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US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photo: DUSTIN FRANZ / AFP After one of the most unpredictable election years in American history, the country is finally nearly ready to choose its next president. Here's what you need to know about when to expect results. Election Day is Tuesday, 5 November US time, and will decide whether Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Vice-President Kamala Harris will lead the country. Trump would be the first former president to win a non-consecutive term since Grover Cleveland back in the 1890s, while Harris would be the first woman president. When are results going to start rolling in? For us watching in Aotearoa, voting will begin overnight New Zea...

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN A section of deforestation is pictured near La Paz, Guaviare department, Colombia. Photo: Ivan Valencia/Bloomberg/Getty Images via CNN Newsource The world's trees are in critical danger, with a staggering number of tree species teetering on the brink of extinction, according to a new global analysis released Tuesday. The decade-long project found that more than one in three tree species are threatened with extinction, underscoring the scale of the crisis facing our planet's ecosystems. The report for the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, which dropped during the two-week UN biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia, revealed that of the 47,282 tree species assessed, at least 16,425 are at risk of going extinct - more than double the num...

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a $1 million cheque during a town hall at the Roxain Theater on 20 October 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo: AFP / Getty Images / Michael Swensen Philadelphia's district attorney asked a state judge to shut down tech billionaire Elon Musk's controversial $1 million giveaway to registered voters, calling it an "illegal lottery scheme." Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, filed the civil lawsuit against Musk and his pro-Trump group, America PAC. "America PAC and Musk are lulling Philadelphia citizens - and others in the Commonwealth (and other swing states in the upcoming election) - to give up their personal identifying information and make a political pledge in exchange for the chance to win $...

This combination of file pictures created on August 3, 2024 shows US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaking on March 26, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina; and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking in the first presidential debate with US President Joe Biden in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. Photo: AFP Donald Trump's team is working to distance the Republican candidate from the vulgar and racist remarks made at his controversial rally at Madison Square Garden as pundits say he made the most extreme closing argument in modern presidential history. US President Joe Biden has cast his vote for Democrat Kamala Harris and slammed Trump's rally as "embarrassing". Meanwhile, two ballot boxes were set on fir...

By Briana Shepherd, ABC Karen Salkilld claimed she died in a car accident in Broome and provided documentation to the company, Insuranceline. Photo: Supplied A woman who faked her own death to claim a life insurance payout of more than A$700,000 (NZ$786,693) has been sentenced to three years in prison. Karen Maree Salkilld was sentenced in Perth's District Court, having earlier pleaded guilty to gaining benefit by fraud and to knowingly using a false record to defraud. In February, the 43-year-old received more than A$718,000 (NZ$806,922) from an insurance company after claiming she died in a car accident in Broome in December 2023. Salkilld provided a death certificate, funeral documentation and a letter from the coroner's court to the company, Insuranceline. She made the applicatio...