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In the 2026 midterms, Americans voted on all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 35 members of the Senate. Before election night, Republicans held the majority in both Congress chambers, if only by a hair. Midterm elections are held every four years. The results will influence US politics for the next few years. Despite the significant executive power delegated to the presidency according to the US Constitution, the majority of federal political decisions have to be approved by Congress before they can be implemented. SNIP

Vandals sent an apparently violent message to Maine Senator Susan Collins, waiting for her on Election Day, by defacing the longtime Republican incumbent's office during the night. Vandals sent an apparently violent message to Maine Senator Susan Collins, waiting for her on Election Day, by defacing the longtime Republican incumbent’s office during the night. On Tuesday morning, staffers found the sidewalk outside Collins’ office in Biddeford, Maine, covered in red paint and splattered on the door with the words “blood on your hands” scrawled at the front entrance, WMTW-TV reported. The senator received the messages hours before polls close in...

An elderly man both verbally and physically assaulted a young Turning Point USA volunteer at the polls, a video posted to X shows. An elderly man both verbally and physically assaulted a young Turning Point USA volunteer at the polls, a video posted to X shows. An 18-year-old man was volunteering with Turning Point Action outside a polling station in New Hampshire on Tuesday when an elderly man approached him and began to raise his voice. The confrontation then escalated, as depicted in a video included in Turning Point Action’s Tuesday afternoon X post. The context of the conflict in...

U.S. President Donald Trump called Greenland the greatest gift the United States had ever received in a call to Fox News on Tuesday. “Remember, [Europe] just gave the United States the greatest gift we were ever given. Do you know what it was? Greenland. We just got Greenland, you know that, right?” he said during a broadcast about Tuesday’s midterm elections, which was reshared on X by the U.S. State Department. Someone else on the call quickly clarified that Trump was referring to “a military deal.” Until September, Trump had repeatedly pushed for the U.S. to take control of the...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on a staff call Wednesday that he will not run for minority leader, according to two GOP staffers, heading off what will likely be a bitter fight over the party’s future in the next Congress as Republicans reel from a seismic election defeat. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are both expected to launch bids for minority leader, setting up a potentially contentious contest as Republicans grapple with their diminished standing. Johnson has had a rocky tenure as Speaker, often marked by internal GOP fighting, a razor-thin...

4 November 2026 Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop on Wednesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time St. Charles Borromeo, Pittsfield, MAReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).Readings for...

Initial thoughts of the election - winners and losers

Democrats retook power in Washington on Tuesday, flipping key House and Senate seats to command majorities in both chambers of Congress.The power shift creates a new platform for Democrats to launch investigations of President Trump's economic allies — Elon Musk, to name one — and pass bills that may be unlikely to become law but will mark a sharp change in the political climate for business leaders and economic issues after two years of unified Republican control.The change also appears set to elevate figures like Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others to prominent positions with oversight over economic policy.Democrats are...

President Donald Trump spent two months urging Americans to pretend he was on the ballot. On Tuesday, they did just that. Voters delivered a stunning rebuke to Trump’s party that rivaled anything Republicans had suffered in 50 years, defeats on ruby-red turf that Trump won handily just two years ago, where he has dominated politics for nearly a decade and against candidates he had in some cases handpicked. Not only did Democrats flip Senate and governor seats in red states, but at times by eye-popping margins. “The message is very clear and very simple here. It was a complete repudiation...

Aber Kawas (D) won election to the New York State Senate on Tuesday, becoming the first Palestinian-American to serve in the state legislature after defeating Republican Han-Khon To in the heavily Democratic 12th District. Her victory celebration is an example of why residents of the Empire State are terrified of how quickly the pro-Hamas, pro-terror arm of the Left is infiltrating government. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member, who received the endorsement of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (straight-up Communist), marked the result by posting a campaign graphic declaring her the first Palestinian elected in New York State....

CrowdStrike launched an AI kill switch feature to stop and block internal agents that misbehave. The cybersecurity giant also announced a Claude Cowork integration and two AI acquisitions. ... being able to control and shut down agent activity is vital to the next wave of AI adoption. ... CrowdStrike is betting that it has a solution to rogue artificial intelligence. The cybersecurity vendor on Tuesday launched an AI kill switch designed to let security teams stop internal AI agents that go rogue, block them from relaunching and cut off their enterprise network access. The tool is built into CrowdStrike’s Falcon...

Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion "beauty" particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a search spanning more than 40 years and brings physicists closer to exploring the "Zeptoverse"—an unexplored world that exists at distances of a billionth of a trillionth of a meter, or a "zeptometer," where new particles and forces of nature may be hiding. Researchers from The University of Manchester have played key roles in the LHCb experiment and its major upgrade—which...

Four ballot questions to ban men in women's sports were approved. One to ban transgender surgeries on minors also passed. One to do two things, BOTH repeal a right to abortion AND ban transgender surgeries on minors, failed.

From Grok... "Democrats effectively won the “gerrymandering game” in the 2026 midterms. Republican mid-decade redistricting efforts—pushed heavily by President Trump and aimed at protecting or expanding the GOP’s narrow House majority—largely failed or backfired amid a strong Democratic wave.​ Newsnationnow Republicans redrew maps in multiple states (notably Texas targeting ~5 seats, Florida targeting 4, plus efforts in North Carolina, Alabama, Ohio, Tennessee, Louisiana, and others) based largely on 2024 Trump margins, hoping for a net gain that some estimated in the high single digits or more after accounting for Democratic responses. Courts and voters blocked or limited some efforts (e.g.,...

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“Gridlock is the next best thing to having a constitution.” – M. Stanton Evans Now that the election is over, it’s time to ask if all the hyperventilating for the past year was worth it. Was this “the most important election in our history,” as so many have declared? We are entirely unconvinced. If all it does is produce gridlock in Washington, we will be happy, because the biggest threat to the country is when lawmakers are productive. To be clear, it would have been better if the GOP had kept their majorities, and we are deeply disturbed by the...

Abortion is still legal in Missouri. Voters on Tuesday rejected Amendment 3, which would have again banned most abortions in the state, with some exceptions.

Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com — On the eve of the midterms, Susan Kokinda sets President Trump's final message to Republicans, given to Benny Johnson ("be smart, be strong, love your country"), against Senator Elissa Slotkin's September 30 speech at the Carnegie Endowment, where she called Trump's America "the Titanic", and her stage partner Anne Applebaum's praise for the January 6 hearings as "constructed for television". Slotkin's undercover-video remarks of October 29 show what her post-midterm "signature cases" would be: the White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool. The episode then follows the playbook to Poland: Slotkin's visit to...

A source close to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital that the South Dakota Republican intends to run for Senate minority leader following the GOP's sweeping defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections. Thune is expected to seek the leadership position despite Republicans losing at least five seats in the upper chamber, including contests in traditionally Republican strongholds such as South Carolina and Texas. The losses came amid declining approval ratings for President Donald Trump, whose administration faced criticism over the war in Iran, immigration enforcement operations and high gas prices in the months leading up to the...

I was optimistic because I've seen far more Minogue signs than Healey signs in my county, but I also tried tempering my expectations given we are stronghold for the most degenerate politicians....but seriously, WTF?? What has caused such apathy, ignorance, and delusion to befall the electorate in the last few decades?Many people in this state live fairly prosperously compared to those from other states...I just don't get the political mindset of these folks...RANT OVER