Joe Biden has defeated President Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. Biden is set to speak Saturday evening, while Trump is not conceding. The AP plans the following coverage:

UPCOMING

ELECTION 2020 -HOW-IT-HAPPENED -BIDEN: An inside account of Joe Biden’s rise to the presidency and how the coronavirus fundamentally reshaped the race. UPCOMING 2800 words, photos by 5 p.m.

ELECTION 2020-ANALYSIS: Joe Biden launched his 2020 campaign on a simple proposition: that American voters would be ready for a reset after four years of President Donald Trump’s administration. Biden’s victory validates his theory of the race. UPCOMING: 1000 words, photos by 5 p.m.

ELECTION 2020 -RACE: A tough road lies ahead for President-elect Biden who will need to chart a path forward to unite a bitterly divided nation and address America’s fraught history of racism that manifested this year through the convergence of three national crises. UPCOMING: 1500 words, photos by 5 p.m.

SENT/DEVELOPING:

ELECTION 2020: Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. Biden vanquished his Republican foe after a campaign as bitter and divisive as Trump’s own presidential term. Victories in “blue wall” northern industrial states propelled Biden to the White House, where he’ll confront America’s deep health, economic and social ills. SENT: 1500 words, photos. Will be updated throughout the day and evening.

ELECTION 2020-LATEST: Latest developments in the 2020 election. Will be updated throughout the day.

ELECTION 2020 -BIDEN: Days before he left the White House in 2017, former President Barack Obama surprised Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, declaring his septuagenarian, white-haired lieutenant “the best vice president America’s ever had” and a “lion of American history.” The tribute marked the presumed end of a long public life. Less than four years later, 77-year-old Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has won election as the 46th president of the United States. SENT:1200 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-HARRIS: Kamala Harris is making history as the first Black woman elected vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have long kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries. The 56-year-old California senator is also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency. SENT: 1150 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 -TRUMP: Donald Trump, who defied political gravity with his extraordinary rise from reality star and businessman to the presidency, has fallen back to earth. In the end, his flurry of raucous rallies, an unprecedented turnout operation and sheer force of will was not enough to overcome the reality of his enduring unpopularity and a raging pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 people in the U.S. and thrown millions out of work. SENT: 1200 words, photos.

EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020-THE PRESIDENCY: As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House. The question, rather, was where he would win, when it would happen and by how much, as late counted ballots in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to keep Biden in the lead and offered him multiple paths to victory. SENT: 675 words, photos.

EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020-NEVADA: The Associated Press declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner of Nevada’s presidential contest Saturday, after a new batch of ballots released by state election officials gave the former vice president a more than 2 percentage point lead over President Donald Trump. SENT: 500 words, photos.

EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020 -PENNSYLVANIA: The Associated Press declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner of his native Pennsylvania at 11:25 a.m. EST. The AP called the race for Biden, who held a 34,243-vote lead after it determined that the remaining ballots left to be counted would not allow Trump to catch up. SENT: 300 words, photos.

EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020 -STATES OF PLAY: The Associated Press reviews the status of the last remaining states still in play. SENT: 500 words, photos.

EXPLAINING ELECTION -2020-RACE CALLS: The Associated Press provides an alphabetical state-by-state look at how and why it has — or hasn’t — called U.S. states in the 2020 presidential election. SENT: 9000 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-VOTECAST: Former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House victory was powered by a broad and racially diverse coalition of voters driven to the polls by fierce opposition to President Donald Trump and anxiety over a surging, deadly pandemic. SENT: 1370 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-AMERICA’S EMOTIONS: As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns - honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties - as an agonizingly vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning. SENT: 850 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-MEDIA: With a fifth day of vote counting testing the nation’s patience, news organizations on Saturday moved swiftly following a crucial release of data from Pennsylvania to declare Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. SENT: 700 words, photos.

BIDEN-ON-THE-ISSUES: Joe Biden is promising to take the country on a very different path from what it has seen over the past four years under President Trump, on issues ranging from the coronavirus and health care to the environment, education and more. SENT: 2200 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-TRANSITION: Joe Biden’s transition team didn’t wait for the verdict in the presidential race before getting to work. Well before Saturday’s victory for Biden, longtime aide Ted Kaufman had been leading efforts to ensure the former vice president could begin building out a government in anticipation of a victory. SENT: 1200 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-PROTESTS: A smattering of protests broke out around the country Saturday after former Vice President Joe Biden won the presidency, but they were mostly peaceful after days of tense standoffs and and armed Trump supporters gathering nightly outside offices where workers were counting the votes. SENT: 850 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 -LEGAL-CHALLENGES: President Trump has repeatedly said there’s one place he wants to determine the outcome of the presidential election: the U.S. Supreme Court. But he may have a difficult time ever getting there. SENT: 690 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-GLOBAL-REACTION: People around the world are starting to celebrate the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Even though President Trump isn’t conceding defeat, congratulations are already pouring in from world capitals for Biden and running mate Kamala Harris. Her election as the first Black woman vice president immediately struck a chord internationally. SENT; developing.

ELECTION 2020-WHAT'S NEXT: Saturday’s election verdict isn’t the last step in selecting an American president. Under a system that’s been tweaked over two centuries, there is still a weekslong timeline during which the 538-member Electoral College picks the president. SENT: 530 words, graphic.

AP PHOTOS:

The following photos are planned:

—Photos of Trump golfing and returning to White House.

—Ballot counting in Philadelphia, Allegheny County, Pa., Reno, Las Vegas, Fulton County, Ga..

—Photos are moving of celebrations and protests across the US, including New York, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Madison, Wisconsin, Salem, Oregon, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Phoenix and elsewhere.

—Photos will move from Biden speech in Wilmington, Delaware at 8 p.m. EST.

AP VIDEO

AP Video will have live coverage of Joe Biden's speech to the nation from Wilmington, Delaware at 8 p.m.

AP Video has live cameras in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Washington, D.C. and New York City for celebrations and rallies.

AP Video continues to provide live coverage and updates of final vote counting in Nevada and Pennsylvania.

Multiple online and broadcast edits are planned throughout the day and night.

GRAPHICS:

ELECTION 2020-PRESIDENT ELECTORAL RESULTS: Presidential race state results sized by electoral vote allocations. Balance of power charts for both electoral and the popular vote are also included; updated and published throughout the night. 6 columnx11 inches. 1colx3 inches and 1colx5.5 inches also will be available.

ELECTION 2020-PRESIDENT POPULAR VOTE RESULTS: Presidential race county results of the popular vote. Balance of power charts for both electoral and the popular vote are also included; updated and published throughout the night.. 6 columnx10 inches

ELECTION 2020-CONGRESS RESULTS: Congressional results graphic shows race results by district for the House of Representatives and by state for the Senate. A balance of power chart for both branches of Congress indicating the balance of power is also included; with all related election stories; updated and published throughout the night. 6 columnx15 inches