Bill Chappell

The Arlington ceremony was closed to the public because of coronavirus guidelines. President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attended a separate ceremony in Philadelphia.

"We're going to count all the votes," the secretary of state told reporters, an apparent reference to President Trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was honored Tuesday as "a reassuring champion of science and reason" by the New York City borough of Brooklyn, where he was born and raised.

The attorney general's policy breaks with Justice Department guidance of not interfering with elections that has stood for 40 years, Richard Pilger says.

Some of the protests had been planned ahead of Election Day. But they were intensified by President Trump's attempts to pronounce himself the winner of a presidential race that's still playing out.

Here's how much longer it will take to count the votes in the remaining key states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.

The girl's name is Ayda Gezgin – but officials call her "our miracle" after she was pulled relatively unharmed from a collapsed building.

The earthquake's worst effects are reported in Turkey, where officials say at least 12 people died and more than 600 were injured. The city of Izmir suffered extensive damage.

In the past week, the U.S. has blown past record levels of infection that were seen in the summer, when new cases topped 77,000 in July.

Most of the power outages are in Georgia, where 677,842 customers lost electricity. But Louisiana, Alabama and North Carolina each saw more than 400,000 accounts go dark.

A man used a knife to kill three peopel at the church. The mayor of Nice calls it an attack on Christianity.

"This is a life-threatening situation," the National Hurricane Center said, urging people to take precautions against the risk of flooding. Louisiana and Alabama have declared a state of emergency.

The country is welcoming a chance to boost its profile through the new movie featuring the fictional journalist Borat. And as one young Kazakhstani puts it, "This is a parody of American society."

One year after Santiago's streets were jammed by protesters, they were filled Sunday with revelers. More than 7.5 million people voted, setting a new record for voter participation, officials said.

The breakthrough suggests that water, vital to life on Earth, could be distributed across more parts of the lunar surface than the ice that has previously been found in cold and dark places.

Skirmishes broke out after some counterdemonstrators yanked flags off vehicles – and some drivers and passengers got out of their cars.

The U.S. said earlier this week that it would remove Sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list as part of the agreement.

U.S. cases have been rising sharply since the middle of September, when the daily rate was hovering around 40,000 cases.

Ghislaine Maxwell's answers to questions about the sex-trafficking operation she allegedly ran with the late Jeffrey Epstein are now being made public.

"This brutal and brazen crime was the culmination of weeks of planning and conspiratorial actions," says a lawsuit filed in a U.S. court Tuesday.