The FBI is looking into a spate of mysterious robocalls urging people to stay home on Election Day as the nation remains on high alert to ensure voting is not compromised, a Department of Homeland Security official has said.

In the 2020 US general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in more than 7,000 races – starting with the White House and reaching down the ballot to every seat in every state legislature.

Even before US Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory. US President Donald Trump is promising more to come.

Wearing face masks and standing spaced apart, Americans wait at polling stations to choose a president on an Election Day marked so far by orderliness and mostly short lines, even as major cities braced for potential unrest.

Democrat Joe Biden leads in the national polls and most of the battleground states going into Election Day but President Donald Trump is insisting they’re wrong and he’ll repeat his upset victory of 2016. Here is a look at the latest national polls and polls in key battleground states:

India, Australia, Japan and the United States started a strategic navy drill yesterday in the Bay of Bengal, with all four countries keeping a wary eye on China’s growing military power.

President Trump is, without question, an underdog -- and a clear one -- going into Tuesday’s election. But, a long shot is not a no shot. And there is a somewhat plausible electoral map that gets him to 270 electoral votes and a second term.

Unlike President Donald Trump, who has a very narrow set of paths to get to 270 electoral votes, Joe Biden has a slew of ways to get to that magic number. Here’s his easiest route to the presidency.

Democrat Joe Biden leads in the national polls and most of the battleground states going into Election Day but President Donald Trump is insisting they’re wrong and he’ll repeat his upset victory of 2016. Here is a look at the latest national polls and polls in key battleground states:

State law enforcement officials warned Monday against pressure to declare the winner of the US election, amid reporting that President Donald Trump has mulled claiming victory before votes are counted.

When the dust settles after the November 3 United States elections, both major political parties hope they will have taken control of the 100-member Senate, a body that has outsized power in influencing American life beyond its legislative role.

A lifelong Republican from Dixville Notch in New Hampshire has become the first American to cast a ballot on election day 2020 – voting for Democrat Joe Biden.

It has been a long tradition for US television networks to call projected winners on election night as results trickle in -- but the unique circumstances of 2020 are likely to create numerous challenges to that practice.

A federal judge in Texas on Monday denied a bid by Republicans to toss more than 127,000 votes already cast at drive-through voting sites in Houston, a Democratic-leaning area.

Britain’s terrorism threat level has been raised to ‘severe’, interior minister Priti Patel said on Tuesday, meaning an attack is now seen as highly likely.

The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the US, persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make changes to long-established election procedures and leading to hundreds of lawsuits over how votes will be cast and which ballots will be counted.

Hundreds of men and women marched, clad in T-shirts supporting US President Donald Trump or pink fabric dresses bearing the image of Jesus, as they waved American flags, Republican presidential campaign signs, and even a few Nigerian flags.

In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, US President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely Republican.

Austria’s top security official said that four people have died — including one assailant — and fifteen people were wounded in a shooting in the heart of Vienna late Monday.

Even though 2020 saw a “slight decrease” in the rate of impunity for crimes against journalists, 87 percent of such cases worldwide were still not resolved, according to Unesco, the UN agency tasked with defending press freedom, among other things.