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  With three new calls – Michigan and Wisconsin for Joseph R. Biden Jr., and Maine’s Second Congressional District for President Trump – Mr. Biden has 253 confirmed electoral votes US Elections 2020:  As of 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, six states that will decide the next president remained uncalled, as did a handful of Senate races that will determine who controls the chamber. Here’s where things stand, when you can expect final results, and how to follow along today as this extraordinary election unfolds. What are we waiting for? In the presidential race, as of 4:50 p.m. Eastern time, we did not yet know who won Alaska (3 electoral votes), Arizona (11), Georgia (16), Nevada (6), North Carolina (15) or Pennsylvania (20). With three new calls — Michigan and Wisconsin for Joseph R. Biden Jr., and Maine’s Second Congressional District for President Trump — Mr. Biden has 253 confirmed electoral votes and would need 17 more to win. President Trump has 214 confirmed electoral votes and wou...

  The second and final presidential debate shaped the way for November 3 election in the US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden faced off for the last time before the Nov. 3 election. Bloomberg News is checking the facts behind their claims in Thursday’s debate: Trump claims Biden supports the Green New Deal Biden has never offered a full-throated endorsement of the far-reaching progressive climate plan known as the Green New Deal, but he has released a climate plan that aligns with many of its environmental goals. The $2 trillion clean energy plan offered by Biden in July calls for achieving a carbon-free power sector by 2035, as well as spending to build renewable energy infrastructure, get cleaner cars on the road and create zero-emission mass transit systems. Other investments would boost sustainable home building, clean energy innovation and conservation. By contrast, the sweeping Green New Deal, proposed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democr...

  Trump’s campaign committee raised $83.1 million in September while spending $139.3 million, the filings showed President Donald Trump’s campaign burned through almost half of its cash in September, as his re-election effort cut back on advertising in some key battleground states and he lags in the polls behind his much better-funded Democratic adversary, Joe Biden. The latest filing with the Federal Election Commission showed that Trump entered the final 34 days of the presidential election with $63.1 million in the bank, down from $121.1 million at the end of August, when his campaign began to scale back some television spending and even abandoned advertising in the key states of Pennsylvania and Michigan for a period. Trump’s campaign committee raised $83.1 million in September while spending $139.3 million, the filings showed. The campaign announced Thursday that his broader re-election effort, which includes the Republican National Committee and two joint fundraising committe...

Facebook suspended Alex SpectreKogan over allegations that he lied when he said the data would be used for research purposes only   In a video published online in September, a social scientist named Alex Spectre made an earnest pitch for his new startup. Clad in the Silicon Valley uniform of open-collar shirt and blazer, Spectre boasted that his company -- Philometrics -- would revolutionize the way online surveys were done, making it easier for companies to design questionnaires that people would actually respond to on Facebook,  Twitter or other sites. Crucially, he said, the surveys could predict the responses for large groups from a small number of respondents and micro-target ads better. "The reality is working with big data, social media is incredibly difficult," said Spectre, who more commonly goes by Aleksandr Kogan, which he uses in his role as a Cambridge University researcher.  "You want to work with people who have a lot of experience. Y...