Philly police investigating alleged plot to attack Pennsylvania Convention Center  —  PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia police are investigating an alleged plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Thursday night.  —  Action News has learned that police got a tip about a group …

Trump turns angry and despondent as possible defeat looms  —  By Thursday morning, President Trump was angry and defiant.  —  The polls had closed more than a full 24 hours before, and as several key states continued to update their ballot counts, the election increasingly felt …

In Torrent of Falsehoods, Trump Claims Election Is Being Stolen  —  Most television networks cut away from the statement President Trump gave Thursday night from the White House briefing room on the grounds that what he was saying was not true.  —  WASHINGTON — Even for President Trump …

Georgia preps for war with Senate majority on the line  —  Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for an unprecedented two-month battle for control of the Senate that centers on just one state: Georgia.  —  Democrats failed to deliver in Senate battlegrounds this week, but both parties are still short of a majority in the chamber.

Heart of John Lewis' district deals blow to Trump  —  It wasn't absentee ballots in populous Fulton or DeKalb counties that pushed Joe Biden beyond President Donald Trump in Georgia, nor was it one of the newly-minted Democratic northern suburbs.It was Clayton, the south metro county that's …

Election 2020 live updates: Biden takes lead in Georgia count; Pa. continues to tighten  —  Joe Biden overtook President Trump in Georgia early Friday as the state's Democratic-leaning counties reported more absentee ballots, giving Biden a small lead.  Trump must win Georgia to maintain …

Secret Service plans to ramp up protection of Biden in anticipation of his possible win  —  The Secret Service is sending reinforcements to Wilmington, Del., starting Friday to help protect former vice president Joe Biden as his campaign prepares for the possibility he may soon claim victory …

Trumpworld rages behind the scenes  —  Senior White House and Trump campaign officials are complaining bitterly about poor internal communication, blaming colleagues, pondering what jobs they might try to get next year, and lashing out at their new enemy: Fox News.

Chris Christie tells Trump to stop inflaming and show the evidence  —  One of President Trump's top allies publicly rebuked him on Thursday night for failing to produce evidence to support his unfounded claims that Democrats were stealing the election from him.

Twitter bans Steve Bannon after call for beheadings; YouTube removes video  —  Twitter banned an account associated with Steve Bannon on Thursday and YouTube removed one of his videos after the former Trump adviser called for the beheadings of two federal officials.

Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump  —  U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a surprising twist: In places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support.

Facebook Has A Metric For “Violence And Incitement Trends.”  It's Rising.  —  As votes are being tallied across the country to determine the next US president, internal Facebook data shows that the company has seen a significant increase in what it calls “violence and incitement trends.”

No, State Legislatures Cannot Overrule the Popular Vote  —  One of the very last-ditch efforts Trump proponents have floated since Election Day has been that state legislatures should simply overrule the results of the presidential election in their states.  This proposition is so radically un-American …

Election 2020 Live Updates: Protests and Legal Skirmishes as Counting Continues in Final Six States … Senate tally includes 65 seats not up for election.  —  Nevada has about 190,000 ballots still to be counted, the secretary of state said.  Ninety percent of them are from Clark County …

‘Come on Now’: Michigan Judge Scoffs at and Tosses Trump Campaign Lawsuit Backed by ‘Hearsay’ Evidence  —  In President Donald Trump's second loss in court in a single day, a Michigan judge rejected the Trump campaign's bid to stop counting ballots without their inspectors present.

USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day, jeopardizing thousands of votes  —  The number of mailed ballots not delivered by Nov. 3 is expected to grow as more postal data is released in the coming days.  —  More than 150,000 ballots were caught in U.S. Postal Service processing facilities …

What's Trump's Endgame if the Race Is Called for Biden?  —  This piece was originally published on the Election Law Blog.  —  Although things remain uncertain, it appears that Joe Biden could soon be declared by news organizations as the winner of the presidential race.