TAKOMA PARK, Md. — Friday night lights took on a whole new meaning at a high school here in this suburb of Washington, D.C.

Instead of fans packing stadium bleachers to watch football, on this recent October weekend the gymnasium, hallways, and parking areas were jammed with people desperately seeking healthcare at a free pop-up clinic.

The ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is about to enter the “Becerra era,” though the governor-elect who coined that phrase has dropped few hints about what will define it.

After a decisive Tuesday night victory in the race to succeed termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra will take the helm with a slate of potential economic ...Read more

A boil-water advisory was issued on Nov. 2, 2026, by officials in Center Township in Beaver County, 25 miles from Pittsburgh, after a routine sample tested positive for coliform bacteria, including E. coli, according to the township’s water authority.

The advisory stayed in place while the authority kept testing, and Central Valley ...Read more

The crucial test for preelection polls is whether they broadly indicate how voters are likely to decide. By that fundamental measure, the 2026 midterm polls largely succeeded in anticipating outcomes on Election Day.

If somewhat tentatively, the polls overall had been signaling important gains for Democrats. And that is what voting ...Read more

Two news outlets say they weren’t allowed to cover the Minnesota Republican Party’s election night party Tuesday in Bloomington, where top statewide candidates addressed supporters.

Outside the event, a Minnesota Star Tribune reporter overheard Sahan Journal reporter Katelyn Vue tell Noah Rouen, an election night party organizer, that she ...Read more

Texas Senator Ted Cruz called the sweeping Democratic victories across the U.S. a “blue tsunami” and delivered a scathing assessment of his party’s historic losses, including in his home state, where Republicans were ousted from nearly every major office.

“2026 was not simply a blue wave. It was a blue tsunami. It was an a— kicking,�...Read more

Gov. Wes Moore is heading into a second term promising to make Maryland more affordable, but a projected $2.5 billion budget shortfall will test how he delivers on that pledge.

A day after defeating Republican challenger Dan Cox by nearly 30 percentage points, Moore defended his administration’s fiscal record, pointing to four consecutive ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov.-elect Amy Klobuchar promised a sweeping reset of state government on Wednesday, pledging to launch a “top-to-bottom” audit of agencies on her first day in office while announcing a transition team that will help set up her administration.

At a news conference in St. Paul, Klobuchar said her resounding defeat of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday again accused a man of using a lighter to deliberately set the blaze that became the devastating Palisades fire, while his attorney argued that investigators settled on their theory months before conducting tests to support it.

The competing accounts opened the retrial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump probably has appointed his last U.S. Supreme Court justice.

With Democrats poised to hold at least 54 Senate seats starting Jan. 3, the party will have the power – and the motivation – to stop Trump from filling any vacancy that arises over the next two years.

Republicans had been quietly eyeing the ...Read more

For decades, Israel has been able to rely on rock-solid bipartisan American support for its every move, including diplomatic cover on the international stage and hundreds of billions of dollars in aid. Tuesday’s sweeping Democratic victories call all of that into question.

Michigan comfortably elected the country’s first Muslim senator, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A San Jose doctor and a Los Gatos restaurant have settled a long-running lawsuit by the doctor, who claimed a chicken-meatball dish called Dragon Balls was so spicy it burned her insides.

Harjasleen Walia in 2023 sued Coup de Thai — a fixture on the main strip of wealthy Los Gatos since 2014 — and alleged that while ...Read more

Senate Republicans are preparing to make the transition from the majority to the minority — and their top leaders will seek to retain their positions in the 120th Congress, even after the political drubbing they endured Tuesday night.

Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., will run for minority leader during next week’s GOP leadership ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the scale of the Republican Party’s losses came into focus late Tuesday, President Donald Trump watched from the White House and went looking for someone to blame.

First it was Fox News. Just before midnight, with Democrats projected to seize control of the House, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the network “bears ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Democrats look ahead to their new Senate majority for the next Congress, their current leader Charles E. Schumer made a prediction on Wednesday: “I’ll be reelected as majority leader.”

Schumer, a Democrat from New York, would be helming a larger caucus than most anticipated, ranging from 54 to 56 seats after the dust ...Read more

MIAMI — A Venezuelan man who lived in Miami was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison for operating a vast international money-laundering network. The operation moved more than $1 billion through bank accounts, cryptocurrency wallets and shell companies, handling funds for drug traffickers and other illicit actors, according to ...Read more

White House staffers reportedly thought that Donald Trump, his loyal Cabinet officials and MAGA allies would have reason to celebrate Tuesday night, as they prepared what’s been described as a pretty elaborate party in the East Room to watch news about results of the midterm elections.

For this viewing party, staffers thought it would be ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn appeals court on Wednesday handed Mayor Zohran Mamdani a key victory, greenlighting his signature pied-à-terre tax on pricey second homes owned by people who don’t call New York City home by reversing a lower court ruling that would have required the city to restart the process.

Overturning a decision issued last ...Read more

Democrats’ decisive sweep of the U.S. House and Senate in Tuesday’s elections will reshape the direction of federal health policy — setting the stage for oversight investigations, a legislative push to reverse cuts to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, and a focus on lowering costs such as insurance premiums and drug prices.

The ...Read more