When Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned in North Carolina, both candidates courted a state-recognized tribe there whose 55,000 members could have helped tip the swing state.

A ban on transgender students from kindergarten through college using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities has become law in Ohio.

For one conservative Catholic family in Ohio, activism begins at home.

The drubbing Democrats took in Pennsylvania has prompted vows to rebound.

Special counsel Jack Smith move to abandon two federal cases accusing Trump of endangering American democracy and national security does away with the most serious legal threats Trump was facing as he returns to the White House.

Tim Walz has accepted the symbolic presentation of a turkey as he eases back into his duties as Minnesota’s governor following the Harris-Walz ticket’s defeat in the presidential election.

The leaders of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign say they simply didn’t have enough time to execute a winning strategy against Donald Trump.

If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation.

President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.

Republican Donald Trump’s support has grown broadly since he last sought the presidency.

An Osprey flying as part of the presidential squadron used to ferry White House staff and government officials from an event in New York Monday was grounded due to a safety concern, with one witness reporting flames under the right engine.

The chair of the Democratic National Committee has informed party leaders that the organization will elect his successor just days after Donald Trump is inaugurated.

The reaction of those who defended “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with President-elect Trump sounds almost quaint in the days of opinionated journalism.

Donald Trump's victory has dismayed many politically engaged Black women, and they're reassessing their enthusiasm for politics and organizing.

Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members.

Voters in central Mississippi and the Delta and Gulf Coast areas will return to the polls Tuesday for a runoff election to resolve two state judicial races in which no candidate received the required vote majority in the Nov. 5 general election.

The U.S. House passed legislation that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism.

For two weeks, Donald Trump has welcomed Elon Musk into his world.

Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has conceded defeat in the race narrowly won by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, saying he will not pursue a recount.

A report released Monday by Pew Research Center says about one in five Americans regularly get their news from so-called news influencers on social media.

Beyoncé is coming to your home on Christmas — provided you have Netflix and are tuning in to the Ravens-Texans game.

Some Arab Americans are expressing concern over Donald Trump's picks for key positions in his next administration.

Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election.

The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching the historic levels of the 2020 contest.

The United States Postal Service might have found a way to unite a nation bitterly divided after this month’s election: It’s releasing a Betty White stamp.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election.

Donald Trump made inroads in surprising places this election year in his path to the White House.

Incoming Democratic Senator-elect Ruben Gallego of Arizona says building authentic connections with working-class voters can help Democrats find their way back to power in Washington.

Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights.

Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to preserve at least some of the outgoing president’s legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.

Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured withering and often misleading GOP attacks on the issue.

Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery bills.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence.

President Joe Biden will hold talks this week with China’s Xi Jinping on the sidelines of an international summit in Peru.

A judge recused himself from presiding over Arizona's fake electors case after an email surfaced in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Kamala Harris’ race.

Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that so far has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump’s loss.

President-elect Donald Trump named Stephen Miller his deputy chief of staff and Tom Homan as his “border czar,” appointing a battle-tested duo to design and direct immigration policy from the White House.

Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator.

Voters in a Southern California city have rejected a measure that would have allowed residents who aren’t U.S. citizens to vote in local elections.

President Joe Biden has laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris appeared together for the first time since she lost last week's presidential election to Republican Donald Trump.

Control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance, teetering between a Republican or Democratic majority with fewer than 20 races left to be called.

Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate since 2000 to win the majority-Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan.

Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of President Joe Biden.

Black and Latino voters moved toward Republican Donald Trump in this year's presidential election, and some of the biggest shifts were among men under age 45, and that helped expand his margin over Democrat Kamala Harris.

The Associated Press declared President-elect Donald Trump the winner in Arizona on Saturday night after vote updates in Maricopa and other counties added to his overall lead, putting the state out of reach for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year’s presidential race.

President-elect Donald Trump has won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election, beating Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada.

A record 13 women will serve as governor next year after the election of New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte, breaking the record set in 2023.

The first episode of “Saturday Night Live" since the election of Donald Trump struck a somber tone at the beginning.

Republican Don Bacon has been elected to a fifth House term representing Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd District, nearly three days after the polls closed.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case has canceled any remaining court deadlines after prosecutors said they need time to assess “the appropriate course going forward” after the Republican’s presidential victory this week.

A relatively trouble-free presidential election was good news for those working to restore faith in the system.

Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania, winning the battleground state’s valuable presidential electoral votes, posting a two-seat gain in its U.S. House delegation and sweeping all four statewide offices on the ballot, including a U.S. Senate seat.

Among several blocs of religious voters, including his loyal evangelical base, Donald Trump fared roughly as well in his victory over Kamala Harris as he did in his loss to Joe Biden four years ago.

