Alan Fisher

They will be emp­tied twice a day when ear­ly vot­ing starts, with 24-hour sur­veil­lance.

The US pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry is now over, and the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty will gath­er vir­tu­al­ly in the com­ing hours for its na­tion­al con­ven­tion.

An­titrust pan­el quizzes heads of Face­book, Google, Ama­zon and Ap­ple over their al­leged moves to gain more mar­ket share.

US politi­cians di­vid­ed over a new coro­n­avirus aid bill, as the num­ber of cas­es in the coun­try edges to­wards 4 mil­lion.

Joe Biden is ahead in the polls for the US pres­i­dent, but we look at his po­ten­tial pit­falls against Don­ald Trump.

With few fed­er­al guide­lines, states have been left to make their own rules for re­open­ing, but in many places that re­opened ear­ly, cas­es con­tin­ue to shoot.

Ac­tivists say the term ‘Red­skins’ is racist and of­fen­sive to Na­tive Amer­i­cans amid a wider push for racial jus­tice in the US.

Mean­while, Vice Pres­i­dent Mike Pence says ‘we flat­tened the curve.’

In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund has col­lect­ed tril­lions from donors as COVID-19 fu­els glob­al eco­nom­ic cri­sis.

For many of the mil­lions of stu­dents grad­u­at­ing from high school in the US, this is not the cel­e­bra­tion they had hoped for.