The request was made during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday in presence of top national security aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, new acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says official.

• In a tweet, Donald Trump says Biden won because the election was rigged

It is feared that the events could turn violent as mix of demonstrators gathering in downtown Washington, D.C would met with counter-protesters.

Edison Research, which made the Georgia call, also projected that North Carolina, the only other battleground state with an outstanding vote count, would go to Trump, finalizing the electoral vote tally at 306 for Biden to 232 for Trump.

• Biden was projected to win Arizona after more than a week of vote counting from the Nov. 3 election, Edison Research said.
• Biden had already cleared the 270 vote threshold to win the election, setting him on course to be sworn in on Jan. 20.

• China was among a handful of major countries including Russia and Mexico, which avoided congratulating Biden last week.

• Trump still has a 10% chance of remaining in the White House for a second term, according to Betfair.
• All major U.S news organizations have called the Nov. 3 election for Biden based on preliminary voting tallies.

• Claiming that a poll in Wisconsin on Election Day had resulted in "possibly illegal suppression" he said he was "now preparing to win the state," which was called for Biden one week ago.

• Since then he has not addressed the nation other than via Twitter, and has not conceded to Biden, as is traditional once a winner is projected in a US vote.

Biden - who needed 270 Electoral College votes to win - had 279 of those votes to 214 for Trump with results in three states not yet complete, according to Edison Research. In the popular vote, Biden got 76.3 million, or 50.7% of the total, to 71.6 million, or 47.6%, for Trump.

President Donald Trump in an Aug. 14 order directed ByteDance to divest the app within 90 days, which falls on Thursday. The Trump administration contends TikTok poses national security concerns as the personal data of U.S. users could be obtained by China’s government. TikTok, which has over 100 million U.S. users, denies the allegations.

• "No matter how the official election result is certified, I am grateful for your sincere and determined vision for the development of the Turkey-US relationship,"

• Macron has never met Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama from 2008-2016 before Macron arrived at the Elysee in 2017.

• "There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration," Pompeo said in an at times testy news conference when asked about contacts with the Biden team.

• Erdogan's statement came a full three days after US media called the election in Biden's favour, underscoring the close personal bond the Turkish leader enjoyed with Trump.

• Trump's attempt to hold on to power has become all consuming for the man who often makes a point of publicly mocking rivals as "losers."

• Johnson famously prepared two newspaper articles arguing for and against Britain's departure from the European Union before leading the Brexit campaign in 2016.

• Pennsylvania Republican state lawmakers plan to call for an audit of the results in the state that gave Biden enough electoral votes to win.
• The dispute is slowing Biden's work in preparing for the work of governing, as a Trump appointee who heads the office charged with recognizing election results has not yet done so.

• Biden was projected as the winner of the bitterly contested November 3 election on Saturday by US media, though President Donald Trump has yet to concede.

• The firing of Esper, who had clashed with Trump over his suggestion of using military personnel to quash civic unrest, comes a week after the US presidential election.

• Four years ago, Duda had rushed to send his "warmest congratulations" to Trump very soon after the candidate's victory was confirmed.

• "A new dawn for America", read the headline of The Independent in Britain.

• Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims of fraud in the election.

Pennsylvania was enough to get Biden over that halfway line. With leads in Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, he may well end up winning far more than needed - taking those three states would give him a total of 306.

• The notification came just after President Donald Trump’s administration informed Congress it planned to sell sophisticated armed aerial drones to the UAE.

• Biden has captured 22 states including his home state Delaware and big prizes California and New York, as well as the US capital.

• The former senator from Delaware and Democratic hopeful currently has 253 electoral votes -- or 264 if the 11 electoral votes from the southwestern state of Arizona are included.

• Donald Trump has amassed 214 electoral votes so far, and is still in contention in several states that would afford the Republican incumbent a path to reelection.

Two days after polls close, Democrat Joe Biden edged closer to victory in the U.S. presidential race on Thursday with only handful of states that will determine the outcome of the Election.