US Election Results 2020 live: Trump alleges ballot counting abuse
THE TIMES OF INDIA | Nov 11, 2020, 00:49:46 IST
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US Election Results 2020 live: Trump alleges ballot counting abuse

Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. Joe Biden took the first steps on Sunday towards moving into the White House in 73 days, as Donald Trump again refused to admit defeat and tried to sow doubt about the election results. Stay with TOI for the latest developments
09:47 (IST) Nov 09
Democrat Joe Biden began preparing on Sunday to deal with the coronavirus and other problems that will confront him as president of a divided America, while President Donald Trump planned campaign-style rallies to contest the election.
09:28 (IST) Nov 09
With US President Donald Trump showing no signs that he will leave office gracefully after his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden in the US Presidential elections, experts and former officials say they fear a growing risk that he could make disruptive moves to double down on priorities and tie his successor's hands in his final months in the White House.
09:04 (IST) Nov 09
Donald Trump's election night party adds to virus scrutiny

It was supposed to be a scene of celebration. Instead, the Trump campaign's election night watch party in the White House East Room has become another symbol of President Donald Trump's cavalier attitude toward a virus that is ripping across the nation and infecting more than 100,000 people a day.

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08:10 (IST) Nov 09
US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has achieved what she wanted to do, according to her maternal aunt Sarala Gopalan who lauded the Democrat for the poll victory.
07:47 (IST) Nov 09
Joe Biden begins transition as Trump refuses to concede

US President-elect Joe Biden took the first steps Sunday towards moving into the White House in 73 days, as Donald Trump again refused to admit defeat and tried to sow doubt about the election results.

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07:43 (IST) Nov 09
A lotus has bloomed in the mud pond that is American politics, long dominated by men — mostly white men. Kamala Harris’ election as the first female vice-president of the US — sub-ethnicities and race aside — was celebrated wildly across a country that now has more women voters than men, with the winner herself recognising the turning point in redressing gender imbalance in history.
07:30 (IST) Nov 09
At a time when the whole of the country is rejoicing the prospect of Kamala Harris becoming the first woman vice-president of the United States, there could be more reason for Indians to feel elated about. Indian-American surgeon Dr Vivek Murthy, 43, is likely to be inducted into President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 task force. If Dr Murthy is appointed to the key post, the people of Karnataka’s Mandya will have an added reason to celebrate, as his father, Lakshminarasimha Murthy, traces his roots back to the Old Mysore district.
07:20 (IST) Nov 09
How vested interests kept media glued to Kamala’s native village

When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared the President and vice-president of the US, Kamala’s ancestral village Thlasendrapuram celebrated an early Diwali. Only that the villagers didn’t know about the ‘daughter of the soil’ till a few groups educated them with banners and buntings during the runup to the polls.

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07:13 (IST) Nov 09
US President-elect Joe Biden will work towards providing a roadmap to American citizenship for nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants, including over 5,00,000 from India, and will also establish a minimum admission number of 95,000 refugees annually.
07:08 (IST) Nov 09
Biden team held Covid-19 talks with Operation Warp Speed drugmakers before election
US President-elect Joe Biden's healthcare advisers have held talks with drugmaker executives on the US government's Operation Warp Speed program to accelerate development of a possible Covid-19 treatment, a Biden spokesman said on Sunday. Under the Trump administration, Operation Warp Speed has struck deals with several drugmakers in an effort to help speed up the search for effective treatments for the disease amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
06:54 (IST) Nov 09
‘Biden from Mumbai’. That’s how US President-elect Joe Biden often likes to recall the gentleman who had written him a congratulatory letter in 1972, soon after he was elected as one of the youngest US senators at the age of 29.
06:50 (IST) Nov 09
President-elect Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have personal ties and a history of deal-making that could shape the future of a Biden administration.
06:40 (IST) Nov 09
US welcomes India’s rise: Joe Biden

The US and India share the same democratic values and have a tremendous capability to work together. The two must continue to aspire to the promise of prosperity and security, Joe Biden had told TOI’s Srijana Mitra Das in an interview in 2013 during his first visit to the country as vice president.

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06:34 (IST) Nov 09
Firecrackers and prayers as Indians celebrate Harris' win
Waking up to the news of Kamala Harris' election as US vice president, overjoyed people in her Indian grandfather's hometown set off firecrackers and offered prayers on Sunday. Groups gathered at street corners in Thulasendrapuram, a tiny village of 350 people, reading newspapers and chatting about Joe Biden and Harris' victory before moving to a temple. A woman wrote in color powder outside her home: ``Congratulations Kamala Harris. Pride of our village. Vanakkam (Greetings) America.''
06:25 (IST) Nov 09
President-elect Joe Biden will announce a 12-member task force to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, starting a busy week in which he will move forward with the presidential transition on a number of fronts, reports Reuters.
06:16 (IST) Nov 09
Republicans split on Biden's election win as Trump refuses to concede defeat
Republicans are split on the projected win by President-elect Joe Biden even as President Donald Trump refused to concede defeat, claiming widespread voter fraud. Some GOP lawmakers were more accepting of Biden's lead on Sunday, after he was projected the winner, while others leaned more into Trump's narrative of voter fraud, championing legal challenges by his campaign, reported The Hill. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah is one of two Republican senators who congratulated the president-elect on his win on Saturday, although he said that Trump will 'keep on fighting until the very end'.
06:07 (IST) Nov 09
Japan PM Suga: Want to work with President-elect Biden to enhance alliance
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he wanted to work with President-elect Joe Biden to strengthen the Japan-US alliance and to secure peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking to reporters, Suga also said nothing had been decided on the timing of phone talks with Biden or a visit to the United States, but added he wanted to arrange them at the right time.
06:03 (IST) Nov 09

We have always seen her (Kamala Harris) grow up as a good child. She was very good at whatever she did & she has achieved what she wanted to do.

Dr Sarala Gopalan, maternal aunty of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, in Chennai