US elections 2020
US election results 2020: Joe Biden’s defeat of Donald Trump | US news
Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States This election has shown how important independent, fact-based journalism is to a functioning democracy. Help us deliver the high-quality news, data and information you need. Show your support How does the election work? The winner of the election is determined through a system …
US election results 2020: Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump to win presidency | US news
Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States This election has shown how important independent, fact-based journalism is to a functioning democracy. Help us deliver the high-quality news, data and information you need. Show your support How does the election work? The winner of the election is determined through a system …
Donald Trump attacks Fox News: ‘They forgot the golden goose’ | US news
Donald Trump has unleashed a torrent of tweets denouncing Fox News, accusing the network of having forgotten “what made them successful, what got them there”. “They forgot the Golden Goose,” Trump wrote in a tweet posted at midday on Thursday: Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) .@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed. Weekend daytime even WORSE. Very …
Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things | US news
This is how the most colossal and fragile ego on the planet deals with losing the US election: he does not deal with it at all. Mary Trump. Photograph: Peter Serling/Rex My uncle’s speech late on election night wasn’t just entirely mendacious from beginning to end. It was also deeply dangerous. It’s one thing for …
Donald Trump’s baseless vote fraud claim opens cracks in Republican ranks | US news
Sign up for the Guardian’s Fight to Vote newsletter In his Wednesday evening address, an increasingly desperate Donald Trump continued his assault on the democratic process by lying about widespread voter fraud. “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from …
Dow closes up 540 points as post-election stock rally rolls on | US & Canada News
US stock investors are betting that a Republican-controlled Senate could block Biden’s plans to increase taxes and tighten regulations should he win the White House. Wall Street’s main stock indexes extended their post-election rally on Thursday as investors bet that if Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wins the White House, his plans to tighten regulations …
‘I will fight!’: mourners’ vow at supreme court vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg | US news
On a pavement across the street from the supreme court, school teacher Amanda Stafford chalked the words carefully: “That’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” It was a quotation from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a justice more renowned for her dissents than her majority opinions, including on the Bush …
Supreme court: Democrats rally in bid to stop Trump filling Ginsburg’s seat | US news
The resistance movement forged in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency now faces perhaps its greatest challenge: keeping open a supreme court vacancy that, if filled, will cement a conservative majority for decades to come. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s most senior and celebrated liberal, set the stage for a furious …
Louis DeJoy: is Trump’s new post office chief trying to rig the election? | US news
About a month ago, a United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier named Mark arrived at his post office in central Pennsylvania and got some shocking news from his station manager. Mark and his coworkers were told they would have to depart the office for deliveries a few hours earlier each day, even if that …