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  • North Carolina Democrats appear to have broken the GOP's supermajority in the state legislature, flipping a key seat an hour east of Raleigh. Why it matters: Come January Republicans will no longer hold the power to override gubernatorial vetoes, which could force them to negotiate with Governor-elect Josh Stein in order to pass their biggest priorities.
  • The corn has been collected, the cabbage gathered, and the pumpkin season is almost done. But on this University of Massachusetts Amherst research farm, there is still one last harvest taking place – a harvest of sunlight.
  • Democrats have a chance to take control of the House after flipping some seats, but the majority party of the chamber is still up in the air.
  • Florida's abortion-rights ballot initiative fell short of passing on Tuesday, leaving in place a six-week abortion ban that has helped restrict access across almost all of the Southern U.S.
  • Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States. Preliminary exit polls show Trump captured 63% of the rural vote, a notable increase from the 57% he won four years ago. Harris struggled to build on Joe Biden's urban support and narrowly lost suburban voters, a group Biden had previously won. The polls also indicate that Trump may have garnered a larger share of the Latino vote than any Republican since George W. Bush, with 45% support, up from 32% in 2020.
  • The Associated Press called North Carolina for Donald Trump just after 11 p.m. ET, cementing the former president's first swing state win in the 2024 race. Most Election Day polling sites across the United States have closed and results and data are starting to come in. The presidential races in Pennsylvania and Georgia, key swing states for both candidates, are too close to call.
  • A ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana in the state of Florida is projected to fall short, according to Decision Desk HQ, although medicinal use is still legal in the Sunshine State.
  • An American social media influencer said he was paid $100 by a pro-Kremlin propagandist to post a fake video of Haitian immigrants claiming to vote in the US presidential election.
  • Security officials believe that two incendiary devices, shipped via DHL, were part of a covert Russian operation that ultimately aimed to start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada.
  • A key Trump campaign staffer in Pennsylvania was fired from his job last week after he was exposed as a White nationalist who made racist statements online, according to a report.
  • Charlie Warzel: X has always had a Nazi problem. But something is different today. Heaps of unfiltered posts that plainly celebrate racism, anti-Semitism, and outright Nazism are easily accessible and possibly even promoted by the site's algorithms. All the while, Elon Musk – a far-right activist and the site's owner, who is campaigning for and giving away millions to help elect Donald Trump – amplifies horrendous conspiracy theories about voter fraud, migrants run amok, and the idea that Jewish people hate white people.
  • One of the most important ads of the 2024 presidential election is only six seconds long. Why is a six-second ad, barely long enough to say the names of both candidates, so important? Because unlike most ads on YouTube – and a lot of other social media platforms – the viewer is not allowed to skip it, which is important in a fragmented media environment where viewers rarely have to watch anything they don't want to watch. And the low-information, low-propensity, disaffected voters who may end up deciding the 2024 presidential election don't pay attention to politics and don't want […]
  • As polls open, Vice President Kamala Harris is predicted to win the election by almost every major forecaster.
  • Under Florida law, if a voter has an out-of-state conviction, Florida will defer to that state's laws for how a felon can regain his or her voting rights. or Trump, that means he will benefit from a 2021 New York law that allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they're not serving a term of incarceration at the time of the election. For other Floridians with felony convictions, the rules are not so simple.

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  • Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) has won a third term, staving off a spirited and unexpectedly tough challenge from independent Dan Osborn and giving her party enough seats to take the […]
  • “One trend is coming in clear across the more than 1,300 counties that have reported close to complete results already: Donald Trump is improving on his 2020 margins,” Politico reports. […]
  • The polls are closed in most parts of Alaska, and Hawaii. All polls will be closed by 1 a.m. ET. New York Times: “The polls are now closed in Hawaii, […]
  • Donald Trump is now very likely to win re-election. He has the edge in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — all states Kamala Harris needs to win. But it’s very close […]
  • The polls are closed in California, Washington, and the remaining parts of Idaho and Oregon.

