National News

12:31 AM on Wednesday, November 5

President Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot in Tuesday’s elections, but many voters in key races made their choice in opposition to him or considered him to be irrelevant, according to the AP Voter Poll

12:13 AM on Wednesday, November 5

Dick Cheney was the public face of the Bush administration’s boundary-pushing approach to surveillance and intelligence collection in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

12:12 AM on Wednesday, November 5

Zohran Mamdani has stormed onto the national political scene by winning New York City's mayoral election

12:07 AM on Wednesday, November 5

Three lower courts have ruled illegal President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping worldwide tariffs

12:05 AM on Wednesday, November 5

A judge will consider how to respond to allegations that federal immigration agents in the Chicago area have used excessive force

12:04 AM on Wednesday, November 5

President Donald Trump is heading to Miami, speaking on the anniversary of his reelection to a second term

Wednesday, November 5

Government shutdown enters 36th day, breaking record set during Trump’s first term as impact spreads nationwide

11:19 PM on Tuesday, November 4

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey is going another round in his attempted political comeback, more than two decades after he resigned from office

10:23 PM on Tuesday, November 4

James Solomon and Jim McGreevey advanced to a runoff for mayor of Jersey City on Tuesday

9:23 PM on Tuesday, November 4

City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city

4:22 PM on Tuesday, November 4

1:22 PM on Tuesday, November 4

The Federal Aviation Administration says it halted all flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport for a time because of a reported security threat

12:43 PM on Tuesday, November 4

10:13 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Voters in races across the country have backed Democrats, including in New York’s mayoral race and contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia

7:48 AM on Tuesday, November 4

The death toll from a train collision in central India has risen to 11 after rescue workers retrieved more bodies overnight

12:22 AM on Tuesday, November 4

California voters have approved a plan to overhaul the state’s congressional district boundaries, giving Democrats a boost in their bid to win the U.S. House majority next year

12:08 AM on Tuesday, November 4

No candidate has cleared the required 50%-plus-one threshold required to win the Minneapolis mayor’s race after the first round of counting

12:08 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Voters in Maine and Texas have considered Republican-backed proposals that proponents say would safeguard elections, but opponents believe are intended to make voting more difficult

12:04 AM on Tuesday, November 4

All three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state’s highest court

12:01 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Democrats are dominating the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House