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The US presidential election is very tight. So tight, in fact, that at least one state might go straight into a vote recount before certifyi...

The White House is in trouble.This isn’t just because the current occupant is having a hard time accepting that he might have to relocate in...

For the first century or so of American democracy, voting rights were held by white, male property-owners. This was a smaller, more homogeno...

Major US stock market indexes rose throughout the week as election projections put Democratic candidate Joe Biden closer to a White House wi...

For three days, Americans have waited for election results with one hand on the TV remote (or a refresh button), and the other clutching str...

There is a lot we still don’t know about 2020 US presidential election. One thing we do know is that the rural-urban divide continues be a h...

Over the last decade, emerging market and low-income countries made significant strides in tackling inequality. Covid-19 may have reversed a...

On election night in the US, as preliminary results started rolling in from all over the US, one phrase kept coming up repeatedly: Latino vo...

While some of us were compulsively checking for updates on the US election, stock markets rose and fell, people found and lost jobs, and the...

Who’s winning election week in the United States? Uber.First, on Nov. 3, voters in California agreed to exempt gig companies from a new stat...

When it first launched in Nigeria in 2012, Jumia quickly realized just how much work was needed to build a logistics service that could enab...

The modern US presidential concession call, in which the losing candidate reaches out to the winner to say “Hey, it’s yours, good luck,” st...

As US states enter the fourth day of ballot counting, five still remain too close to call. In Nevada, Arizona (which some reputable sources...

The members of the 117th Congress make up a number of firsts, including the election of the first two openly gay, Black men. New Mexico beca...

On Aug. 15, 1981, the very first India Day parade in US history rolled down Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Just a few simple floats traversed...

From net worth erosion and a looming lawsuit to a billion-dollar investment, it’s been a roller-coaster week for India’s wealthiest man.On O...

It’s 2020 and many Indians are still clueless about their sexual wellbeing.While a majority of Indians still don’t use any contraceptive, th...

The yuan-dollar exchange rate swung wildly in the wake of the US presidential election, but ended on a 28-month high for the Chinese currenc...

In the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election, social media platforms unveiled a bevy of strategies for tamping down misinformation bef...

TV ratings for the US presidential election were down this year compared to 2016, due to a huge decline in the number of viewers watching th...

Vaccines can only stop a pandemic if people take them.A survey of over 18,000 adults across 15 countries found that, as of Oct. 2020, people...

The counting of ballots in the 2020 US presidential election is still underway today (Nov. 5), but the race to 270 electoral college votes i...

No matter how much longer it takes to process the results of the US presidential election, one thing seems certain: Pennsylvania could have...

The projected dip in remittances to African countries will not be as bad as initially feared.Early World Bank estimates in April had predict...

Companies linked to private prisons plunged in the US stock market yesterday, as the still unfinished election tally signaled a path for Dem...