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ProPublica

  • by ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporters at ProPublica live and work in 26 states across the country, from California to Minnesota, Texas to New York. Many have covered key election issues and how they are resonating […]
  • by Stephen Engelberg ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. ProPublica launched its coverage of this year’s presidential race back in 2022. No, we didn’t send a reporter to Iowa to […]
  • by Doug Bock Clark and Heather Vogell ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In an ornate room in Georgia’s Capitol, Julie Adams — a member both of the election board […]
  • by Andy Kroll ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In public remarks, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims about the threat of widespread voting by “illegal aliens” and noncitizens in the 2024 election. Away from the […]
  • by Anjeanette Damon, photography by Zaydee Sanchez for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For months, Venezuelan migrants had been arriving in Denver with nowhere to go. At first, they came in groups small enough to escape notice […]

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The Hill

  • Democratic strategist Van Jones said late Tuesday that "people who don't have papers" were "terrified" as votes were tabulated and the election moved toward former President Trump and away from Vice President Harris. “There are going to be people tomorrow who are going to be handing clothes at the dry cleaners to people who don’t…
  • Gov. Spencer Cox (R) is the projected winner of Utah's gubernatorial race over state Rep. Brian King (D), according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ. His victory comes after the incumbent narrowly won the GOP primary earlier this year, without an endorsement from the Utah Republican Party. His challenger at the time, Phil Lyman, received that support instead….
  • Congratulations are flowing in from world leaders for President-elect Trump following his win in the 2024 presidential election over Vice President Harris. The well wishes came from key allies that Trump will work with to address issues on the global stage, including United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President…
  • Former President Trump a year ago was staring down four potential criminal trials on 91 charges and decades in prison. Trump staked his defense on winning back the White House, a strategy that has now paid off with his political victory. The former president — and president-to-be — is expected to grind the cases to a…
  • For Democrats around the country, the last hope rests in the House. The party lost control of the Senate on Tuesday, as expected. And by the early hours of Wednesday, Decision Desk HQ projected that former President Trump would win the presidency, securing the 270 electoral votes he needed to defeat Vice President Harris and…

The Guardian

  • Trump wins battleground Michigan hours after presidency called in his favor; Harris expected to call Trump ahead of her concession speechUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerShare your reactions to Donald Trump’s seismic victoryDonald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States in […]
  • Single Trade Window designed to reduce friction on imports and exports will be halted until at least 2026 amid cost fearsA key part of the UK’s post-Brexit border strategy has been put on pause for more than a year amid government concerns over the cost of implementing the scheme.The introduction of the Single Trade Window […]
  • Philippe Lazzarini, head of Unrwa, says aid agency will collapse ‘without intervention by member states’Lebanon’s army has issued a warning to residents in the Ghobeiry area of the southern suburbs of Beirut that today between 10.30am and 1.30pm it will “detonate unexploded ordnance” in the area.Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered his congratulations to […]
  • Santa Ana winds predicted to bring gusts up to 100mph to southern part of state as officials issue red flag warningsCalifornia was lashed by powerful winds Wednesday that caused humidity levels to drop and raised the risk of wildfires in much of the state.The National Weather Service in Los Angeles amended its red flag warning […]
  • Dollar up and renewable energy stocks down, while shares in president-elect’s media business rise by more than a thirdAnalysis: Trump policies mean higher pricesBusiness live – latest updatesUS election 2024 – live news updatesWall Street and bitcoin rallied to fresh record highs and the dollar soared after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, […]

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News & Guts (retired & replaced by “Steady”)

  • White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared at her last briefing on Friday before departing the White House for MSNBC. From watching them over the years we can’t imagine a more thankless job, regardless of administration. Psaki has generally been praised for her efforts, although that could be because at least she made an appearance. […]
  • Russia pulling back again? The New York Times reports western and Ukrainian officials say the Russian military has been losing ground around Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv. Officials say the Kremlin will probably redirect troops to the southeast, where it is said to be bolstering its forces in Izium, a city it captured last month. […]
  • Five GOP Representatives who have previously declined to cooperate with the January 6 Committee investigating the attempted coup have now been subpoenaed. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is one of the five. The committee’s leaders had been reluctant to issue subpoenas to their fellow lawmakers. That is an extraordinarily rare step for most congressional committees […]
  • The Trump International Hotel in Washington is no more. The Trump Organization reached a $375 million agreement to sell the lease of the D.C. property to a Miami investor group. And in the dead of night, workers began removing all signage that said “Trump.” The hotel became the center of controversy from the beginning of […]
  • As expected, the bill put forward by Democrats to codify the right to an abortion into federal law failed to win enough votes in the Senate. The final tally was 49-51, with Sen. Joe Manchin joining all Republicans in voting against it. The legislation would have needed 60 votes to be filibuster proof. The Washington […]

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