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Former President Donald Trump has won the presidential election, He is the second president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms and the first convicted of felonies.

Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.

Former President Donald Trump told his supporters early Wednesday that this moment will “help this country heal.”According to CNN projections, Trump only needs four more electoral votes to win the presidency. CNN has not yet called the race for the former president and votes are still being counted in several states.“We have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly. We’re going to fix our borders and we’re going to fix everything about our country,” Trump said.“It’s now clear that we’ve achieved the most incredible political thing… look what happened, is this crazy?” Trump added.At a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump promised Americans that “every single day I will be fighting for you” and said he would usher in the “golden age of America.”Trump was joined on stage by members of his family and his wife, Melania Trump, as well as his running mate, JD Vance, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

US Elections 2024: It's voting day in the United States of America. After a bitter election campaign, the voters will either make Kamala Harris the first woman president in the country's history or deliver Donald Trump a second non-consecutive stint in the Oval office. As polling stations open nationwide on Election Day, Democratic vice president Harris, 60, and Republican former president Trump, 78, are dead-even in the tightest and most volatile White House race of modern times.Donald Trump said he would be prepared to concede defeat after Tuesday's vote "if it's a fair election", while again raising concerns about the use of electronic voting machines. Trump, however, said he feels "very confident" about winning back the White House, after casting his Election Day ballot in Florida in one of the most contentious US elections in decades.

 China has a new richest person – and it’s the entrepreneur behind the wildly popular, and controversial, app TikTok.Zhang Yiming, 41, co-founder of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, topped the 2024 Hurun China Rich List, released Tuesday. His wealth reached $49.3 billion, as assessed by research, media and investment group Hurun Inc, which publishes the ranking of the country’s richest people.Zhang’s ascendency comes after ByteDance’s global revenue grew 30% last year to $110 billion, Hurun said.Since its official launch in May 2017, TikTok has been catapulted to mass global popularity as well as becoming an era-defining social media platform beloved by many young people around the world – and a trailblazing example for other Chinese companies eager to break into US and global markets.But it’s also now facing mounting legal battles in the US, where according to Hurun it has nearly 200 million users.There, TikTok is battling state and federal lawsuits related to alleged failures to protect children using the app, while it and ByteDance are fighting a law that could force a nationwide ban of the app if TikTok doesn’t spin off its US operations.The law – signed in April – follows years of US allegations that TikTok’s ties to China could potentially expose Americans’ personal information to the Chinese government. TikTok strongly denies the allegations, which come as a growing China-US rivalry has fueled broader American national security concerns about Chinese tech firms. TikTok has also rejected the allegations relating to child protection.Other countries have also cited national security concerns, including India which has banned TikTok. Western allies such as Britain, Canada and Australia have restricted TikTok’s use on government devices.But those regulatory hurdles have done little to dent TikTok’s growing global appeal among users.Zhang owns 20% of ByteDance, which he co-founded with college roommate Liang Rubo in Beijing in 2012. He stepped down as its CEO 2021 after building ByteDance into one of the biggest names in Chinese tech.ByteDance also holds China’s popular news app Toutiao and Douyin, TikTok’s sister app in China.Zhang’s rise to the top of the rich list knocked China’s “bottled water king” Zhong Shanshan out of the lead spot for the first time in three years, though he remained second.Zhong faced a wave of online vitriol earlier this year from nationalists who accused him of a lack of patriotism in a campaign that hit the price of shares of his beverage company.In third place was Pony Ma, founder of multimedia and entertainment giant Tencent, which owns China’s ubiquitous messaging and payments platform WeChat.

A new piece of music believed to have been penned by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered in the vault of a New York museum nearly 200 years after it was written.The unknown waltz was found in the Morgan Library and Museum — which dates it to between 1830 and 1835 — on a card bearing the Polish composer's name, according to The New York Times.It was found by curator Robinson McClellan while he was cataloguing new collections, he told the newspaper. McClellan told the BBC he was initially unsure whether the piece was actually Chopin’s after he photographed the score and played it himself on his keyboard at home.McClellan worked with a leading Chopin expert from the University of Pennsylvania to authenticate the score.It is not signed by Chopin, but the penmanship matched his, including his distinctive bass clef as well, as his doodling characteristic.“What we’re most certain about is it is written in the hand of Chopin, paper that he wrote on himself in his own hand,” McClellan told the BBC.

The first polls close at 18:00 EST (23:00 GMT) on Tuesday evening and the last at 01:00 EST (06:00 GMT) early on Wednesday.In some presidential races the victor has been named late on election night, or early the next morning.This time, the knife-edge race in many states could mean media outlets wait longer before projecting who has won.Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, the former president, have been running neck-and-neck for weeks.Narrow victories could also mean recounts.In the key swing state of Pennsylvania, for example, a recount would be required if there’s a half-percentage-point difference between the votes cast for the winner and loser. In 2020, the margin was just over 1.1 percentage points.

One week after catastrophic flooding devasted eastern Spain, María Murgui still holds out hope that her father is alive and among the unknown number of the missing.“He was like many people in town who went out to get their car or motorbike to safety,” the 27-year-old told The Associated Press. “The flash flood caught him outside, and he had to cling to a tree in order to escape drowning. He called us to tell us that he was fine, that we shouldn’t worry.”But when María set out into the streets of Sedaví to try to rescue him from the water washing away everything in its path, he was nowhere to be found.“He held up until 1 in the morning,” she said. “By 2, I went outside with a neighbor and a rope to try to locate him. But we couldn’t find him. And since then, we haven’t heard anything about him.”At least 218 have been confirmed dead after a deluge caused by heavy rains late on Oct. 29 and the next morning swamped entire communities, mostly in Spain’s Valencia region, catching most off guard. Regional authorities have been heavily criticized for having issued alerts to mobile phones some two hours after the disaster had started.

Early in the morning on Dec. 6, 2020, JAXA’s Hayabusa2’s sample-return capsule streaked through the sky over Woomera, Australia. The heat-shielded capsule, packed with material blasted from the surface of asteroid Ryugu in 2018, descended toward the desert sand. After tracking the precious cargo to its landing site, scientists successfully recovered the most pristine samples ever obtained of a carbon-rich asteroid.Scientists have begun analyzing the samples. In one recent study published Aug. 15 in Nature Astronomy, researchers discovered the first evidence that Ryugu formed from material that originated in the outer solar system. The results also support the idea that the asteroid belt (located between Mars and Jupiter) may have been populated by planetesimals from two distinct sources when the solar system was still in its infancy.“When I obtained the initial results from my instruments, I could not believe it,” Motoo Ito, a cosmochemist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and lead author of the latter study, tells Astronomy.