Big shifts with small groups and small shifts with big groups helped return Donald Trump to the White House.

With his commanding victory over Kamala Harris, Donald Trump has achieved a stunning political comeback that seemed unimaginable after his refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 election ended with his supporters violently storming the Capitol.

President-elect Donald Trump has not said what he would do on student loan forgiveness, leaving millions of borrowers facing uncertainty over what will happen with their payments once President Joe Biden leaves office.

Based on Donald Trump’s first term and his campaign statements, the United States will become less predictable, more chaotic, colder to allies and warmer to some strongmen, and much more transactional in picking friends globally than before.

The 2024 presidential election is over, but the path to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 is just beginning.

Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, beating three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.

Republicans had a big night in South Texas, flipping predominately Hispanic counties along the US-Mexico border.

Some of the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol nearly four years ago are celebrating the president-elect's electoral victory.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks Thursday in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for state lawmakers to convene a special session in December to help safeguard the state's progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and immigration ahead of another Trump presidency.

Donald Trump won the presidency after holding tight to his core base of voters and slightly expanding his coalition to include several groups that have traditionally been a part of the Democratic base.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks to the nation in what was his first appearance on camera in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden’s name wasn’t on the ballot, but history will likely remember Vice President Kamala Harris’ resounding defeat as his loss, too.

Donald Trump won Dearborn as the results show Arab-American and Muslim voters turned their back on Kamala Harris over the war in Gaza and Lebanon.

The majority in the U.S. House hangs in balance.

If women alone had voted, Donald Trump would have lost the presidential election decisively.

Democrats spent billions of dollars warning American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy, that his economic policies would benefit only his wealthy friends, that he was literally a fascist.

On election night 2020, Fox News sparked an internal crisis with a bold call that Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump in the crucial state of Arizona, putting the Democrat on the path to victory.

Donald Trump spent his first day as president-elect receiving congratulatory phone calls from his defeated opponent, world leaders and President Joe Biden as he began the process of turning his election victory into a government.

President-elect Donald Trump tapped into deep anxieties about an economy that seemed unable despite its recent growth to meet the needs of the middle class.

Voters had the chance this election to break the highest glass ceiling in American politics by electing Kamala Harris the nation’s first female president.

Special counsel Jack Smith is evaluating how to wind down the two federal cases against Donald Trump before he takes office in light of longstanding Justice Department protocol that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.

Donald Trump’s lead in Michigan became insurmountable after he improved his margin in Detroit’s county and won overwhelmingly in Republican-leaning parts of the state, closing off Vice President Kamala Harris’ path to victory.

Donald Trump's election victory was history-making in several respects even as his defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris prevented other firsts.

Faced with a sweeping rejection by American voters, Kamala Harris has conceded the presidential election to Donald Trump and is encouraging supporters to continue fighting for their vision of the country.

Donald Trump’s presidential win is going to be certified in Congress in January by the candidate he beat, Vice President Kamala Harris.

The parent company of Donald Trump’s social networking site Truth Social lost $19.2 million in the last quarter, according to an earnings report released on the same day he won back the presidency.

A disaffected electorate wanted former President Donald Trump to return to the White House, a blatant rejection of Vice President Kamala Harris and her nearly four years with President Joe Biden.

The Associated Press declared that Republican Donald Trump won Wisconsin — and with it, a return to the White House — once it determined that the remaining uncounted votes mostly from the greater Milwaukee area would not be enough to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to overtake Trump for the lead.

Donald Trump reclaimed Pennsylvania by improving his margins across the state, shaving Democratic President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Philadelphia, expanding his own dominance in rural parts of the state and flipping key suburban counties to the GOP column.

The story of how Donald Trump won the emerging swing state of Georgia is one of margins.

Democrat Kamala Harris conceded the election but urged her supporters to keep fighting for America’s promise following her defeat to Republican Donald Trump.

Dozens of European leaders will be assessing a new global outlook during a one-day summit in Hungary’s capital.

Republican voters in North Carolina cast ballots in greater numbers than four years ago, while Democratic turnout sagged.

Forty-eight states and Washington, D.

Donald Trump scored a decisive victory in a deeply divided nation.

For the first time ever, two Black women have been elected to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Senate.

U.S. stocks stormed to records as investors made bets on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and the world.

A strong across-the-board showing by Donald Trump helped propel the Republican former president to victory in Florida, once a preeminent swing state that has increasingly slipped out of Democrats’ grasp.

After months of reporting on what polls described as a remarkably close race, news outlets finally have the chance to report on actual results.

Voters for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump who cast their ballots for Tuesday’s presidential election had vastly different motivations — reflecting a broader national divide on the problems the United States faces.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.