WILMINGTON, Del. (TNS) — Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday when Pennsylvania and Nevada delivered the electoral votes he needed to claim the White House, ending a caustic campaign that sorely tested the nation amid a pandemic and deep partisan divisions.

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As of Thursday afternoon, returns showed more than 72 million people voted for Joe Biden, breaking the record of more than 69 million, set by Barack Obama in 2008, for votes received by a presidential candidate.

Regarding the article in the Olean Times Herald’s Oct. 28 edition, with the two Common Council aldermen not wearing facemasks in the meeting, one stated that the COVID-19 pandemic would be gone after the election.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s fruitless calls Thursday morning to “Stop the count” underscored a major problem for the president: He needs some states to keep counting ballots if he has any shot of winning reelection.

WASHINGTON — Democrats went into Election Day hoping to reclaim the White House and majorities in both chambers of Congress in a victory that would demonstrate an unmistakable repudiation of President Donald Trump and a Republican Party remade in his image.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Macquarie Infrastructure Co. (MIC) on Monday reported a third-quarter loss of $893 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ICPT) on Monday reported a loss of $66.5 million in its third quarter.

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal and Hungary on Monday became the latest European countries to impose curfews against the resurgent tide of coronavirus infections and deaths lashing the continent and filing its emergency wards. But glimmers of hope emerged from France, the Czech Republic and…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday will release its report into the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-influential American cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation confirmed decades of rumors that he was a sexual predator.

TOKYO (AP) — As Asia comes to terms with the reality of a Joe Biden administration, relief and hopes of economic and environmental revival jostle with needling anxiety and fears of inattention.