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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.

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.

Trump Takes Lead in Georgia, Boosts His Chances to Win the Presidency

UPDATE:
Trump: “I feel very confident”

“We have a great country, but we have a country facing problems… We need to put it back on the right track,” Trump said after voting in Florida.

A federal court ruling Friday blocked the removal from Virginia’s voter rolls of people who have not proven their citizenship, on the grounds that federal law prohibits excluding large numbers of voters in the 90 days before an election.

On multiple nights, U.S. military personnel reported seeing a fleet of unidentified drones violating the airspace over a stretch of land at Langley Air Force Base along Virginia’s coast. The drones began approaching the area each night about 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, according to an official who reported this to U.S.

A U.S. judge has ordered Google to open its Android smartphone operating system to rival app stores, in a fresh legal setback for the tech giant.

The order is the result of Google's defeat in an antitrust case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games, where a California jury decided that Google wields illegal monopoly power through its Android Play store.

The death toll from a devastating storm that battered the southeastern United States climbed to at least 130 on Sept. 30, as the disaster became a hot topic in an already bitter election campaign, with the White House angrily refuting claims it had been slow to respond.

Rescuers struggled on Sunday with washed-out bridges and debris-strewn roads in the search for survivors of devastating Storm Helene, which killed at least 63 people across five states and caused massive power outages.

Google faces its second major antitrust trial in less than a year on Monday, with the U.S. government accusing the tech giant of dominating online advertising and stifling competition.

The trial in a federal court in northern Virginia follows a separate case where a judge last month found Google's search business to be an illegal monopoly.