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Photo: AFP Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is expected to address supporters on Thursday (NZT) after her Republican rival Donald Trump claimed victory in the United States presidential election. CNN has projected that Trump will win the election, clinching 276 electoral college votes so far. The candidates needed 270 to win. Votes are still being counted in some areas, with the winners in a handful of states - Alaska, Arizona, Maine, Michigan and Nevada - yet to be announced as of 5am Thursday NZT. Reuters reported that Harris was not planning to make her concession speech until Wednesday afternoon in the US (about 10am Thursday NZT). Earlier, Trump called his win "a magnificent victory for the American people" and said it would usher in "the golden age of America". Meanwhile, Harris' s...

By Leigh Sales*, ABC The challenges for the Democratic Party have been clear from the day Kamala Harris became the nominee. Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Analysis - It is truly extraordinary the Democrats have convincingly lost a presidential election against one of the most discredited figures in modern American political history - a convicted felon, no less. And yet, the challenges for the Democratic Party, and the campaign's obvious mistakes and missteps, have been clear from the day Kamala Harris became the nominee. There is little that's surprising about Donald Trump's victory beyond the obvious shock that a candidate so vulgar and base - last week, he pretended to fellate a microphone, just the latest pitiful example in a long line - is not unelectable. Here are six obvious ...

By Devan Cole, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN Donald Trump at his hush money trial in Manhattan Criminal Court in May. Photo: AFP/Mark Peterson Donald Trump has been reelected to the White House as a convicted felon who is awaiting sentencing in his hush money case in New York and still working to stave off prosecution in other state and federal cases. It is an extraordinarily unique position for him to be in: Never before has a criminal defendant been elected to the nation's highest office, just as an ex-president had never been criminally charged until last year. Trump has said multiple times he plans to fire special counsel Jack Smith and end the federal cases against him for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and mishandling classified documen...