The presence of Eric Trump, Rudy Giuliani and other members of Donald Trump's campaign team in Philadelphia on Wednesday, along with dozens of protesters ready to shout them down and dozens of police officers standing by, highlighted the rising tensions in the city over the counting of votes.
Many states made it easier to request a mail-in ballot amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns about crowded polling places. But they generally require more time to process than ballots cast in person.
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign says it has filed a lawsuit trying to halt the vote count in the battleground state of Michigan.
Slovak intelligence told Austria in July that the man who fatally shot four people in a terror attack in Vienna this week had tried to buy ammunition there and mistakes were apparently made in dealing with that information, Austrian authorities conceded.
Denmark's prime minister said Wednesday that the government wants to cull its entire herd of minks to minimize the risk of the animals re-transmitting a mutated form of the coronavirus to humans.
The chair of Britain's coronavirus vaccine task force says data evaluating the efficacy and safety of its two most advanced candidates should be available in early December.
Heavy fighting broke out in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said, after the prime minister launched military operations in response to what he said was an attack on federal troops.
Hurricane Eta continues to spin across northern Nicaragua after lashing the country's Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday, isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides that killed at least three people.
Shares of Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc jumped in premarket trading on Wednesday, as Wall Street cheered the app-based firms' projected victory in their battle to set the terms of the gig economy they have helped create.
A nationwide push to relax some U.S. drug laws took a significant step forward Tuesday as more states legalized marijuana for adults and voters made Oregon the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
