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Photo: RYAN COLLERD/AFP The vote count is underway across the country but already the pundits have projected former president Donald Trump as winner in 17 states while Vice President Kamala Harris has earned the nod in eight. Harris is hoping to become the first woman elected president, while Trump is vying to become only the second former president to win a non-consecutive second term. Remember the winning candidate must earn at least 270 votes in the Electoral College to move into the White House. The election is expected to come down to a handful of battleground states - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In the list below we have key race alongside each of those states. Here's how it stands mid-afternoon on Wednesday. Alabama - Trump proj...

Polls will begin closing in the US election in the next few hours. It may be some time before the final result is known but initial results will start trickling in from midday. Earlier there were queues, hoax bomb threats - believed to be from Russian sources - at polling stations, a ballot-scanning glitch in one county, and forecast storm for part of th country. Opinion polls show the candidates running neck and neck in each of the seven states likely to determine the winner. In those key states polls close by 4pm; Pennsylvania (2pm), Wisconsin (3pm), Michigan (2pm), Georgia (1pm), North Carolina (1.30pm), Arizona (3pm), and Nevada (4pm). Follow all the latest updates with RNZ's live blog: Source link

By Jared Richards, ABC Entertainment Here follows the lives of Richard and Margaret (Hanks and Wright) from their teenage to twilight years. Photo: Supplied / CTMG / Sony Entertainment Thirty years since Forrest Gump's lifelong love for childhood sweetheart Jenny gripped the globe and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright have reunited with director Robert Zemeckis for Here, another love story spanning decades. "It was like the 30 years had never passed," says Hanks. "And yet, we took a few minutes to note that 30 years had passed ... We had to have a couple of minutes to say, 'Can you believe that we get to do this?', celebrating the joy, love, and excitement of taking another shot at it. "[But] we picked [up] right where we left off because we sp...

By Tamar Michaelis, CNN Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have often disagreed over the war in Gaza Photo: AFP/ ANP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant after months of clashes over domestic politics and differences over Israel's war efforts. In a recorded statement Tuesday evening, Netanyahu said that "during the last months, this trust between me and the Minister of Defence has cracked." Israel Katz, currently the foreign minister, will become defenc minister and Gideon Sa'ar will replace Katz as foreign minister, the prime minister's office said Tuesday. Gallant responded to the decision shortly after it was made public, posting on X that the "security of Israel has been and will always be my lifelong m...