NewsNation reporter tweets, "AZ: Spokesperson for #MaricopaCounty elections tells me the majority of ballots won’t be done being counted until after the weekend. They initially anticipated 95-99% of ballots to be completed by Friday. An historic 290k ballots were dropped off #ElectionDay causing the delay."
The city of Boston has agreed to pay $2.1 million in attorney fees and damages stemming from a 2017 case in which the city refused to allow a Christian flag to be flown at City Hall Plaza for Constitution Day.
An NGO humanitarian vessel carrying hundreds of migrants picked up in the Mediterranean has been granted permission to dock in the French port of Marseille after the newly elected Italian government repeatedly refused it permission to offload passengers in Sicily.
White House climate envoy John Kerry announced Wednesday that the Biden administration and environmental nonprofits are creating a financial framework that will allow corporations to offset their emissions by buying “carbon credits” from developing nations.