US Elections 2020 Highlights | Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris launch a transition website

US President-elect Joe Biden took the first steps towards moving into the White House in 73 days, as Donald Trump again refused to admit defeat and tried to sow doubt about the election results. With congratulations pouring in from world leaders and supporters nursing hangovers after a night of celebrations, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris launched a transition website, BuildBackBetter.com, and a Twitter feed, @Transition46. Trump plans to file a string of lawsuits in the coming week, according to his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said he had "a lot of evidence" of fraud. Stay tuned for more updates

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Joe Biden to name coronavirus team as worldwide cases top 5 crore

The global tally of people infected by the coronavirus shot past 50 million on Monday, as United States President-elect Joe Biden geared up to name the scientists who will lead the country's response to its disastrous outbreak.

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Donald Trump, who never admits defeat, mulls how to keep up fight

President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don't — and get evicted anyway.

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For Donald Trump, a nightmarish weekend of defiance and defeat

His brow furrowed, shoulders slightly slumped, Donald Trump seemed alone Saturday on his golf course near Washington.

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Where does Joe Biden stand on major policies?

Progressives think President-elect Joe Biden’s policies do not go far enough. President Donald Trump and his administration have called Biden a Trojan horse for the radical left.

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Dollar languishes at two-month low after Joe Biden clinches US presidency

The dollar hit a 10-week low on Monday as investors heralded Joe Biden's election as US president by buying trade-exposed currencies on expectations that a calmer White House could boost world commerce and that monetary policy will remain easy.

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She was very good at whatever she did: Maternal aunt praises Kamala Harris

We have always seen her (Kamala Harris) grow up as a good child. She was very good at whatever she did & she has achieved what she wanted to do: Dr Sarala Gopalan, maternal aunty of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, in Chennai

US markets set to welcome Biden victory

US markets appeared ready to welcome the election of Joe Biden, with futures for the major New York Stock Exchange indices rising on Sunday evening ahead of the week's trading.

At around 0015 GMT, futures contracts for December on the Dow Jones appreciated by 0.99 percent, on the Nasdaq by 1.28 percent and on the S&P 500 by 1.02 percent.

Biden win forces Mexico to rebuild complicated US ties

After years of close ties with Donald Trump, Mexico must now reshape its complex relations with theUnitedStatesunder Joe Biden, including on the key issues of trade and immigration.

The country's awkward position was underscored by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's reluctance on Saturday to congratulate Biden while Trump is still mounting a slew of legal challenges.

The left-wing populist said 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," Lopez Obrador told a news conference.

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What’s next for Trump? Family business awaits his return

Now, denied a second term by voters, Trump may seek to return to a once-lucrative career in television, this time with a decidedly political bent. His family business will also be free to make up for lost time by once again looking overseas, where hotels and golf clubs helped drive its growth before his election in 2016.

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Kamala Harris books surge in popularity after election

They included her own children's book “Superheroes Are Everywhere,” her memoir “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” a children's book by her niece Meena Harris called “Kamala and Maya's Big Idea” and Nikki Grimes' illustrated “Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice.”

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How Joe Biden won the United States presidency

On a January evening in 2019, Joe Biden placed a call to the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, a personal friend and political ally who had just announced he would not pursue the Democratic nomination for president.

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Donald Trump hits the golf course, a day after his defeat

Trump was also golfing at his course in Sterling, Virginia on Saturday when US networks declared that Biden had definitively amassed the electoral votes needed to be sworn in as president on January 20.

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Joy in India as Joe Biden and Harris win, but questions too

If there was one place in India that relished the triumph of Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Harris, his running mate, in America’s presidential election, it wasThulasendrapuram, the hamlet where Harris’s grandfather was born more than 100 years ago. Her name is scrawled on a board by the temple. People there love her and identify strongly with her.

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Biden goes to church, Trump hits golf course after US election result

A day after becoming the President-elect, Joe Biden went to a church for Sunday prayers, while outgoing US President Donald Trump headed to a golf course in a Virginia suburb.

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Joe Biden shores up fragile 'blue wall' in industrial north

Joe Biden shored up the Democrats' “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party's path back to the White House.

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India plans engagements with new regime in US, invitation to Kamala Harris among proposals being considered by Modi government

With Joe Biden set to take over as the next United States President, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is working on plans for early engagements with his administration, including inviting his Indian-American running mate Kamala Harris to visit India soon after the duo takes oath on January 20 next.

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Not lost for words: Joe Biden's plagiarism victim hails his win

When he first ran for the White House in 1987, Joe Biden's candidacy was destroyed by a plagiarism row. But the British politician whose words he lifted has paid warm tribute to the new US president-elect.

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Biden's lead in Pennsylvania is up to .61%, putting it on the cusp of overtaking Wisconsin, where Biden's up by .62 - Nate Cohn

India hails Kamala Harris as history maker

Residents set off firecrackers in the ancestral home of Kamala Harris on Sunday as India celebrated the vice president-elect's victory in the US election, with her uncle hailing her achievement as historic and an inspiration to women and girls.

