Unlike many state election boards, Michigan's Board of State Canvassers, which has four members, has no mechanism to break a tie.

New coronavirus cases are rising across the country. Not all upticks are the same.

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Fugitive auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn's multiple arrests and detentions in Japan before he dramatically fled the country last year were "arbitrary", UN experts have ruled, urging Tokyo to pay him compensation. He won bail after a few months, but was rearrested three more times, spending a total of 130 days in detention, before he smuggled himself out of Japan and to his home country Lebanon late last year.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — After the two most senior Serbian Orthodox Church leaders died within a month after testing positive with the coronavirus, health experts and even hardcore believers are starting to worry. The spread of the virus within the largest religious group in the Balkans is getting more alarming by the day. A senior Orthodox Church priest, who took part in the prayers at the funeral of Serbian Patriarch Irinej on Sunday when most...

BRUSSELS (AP) — With the European Union's chief negotiator Michel Barnier in quarantine, trade talks with the United Kingdom continued by videoconference this week, though the optimism expressed last week seemed to have faded. Barnier stressed on Monday that negotiators were running out of time to make a Jan. 1 deadline and that “fundamental divergences still remain." The talks were shifted to a videoconference last week when an EU official...