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The President-elect is expected to address the nation from his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday evening.

PM Boris Johnson praised the “fantastic virtual Diwali festival” for bringing the spirit of Diwali into people’s homes while helping people stay safe.

Ultimately, Biden’s victory might be attributed to the fact that enough Americans simply liked him better than Trump.

Under a system that’s been tweaked over two centuries, there is still a monthslong timeline during which the 538-member Electoral College picks the president.

President Donald Trump, whose tally stood at 214 but may change, will be the first one-term president in 30 years. He was on his golf course when Biden was declared winner.

Kamala Harris becomes the first South Asian American and Black woman to become the Vice President of the United States.

After Joe Biden’s win, Donald Trump underlined that states had not yet certified the results, and his campaign has launched multiple legal challenges.

Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States.

Harris has been a rising star in Democratic politics for much of the last two decades, serving as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general before becoming a US senator. After Harris ended her own 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate.

US presidential election 2020: Americans have been waiting longer than any presidential election year since 2000 to learn the winner, with vote counting slowed by a record number of mail-in ballots.

This came even as Trump’s challenger Joe Biden urged unity in a brief address in his home state of Delaware, calling for an end to the “partisan warfare” that has characterised American politics in recent years.

Murthy, who at 37 was the youngest US surgeon general, is one of the two core Indian-American advisers to Joe Biden. He has been privately advising Biden on the coronavirus pandemic for months.

The legal overhaul means that consuming alcohol, living together before marriage and attempting suicide will no longer be considered crimes, The National newspaper reported.

Nawaz Sharif had made the comments virtually on October 16 during a joint rally organised by the Opposition parties under the banner of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).

It is the first since 2000 that Americans are waiting this long for the results of the presidential election.