The hugely contentious US presidential election has come down to four states -- Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada -- deciding the victor. Since the November 3 vote, the incumbent president, Donald Trump, at his post-election rallies, has called for ballot counting to be stopped, and contended without proof there has been voter fraud -- so much so that several US TV networks late Thursday halted live coverage of his first public appearance since election night.

Of sore losers, and votes that matter: How the US is reacting to #TrumpMeltdown

As the country faces a dual national crisis — a monthslong pandemic and economic devastation — voters were deeply divided on what mattered more: containing the coronavirus or hustling to rebuild the economy, according early exit polls and voter surveys released Tuesday.

Exit polls showed the vote came down to the pandemic versus the economy

Betting market odds on the U.S. presidential election have begun to tighten once again after flipping in favour of Republican President Donald Trump over Democratic candidate Joe Biden, according to data from three aggregators.

US election betting odds tighten but still favour Trump over Biden

Eta was downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane Tuesday even as it continued to pummel Nicaragua, killing two people there and one in neighboring Honduras as it unleashed fierce winds and heavy downpours.

Three dead as Category 2 hurricane Eta batters Nicaragua

Hurray, Election Day! Not that the arrival of Nov. 3, after what has seemed like a 1,000-year campaign, felt like much consolation. “The whole thing is just a gigantic nightmare,” said Robin Helmericks, a scientist who voted early with her 19-year-old daughter in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday.

How long is this going to take? Americans settle in to wait

Nov 4 | 09:00 pm Federal Reserve begins meeting as US vote yet to be decided The Federal Reserve's rate-setting committee began meeting Wednesday, a spokesperson said, hours after polls closed in the US presidential election which remains undecided.

US election result 2020 LIVE updates: The world holds its breath for the outcome

Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come.

As counting begins, a flood of mail ballots complicates vote tallies

Voters largely found the experience of casting their ballots to be an easy one, though there is a wide gap between the share of White voters who say it was very easy (roughly three-quarters) and the share of Black voters who feel the same way (about half).

Half of voters confident their ballots will be counted accurately, CNN exit poll shows

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls gradually closing across the United States. The first results have just come in, with US media projecting wins for Biden in Vermont and Virginia, and for Trump in West Virginia.

First election results: Biden wins Vermont and Virginia, Trump takes West Virginia

Americans streamed to the polls on Tuesday to choose either incumbent Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden to lead a pandemic-battered nation for the next four years. Voters lined up around the country to cast ballots, with no signs yet of disruptions at polling places that some had feared after a heated campaign marked by provocative rhetoric.

Trump: We are going to have a special next year | US Presidential Election 2020

As voters line up to vote during US elections, Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden's vice president pick Kamala Harris said "it is going to be a tight race, let's elect Joe Biden". "We have a choice in front of us and power in our hands. We need to deal with racial disparity," Kamala Harris said.

Kamala Harris greets supporters on polling day | US Presidential Election 2020

With a president refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power, a number of commentators have been sounding the alarm about a “rickety” U.S. electoral system seen as uniquely vulnerable to a postelection crisis.

What happens if neither Trump nor Biden concedes?

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