US Election Results Live News: For Vox and Business Insider, it is President Joe Biden

The other fight: Which party controls the Senate will likely remain uncertain for months as two Senate races in Georgia will be decided in runoff elections on Jan. 5. Neither party has won enough Senate races to guarantee a majority.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has ordered election officials in Pennsylvania to keep separate the mail ballots that arrived after Election Day. Alito also ordered to continue the counting of votes, rejecting demands by the Republicans to stop the count.

9,000 votes counted from Allegheny, including Pittsburgh area military ballots, that puts Biden outside recount territory

Fox News and the New York Post, magnate Rupert Murdoch’s main media outlets, have started distancing themselves from Donald Trump as the US election vote counting drama drags on — a first since the president came to power and a potential turning point.

Vox.com and Business Insider have declared Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The Associated Press, Fox News and other organizations have not yet declared a winner.

A Biden wave here. New ballot report from Allegheny County gives the challenger his largest lead yet in PA, over 27,000

Setting the house in order

Cindy McCain, wife of the late Senator John McCain, told ABC News that she is confident that Biden “would put the country back together” when he becomes president.

There are 124,500 outstanding ballots still to be counted in Nevada

Joining us right now? The Biden campaign is preparing to claim victory. Here’s a recap

We’re going to play until the whistle blows.

– Trump team lawyer

More numbers coming from Arizona (11 electoral votes) as Joe Biden holds a lead in the counted vote there, as well as Nevada (six), Georgia (16) and Pennsylvania (20). Georgia may be headed for a recount

Trump’s sons have used social media to incite supporters and other Republicans and reiterating Trump’s message of voter fraud.

Legal challenges have been a part of Trump’s strategy to undermine the legitimacy of the election process and, thus, keep his voter base tuned in and agitated.

This ultimate drama capping an already mind bending 2020 comes with a warning: It may not end just yet. The next acts will likely unfold in the courts because a concession speech is far from Trump’s mind.

What next for the two candidates? Trump has to win all remaining states and Biden has to clinch just one more to reach the magic number 270.

NYT reports: A number of top Biden officials and allies are on hand tonight in Wilmington, including Jake Sullivan and Steve Ricchetti, two of his close advisers, and Senator Chris Coons.

After Maricopa county, Arizona released a new batch of data from processed ballots, Biden’s lead has narrowed to 29,861. The two candidates are now less than .3 points apart.

Biden continues to build on his lead in Pennsylvania, now leading the president by 21,705 votes after updates from Chester and Delaware counties outside Philadelphia.

Thousands of Donald Trump supporters have unwittingly found themselves in a Facebook group called “Gay Communists for Socialism”, after being tricked by its creators into joining what they thought was a pro-Trump election group.

Georgia to hold January runoffs for two seats that could determine Senate control

Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff will head to a runoff race after neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote. Georgia election rules require a candidate to get to 50 percent to win outright.

An Arizona state court judge set a hearing for November 13 in the Trump campaign-backed litigation challenging the use of Sharpie pens to fill out ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County, the largest county in the battleground state.

We’ve been anticipating an address from Joe Biden tonight, but it remains unclear when that will be.

While America struggles to zero in on the next President, here are 5 key takeaways from the country’s October jobs report

The Trump administration has begun its purge. Bonnie Glick, the department admin of the USAID , received a note from the White House today telling her that she needed to resign by 5 pm or she will be terminated without cause at the pleasure of the President.

Biden now holds a lead of over 19,500 votes out of more than 6.5 million ballots cast in Pennsylvania. That’s an edge of about 0.29%.

An anxious electorate has been waiting for results from Nevada, where a decisive Biden win would give him the six electoral votes needed to declare victory. Will they announce the results today?

Volunteers have been going door-to-door in Atlanta and elsewhere in Georgia to help voters correct issues with their rejected absentee ballots, a process known as curing.

Biden has gained some 73.9 million votes, versus the 65.9 that Hillary Clinton got.

Even though the count is not yet complete, Trump has easily surpassed the number of votes he got four years ago: more than 70 million so far, versus about 63 million in his victorious 2016 run.

The slow pace of this year’s count could be fueling a lot of criticism, but it’s mostly a reflection of laudable things: greater voter enthusiasm and steps that states took to protect their residents from COVID-19.

Securing Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes will put Biden over the 270 he needs to win the presidency after a political career stretching back nearly five decades.

Justice Samuel Alito has ordered all county boards in Pennsylvania to segregate ballots received after Election Day and said that if the ballots are counted, they be counted separately. This order is in line with the guidance that secretary of state of Pennsylvania had already issued.

The United States has broken its record for the highest number of new Covid-19 infections in a single day yet again, with more than 121,000 new cases recorded on Thursday.

Wisconsin Republican group urged Pennsylvania Trump supporters to turn in absentee ballots after deadline

In Phoenix, Arizona, pro-Trump protestors have reconvened outside the Maricopa county tabulations and elections center, where officials are still counting ballots.

Federal judge denies Republican candidates effort to stop ballot counting in Nevada’s Clark County

Georgia’s military ballots could be Trump’s best last chance to return to the White House

Philadelphia’s election office is not expected to release more count details this morning as the remaining ballots prove more challenging to sort through. The vote counting process has entered the most labor-intensive phase of the count, slowing the pace

Officials in Maricopa County, Ariz., expect to release tens of thousands of newly recorded votes around 9 pm EST (7:30 am). The remaining votes there will be key to deciding a tight race.

Arizona’s Pima County reports more than 7,200 ballots with a slight lean toward Trump

An increasingly bearish picture is unfolding for the U.S. dollar, which has suffered its worst week since March on signs that Federal Reserve money printing rather than government spending may be deployed to bolster the U.S. economy in the aftermath of elections.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who appeared to be closing in on an election victory, is expected to tap former derivatives market regulator Gary Gensler to advise on a transition plan for financial industry oversight, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s lead in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has grown to 555,833 votes, which represents 80.78% of the votes counted thus far, according to data from the city’s election office.

Fulton County, Georgia – home to Atlanta and the state’s largest population center —expects to upload approximately 3,612 provisional ballots and 900 ballots received from overseas in the next couple of hours.

A Wall Street Journal review of Trump’s tweets dating back to 2012 has found around 190 instances of the president claiming widespread illegal voting; asserting an election or primary was rigged; saying voting by mail would allow rampant fraud; or prematurely declaring victory.

In Nevada, Biden has gained about 2,000 votes and is leading by 22,657. Again, Trump’s chances of catching up are dimming.

In Arizona, Joe Biden’s lead is continuing to narrow. Trump is trailing by 39,070 votes, but isn’t quite hitting the thresholds needed to overtake his Democratic opponent.

Biden currently leads Trump by just over 14500 votes and it looks almost certain that he will take Pennsylvania’s 20 college electoral votes and therefore the White House.

Pennsylvania GOP asks Supreme Court to enforce segregation of late ballots that officials say they have already set aside

All threat, no money? Remember the Trump campaign is essentially broke, and Trump himself is millions of dollars in debt. So who exactly is paying for all this? RNC has been sending out aggressive emails to supporters in a desperate bid to raise around $60 million

Former CIA Director John Brennan attacks Trump, calls him a fascist

International election observers from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Panama said they found the presidential campaign was “competitive and quite aggressive, with one campaign, in particular, launching repeated attacks on its major rival as well as the integrity of the country’s electoral system” in a new report by the Organization of American States.

It’s almost 5am (IST), and this is where the numbers stand in the four battleground states we’re tracking

Denver Riggleman, a Republican congressman of Virginia, has said the far-right QAnon conspiracy movement “must be condemned by all political figures”. Riggleman, who lost a Republican primary this year, will be leaving office.

It may be game over for Donald Trump soon, but doesn’t look like he’s going to take it quietly.

Top Michigan lawmaker announces plans for legislative inquiry into state’s vote count

Historically, provisional ballots tend to track the overall vote, because these are ballots that are sort of random throughout the state based on someone who arrived who had a need to fill out a provisional ballot

– Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney general Josh Shapiro

The White House has called a “lid” – meaning that we’re not expecting Donald Trump to deliver remarks tonight … unless he changes his mind.

Traditional electoral maps are misleading. They advantage geographical accuracy over electoral importance. The region areas are by no means representative of the true result of an election

Ja’Ron Smith, a top administration aide and the highest-ranking Black official at the White House, has left his post.