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More than 250,000 people have now died with coronavirus in the US, with the rate of new infections and hospitalisations on the rise. Latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the pandemic, showed the number of people killed by the virus in the country is now 250,485. It comes as the pandemic

On the first day of a new lockdown in Michigan hundreds of people ventured out to one of the only places still open for business – a COVID-19 testing site. People waited for up to four hours to be swabbed. Not all had symptoms, but all shared a weariness at spiralling infections and new lockdown

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has now proved 95% effective in preventing coronavirus and has met the safety criteria needed for emergency authorisation, the firms have said. Pfizer and BioNTech say they plan to submit the COVID-19 vaccine to the US regulator for emergency use approval “within days” after “no serious safety concerns” were reported. The UK

Donald Trump has sacked the head of a government agency that he set up to ensure the reliability of voting, over his insistence that the election was fair and secure. The president publicly fired Christopher Krebs, former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Twitter. Mr Trump tweeted: “The recent statement by

US President Donald Trump asked for options on attacking Iranian nuclear sites last week, according to an official, before ultimately deciding against it. Mr Trump, who has yet refused to concede that he lost the presidential election, apparently made the request during an Oval Office meeting last week, which included Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary

US president-elect Joe Biden has said “more people may die” if the Trump administration does not help ensure a smooth transfer of power. Mr Biden also said he was hopeful Mr Trump would be “mildly more enlightened” before the incoming president’s inauguration on 20 January. Despite mounting public pressure, the Republican’s administration has refused to

Barack Obama has said it’s “absolutely” time for President Donald Trump to concede the election – and that he should have already done so. Mr Trump‘s predecessor told CBS’ 60 Minutes programme that he should have conceded defeat to Joe Biden “the day after the election” and it was time for America’s outgoing leader to

Donald Trump has appeared to concede the US election for the first time, saying that president-elect Joe Biden “won”. He made the admission in a tweet along with more unfounded claims the vote was rigged against him. Mr Trump wrote of his soon-to-be successor: “He won because the election was rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR

The tension of a contested election has been building for days and finally the two sides of a divided America squared off. They came head-to-head outside The Supreme Court in Washington DC in the afternoon on Saturday. By dusk, both sides moved into town, some armed with baseball bats, shanks and up for a fight.

Donald Trump supporters have been protesting in Washington DC after the president appeared to hint he may not be in the White House for much longer. Thousands of demonstrators marched towards Freedom Plaza near the White House in downtown DC before heading towards the US Supreme Court building. “Stop the steal!” and “We are the

Joe Biden is the president-elect, but Donald Trump is yet to concede. His loyalists are pursuing legal challenges, but we still haven’t seen any evidence of electoral fraud. US correspondent Cordelia Lynch and Washington bureau chief Emily Purser Brown discuss why Washington has gone quiet, the global response to a Biden/Harris White House and whether

President-elect Joe Biden’s lead is getting bigger, some Republicans are urging Donald Trump to concede, and Boris Johnson has called the commander-in-chief the “previous president”. But the current US leader is still claiming on Twitter that he won the election. What will it take for Mr Trump to admit defeat? Can the election result be

Georgia has confirmed there will be a full hand recount of its US election votes after the result in the state remains too close to call. President-elect Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes out of nearly five million votes counted. Nearly all of the ballots have been processed. Election officials announced an

Boris Johnson has branded Donald Trump the “previous president” and hailed his “refreshing” conversation with successor Joe Biden. Mr Trump is continuing to claim he won last week’s US presidential election and has made multiple unsubstantiated claims of fraud. But the prime minister consigned Mr Trump’s presidency to the history books on Wednesday, as he

A smooth transition of power in the US is looking less likely with Donald Trump blocking co-operation with Joe Biden’s team and the US attorney general authorising investigations into allegations of electoral fraud. The Electoral College is scheduled to formally confirm Mr Biden‘s victory on 14 December with the Democrat being sworn into office in

There was nothing surprising about Joe Biden’s speech to the nation on coronavirus. Yet it felt refreshing in its predictability. You could almost hear America breathing a collective sigh of relief. It was the country’s clearest message yet on wearing a face mask and it came from a small theatre in Wilmington, not the White