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

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s team is forming a new administration and the president-elect is expected to draw top advisers and cabinet secretaries from a pool of Wall Street and business executives including officials from his first term — at least the ones who stuck by him.

Republicans are on track to win total control of government, ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Susie Wiles, the co-manager of his presidential campaign, as his White House chief of staff, elevating a longtime Florida political hand who has helped orchestrate some of the most crucial Republican wins in the state.

Wiles, who has worked for Republican politicians ranging from Jacksonville ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican leadership is looking forward to working with the incoming presidential administration, saying they expect President-elect Donald Trump to get America “back on track.”

When Trump gave his victory speech, having secured 270 electoral votes and appearing poised to win the popular vote as the tally continued,...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for two international summits on a trip abroad that threatens to be overshadowed by President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory.

The president will travel to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru, from Nov. 14-16 and then travel to Manaus ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration that state police won’t assist in mass deportations is being blasted by critics who say it backtracks from her blaming the federal government for the migrant crisis.

Healey has come under fire after MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell asked the Bay State governor whether the Massachusetts State Police would ...Read more

Donald Trump has promised voters that he would carry out a range of immigration actions, including deporting, with the help of the National Guard or military, millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S.

Many of Trump’s plans do not require congressional approval, but they still might be hard to undertake at a scale that ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that mass deportation of undocumented immigrants will be the top priority of his incoming administration after he claimed a “common sense” mandate from his big election win.

“It’s a mandate to bring common sense back to the country,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in an exclusive ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has long been an outspoken critic of President-elect Donald Trump.

She says she never voted for him. Not in 2016, not in 2020, and not this year.

After Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Murkowski said Trump should have resigned the presidency ...Read more

Connecticut’s congressional delegation, all Democrats, celebrated their reelection victories Wednesday, but said it was bittersweet as they will now be battling against incoming Republican President Donald J. Trump.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who defeated Republican restaurant owner Matthew Corey to win his third term, said he is ready to head ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Adams spoke to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday about working together to address “issues in the city,” Adams said, without going into specifics or disclosing whether they discussed the prospect of mass deportations or Adams’ pending criminal case.

“I communicated with the president yesterday to state that ...Read more

Pennsylvania was for months considered the key swing state that would decide the 2024 election. Candidates, political parties and advocacy groups spent over US$1 billion courting the commonwealth’s small number of persuadable voters.

We now know that former – and now future – President Donald Trump carried the state by the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One of Silicon Valley’s most thrilling congressional races in years has come to a close, and former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is heading to Congress, delivering a blow to opponent Assembly member Evan Low in the race to replace longtime U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo.

The Associated Press called the race on Wednesday night for ...Read more