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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Polling stations opened in New York, New Jersey and Virginia early Tuesday, marking the start of US Election Day as President Donald Trump seeks to beat forecasts and defeat challenger Joe Biden.

Iran’s supreme leader mocked America’s presidential election in a televised address, quoting President Donald Trump’s own baseless claims about voter fraud to criticise the vote as Tehran marked the 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis.