Former Vice President Joe Biden was edging closer to winning the presidency late Friday, as he led President Donald Trump in key battleground states and ballots continued to be processed late into the night.
Justice Samuel Alito reiterates prior court directive that mail-in ballots received during state’s grace period after Election Day be kept separate from those that arrived on Tuesday or earlier.
The Trump campaign has been concerned about its finances for months and has kicked off a postelection fundraising drive to finance legal efforts to reverse Joe Biden’s advantage in the vote count.
Just one day after the U.S. surpassed 100,000 new cases of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 in a singe day, it set a fresh record that was 20% higher, straining hospitals in areas of the Midwest and South as they struggle to cope with an influx of patients.