Democrats celebrated a seismic triumph in the midterm elections, winning control of the Senate and the House as voters delivered a blistering rebuke to President Trump. Peter Baker, The New York Times’s Chief White House correspondent explains what this historic reset of the balance of power in Wash
The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that President Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice.“I wasn’t on the ticket, and because I wasn’t on the ticket, we couldn’t get enough people out to vote,” Mr. Trump told The Times
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Global markets fell as the first results came in, but later traded higher as investors assessed the outlook for policy as the balance of power shifted sharply in Washington.
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The mechanism that controls the vertical angle of the plane was found in three pieces, including one nearly four miles away. All nine people aboard were killed.Investigators examined the site where a Learjet crashed to the ground, killing all nine people aboard, in Greenacres, Fla.
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What mattered most in these midterms?
In a rebuke to President Trump, the Democrats flipped both the Senate and the House.A celebration of Senator Jon Ossoff’s re-election in Georgia.
“Man, oh man, would I hate to be the DoorDash driver who delivers Trump his Papa Johns tonight,” Kimmel said.
Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard, has argued that she was vindictively prosecuted after her arrest in 2025.Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist at Harvard, seen after she was released from U.S. federal custody in Boston in 2025.
