President-elect Donald Trump picks up 11 more electoral votes in Arizona, a battleground state Biden won in 2020.

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country threatening them with slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.

With Republicans having been declared winners of the White House and the Senate, the race for the House of Representatives remains undecided. There are 435 voting members of the House, with 218 needed for a party to hold a majority. The Associated Press (AP) has called 211 seats for the Republican Party and 199 for the Democrats.

The so-called "Nostradamus" of U.S. elections has admitted he was wrong after predicting Kamala Harris would win the keys to the White House this year.

Donald Trump is preparing for his presidential transition, while votes are still being counted for key races in the House. Follow here for the latest live news updates on the 2024 election.

The powerful former speaker of the House suggested the Democrats could have fared better if the president stood down as candidate sooner.

It's the first time Trump has topped an opponent in the popular vote​, and only the second time since 1988 that any Republican has done so.

The 2024 presidential election is over, but the path to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 is just beginning. The votes have to be certified in the states, the Electoral College has to meet and then Congress counts the vote.

Hours after Trump's victory, advocacy groups were setting their sights on the president-elect, who will take office Jan. 20.

Maricopa County, Arizona, which Biden won by a slim margin, has consistently been the subject of election denialism conspiracy theories. The other five — Michigan’s Wayne County, Pennsylvania’s Philadelphia County and Georgia’s DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties — were some of the largest Democratic strongholds in their respective states.

Now, that the primary election has ended, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson said her office will conduct an audit, performing partial manual counts for the Nov. 5 election. “Texas leads the way in election integrity measures with checks before ...