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Election observer says no evidence for Trump’s fraud claims

By Associated Press

The head of an international delegation monitoring the U.S. election says his team has no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claims about alleged fraud involving mail-in absentee ballots.

More than a dozen arrested as protesters demand vote count

By Martha Bellisle, Adam Geller, Associated Press

Police arrested more than a dozen people in Seattle and Portland, Oregon overnight during protests demanding a full tally of all votes in the US election. Dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump rallied at tabulation sites in closely contested…

WATCH: Clark County, Nevada, officials give election update as vote counting continues

By Associated Press

Early results showed Joe Biden with a slim lead over President Donald Trump in Nevada, but it was too early to declare a winner.

Election demonstrators arrested in Seattle and Portland

By Gillian Flaccus, Martha Bellisle, Associated Press

More than a dozen people have been arrested in Seattle and Portland, Oregon after hundreds took to the streets to demand a full count of all presidential election votes.

751,000 seek U.S. jobless benefits as virus hobbles economy

By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 751,000, a still-historically high level that shows that many employers keep cutting jobs in the face of the accelerating pandemic.

Democrat Gary Peters wins Michigan’s Senate race

By Associated Press

Republicans, who have won just one Senate seat in Michigan since the 1970s, spent heavily to try to unseat Peters in one of their few pickup opportunities.

Post-election vote tallying raises fresh security concerns

By Eric Tucker, Ben Fox, Associated Press

Election Day came and went without any overt signs of foreign interference affecting the vote, but that doesn’t mean the risk has faded.

Trump campaign sues in Georgia

By Associated Press

The lawsuit alleges that a Republican observer watched a poll worker take unprocessed absentee ballots from a back room and mix them into processed absentee ballots waiting to be tabulated.

Nevada will release more mail-in ballot results on Thursday

By Associated Press

Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that he did not yet know how many ballots had been received but uncounted in the Las Vegas area.

Oregon leads the way in decriminalizing hard drugs

By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press

In a first in the nation, Oregon has rejected charging drug users with criminal offenses, with voters passing a ballot measure that decriminalizes possession of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other hard drugs.