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

Much will be studied, analyzed and written for years to come about why Americans voted an openly authoritarian leader back into power in apparently greater margins than they did eight years ago. What’s clearer and more important at this moment is what millions of our fellow citizens did by putting Donald Trump back in the White House.

Today ...Read more

President Joe Biden vowed to carry out a peaceful transition of power to the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday even as he urged Americans to continue to fight for Democratic values.

In his first public appearance since Election Day, Biden called on the nation to not give up on his fight for the “soul of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday urged the nation to accept the results of the presidential election, saying “the will of the people” was clear and vowing a peaceful transfer of power following former President Donald Trump’s decisive victory.

“We accept the choice that the country made. I’ve said many times, you can’t...Read more

NEW YORK — Jimmy Kimmel used his post-election night monologue to work through his emotions, and much of the country’s, after Donald Trump won his second bid at re-election.

The 56-year-old Emmy winner opened Wednesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” reeling after Trump won out against Vice President Kamala Harris.

“It was a ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — The election of Donald Trump— whose campaign featured incendiary proposals on tariffs, immigration and combating drug trafficking — is sending shock waves through Mexico, a nation with close economic, social and cultural ties to its northern neighbor.

The president-elect’s vows to impose steep taxes on goods imported from...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's election victory, combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, may extend conservative control of the Supreme Court for another two decades.

For much of the last four years, progressives focused their energies on proposals to expand the size of the court or impose term limits on the current ...Read more

In the 236 years since ratification of the Constitution, 45 men have served as president of the United States. Come January, that number will remain the same, even though history was made on Tuesday night.

Donald Trump, the Republican president elected in 2016, will return to the White House following a stunning victory over Democratic Vice ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday heralds a potential sea change in court fights over a swath of Biden administration policies, including access to gender-affirming care, immigration, environmental rules and gun control.

The highest profile of those shifts may come at the Supreme Court, where the Biden administration is currently ...Read more

ATLANTA — Alberto Varela crossed the southern border illegally in April 2022, following a perilous journey from his hometown in Cuba. Early on Wednesday morning, just hours after the presidential election was called for Donald Trump, the Cuban national was outside of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Atlanta headquarters, where ...Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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