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US stocks fell suddenly on Thursday as AI and chip stocks sold off, erasing the gains from Wednesday's post-election rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) tumbled 2.9%, or over 1,500 points. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 3.8%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) dropped 5.2%, putting the index on track to close in a correction. The PHLX Semiconductor index (^SOX) dived 10% as Nvidia (NVDA), Micron (MU), and other chip names sank. Large-cap tech stocks were pacing for their worst day since the COVID-19 pandemic sell-off. Investors continued to process the Democrats' sweeping victory on Tuesday and its implications...

The lame-duck session before January will probably be President Donald Trump’s last chance to get a high court nominee confirmed by the Senate. The GOP’s sweeping losses in the midterm elections Tuesday set up an unsettling possibility for the party: If it doesn’t act now to confirm a new Supreme Court justice, it may not have another chance for years to come. That prospect is likely to ramp up pressure on the court’s two oldest conservatives — Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., 76, and Clarence Thomas, 78 — to retire during the lame-duck period, while Republicans still have the votes...

Aging conservative justices now face the prospect that Republicans won’t control the confirmation process for many yearsWASHINGTON—President Trump put three justices on the Supreme Court during his first term. On Tuesday, voters all but guaranteed that he won’t get a fourth.Democrats’ midterm blowout gave them a Senate majority—with a several-seat cushion—that will make it easy to block Trump judicial nominees, especially for any Supreme Court vacancies that might arise in 2027 or 2028. That prospect casts new uncertainty over the long-term sustainability of the high court’s 6-3 conservative majority, as well as the legacies of the two oldest and most...

Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general for civil rights, sources told Fox News. Dhillon was nominated by President Donald Trump in December 2024, before being sworn in during April 2025 after being confirmed by the Senate. She is leaving after Trump's Republican Party lost the House and Senate in this week's midterm elections. In the leadup to the midterms, Dhillon defended the Trump administration's investigation into noncitizen voters. "There are people who feel that the point is to sow distrust about the whole election system. There are very few people who are noncitizens who...

(The Hill) — Former MLB first baseman Mark Teixeira (R) is projected to succeed Rep. Chip Roy (R) in representing Texas’s 21st Congressional District, according to preliminary results from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Teixeira defeated Democratic opponent Kristin Hook [cut] Roy opted not to seek reelection and instead run for Texas attorney general, but he lost the GOP primary to Texas state Sen. Mayes Middleton in the spring. Teixeira received endorsements from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and President Donald Trump. The former professional baseball player has shown support for Trump’s deportation agenda, writing, “I stand with ICE,” on social...

Politicians and presidents sometimes make Faustian bargains. They make trade-offs. The stereotypical Faustian bargain is one in which someone sells his or her soul to the devil in exchange for money or fame. But let’s say you’re the president of the United States, and the two options before you are to keep your country safe or to better position you and your party to hold onto power. It all centers on a country that has been chanting “Death to America" since 1979, and that is very close to obtaining nuclear weapons and delivery systems that could wipe out its neighbors,...

Anti-Israel activists in Philadelphia are demanding that Jewish-owned businesses get out of town ahead of a Sunday protest scheduled for the eve of the anniversary of the Kristallnacht Nazi night of terror. The Philly Bike On Your Left group, along with two other anti-Israel activist organizations, is calling for a bicycle protest targeting Jewish-owned stores in Philly’s ritzy Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. Marti Lieberman, 37, co-owner of Mac Mart, told The Post she was stunned to learn that her business was among those being targeted — along with K’Far Cafe, Huda Burger, Goldie, Dizengoff, and Schlesinger’s. “It’s scary,” the American said...

New York Attorney General Letitia James stepped back from the 'Cornell 7' criminal investigation after being accused of bias, naming a former federal prosecutor who oversaw Sean 'Diddy' Combs's prosecution to lead the sexual assault probe. James announced Wednesday that she had appointed Jacqueline Kelly to lead the investigation into a former Cornell University student's allegations that multiple men raped her at a fraternity party in October 2024. 'Nothing announced today states that Attorney General James has recused herself, relinquished supervisory or charging authority, or surrendered the ability to direct, approve, reject, or override substantive prosecutorial decisions,' he told The...

