Concerns over the counting of ballots in key swing states as well as fraud claims have begun to snowball in the final hours before polls close on election night. As attention pivots from pushing ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Demonstrators protest the recount of ballots in Broward County, Florida, in 2000; Candace Barbot/KRT/ABACA/Alamy About four ...

Firefighters used to spend a lot more time fighting fires. In 1980, nearly 30 percent of calls to fire departments pertained to fires. By 2004, only 7 percent did and the absolute number of fires ...

Fears of widespread voting irregularities, vote counting problems and voter intimidation haven’t materialized on Election Day in Maine, even as overall turnout hurtled toward record numbers. In fact, ...

About four hours after the polls closed on Election Day, the major TV networks and the Associated Press declared a winner in the crucially important and always bitterly contested state of Florida. And ...