Any illusions that Donald J. Trump would back away from his last-minute embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were shattered during his victory speech, when he assured his supporters that the anti-vaccine activist was “going to help make America healthy again.”

Some observers had hoped that Trump would discard his former rival for the presidency...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump may owe a good share of his victory to the group he has denigrated the most — Latino men.

The surge in Black voter support Trump bragged about never materialized, and he actually lost ground among some White voters. But in battleground state after battleground state, Latinos provided a critical edge.

According to...Read more

Cerebrospinal fluid leaks, caused by tears or holes in the spinal cord, are rare and difficult to identify. Because the symptoms aren’t uncommon — including nausea, neck pain, ringing in the ears and debilitating positional headaches — patients can spend years without a proper diagnosis. Some have been told they have allergies.

As in a ...Read more

The bellwether rings true no more.

For nearly half a century, voters in Clallam County, Wash. — a lush green dot in a far-off corner of the country — have gone with the winner in 11 straight presidential elections. That's an unmatched level of precision among more than 3,000 counties nationwide.

But the streak, dating to 1980, ended on ...Read more

The deployment of North Korean troops to Russia to support its war efforts in Ukraine has pushed Asia into dangerous territory. It has ratcheted up already heightened hostilities between North and South Korea and threatens to destabilize the wider Indo-Pacific region.

The U.S., under President-elect Donald Trump’s leadership, will need to ...Read more

A few years ago, solar geoengineering was considered a sort of science fiction. These days, it’s fast becoming a reality. Without international consensus on the guardrails and guidelines, that’s a very dangerous prospect.

The technique, also known as solar radiation management, encompasses a range of technologies including sunshields in ...Read more

In poll after poll, Americans say they care about climate change. But then again, they also say they care about democracy, women’s rights and other such ideals. And yet for the second time in three elections, they have chosen to give ultimate political power to someone loudly and diametrically opposed to them.

For the climate, the best we can...Read more

A convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender is returning to the White House.

A candidate who spoke of using the military against political foes and called for the summary execution of his critics will again be commander in chief.

A 78-year-old man, at sea, who prattled on about Hannibal Lecter and Pavarotti and the size of Arnold Palmer's ...Read more

Democrats who are reliving their worst nightmare with the pending return of Donald Trump to the White House have only themselves to blame.

Trump should have had no chance to win this election. He left office kicking and screaming at the end of his first term having presided over the Jan. 6 insurrection and with the nation angry and divided. He ...Read more

ATLANTA -- On Tuesday night, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger became the first official in the state to say that former President Donald Trump would win Georgia, even with more than 500,000 votes still left to count.

“If you look at who is leading, Donald J. Trump has an insurmountable lead, with the number of votes outstanding,” he ...Read more

Something’s happening here, and what it is, is pretty clear: Donald Trump’s decisive victory included a rising share of New York City voters, where he was born and raised and lived his whole life until five years ago when he declared Florida as his home.

Nearly a third of voters in the five boroughs went for Trump— far more than did in ...Read more

While there have been no credible claims of fraud contributing to Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday, and the vote does not appear to have even been close, the election was marred by foreign interference, a commonplace occurrence in every U.S. election since 2016.

There was a steady stream of disinformation and multiple attempts by Russia to ...Read more

“A star is born — Elon!” Donald Trump shouted early Wednesday morning, giving thanks to Elon Musk for helping him win the presidential election.

When you’re a star, they let you do it, as Trump once said, speaking of mauling women.

Now Trump and Musk, self-styled stars, are a match made in some kind of Book-of-Revelation living ...Read more

So … what happened?

How is it possible that this country reelected Donald Trump after everything he's been convicted of doing, everything he has said he plans on doing, and everything he did to that poor microphone?

The answer isn't that deep: The majority of white women in this country want a male president — preferably white. That's not ...Read more

I’d like to speak to the manager.

The election did not go the way I wanted it to go. I’m angry. I demand a redo.

Except that’s already Karen’s line, and the election did go her way.

A quick refresher on Karen: The name, which became a widespread meme around 2019, has been used to describe a certain type of middle- or upper-middle-...Read more

Everyone loves a comeback story.

Maybe that’s all there is to Donald Trump’s otherwise unbelievable victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and the most well-financed campaign in U.S. history.

Or maybe it’s nothing more complicated than election fundamentals: Too many Americans think the nation is on the wrong-track. It’s the economy...Read more

Maybe it never rains in Southern California, but for about a month this fall it also never rained in New York City, which this week asked citizens to conserve water. Or Philadelphia. Or Dallas. Or several other U.S. cities that went from unusually wet in some cases to bone dry in a flash.

In fact, “flash drought” is the term for this sort ...Read more

Donald Trump has soundly won another term as president and in perhaps the most stunning part of this election, it wasn’t even that close.

As much as California is waking up to a new era of Trump power, we are also waking up to the fact that the majority of Americans do not share the values that this state holds dear: the ideas of equality; of...Read more

In the rivers of ink and trillions of bytes dedicated to understanding the past presidential election, consider this notion: The race was really a contest of competing narratives.

Kamala Harris and the Democrats framed the campaign as good vs. evil — a "Star Wars"-like storyline (Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill, actors in the original film, ...Read more

Unlike Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, which was surprising and shocking (including to him and Hillary Clinton), his sweeping win Tuesday night was there to see when 70% of Americans were telling pollsters that the country was on the wrong track. That’s more than enough to derail any train and Kamala Harris was the conductor.

Trump won because...Read more