Protesters, both those calling for all votes to be counted and supporters of President Trump seeking to stop the count, gathered outside the Philadelphia Convention Center, where votes were being tallied Thursday.

A Georgia election official said on Thursday that the state was doing all it could to finalize its election results, with accuracy superseding speed.

The county's elections director said workers would stay 'as long as it takes' to finish counting votes. Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, is a key to deciding Georgia's 16 electoral votes.

On Tuesday night, Sen. Mitch McConnell won his bid for re-election in a competitive Kentucky Senate race.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. kicked off the final day before the election with a rally in Ohio, a state that for four years has been a symbol of Democratic disappointment.

At a late-night rally in Florida, President Trump suggested that he might fire Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, but that he would wait until 'after the election.'

Tens of thousands of people, many without masks, attended the funeral of Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, who died of complications from the Covid-19 on Friday.

Typhoon Goni made landfall in the Philippines early Sunday with sustained winds up to 135 miles an hour, leaving at least 10 people dead in the Bicol region of Luzon. The storm largely spared Manila, the capital.

Outraged by a court decision to ban nearly all abortions, thousands of people took to the streets on Friday in the largest demonstration yet.

On Wednesday, the chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google testified to senators on issues dealing with free speech and censorship on the internet.