The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has now proved 95% effective in preventing coronavirus and has met the safety criteria needed for emergency authorisation, the firms have said. Pfizer and BioNTech say they plan to submit the COVID-19 vaccine to the US regulator for emergency use approval “within days” after “no serious safety concerns” were reported. The UK
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Donald Trump has sacked the head of a government agency that he set up to ensure the reliability of voting, over his insistence that the election was fair and secure. The president publicly fired Christopher Krebs, former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Twitter. Mr Trump tweeted: “The recent statement by
US president-elect Joe Biden has said “more people may die” if the Trump administration does not help ensure a smooth transfer of power. Mr Biden also said he was hopeful Mr Trump would be “mildly more enlightened” before the incoming president’s inauguration on 20 January. Despite mounting public pressure, the Republican’s administration has refused to
US President Donald Trump asked for options on attacking Iranian nuclear sites last week, according to an official, before ultimately deciding against it. Mr Trump, who has yet refused to concede that he lost the presidential election, apparently made the request during an Oval Office meeting last week, which included Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary
Barack Obama has said it’s “absolutely” time for President Donald Trump to concede the election – and that he should have already done so. Mr Trump‘s predecessor told CBS’ 60 Minutes programme that he should have conceded defeat to Joe Biden “the day after the election” and it was time for America’s outgoing leader to
The tension of a contested election has been building for days and finally the two sides of a divided America squared off. They came head-to-head outside The Supreme Court in Washington DC in the afternoon on Saturday. By dusk, both sides moved into town, some armed with baseball bats, shanks and up for a fight.
Donald Trump has appeared to concede the US election for the first time, saying that president-elect Joe Biden “won”. He made the admission in a tweet along with more unfounded claims the vote was rigged against him. Mr Trump wrote of his soon-to-be successor: “He won because the election was rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR
Donald Trump supporters have been protesting in Washington DC after the president appeared to hint he may not be in the White House for much longer. Thousands of demonstrators marched towards Freedom Plaza near the White House in downtown DC before heading towards the US Supreme Court building. “Stop the steal!” and “We are the
Early indications are that the polls have been proved wrong, but Joe Biden has the momentum going forward. The former vice president has regained some of the states lost by Hillary Clinton in 2016 and may have pulled of a historic victory in at least one formerly red state. The election is still yet to
Georgia has confirmed there will be a full hand recount of its US election votes after the result in the state remains too close to call. President-elect Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes out of nearly five million votes counted. Nearly all of the ballots have been processed. Election officials announced an
Donald Trump has made a series of unsubstantiated allegations claiming he is being cheated out of re-election and calling for the outcome to be decided by the Supreme Court. The Republican alleged he was the victim of interference from “phony polls” along with “big media, big money and big tech” after his campaign launched a
Joe Biden is the president-elect, but Donald Trump is yet to concede. His loyalists are pursuing legal challenges, but we still haven’t seen any evidence of electoral fraud. US correspondent Cordelia Lynch and Washington bureau chief Emily Purser Brown discuss why Washington has gone quiet, the global response to a Biden/Harris White House and whether
President-elect Joe Biden’s lead is getting bigger, some Republicans are urging Donald Trump to concede, and Boris Johnson has called the commander-in-chief the “previous president”. But the current US leader is still claiming on Twitter that he won the election. What will it take for Mr Trump to admit defeat? Can the election result be
Boris Johnson has branded Donald Trump the “previous president” and hailed his “refreshing” conversation with successor Joe Biden. Mr Trump is continuing to claim he won last week’s US presidential election and has made multiple unsubstantiated claims of fraud. But the prime minister consigned Mr Trump’s presidency to the history books on Wednesday, as he
Pollsters were chastised for incorrectly predicting a large Hillary Clinton win in 2016, yet they have they have got it wrong again. Millions of dollars are spent on looking at who will win a US presidential election, and by how much. Ahead of this year’s election, Joe Biden was predicted a safe win, with the
Joe Biden has tried to become president for three decades. That dream is now a reality. He had what it takes to win – but does he have the stamina for four years in the White House? He will be America’s oldest president, aged 78, by the time of his inauguration. Image: Presidential candidate Jimmy