US Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden is projected to have won traditionally Republican Arizona, extending his victory over incumbent President Donald Trump.
It comes as top US election officials offer a forceful rebuke of vote fraud allegations made by Trump.
China, meanwhile, broke its silence and congratulated President-elect Biden but Russia is still yet to acknowledge the result.
A growing number of Republicans are backing calls for Biden to receive intelligence briefings.
Most are still not rejecting Trump's claims of fraud, which ex-President Barack Obama says undermines democracy.
The US is confronting a fresh surge of coronavirus going into the winter, with hospital admissions soaring in many states. (BBC)

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