US President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a lawsuit in Michigan to stop the counting of ballots in the presidential election, and says it would seek a recount of votes in Wisconsin.

The outcome of the US presidential election hangs in the balance as nine states continue to count ballots, including some of the most competitive battleground states where the tally could take days to complete. Here is the state of play in the nine states. The vote counts are supplied by Edison Research.

The excruciatingly close US presidential election hung in the balance yesterday, with Democrat Joe Biden leading in two critical Midwestern states that could tip the contest in his favor even as President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory and made unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud.

Hopes fading for Senate control, Democrats have had a disappointing election night as Republicans swatted down an onslaught of challengers and fought to retain their fragile majority. Several races have remained undecided and at least one headed to a runoff in January.

A day after Americans voted in a bitterly contested election, the rest of the world is none the wiser, with millions of votes still to count, the race too close to call and a mounting risk of days or even weeks of legal uncertainty.

The United States has formally exited the Paris Agreement, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight climate change.

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden today each faced narrow paths to potential victory in a close-fought US presidential election that will be determined by a razor-thin margin.

Rapper Kanye West on Tuesday voted for himself as the next US president after a long-shot campaign marked by erratic statements and speculation that he might siphon some Black votes from Democrat Joe Biden.

Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign says it will fight any efforts by President Donald Trump’s campaign to go to the US Supreme Court to prevent ballots from being tabulated.

If elected US president, Joe Biden will restore economic assistance to the Palestinians and reopen the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington, reports Al Arabiya quoting Kamala Harris as saying.

US President Donald Trump has said "a very sad group of people" is trying to disenfranchise millions of his supporters who voted for him, and that "this is a fraud on the American public."

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said the results of the election may not be known until Wednesday morning (later tonight, Bangladesh time) or later but he is optimistic of the outcome.

Democratic candidates in the US states of Delaware and Vermont made history Tuesday when they became the first openly transgender legislators in their states.

The two contenders split the first U.S. states to be projected in the White House race, with conservative states like Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee going to Trump and Democratic-leaning Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia going to Biden, according to projections by television networks and Edison Research. But in Florida, widely seen by voting experts as a must-win state for Trump in his quest for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, Trump was leading Biden 50.5% to 48.5% based on about 90% of the estimated total votes.

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.

The politics in the US and the coverage surrounding it makes for excellent entertainment, at least from an outsider’s point of view.

President Donald Trump said he felt good about his chances for victory as US election day opened Tuesday, predicting that he would register big wins in key states such as Florida and Arizona.