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People fill out their ballots in voting booths at the Green Street Community Centre in Concord, New Hampshire, on November 5, 2024. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
2024 US ELECTION

Harris, Trump locked in tight US presidential race as swing state results pending

Bitcoin surged to over $75,000 as early returns appeared favourable for Trump on Tuesday night

  • MG Reporter
2 min read
US President elect Donald Trump. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)
AMERICA

Trump unlikely to settle for golf

A narrow victory will mean that the election results won’t be settled anytime soon

  • John Davenport
4 min read
DETROIT, MI – NOVEMBER 04: Election workers and Election observers and challengers at the Detroit Department of Elections Central Counting Board Voting at TCF Center, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 in Detroit, MI. With the surge in vote by mail/absentee ballots, analysts cautioned it could take days to count all the ballots, leading some states to initially look like victories for President Trump only to later shift towards democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
AMERICA

Diary of an elections spotter

Fear and loathing in Trump’s America, where every bit of news can be worse than no news at all

  • Derek Catsam
9 min read