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Iran's president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal

Iran's president called on President-elect Joe Biden to “compensate for past mistakes” and return the US to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a state-run news agency reported on Sunday.

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Kamala Harris's extended family may go to US for swearing-in

When Kamala Harris takes the oath of office as the first woman vice-president of the US in January 2021, watching her proudly from the audience along with lakhs of people could be her extended family from India.

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Donald Trump defeat leaves chastened White House wondering what’s next

US President Donald Trump’s aides described a leadership vacuum in the White House on Saturday after he lost re-election and internal finger-pointing began, even as his associates wondered how he would grapple with defeat.

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When Joe Biden spoke of distant relatives living in Mumbai

"There are five Bidens in Mumbai, India," Biden, then Vice President, told a Washington audience in 2015 at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of India-US civil nuclear deal.

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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris launch website, Twitter page for Presidential transition

Kamala Harris as vice president was long overdue, says Joe Biden

US President-elect Joe Biden has said that he would be honoured to be serving with a "fantastic vice president" Kamala Harris, who scripted history by becoming the first woman and first daughter of immigrants ever elected to national office in this country.

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Donald Trump sues in Arizona, court battles continue as Joe Biden wins US election

US President Donald Trump's campaign said on Saturday it had filed a lawsuit in Arizona, its latest legal challenge over the results of the presidential election.

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UK looks forward to working closely with new team in White House: Johnson

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday said the US is an important ally of the UK and he looks forward to working closely with the new team at the White House on "shared priorities" from climate change to trade and security.

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5 years of US President Donald Trump in 11 quotes

Trump catered to over four years, constantly making headlines, most notable ones being his quotes and remarks on various issues. Many voters liked his policies but could not abide his anger-fueled personality, his constant use of Twitter as a weapon, and the way he ridiculed anyone who dared disagree with him.

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UK PM Boris Johnson says he thinks there are more things that unite rather than divide the US and UK governments - Reuters

Can Donald Trump pardon his associates — or himself?

The pardon power, which comes from the US Constitution, is one of the broadest available to a president. The nation's founders saw the pardon power as a way to show mercy and serve the public good.

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Nightmare over: Hollywood reacts to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris US election win

Chris Evans, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling, and Natalie Portman, among several other Hollywood personalities, cheered Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' victory as the US President and Vice President, respectively, saying the long-awaited process of healing has finally begun for the country.

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America is a 'beacon for the globe': President-elect Joe Biden

President-elect Joe Biden has said that America is a "beacon for the globe" and that efforts must be made to "restore the soul" of the country.

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Kamala Harris' ancestral village celebrates her historic win

The sleepy village of Painganadu-Thulasendrapuram in Tiruvarur district came alive on Sunday morning to celebrate Kamala Harris' “historic win” as the first woman Vice-President of the United States.

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Donald Trump considers how to keep up fight, find a graceful exit

President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don't — and get evicted anyway.

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Message of Election 2020: Donald Trump lost, but Trumpism did not

President Donald Trump lost. But Trumpism did not.

It won in the parts of the country and with the voters whom Trump catered to over four years, constantly jabbing the hard edges of almost every contentious cultural issue into Red America, on the bet that fear and anger were a winning hand. It almost was.

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Biden to face long list of foreign challenges, with China no. 1

President-elect Joe Biden is inheriting a landscape of challenges and ill will toward the United States in countries hostile to President Donald Trump’s “America First” mantra, his unpredictability, embrace of autocratic leaders and resistance to international cooperation.

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Donald Trump becomes 11th sitting US president to lose reelection bid

President Donald Trump’s reelection defeat has made him the 11th sitting president in US history to lose the White House in a general election campaign.

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Tulsi Gabbard congratulates President-elect Biden and VP-elect Harris on their victory

Had told Kamala Harris she's going to win, says proud uncle

Soaking in the moment of glory, Gopalan Balachandran, maternal uncle of Senator Kamala Harris, on Saturday night said he told her niece a day earlier that she was "going to win" to become the next US vice president.

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How to build a government: Transition challenges await Joe Biden

Biden has to build a government while contending with a Senate that could stay in GOP hands, a House sure to feature fewer Democratic allies and a public that includes more than 70 million people who would prefer that President Donald Trump keep the job.

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Jared Kushner has approached Donald Trump about conceding the election

Half a world apart, two elections strangely connected

12,000 kilometres away, a population one-third the size of America’s, crammed into a landmass the size of South Korea, also goes to the polls. Narendra Modi, who personally fights every Indian state election, is locked in another pandemic-time battle, in Bihar.

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Biden claims a mandate that will quickly be tested

Joe Biden's bet on the 2020 race was a simple one: that a nation riven by deep partisanship was ready for a reset.

Biden ultimately emerged victorious over President Donald Trump, a moment of both celebration and relief for his supporters. But the results sent mixed messages about the nation's eagerness to turn the page on one of the most polarised periods in modern American history

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Indian-American Vivek Murthy may co-chair Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force

Indian-American physician Dr Vivek Murthy is expected to co-chair the coronavirus task force which President-elect Joe Biden is going to announce on Monday.

