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06 Nov 2020; MEMO: A Jordanian-American mother and son, and their local housekeeper, were shot dead by their neighbour in Nevada on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry in Amman has revealed.

Diana Hawatmeh, 39, and her 12-year-old son Joseph were shot and killed by Jason Neo Bourne, 38. Hawatmeh’s 16-year-old daughter Yasmeen was critically wounded and is being treated at a Las Vegas hospital. The 33-year-old housekeeper has not been named.

06 Nov 2020; MEMO: Muslim-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar yesterday condemned Israel for violating international law following the demolition of a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.

Washington, Nov 7 (PTI) Confident of their victory in the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris have begun working on the task ahead by focusing on two critical areas of public health and economy, both battered by the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

According to latest projections, Biden had 264 of the 538 electoral college votes up for grabs. He only requires another six electoral college votes to reach the magical number of 270, to be declared elected as the next US president.

Washington, Nov 7 (PTI) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that it was "clear and convincing" that he is going to win the closely-fought race for the White House against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.

Biden is on the cusp of being declared as the winner of the November 3 presidential elections, as the 77-year-old former US vice president was leading in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia where counting of votes is continuing.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Before Facebook Inc FB.O shut down a rapidly growing "Stop the Steal" Facebook Group on Thursday, the forum featured calls for members to ready their weapons should President Donald Trump lose his bid to remain in the White House.

In disabling the group after coverage by Reuters and other news organizations, Facebook cited the forum’s efforts to delegitimize the election process and “worrying calls for violence from some members.”

(Reuters) - David Perdue, the incumbent Republican U.S. senator for Georgia, will face Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff in a runoff race on Jan. 5, Edison Research said on Friday.

Edison said Perdue had 49.8% of the estimated vote tallied compared with 47.9% for Ossoff. Under Georgia election law, a winning candidate must receive more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff between the two top candidates.

Georgia election officials have not yet ordered a runoff in that race.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department sent Congress an informal notification of plans to sell $10 billion of defense equipment, including precision-guided munitions, non-precision bombs and missiles to the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. congressional aide said on Friday.

The informal notification about the ordnance, which was sent to lawmakers late on Thursday, came just after President Donald Trump’s administration informed Congress it planned to sell sophisticated armed aerial drones to the UAE, news first reported by Reuters.

(Reuters) - Republicans are trying to raise at least $60 million to fund legal challenges brought by President Donald Trump over the U.S. presidential election’s results, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Trump’s campaign has a filed a flurry of lawsuits in several states over Tuesday’s election, as Democratic challenger Joe Biden edged closer to winning the White House, extending his leads in battleground states.

“They want $60 million,” said a Republican donor who received solicitations from the campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC).

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United States has set a new world record as its single-day COVID-19 cases topped over 110,000 on Thursday.

A total of 117,988 new cases and 1,135 new deaths were recorded on Thursday, according to data updated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday.

The new number broke the previous record of 106,537 single-day cases on Wednesday. The country had added over 100,000 cases in two consecutive days respectively, which marked a grim milestone since the outbreak of the pandemic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said there’s one place he wants to determine the outcome of the presidential election: the U.S. Supreme Court. But he may have a difficult time ever getting there.

Over the last two days, Trump has leaned in to the idea that the high court should get involved in the election as it did in 2000. Then, the court effectively settled the contested election for President George W. Bush in a 5-4 decision that split the court’s liberals and conservatives.