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| - With the US election only days away, AFP is mobilizing its global network to provide comprehensive coverage in text, photo, video and graphics. We are producing on-the-ground multimedia content, reporting from the swing states that will decide who wins the election. We are also moving stories analyzing the key topics of the election: foreign and economic policy, the environment and society. And we are focusing on the topics that have stirred the American electorate, from the coronavirus to Black Lives Matter. In addition, we are moving a series of angles from across AFP's global network. Our video journalists are producing live reports from Washington, California, Texas, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania up until election day. Our photographers are with the two candidates wherever they go. From November 3, AFP will offer an interactive graphic with live updates of the results state-by-state. Our fact-checking teams are closely tracking misinformation linked to the campaign. ( You can also see a selection of our video stories on AFP's YouTube channel. Today, we will move: US-vote-Trump-Melania,PROFILE WASHINGTON Melania Trump has courted controversy with everything from her words to her clothes, seeming less than excited at times to live in the White House. But come next week, the 50-year-old native Slovenian -- the first foreign-born first lady in two centuries -- might be extending her stay in the East Wing for another four years. 850 words 0200 GMT by Susan Stumme. File picture US-vote-Biden-Jill,PROFILE WASHINGTON Jill Biden is no stranger to the glare of the political spotlight. Her husband has been a Washington insider since they wed in 1977, and she was America's second lady for eight years. But if Joe Biden wins the White House, she will have the opportunity to push the role of first lady into the 21st century -- by keeping her job as a professor. 800 words 0200 GMT by Susan Stumme. File picture US-vote-families,FOCUS WASHINGTON As men in their 70s, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have large extended families -- some members of which are the subject of scalding controversy, while others live less in the spotlight. 800 words 0200 GMT by Ben Sheppard. File picture US-vote-racism-police,FOCUS MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Thomas Waltower, a computer coding trainer in Minneapolis, had hoped that outrage over the killing of African-American George Floyd in the city in May would force an overhaul of the police. 700 words 0230 GMT by Joy Powell with Charlotte Plantive in Washington. File picture US-vote-racism-shooting,FOCUS EL PASO, Texas In El Paso, Texas, large numbers of voters have been casting early ballots in the US election with many saying that a racist shooting spree last year is at the forefront of their minds. 650 words 0230 GMT by Julia Benarrous. Picture. Video US-vote-democracy-California,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO Voting in California is not just a matter of plumping for Trump or Biden -- residents are confronted with scores of other decisions in a bewildering array of referendums and for officials ranging from judges to school boards. 800 words 0230 GMT by Julie Jammot. Picture. Video Also moving: US-vote-referendums,FACTS US-vote-Britain-Scotland-politics-environment-golf,FOCUS BALMEDIE, United Kingdom David Milne has vowed to take down the Mexican flag that flies above his home near Donald Trump's golf course in northeast Scotland if he is voted out of office next week. But he is also furious the US president has been allowed to build a second course nearby. 750 words 0230 GMT by Stuart Graham. File picture. Video afp
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