As I write these words, it is the morning after the election. I have been watching social media go full-tilt wacko from many of my Democratic friends who have been swooning about “the blue tsunami” that swept over the Republicans. Some of them have asked me, with as much a modicum of politeness as they can muster, how much it hurts to watch MAGA go down in flames. Do these queries evoke a frown? More like a smirk, and not the sort that many liberals might appreciate. I already believed that Darline Graham would not win the United States Senate...

Even before the polls closed on Tuesday, an epic blame game had begun. How did Republicans fumble the success of 2024 into this midterm meltdown? How did we lose so many Senate seats, including in my home state of Texas, a conservative cornerstone for more than three decades and a state Donald Trump carried by 14 points in 2024? Die-hard Never Trumpers will rush to eulogize the MAGA movement. Some populists will shop a stab-in-the-back narrative that blames the traditional conservatives they themselves chased away. But both sides miss the point. This week’s beat-down wasn’t only foreseeable, it was foreseen—because...

Democrats take the House. Here’s what they plan to investigate and their legislative agenda Democrats take the House. Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives, according to an ABC News projection, putting Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on track to make history as the first Black Speaker of the House when the new Congress is seated in January. So, what's next? Democrats have signaled that they will pursue both a legislative agenda and investigative track that they say aims to restore a congressional check and balance against the executive branch. Legislative priorities: Healthcare, prices, tariffs Oversight and investigations: Epstein,...

Democrat Allison Montgomery will become Alabama’s first transgender legislator after she won the state’s House District 25 on Tuesday night, unseating Republican Phillip Rigsby and persevering in a district President Donald Trump won three times. Montgomery’s victory came as Democrats had an overwhelming performance in the midterm elections. Democrats flipped control of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, as well as several gubernatorial seats, including in Texas and Ohio. State legislatures also saw Democratic victories on Tuesday night, including Montgomery’s win in House District 25 in northern Alabama. Montgomery won with 53.3 percent of the vote to Rigsby’s 46.7 percent,...

That didn't take long. Democrats had barely clinched Congress last night when their supporters were calling for the execution of Elon Musk for being a "traitor to the west." affordability? "We've begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy, and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard," Galloway said. "Elon Musk is a traitor to the West." "We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall," he continued. "This is a traitor to the West, and he should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West." And the crowd applauded. This...

President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader. Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) issued a stark warning on Wednesday evening after Democrats flipped a Texas Senate seat and the governor’s mansion in the midterm elections. In a lengthy statement shared on social media, the GOP senator said that “Texans will be hurt” by the blue tsunami that swept across the state and country on Tuesday. “Their assault on business will make Texas a much less attractive place to start or grow a small business,” he wrote. “Texas will become more like California if they succeed in halting all new investment into AI.” State Reps. James Talarico and Gina...

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated that the country will defend its rights under international law and refuse to submit to coercion or externally imposed demands. Pezeshkian made the remarks on Tuesday during separate meetings with the newly appointed ambassadors of Portugal, Switzerland, Türkiye and Nigeria, who presented their credentials in Tehran. Receiving Portuguese Ambassador Waltier Matias, Pezeshkian criticized misleading portrayals of Iran and its people in Western media, saying, “Many of the things published about Iran and our nation in Western media do not correspond to reality.” The president also denounced state terrorism and the targeting of scientists,...

Russia quickly adopted, mass-produced and frequently adapted the Iranian-designed Shahed attack drone during its war against Ukraine. But it took the United States about three years to deploy its own version of the drone, Ryan said. “The technology was equally available to all. What differed was institutional speed,” Ryan wrote in the assessment, titled “Fast Following: Military Emulation and Twenty-First-Century Transformation.” The report says the ability to copy an enemy’s innovations could prove as important as inventing new military technologies. During the war, Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly borrowed each other’s drone tactics. For example, Ukraine quickly adopted fiber-optic drones...

Alaska’s Ballot Measure 2, which would repeal the state’s election laws, is on track to narrowly fail, as of votes counted Wednesday afternoon.

Americans bought more guns in October 2026 than the year before. Checks for gun sales through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) rose 7.9 percent year over year, according to an industry report released Tuesday. A National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) analysis found there were more than 1.4 million sales-related checks through October. That’s up over 100,ooo.It also makes October 2026 the best post-pandemic October on record, trailing just 2020 and 2021. The nationwide sales-check spike follows localized incidents of souring NICS checks in the wake of new gun restrictions, such as in Virginia and Colorado. It...