Why Kamala Harris lost the election  —  Harris refused to make a clean break from the last four years.  —  In the final sprint to the election, Kamala Harris' campaign — at her insistence, aides and allies said — started playing Donald Trump's most incendiary comments on the jumbotrons at her rallies …

Far-Right Donald Trump Supporters Celebrate His Victory With Violent Memes and Calls for Executions  —  “Many many many executions are warranted,” one Trump supporter wrote on Truth Social.  “These traitors are a terminal cancer that MUST BE completely eradicated to make America healthy again.”

DOJ moving to wind down Trump criminal cases before he takes office  —  The step complies with long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.  —  Justice Department officials have been evaluating …

Democracy Is Not Over  —  Americans who care about democracy have every right to feel appalled and frightened.  But then they have work to do.  —  An aspiring fascist is the president-elect, again, of the United States.  This is our political reality: Donald Trump is going to bring a claque …

This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe  —  Trump won because the opposition party is committed to ancien régime restoration in a country that desperately wants change.  —  Pocket  —  While the presidential election …

Exit Polls  —  NBC News, in conjunction with a consortium of news organizations, conducted exit polling across the country in 10 key states.  The polling included speaking with voters at polling places and phone interviews.  The exit polls are not results, but instead a look at the thinking and motives of voters across the country.

Democrats are in their nightmare scenario: On track to lose every key swing state  —  Democrats' failures in the states they were counting on has already prompted some soul-searching.  —  PITTSBURGH —  Donald Trump has blown up Democrats' Blue Wall for the second time.

A Party of Prigs and Pontificators Suffers a Humiliating Defeat  —  A story in chess lore involves the great Danish-Jewish player Aron Nimzowitsch, who, at a tournament in the mid-1920s, found himself struggling against the German master Friedrich Sämisch.

What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Donald Trump's victory marks a turning point in the American experiment …

Biden team prepares to rush last-minute aid to Ukraine  —  The White House wants to rush more weapons to Ukraine, but the next president could halt the shipments.  —  The Biden administration is planning to rush the last of over $6 billion remaining in Ukraine security assistance out the door …

Trump wins Dearborn amid anger over Gaza and Lebanon; Jill Stein receives 18% of vote  —  Donald Trump won Dearborn and made significant gains in Hamtramck compared to 2020 amid anger in Arab American and Muslim communities about deaths in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen.

Democrat Elissa Slotkin wins Michigan Senate race  —  Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D) is projected to win the hotly contested Senate race in Michigan, according to Decision Desk HQ, keeping a key swing-state seat in the Democratic column.  —  Slotkin, a three-term House lawmaker and former CIA analyst …

Winds shift toward GOP in fight for House  —  The neck and neck battle for control of the House in the next Congress appears to be shifting in favor of Republicans as results roll in from the most competitive districts a day after voting ended.  —  While the contest for the gavel remains …

Texas Democrats fume at national party over Allred's loss  —  Local Democrats are furious at the national party over Rep. Colin Allred's loss in the Texas Senate race.  “There was a lack of support from the national Democratic ticket,” Nikki Murray, 53, told POLITICO in an interview after Allred's concession speech.

America Did This to Itself  —  This time, the nation was on notice.  Back in 2016, those of us who supported Donald Trump at least had the excuse of not knowing how sociopathy can present itself, and we at least had the conceit of believing that the presidency was not just a man …