Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pushed closer to the 270 electoral college votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the "blue wall" battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing U.S. President Donald Trump's path.
President Donald Trump still has a chance of amassing over 270 electoral college votes and earning a second term, but his campaign is pre-emptively launching bids to challenge state results. Here's an explainer on where those efforts stand.
Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, displacing 73 Palestinians — including 41 children — in the largest such demolition in years, residents and a United Nations official said.
The British government and the Bank of England joined forces Thursday to provide further support to an economy that is set for a difficult winter following the imposition of new coronavirus lockdown measures.
New confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States have climbed to an all-time high seven-day average of more than 86,000 per day, with several American media outlets reporting Wednesday that the most recent daily reporting period saw cases go over 100,000.
Germany has recorded nearly 20,000 new coronavirus cases in one day, its highest level yet. Although Germany's situation is alarming officials, many other European countries are in worse shape, prompting stepped up restrictions and lockdowns to try and slow the spread of COVID-19.
Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s, resigned on Thursday in order to face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague.
Dozens of angry supporters of President Donald Trump converged on vote-counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix as the returns went against him Wednesday in the two key states, while thousands of anti-Trump protesters demanding a complete tally of the ballots in the still-undecided election took to the streets in cities across the U.S.
