WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday and offered himself to the nation as a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify” a country gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.

Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who defied political gravity with his extraordinary rise from reality star and businessman to the presidency, has fallen back to earth.

WILKES-BARRE — Kathy Bozinski, chair of the Luzerne County Democratic Party, Saturday said “everyday, working people” made the difference in the 2020 Presidential election.

WILKES-BARRE — Initially, Saturday’s gathering of essential workers and voters, organized by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Pennsylvania on Public Square, was for the celebration of voters and to advocate for the continued counting of votes.

WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden stood on the cusp of winning the presidency Friday night, three days after Election Day, as the long, exacting work of counting votes widened his lead over President Donald Trump in critical battleground states.

WILKES-BARRE — An event planned for Saturday on Public Square plans to celebrate what organizers have dubbed ”Voters Decided Day of Celebration.”

While Luzerne County has tallied 149,958 general election votes to date, thousands more could be added in coming days, officials said.

WILKES-BARRE – As former Vice President Joe Biden closed in on a victory in Tuesday’s presidential election, the head of the Luzerne County Republican Party suggested an extreme measure to keep President Donald Trump in the White House.

Most of Luzerne County Council’s two-hour Election Inquiry Committee meeting Thursday was spent compiling a lengthy list problems encountered in the Nov. 3 general election, including late starts at some polling places and voter confusion about polling locations and how to use the new voting machines.

Election officials in several states said Thursday they are worried about the safety of their staffs amid a stream of threats and gatherings of angry protesters outside their doors, drawn by President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the race for the White House.

WASHINGTON — With votes still being counted across the nation, President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to undermine confidence in the nation’s election, making unsupported accusations from the White House about the integrity of the results in his race against Democrat Joe Biden.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey on Thursday night released a statement saying “all votes that comply with Pennsylvania law must be counted, regardless of how long the process takes,” but with a key caveat.

HARRISBURG — State election chief Kathy Boockvar, during a press conference on Thursday evening, confirmed that there has only been a single confirmed case of voter fraud — and it occurred right here in Luzerne County.

PHOENIX — Democrats have been asking the question for a long time: Is this the year Arizona turns blue? In 2020, the answer was “yes.”

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and dramatically narrowing President Donald Trump’s pathway to reelection.

Shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, Luzerne County finished counting all 57,066 mail ballots that had been received by 8 p.m. on Election Day, county Manager C. David Pedri said in an announcement that opened with the message, “Done and Done!”

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump in battleground Wisconsin, securing the state’s 10 electoral votes and reclaiming a key part of the blue wall that slipped away from Democrats four years ago.