LOS ANGELES — Beverly Hills High School has limited students’ ability to congregate in the wake of “spirited demonstrations” by pro-Trump pupils following Tuesday’s elections.

The high school’s principal, Drew Stewart, sent a message to families announcing that the school would not restrict students’ individual exercise of their ...Read more

Most people agree that actual facts matter – in such activities as debate, discussion and reporting. Once facts are gathered, verified and distributed, informed decision-making can proceed in such important exercises as voting.

But what happens when important, verified facts are published and broadcast widely, yet the resulting ...Read more

At least one University of Kentucky student received an anonymous racist text similar to ones sent to Black people across the U.S. this week, University of Kentucky police said Friday.

Many of the texts, reported by children, students and adults in at least 20 states, order recipients to report for duty picking cotton at a plantation and ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Abortion rights advocates want to take their fight back to the Florida Legislature armed with a new talking point: Their cause got about as much support from Florida voters as President-elect Donald Trump did.

But the appeal is unlikely to persuade a Republican supermajority whose members were mostly lockstep against Amendment...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge paused the election interference prosecution against President-elect Donald Trump, canceling all upcoming court deadlines as Special Counsel Jack Smith winds down the case.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued the order Friday shortly after Smith had filed a request to pause the proceedings. Smith said he ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia Democrats are struggling to process the scope of Donald Trump’s victory, a romp through political battlegrounds that showed the limits of the left-leaning coalitions they hoped would be a bulwark against his comeback.

As Democratic leaders sift through the demoralizing aftermath of Trump’s win over Vice President Kamala ...Read more

SEOUL — Hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, a South Korean political analyst named Cheong Seong-chang sent an email to his 1,400 subscribers noting what he considered a silver lining in the news that had unsettled so many of America's allies.

"The reelection of Trump is an opportunity for South Korea to create its ...Read more

The 2024 election has finally ended. What happens now?

There’s a 2½-month period between Election Day and Inauguration Day. It’s commonly known as the “lame-duck” period, when the outgoing president still holds official power but their successor has been chosen and is waiting to take the reins. Donald Trump is constitutionall...Read more

Voters in 10 states decided on measures relating to abortion on Nov. 5, 2024, many of which sought to expand access to abortion or expressly recognize a right to abortion in the state’s constitution.

Seven of the ballot measures passed, while three failed. Measures in Arizona, Colorado, New York, Maryland, Missouri, Montana and ...Read more

The election of Donald Trump — and his vow to once again undertake a U.S. retreat from international climate diplomacy — poses a decisive threat to the fight against global warming, as the window for meaningful action closes.

Trump’s win comes just days before representatives from nearly 200 nations gather in Azerbaijan for COP29, the ...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

CHICAGO — Sitting at a corner of a cantina in Pilsen, with a glass of brandy in hand, Miguel Barajas smiled as he looked up at the TV screen showing the news of Tuesday’s historic presidential election.

“Gano mi compadre Trump. My buddy Trump won,” he said, smiling as he raised his glass toward the bartender. The sounds of a ranchera ...Read more

In his first term as president, Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate deal, weakened decades-old environmental protections and rolled back many regulations on polluting industries installed by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama.

Now, with Trump set to return to the White House, a similar fate may await many of ...Read more

Black students in several states reported receiving a racist text message from an anonymous number the day after the election.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is investigating the message received by students in Alabama and Georgia, it said Thursday in a news release.

The text message said the recipient has been selected to pick cotton at the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore City election director Armstead Jones said Thursday he does not think the Board of Elections will meet the state’s mandatory deadline to certify the 2024 Presidential Election.

All local election boards are required to certify results of the general election to the State Board of Elections by Nov. 15, which is the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Republican Rep. Young Kim, who in 2020 was one of the first Korean American women elected to Congress, fended off a challenge from Democrat Joe Kerr, a retired fire captain, to secure a third term representing inland Orange County in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Associated Press called the race in California’s 40th ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The 2024 elections were going to humble one party, and voters called Democrats to the carpet. It will take days to get final results and probably weeks before there’s a full understanding of what happened, but there are more than a few points that can be made in the wake of elections.

History-making

Former President Donald ...Read more

Mississippi is positioned to benefit from Donald Trump's presidency, party leaders in the state said Wednesday as they savored the former president's victory, a new Republican majority in the U.S. Senate and a potential trifecta if the House majority holds.

"For Mississippi, it's really going to be big and important," former U.S. Sen. Trent ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington Attorney General and Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson and incoming Attorney General Nick Brown vowed Thursday they're ready to take on the second Trump administration if it overreaches on abortion rights, mass deportations or a host of other issues.

At a news conference in downtown Seattle, Ferguson and Brown offered few specifics...Read more

DENVER — Living up to its reputation as one of the nation’s closest contests for Congress, the race for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District remained locked in a stalemate Thursday evening as Democratic incumbent Yadira Caraveo clung to a razor-thin lead over her Republican opponent, state Rep. Gabe Evans.

Two days after polls closed, ...Read more