For four years, the world’s nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the international community — or doesn’t.

The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the U.S., persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make changes to long-established election procedures and leading to hundreds of lawsuits over how votes will be cast and which ballots will be counted.

 Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began.

Many voters on both sides describe anxiety or fear over the election process and outcome even if they see their chosen candidate as flawed. 

Mariah McKay is voting for Joe Biden, but she’s not really excited about it. It’s more of a “necessary duty.”

Jacob Hersh is a first-time voter, and he’s using his vote this election as a protest.

The Washington Post’s Libby Casey is anchoring prime time coverage on November 3 as voters cast their votes across the United States.

The Spokesman-Review's Election Day 2020 Live Blog will be tracking local, regional and national updates throughout Tuesday.

A federal judge on Monday rejected another last-ditch Republican effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston because the ballots were cast at drive-thru polling centers established during the pandemic.

As Election Day closes in, Americans are exhausted from constant crises, on edge because of volatile political divisions and anxious about what’s to come.

President Donald Trump cast doubt in advance on Tuesday's election results, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed ahead on offense on the final full day of campaigning ahead of an election conclusion that could have consequences for the U.S. for years to come.

Democratic and Republican lawyers already have gone to court over these issues in the run-up to Tuesday's election. But the legal fights could take on new urgency, not to mention added vitriol, if a narrow margin in a battleground state is the difference between another four years for President Donald Trump or a Joe Biden administration.

Senate Republicans are fighting to save their majority, a final election push against the onslaught of challengers in states once off limits to Democrats but now hotbeds of a potential backlash to President Donald Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill.

The Washington Post’s Libby Casey is anchoring primetime coverage on Nov. 3 as voters cast their votes across the United States. Throughout the night, the Post will carry speeches live with reporters providing updates from key states including Arizona, Delaware, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

A surge in coronavirus cases across the country, including in key presidential battleground states, is creating mounting health and logistical concerns for voters, poll workers and political parties ahead of Election Day.

A final debate between Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff has been canceled after Perdue dropped out, saying he would attend a campaign rally with President Donald Trump instead.

President Donald Trump dangled a promise to get a weary, fearful nation “back to normal” on Friday as he looked to campaign past the political damage of the devastating pandemic. It was a tantalizingly rosy pitch in sharp contrast to Democratic rival Joe Biden, who pledged to level with America about tough days still ahead after Tuesday’s election.

 Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016 — an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country's most reliably Republican, but may now be drifting toward battleground status.

Donald Trump's campaign rallies are among the nation's biggest events held in defiance of coronavirus-related crowd restrictions.