Biden, the 77-year-old former vice president, has enjoyed a solid lead over Trump, 74, in the national polls for months, at times reaching double digits.
As political polarisation in the electorate has reached a fever pitch and the stakes are beyond existential, the U.S. Presidential Election is primed to be a drawn-out and protracted affair, increasingly at the risk of being derailed due to “violent actors”.
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden wants to rejoin the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal that the Republican incumbent quit, to the satisfaction of Israel and some Gulf Arabs.
Saudi Arabia, the Gulf powerhouse and Islam's birthplace, quietly acquiesced to the UAE and Bahrain deals with Israel, signed.
The Republican Trump trails Biden in national opinion polls ahead of Tuesday's Election Day.
Trump will wrap up his campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same place he concluded his 2016 presidential run with a post-midnight rally on Election Day.
Ferocious winds and torrential rain toppled power lines, triggered flooding and sparked landslides that engulfed houses as Goni swept across the southern part of Luzon.
Snowden, 37, fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by the U.S. National Security Agency where he was a contractor
Fauci said Biden was "taking it seriously from a public health perspective", while Trump was "looking at it from a different perspective… the economy and reopening the country".
After her landmark electoral victory, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appointed New Zealand's first indigenous female foreign minister, in what is shaping up to be one of the most diverse parliaments in the world.
Over the past few weeks, President Trump has reportedly told his confidants in private that he aims to declare victory on Tuesday night, if the outcome of the electoral college hinges on large numbers of mail-in (or absentee) ballots in key states such as Pennsylvania and Ohio.