Joe Biden got nearly 13 million more votes in 2020 than Barack Obama did in 2008, but won in several hundred fewer counties. Record turnout in urban areas added millions of votes to Biden’s total.

Voting in the 2020 U.S. Election may be over, but the misinformation keeps on ticking. Never stop fact-checking. Follow our post-election coverage here. The 2020 U.S. presidential election is shaping ...

More Democratic candidates jumped into the presidential race in 2019 than America has seen since the inception of the modern primary system. Here's a look at all the Democrats who campaigned for a ...

President-elect Joe Biden clinched the 2020 election, and exit polls help show who propelled him to victory. More young voters, more moderates, and more suburban voters chose Biden than chose 2016 ...

NEW YORK, March 12, 2020 -- A monitor shows the trading infomation at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, March 12, 2020. Intensifying coronavirus fears battered Wall Street on ...

Across the U.S., this year has taken a heavy toll. The coronavirus has upended daily life and resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 people; 2020 is on track to be the “deadliest year in U.S. history, ...

The Justice Department escalated an effort to seize and inspect old ballots in Fulton County, where President Trump was ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how errors in correctly representing the level of support for Joe Biden and Donald Trump in preelection polling could affect the accuracy of ...

We regret to inform you that 2020 is only halfway over, even though it feels like it’s been going on for half a century. Every year typically has a few defining moments, but the past six months have ...

Steph Smith drops off her ballot for the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3 in Rollinsville, Colorado. (Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images) Note (July 2023): A new report about the 2022 validated ...

In the ongoing experiment that is democracy, every election creates ripple effects for the ones to follow. But occasionally there is an election cycle so disruptive, it changes practically everything.

Li Cohen is a senior social media producer at CBS News. She previously wrote for amNewYork and The Seminole Tribune. She mainly covers climate, environmental and weather news. Here is a look at some ...