North Carolina

A second strong storm, accompanied by gusty winds, is expected to hit the Northwestern United States tonight, as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power from the torrential rains and snowfall caused by a first such system.

Donald Trump won the state of Arizona in this week's U.S. presidential election, U.S. TV networks projected on Saturday, completing the Republican's sweep of all seven swing states.

After four days of counting in the southwestern state with a large Hispanic population, CNN and NBC projected that Trump had obtained its 11 electoral votes as he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

For the third straight election for the US presidential race, it turns out that polls underestimated the vote for Donald Trump, which remains difficult to gauge, although some improvement in the polls was recorded this time.

Shares in Donald Trump’s media company rose as the first results of voting in the US presidential election were released overnight.

In the wake of the 2024 US presidential elections, pollsters once again missed the mark in predicting the outcome, as pointed out by the French newspaper Le Figaro. This isn’t the first time, as similar miscalculations occurred in 2016 and 2020.

European shares opened higher on Wednesday, tracking an advance in US stock futures, as Donald Trump claimed victory in the presidential election and Republicans took control of at least one chamber of Congress.

Fox News projected that he had defeated Democrat Kamala Harris although other news outlets had yet to call the race for Trump.

European stocks opened higher as global markets focused on the vote count after the U.S. presidential election.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was up 0.58% shortly after the start of trading, with regional bourses and sectoral indices broadly higher. Media stocks gained 2%, while utilities fell 1.66%. Currently, the pan-European index is up 1.14% at 515.35 points.

Donald Trump claimed victory and pledged to "heal" the country Wednesday as results put him on the verge of beating Kamala Harris in a stunning White House comeback.

Surrounded by cheering supporters at his campaign headquarters in Florida, the former president vowed to "help the country heal" in what he described as a "political victory that our country has never seen before."

As results roll in from the 2024 US presidential election, Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump is projected to win North Carolina, a crucial battleground state that could play a decisive role in securing the 270 electoral votes needed to reclaim the White House. Trump's North Carolina win grants him all 16 of the state's electoral votes, edging him closer to victory.

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