On Friday, a viral claim that Pennsylvania had 21,000 dead people on its voter rolls spread across the internet. In some versions of the rumor, those deceased people had voted for the Democratic presidential candidate, Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Breitbart News, the right-wing publication, wrote an article about it. Others then cited it as evidence that Democrats were trying to steal the election.

According to American media, the world would be celebrating after Joe Biden was given the winner by media across the Atlantic. Thus, Paris would have ringed the bells of its churches and London would have shot fireworks ...

Four days passed between the close of polls and the announcement that Biden had won Pennsylvania and would become president. In that time, US liberals experienced a range of emotions so broad, deep and varied that CNN’s live coverage may be remembered as the greatest season finale of all time.

Outgoing US President Donald Trump became the subject of ridicule on Saturday after the location for the big press conference that he had called at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania turned out to be in a parking lot between a crematorium and an adult book store.

When five-year-old Kamala Harris boarded a bus to take her to her first day of kindergarten in 1969, she was at the centre of a raging national debate.

Democratic candidate Joe Biden is now set to defeat Donald Trump after projections showed Biden winning over 270 electoral votes. However, the Trump team says the election is "far from over." Follow DW for the latest.

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Americans will soon hear their next president claim victory.

  – Emma Arbuthnot is the chief judge who conducted the trial for the extradition of Julian Assange in London to the USA, where a 175 year prison sentence awaits him for “espionage,” that is, for having published evidence of US war crimes, including videos of civilians’ killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an investigative journalist. At the trial, assigned to Judge Vanessa Baraitser, every defense request was denied.

by Manlio Dinucci

Does Moscow want a Biden or Trump victory? For Russia, it really makes no difference who wins the US election. Here’s why

In the history of the U.S., no president has ever moved from the White House into prison. But after four years of Trump, that scenario is not completely implausible.

   The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein enables viral entry into host cells by binding to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor and is a major target for neutralizing antibodies. About 20 to 40 spikes decorate the surface of virions.

The Western model, based on capitalism and democracy, no longer manages to defend the general interest or guarantee popular sovereignty. By accumulating these two failures, it brings together the two ingredients of a generalized revolution.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he has "great confidence" in the US, despite uncertainty around the presidential election.

This extract from Jean Shepherd book, "In God We Trust, All Others pay Cash" reminds us that America, this fierce nation of superior philosophers escaped from the zoos of Europe, was full to the brim with the up and coming ancestors of present gamers.