November 5, 2020 2:44 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Judges in Georgia and Michigan have quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits, undercutting a campaign legal strategy aimed at attacking the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump’s defeat. The rulings came Thursday as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, the Trump campaign won an appellate ruling to get party and campaign observers closer to election workers who are processing mail-in ballots in Philadelphia. But the order did not affect the counting of ballots that is proceeding in Pennsylvania. Biden campaign attorney Bob Bauer called the Republican legal challenges meritless.
November 4, 2020 4:33 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans have suffered their first setback in the battle for Senate control, losing a seat in Colorado. But but key GOP incumbents are holding on elsewhere including While House ally Lindsey Graham, who survived in a high-profile contest in South Carolina. Other races are still too early to call. GOP Sen. Cory Gardner was defeated by Democrat John Hickenlooper, a former governor. Other Republican incumbents so far are holding their own. Both parties see paths to victory, and the outcome might not be known on election night.
November 4, 2020 4:31 am
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) – Hurricane Eta continues spinning across northern Nicaragua after lashing the country’s Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday, isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides in at least two countries. The storm has weakened, but is moving so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America is on high alert. At least three people in Nicaragua and Honduras have been killed in landslides. Eta came ashore Tuesday afternoon south of the Nicaraguan city of Bilwi as a powerful Category 4 hurricane after stalling just off the coast for hours.
November 4, 2020 4:30 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrat Mark Kelly has won the Arizona Senate seat once held by John McCain. The former astronaut defeated Republican Sen. Martha McSally, who was appointed to the seat after McCain’s death in 2018. áIt’s the second election night contest in which a Democrat beat a GOP incumbent. The other was in Colorado. The Arizona race was a a special election to finish McCain’s term, so Kelly could be sworn in as early as Nov. 30, when the results are officially certified. Kelly flew combat missions for the Navy during Operation Desert Storm before becoming a test pilot and later an astronaut. He flew four missions to the International Space Station.
November 4, 2020 4:28 am
(AP) – News organizations are strongly rebuking President Donald Trump for declaring on live television that it was a “major fraud” that he hadn’t been declared the election’s winner. Trump made the statement from the White House after 2:20 p.m. NBC broke into his remarks to say that Trump was making false statements, and others criticized his remarks. The Associated Press said it was simply too early to declare a winner in several states. It was an explosive moment in a night where media outlets had been preaching patience in waiting out results that could take days.
November 4, 2020 3:57 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Legal challenges and a mountain of uncounted ballots are promising a long watch to find out who the people of Pennsylvania chose as president. A host of other major races in the state also stayed unresolved Wednesday. Those included races for several congressional seats, statewide officers and the legislature. Voters turned out in large numbers for an election that produced few of the glitches some had feared. But the decision to greatly expand mail-in voting means it could be days before it’s clear whether President Donald Trump repeated his surprise Pennsylvania victory from 2016 or whether native son Joe Biden would collect its 20 electoral votes.
November 4, 2020 1:37 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 1,000 people protesting President Donald Trump converged on Black Lives Matter Plaza, just a block from the White House, while hundreds more marched through parts of downtown Washington, at times blocking traffic and lighting off fireworks. Scattered protests also took place from Seattle to New York City, but there were no signs of serious violence or widespread unrest in the hours immediately after the polls closed. The demonstrations in Washington were largely peaceful, with people chanting and unfurling anti-Trump banners. Hundreds of businesses in cities across the U.S. had boarded up their windows ahead of the election for fear of violence.
November 4, 2020 1:32 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump in battleground Wisconsin, securing the state’s 10 electoral votes and reclaiming a key part of the blue wall that slipped away from Democrats four years ago. The Associated Press called Wisconsin for Biden after election officials said all outstanding ballots had been counted, save for a few hundred in one township and an expected small number of provisional ballots. Trump’s campaign has requested a recount. Statewide recounts in Wisconsin have historically changed the vote tally by only a few hundred votes. The victory for Biden bumps him up to 248 electoral votes, while Trump has 214. It takes 270 to win the presidency.
November 4, 2020 1:24 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. – It was a night for most of the incumbents in Western Pennsylvania, as many representatives on the local and state level held on to their positions. Republican Guy Reschenthaler looks to have secured another term over democratic challenger Bill Marx in the 14th Congressional District. Meanwhile, Devlin Robinson is projected to beat Democrat Pam Iovino for the PA Senate 37th District. Republican Tom O’Neal has sealed the win for another term as the 48th District Representative over former Washington County Commissioner Harlan Shober. Republican Bud Cook took another big win in the Mon Valley, beating Randy Barli for the 49th District. In the 46th District, Republican Jason Ortitay has won another term, beating familiar challenger Byron Timmins. Republican Josh Kail also took the 15th District once again, this time edging out Bob Williams. In races too close to call. Democratic incumbent Pam Snyder of the 50th District trails Larry Yost into the morning, meanwhile in the 39th District, GOP incumbent Mike Puskaric and Sara Summer Oliphant are very close. Both of those races are waiting on large amounts of mail-in ballots to be processed in the coming days.
November 4, 2020 1:05 am
DETROIT (AP) – Ford is recalling more than 375,000 Explorer SUVs in the U.S. and Canada to fix a suspension problem that has caused 13 crashes. The recall covers SUVs from the 2013 through 2017 model years built at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant from Sept. 4, 2012 to Jan. 25, 2017. They were sold or registered 22 states and six Canadian provinces where salt is used to clear roads during the winter. The automaker says the rear toe links can fracture, reducing steering control. A toe link puts weight on the tires so they stay on the ground. Ford says six people were hurt in the crashes. Dealers will inspect the suspension and replace parts if necessary. Customers will be notified starting the week of Nov. 30.
