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Alaska's US House race close as early votes roll in

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican challenger Nick Begich III was ahead of Democratic incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola in Alaska’s U.S. House race with more than 95% of precincts reporting by Wednesday afternoon. The final result likely won’t be known until Nov. 20, when Alaska’s election workers are set to tabulate results in the ranked-choice ...Read more

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Donald Trump's growing support among Latino voters helped him clinch battleground Pennsylvania

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HAZLETON, Pa. — Sitting on a stoop with friends along this city's North Wyoming Street corridor Wednesday morning, Carlos Pagan, 73, said he voted for Vice President Kamala Harris but described his mood as being contento, the Spanish word for glad.

Pagan, a registered Democrat who is Puerto Rican and Dominican, lamented his support for Harris...Read more

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Michigan gets two new U.S. House members as Republicans pick up a seat

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Michigan voters on Tuesday elected two new U.S. House members to represent mid-Michigan congressional districts after hard-fought campaigns, while Republican U.S. Rep. John James survived a reelection rematch against Democrat Carl Marlinga to retain a suburban Detroit seat.

The battlegrounds in Michigan's 7th, 8th and 10th congressional ...Read more

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From deadlock to landslide: Trump's big margin still played out in line with pre-election polling

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With his second election victory, former President Donald Trump seems to have defied the odds to perform the improbable and take both the popular vote and Electoral College after previously losing the White House.

However, a look at the numbers show that Tuesday night’s results fell well within the margins of polling, which never showed ...Read more

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Elon Musk went all-in to elect Trump. What a second Trump presidency could mean for big tech

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SAN FRANCISCO — On election night, as Republican Donald Trump inched closer to reclaiming the U.S. presidency, some tech executives and venture capitalists rejoiced.

“The people of America gave@realDonaldTrump a crystal clear mandate for change tonight,” Elon Musk posted on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The ...Read more

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Fate of Trump's sentencing in NYC hush money case unclear with election win, say legal experts

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NEW YORK — Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan may soon be tasked with making the unenviable decision of whether to punish incoming President Donald Trump for crimes 12 New Yorkers determined he committed in a scheme to hide hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and others from voters.

Following Trump’s stunning election victory, ...Read more

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Sen. Bernie Sanders says Democrats 'abandoned working class people' in response to Trump win

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders released a scathing critique of the Democratic Party and Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, following President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,�...Read more

America’s glass ceiling remains − here are some of the reasons why a woman may have once again lost the presidency

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Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee.

Her resounding, swift loss in the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump on Nov. 5, 2024, means many things to different people, including the fact that American voters are unable to break...Read more

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Tech giants brace for AI revamp, antitrust pullback in Trump 2.0

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Silicon Valley is bracing for a vastly different relationship with the U.S. government as Donald Trump returns to the White House with promises to undo many of his predecessor’s policies and Elon Musk poised to play an influential role.

On artificial intelligence, Trump has vowed to rip up an executive order from President Joe Biden aimed at ...Read more

Missouri lawsuit seeks to restore abortion access after Amendment 3, block restrictions

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Planned Parenthood affiliates moved swiftly on Wednesday to formally block the state’s near-total abortion ban and longstanding restrictions on the procedure, mounting a legal challenge just hours after voters enshrined a right to reproductive freedom into the state constitution.

A lawsuit, filed in Jackson ...Read more

Trump’s comeback victory, after reshaping his party and national politics, looks a lot like Andrew Jackson’s in 1828

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As the nation prepares for a second Donald Trump presidency, some history-minded people may seek understanding in the idea that it wasn’t until Richard Nixon’s second presidential term that the serious consequences arrived.

But as a scholar of American politics, I don’t think that’s the right parallel.

Trump has ...Read more

Now the Electoral College votes for president – 4 essential reads

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The voters have cast their ballots, and after those ballots have been counted, and a winner has been projected by news organizations, that’s not the conclusion of the election. The actual outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be determined by the Electoral College.

The Conversation U.S. has had several articles explaining ...Read more

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Backers of Florida abortion amendment struggle with failure despite widespread support

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MIAMI -- After the polls closed, the votes had come in, and the watch party had died out, organizers across the coalition to legalize abortion in Florida lingered inside Ball & Chain bar in Little Havana on Tuesday night, wondering how they had won a majority but lost the race.

More than 57% of Florida voters had come out in support of a ...Read more

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Voters approve most abortion-rights measures in flurry of ballot initiatives

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Voters backed the right to an abortion in seven of the 10 states where the question was on the ballot Tuesday, providing a vivid illustration of the issue’s political potency more than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.

The results in solid-blue Colorado, Maryland and New York were no surprise. But abortion-...Read more

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Now that Missouri has voted to overturn its abortion ban, what's next?

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missourians on Tuesday voted to overturn the state’s abortion ban, but the procedure won’t become legal in the state overnight.

Amendment 3, which will protect the right to an abortion until after fetal viability, takes effect Dec. 6.

After that, litigation is expected to overturn Missouri abortion restrictions, ...Read more

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7 of 10 states backed abortion rights. But little to change yet

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Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday — at first glance, seemingly reshaping the nation’s patchwork of abortion rules.

Colorado, Maryland, Montana, and New York — states where abortions are already permitted at least until fetal viability — all will add abortion protections ...Read more

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What Trump's re-election means for his Fulton County criminal case

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ATLANTA — Donald Trump’s victory means he is likely to name a U.S. attorney general who will halt the two federal prosecutions he is facing.

That means Fulton County’s election interference case could be the only criminal case left standing. And it will likely will be put on hold until at least 2029.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani ...Read more

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Florida's abortion Amendment 4 failed. What to know now

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TAMPA, Fla. — Despite millions of dollars poured into ads and other voter outreach, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have protected abortion access in Florida failed Tuesday.

Amendment 4, backed by a coalition of groups supporting abortion access, received about 57% of the vote, short of the necessary 60% to pass.

The amendment...Read more

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How did Missouri abortion rights win? Nonpartisan 'freedom' campaign powered victory

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The victory of Missouri Amendment 3, which overturns the state’s abortion ban, began across the border in Kansas.

Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, Kansas voters in August 2022 rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have allowed lawmakers to ban abortion. Abortion rights supporters ...Read more

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Democratic challenger Josh Riley flips NY's 19th District House seat in upset victory

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NEW YORK — Josh Riley defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Marc Molinaro in an upset victory flipping the seat to the Democrats as the party looked to gain a House majority.

The race, a bitter rematch from 2022, saw Riley win by a scant 7,000 votes, a margin of 51-49, uncertified ballot returns showed after the polls closed, according to the ...Read more

 

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