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

LOS ANGELES — Federal immigration agents didn’t swarm polling locations. FBI agents didn’t storm processing centers or seize ballots. A thousand federal election monitors caused little fuss. And President Donald Trump — the nation’s election denier in chief — responded to a shellacking for his Republican Party by saying he’d work ...Read more

Christa Pike is reportedly suffering from a rare blood disorder linked to cancer that her attorneys previously warned could cause dangerous complications during her execution by lethal injection.

Lawyers for Pike revealed her diagnosis in court documents filed nine months before her botched execution in Tennessee, People reported. She was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats heralded a new era in American politics Wednesday after voters broke Republicans’ control of government and delivered a pivotal rebuke of President Donald Trump.

Victories that handed Democrats control of the House and Senate on Tuesday night came in historic form, with margins outstripping expectations, posting ...Read more

MANAMA, Bahrain — Conferences in the Persian Gulf are usually positive affairs, with government officials, executives of state-owned companies and armies of consultants touting petro-fueled visions promising fantastical technology and prosperity.

Yet optimism seemed in short supply at the Manama Dialogue, an annual security and geopolitical ...Read more

CalRecycle has picked the number that decides how much plastic California has to cut under the state’s 2022 landmark plastic law, and it is low.

It’s just one-third of what the state estimated in a 2024 report, and 20% lower than an initial number the industry announced in June.

The benchmark number, known as the source reduction baseline,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The new Democratic majority in the Senate will feature a number of top recruits with significant government experience both on and off Capitol Hill.

None is more familiar than Sen.-elect Sherrod Brown, who unseated appointed Sen. Jon Husted just two years after losing Ohio’s other Senate seat to Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno.

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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

The morning after voters delivered a blistering midterm rebuke of President Donald Trump, with Democrats flipping both chambers of Congress and racking up victories even in deep-red bastions, Vice President JD Vance said there was one main reason for his party’s widespread losses.

“The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said ...Read more

To prevent pregnancy after sex, U.S. teenage girls and young women are more likely to rely on unproven strategies such as prayer, exercise and jumping up and down than they are on evidence-based methods such as Plan B emergency contraception, according to a new study.

The study, published in The Journal of Sex Research, is based on a survey of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The victims of a fatal shooting at a California state beach early Monday were two teenage boys, according to officials. One of them was days away from celebrating his 14th birthday.

The Monterey County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Tuesday the two people found dead near Moss Landing State Beach were Marco Antonio ...Read more

Americans have a lot of plans for the country’s power grid. Some people want to expand renewable energy by building solar and wind farms. Others want to add new coal- or natural gas-fired power plants. There are those who want to provide power to some unknown number of data centers processing artificial intelligence algorithms.

To ...Read more

With the race to build artificial intelligence systems smarter than any human has come a boom in “accidents.” In a safety test run by the company Anthropic, its own AI agent blackmailed an engineer to avoid being shut down. Criminals have used AI agents for data-extortion campaigns and to hack government agencies, banks and technology ...Read more

The U.S. election results were welcomed in many capitals for the limits that could place on Donald Trump, particularly on Iran, but foreign officials cautioned that the American preisdent could prove even more disruptive during the final two years of his term.

“On international affairs, he remains in charge,” French Finance Minister Roland...Read more