plot once in a while," Biden continued. These are the kind of guys you'd like to smack in the ass. During a rally later Saturday night in

Trump, Harris host rallies in Milwaukee in final push to win Wisconsin

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will host rallies within 7 miles of each other Friday night in the Milwaukee area as part of a fevered final push for votes in swing-state Wisconsin's largest county. Milwaukee is home to the most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but its conservative suburbs are where most Republicans live and are a critical area for Trump as he tries to reclaim the state he narrowly won in 2016 and lost in 2020. One reason for his defeat was a drop in support in those Milwaukee suburbs and an increase in Democratic votes in the city. Both candidates recognize that the road to the White House runs directly through Milwaukee County, said Hilario Deleon, chair of the county's Republican Party. The dueling rallies Trump is in downtown Milwaukee and Harris is in a suburb may be the candidates' last appearances in Wisconsin before Election Day. Both sides say the race is once again razor tight for the state's 10 electoral votes. Four of the .

Forex reserves of $6 trn to serve as Asia's shield from resurgent dollar

Asian currencies have come under pressure in October, as rising odds of a Donald Trump presidency and uncertainties over the pace of the Federal Reserve's easing bolstered the greenback

US elections: Kamala Harris slams Trump's 'protector of women' remarks

She added, He does not believe that women should have agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies

LeBron James backs Kamala Harris by invoking Trump's rhetoric on race

James' endorsement with five days until the election comes as Trump has tried to cut into Democrats' historic advantage with minorities