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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign said on Wednesday it has legal teams standing by if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through with his threat to go to court to try to stop the counting of votes.

“If the president makes good on his threat to go to court to try to prevent the proper tabulation of votes, we have legal teams standing by ready to deploy to resist that effort,” Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic drive to win control of the U.S. Senate appeared to fall short, with Democrats picking up only one Republican-held seat while six other races remained undecided early on Wednesday.

Democrats defeated Republican Senators Cory Gardner of Colorado and Martha McSally of Arizona but lost the Alabama seat held by Democratic Senator Doug Jones.

04 Nov 2020; MEMO: Prominent American academic and intellectual Noam Chomsky has described US President Donald Trump as “the worst criminal in human history.” He made his claim in an article in the New Yorker this week.

According to Chomsky, there are several threats facing humanity, including the destruction of democracies. The people around Trump “are essentially creating an international alliance of extremely reactionary states, which can be controlled by the White House.”

WILMINGTON, Del./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory over Democratic rival Joe Biden on Wednesday with millions of votes still uncounted in a White House race that will not be decided until tallying is completed over the coming hours or days.

By early Wednesday, the race was down to a handful of states, and both Trump, 74 and Biden, 77, had possible paths to reach the needed 270 Electoral College votes to win the White House.

Washington, Nov 4 (PTI) Indian-origin Democratic congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has been re-elected to the US House of Representatives for the third consecutive term.

Krishnamoorthi, 47, who was born in New Delhi, easily defeated Preston Nelson of the Libertarian Party. When last reports came in, he had accounted for nearly 71 per cent of the total votes counted.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- More than 4,700 U.S. National Guard troops in 18 states have been activated to assist in the ongoing elections, local media reported Tuesday.

"The missions range from assisting with cyber defense, working the polls, and standing-by in case of post-election civil unrest," reported Military Times, an outlet for news about service members.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Over 850,000 children in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to a new report of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.

A total of 61,447 new child cases were reported last week from Oct. 22 to 29, which is the highest since the pandemic began, according to the report.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was projected to have taken Ohio, one of the "battleground states" in the 2020 presidential race with 18 electoral votes, U.S. media reported early Wednesday.

With 94 percent reporting, Trump has won 50.1 percent of the votes, while his Democratic challenger, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, has grabbed 48.7 percent, according to Fox News.

NBC News and CNN also called the "Buckeye State" for the Republican.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said early Wednesday he is confident about winning the election, while calling for patience from his supporters as well as the Republican side.

"We believe we're on track to win this election," Biden told his supporters during a brief speech in Wilmington, Delaware shortly after midnight, adding that "your patience is commendable."

"It's not my place or Donald Trump's place to declare who's won this election," said the Democratic challenger. "That's up to the American people."

NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Braving COVID-19 risks, U.S. voters have been turning out in huge numbers to cast their ballots, making a consequential choice that will decide the direction of the country for the next four years and beyond.

More than 100 million Americans opted for voting early, a record-breaking number equivalent to about 73 percent of the total votes counted in the 2016 election, setting the stage for record participation this year, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project.