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Protesters gather near White House, no wide unrest seen
More than 1,000 people protesting President Donald Trump converged on Black Lives Matter Plaza on Tuesday night, just a block from the White House, while hundreds more marched through parts of downtown Washington, sometimes blocking traffic and setting off fireworks.
Trump wins Florida, locked in other tight races with Biden
President Donald Trump won Florida, the nation’s most prized battleground state, as he and Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday battled to the finish of an epic campaign that will shape America’s response to the surging pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial justice.
Virus hospitalizations surge as pandemic shadows US election
Americans went to the polls Tuesday under the shadow of a resurging pandemic, with an alarming increase in cases nationwide and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 reaching record highs in a growing number of states.
Pennsylvania emerges as online misinformation hot spot
A single voting machine jammed for just minutes Tuesday morning at a precinct in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania -- but misleading posts on Facebook and Twitter claimed multiple machines there were down for hours.
Over 850,000 children in US test positive for COVID-19
Washington, Nov 4 (Xinhua/UNB)-- Over 850,000 children in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, a new report of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association says.
The report says 61,447 new child cases were reported from Oct 22 to 29, which is the highest since the pandemic began, reports Xinhua.
In October, nearly 200,000 new child COVID-19 cases were reported. Altogether, 853,635 child COVID-19 cases had been reported in the United States so far, and children represented 11.1 percent of all those infected, said the report.
The overall rate was 1,134 cases per 100,000 children in the population, according to the report.
Children accounted for 1 percent to 3.5 percent of total reported hospitalisations, and 0 to 0.2 percent of all COVID-19 deaths, said the report.
"At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is rare among children. However, there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects," it said.
The US has so far recorded 9,379,590 coronavirus cases with 232,553 deaths -- the highest in the world.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year and the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March. There is currently no vaccine for the virus.
Until Wednesday morning, the number of globally confirmed coronavirus cases stood at 47,348,201 with 1,212,844 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) data.
Voters favor Biden on virus, Trump on economy
Voters in the US presidential election faced a public health crisis and a wounded economy, but neither candidate emerged as the clear choice to handle both of those issues, according to AP Votecast.
More voters — both nationwide and in key battlegrounds — said former Vice President Joe Biden would be better able to handle the coronavirus pandemic, the top concern for about 4 in 10 voters. But President Donald Trump edged out Biden on the question of who would be better to rebuild an economy besieged by nearly 11 million job losses and small businesses staring down a bleak winter. About 3 in 10 voters nationally ranked the economy as the most pressing issue.
The question of whether the pandemic or the economy mattered more to voters was a heated debate in the campaign. Trump argued that the economy should not be a casualty of the disease and maintained, without evidence, that the nation was “rounding the turn.” Biden has warned that the economy can never fully heal unless the coronavirus is first contained and businesses can fully reopen.
A majority of voters were receptive to that argument. About 6 in 10 voters said the government’s higher priority should be limiting the spread of the coronavirus, even if it damages the economy.
Biden, Trump score wins
Polls closed across the East Coast Tuesday night as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden concluded an epic campaign marked by rancor and fear that will influence how the nation confronts a surging pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial justice.
Fearing election unrest, U.S. businesses are getting ready
Judging by the plywood, it’s shaping up to be an Election Day like no other.
Nation by nation, the world watches Election Day in the US
For four years, the world’s nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the international community — or doesn’t.
Huge voter turnout expected despite virus, political rancor
The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the U.S., 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.