US election officials have been responding to claims spreading online questioning the integrity of the vote, including one from Donald Trump alleging "massive cheating".
They have rejected some accusations of voting malpractice as well as clarifying (...)
Polls have closed in most of the US while voting continues in some Western states as tens of millions of American voters went to the polls Tuesday to choose the country's next leaders.
The voting process, officials said, has been going smoothly, (...)
Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia and taken a lead over Kamala Harris in most of the other four battleground states that will decide the winner of the US election, BBC's US partner CBS projects.
CBS says Wisconsin is (...)
US Vice President Kamala Harris's election eve schedule includes four appearances in the state, ending with rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia featuring a slate of celebrity guests, including Oprah Winfrey.
Former President Donald Trump is also (...)
Elon Musk's political group can keep awarding $1m (£722,000) to voters in swing states, a judge has ruled.
The giveaway by Musk's America PAC is set to end on Tuesday, and the final recipient has already been determined, a lawyer for the billionaire (...)
Six days from the White House election, the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has been trying to move past an uproar sparked by President Joe Biden appearing to refer to Trump supporters as "garbage".
The vice-president told reporters when asked (...)
Philadelphia's district attorney asked a state judge on Monday to shut down tech billionaire Elon Musk's controversial $1 million giveaway to registered voters, calling it an "illegal lottery scheme."
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a (...)
Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris had strong words for her opponent Donald Trump during a rally in northwestern Pennsylvania on Monday.
Harris said Trump's behavior was becoming increasingly "unstable and unhinged" after the former US President (...)
Former President Donald Trump told a Michigan crowd Tuesday night that steep tariffs he would impose on products imported from China, Mexico and other countries would rejuvenate the state's automotive industry and drive an economic boom.
Trump, in (...)
Donald Trump has ruled out another presidential debate against his rival Kamala Harris before November's election.
He said on Thursday — two days after the pair's first showdown in Philadelphia — that Harris only wanted a rematch because he (...)
Kamala Harris put up a forceful battle against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election.
During the 90-minute clash, she repeatedly goaded him, showcasing their starkly different visions for the (...)
Presidential debates matter in American politics. And the one that takes place on Tuesday night between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris – their only currently scheduled face-off – may matter more than most.
Joe Biden's poor performance in the first (...)
Tim Walz touted his rural roots and said Donald Trump would take the US "backward" as he appeared for the first time as Kamala Harris's running mate at a raucous Democratic Party rally.
At the event in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, the party's new (...)
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday morning, ending two weeks of intense speculation as the US hurtles towards November's presidential election.
Ms Harris interviewed several top contenders in Washington (...)
Vice President Kamala Harris is interviewing a half-dozen potential running mates this weekend ahead of a formal announcement and a battleground tour with her new No. 2 next week, Associated Press reported.
Her interview list includes Govs. Andy (...)
One man in the audience died while trying to protect his family during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday, authorities say.
Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer fire chief, dove onto family members when the shots rang (...)
More than a handful of House Democratic ranking members told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a Sunday call that President Joe Biden needs to step aside from the 2024 campaign, according to sources familiar with the call.
Jeffries held the (...)
US President Joe Biden worked to calm senior Democrats and staff on his campaign on Wednesday, as reports suggested he was weighing his future after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump last week.
Biden held a closed-door lunch with (...)
More than 70 million Americans — about one in five of the population — are living under heat alerts as temperatures soar.
Warnings have also been issued in four Canadian provinces with much of the continent now gripped by the heatwave.
Officials say (...)
Canadian police have made arrests and issued nine warrants in the largest gold theft in the country's history.
More than 6,500 gold bars worth C$20m (£11.6m), were stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport, in April 2023, along with millions in cash.
The (...)
Five people have been arrested – four of whom are juveniles – after a Wednesday afternoon shooting that unfolded in a West Philadelphia park during a large Muslim religious celebration filled with families and children, police say.
The shooting took (...)
A Palestinian American doctor walked out of a meeting with President Joe Biden before it was over Tuesday evening, underscoring the high tensions, anger and concern from Arab, Palestinian and Muslim American communities amid the Israel-Hamas (...)
By the time the crew of the Dali, a massive 948ft (289m) container ship, realized what was happening, it was already far too late.
The vessel — at the very start of a 27-day journey from the port of Baltimore to Sri Lanka — completely lost power (...)
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday launched a sneaker line, a day after he and his companies were ordered by a judge to pay nearly $355 million in his New York civil fraud trial.
The former president unveiled "Trump Sneakers" at Sneaker Con (...)
When Japanese Airlines flight 516 touched down at Tokyo's Haneda airport carrying hundreds of people on Tuesday it erupted into a terrifying fireball.
The Airbus A350 passenger plane had collided with an earthquake relief aircraft on the runway – (...)