Murthy, 43, who originally hails from Karnataka, was appointed America’s 19th Surgeon General by then-president Barack Obama in 2014.

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When Kamala Harris broke the news to Joe Biden

Joe Biden: From one of youngest senators to oldest US President

Third time lucky is an apt phrase to describe the remarkable rise of Joe Biden, a veteran in US politics for around five decades, from being one of the youngest senators in history to the oldest American president.

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Fireworks, flags, face masks: Joe Biden celebrates at drive-in rally

Wearing facemasks and waving flags from car rooftops, hundreds of Democrats cheered every sentence of Joe Biden's first speech as president-elect at his victory party for the coronavirus era.

Leaders congratulate Harris, Biden

World leaders congratulate Biden, Harris

Meet US's first 'Second Gentleman', Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff

When Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman and first Black US vice president, her husband Doug Emhoff will break his own new ground: as the original "second husband."

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What next for Donald Trump? Golf, Twitter and maybe another run?

If there's one constant for Trump, it is his love of the limelight and few expect this most unusual of presidents to pursue a traditional post-White House life of public reticence, reflective memoir-writing and occasional charitable events.

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Won't rest until Americans have honest vote count: Donald Trump

Refusing to concede the election, US President Donald Trump has said that he will not rest until the American people have the honest vote count they are entitled to.

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‘A long time coming’: Black women celebrate Kamala Harris’ ascension

At a time when a range of racial and gender barriers have been shattered by earlier trailblazers, Latimore said that Harris’ ascension to the highest levels of power was particularly important, giving Black girls everywhere a reminder that anything is possible.

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Good news for techies? Joe Biden plans to increase H-1B visa limit and remove country quota for green cards

US President-elect Joe Biden plans to increase the number of high-skilled visas, including the H-1B, and eliminate the limit on employment-based visas by country, both of which are expected to benefit tens of thousands of Indian professionals impacted by some immigration policies of the outgoing Trump administration.

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With Biden win, Congress in India hopes for domino effect

The projected defeat of US President Donald Trump in the presidential election has given hope to opposition leaders in India that it could have a domino effect in other countries, apparently mindful of their challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Mexico's President won't congratulate Joe Biden until legal challenges resolved

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday he would not congratulate a winner of the US presidential election until legal challenges are concluded, in an apparent bid to avoid friction with Washington during the transition.

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Joe Biden vows action against Covid-19 on 'day one'

The United States reported record new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row, as new president-elect Joe Biden vowed to act against the pandemic on "day one" in the world's worst-hit nation.

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We still don’t really understand Donald Trump, or America

What happened to the comeuppance due Republican lawmakers for not giving him timeouts?

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Stimulus, taxes top Biden agenda for stricken US economy

When Joe Biden walks in to the White House as president in January, he will have the opportunity to reshape the world's largest economy, but first he will have to get it back on its feet.

The United States is starting to recover from a historic contraction in growth and tens of millions of job losses caused by the world's largest Covid-19 outbreak, which spoiled the previously healthy economy and contributed to voters' decision to oust President Donald Trump in this week's election.

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Busy agenda for Joe Biden's first 100 days

Every candidate in the heat of a US presidential campaign talks up their goals for the first 100 days in office and Joe Biden, the Democrat who challenged President Donald Trump and beat him, has done so for months.

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First woman US vice president, Harris vows 'will not be the last'

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris declared Saturday that her victory was just a beginning for women as she was elected to be the top-ranking female leader in US history.

"While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last," Harris told a rally as she introduced President-elect Joe Biden at a victory rally in Delaware.

"Every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibility," she said.

For all those of you who voted for President Trump, I understand the disappointment tonight. Now let's give each other a chance. It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again: US President-elect Joe Biden

People of this nation have spoken, they delivered us a clear victory. A victory for, we the people. We have won with the most votes ever cast on presidential ticket in the history of the nation, 74 million: US President-elect Joe Biden

When our very democracy was on the ballot in this election, with the very soul of America at stake, and the world watching, you ushered in a new day for America: Kamala Harris

Protecting our democracy takes struggle, it takes sacrifice but there is joy & progress in it. Because we have the power to build a better future: Kamala Harris, US Vice President-elect.

I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the United States: US President-elect Joe Biden

Stimulus, taxes top Biden agenda for stricken US economy

When Joe Biden walks in to the White House as president in January, he will have the opportunity to reshape the world's largest economy, but first he will have to get it back on its feet.

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We still don’t really understand Donald Trump, or America

Like many Americans demoralized by the softness of the spanking that voters just gave President Donald Trump, I spent the past few days in search of answers. Why were so many of my fellow citizens so content to continue spoiling him? And what happened to the comeuppance due Republican lawmakers for not giving him timeouts?

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Donald Trump: The wrecking ball who came to 'fix' America

Donald Trump rose to power proposing a simple solution to the United States' deepest problems: himself.

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PM Narendra Modi congratulates Joe Biden, Kamala Harris for their win

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated Democrat Joe Biden for his win over Republican US President Donald Trump in a close presidential election and noted his "critical and invaluable" contribution to strengthening the India-US relations as vice president.

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