Devastated Democrats play the blame game, and stare at a dark future
A depressed and demoralized Democratic Party is beginning the painful slog into a largely powerless future, as its leaders grapple with how deeply they underestimated Donald Trump’s resurgent hold on the nation.
Nation and World news — at a glance — for November 8
Republicans carry ballot gains to state Houses
The ‘Super Bowl of Pickleball’ looks to grow the sport
Anna Leigh Waters, a 17-year-old from Delray Beach, Florida, is the world’s top-ranked pickleball player and is widely considered to be the face of America’s fastest-growing sport. But from where she stands, she is still relatively unknown, even among a majority of the racket sport’s fans.
On election day, he headed to the Capitol with a manifesto and a torch
Authorities on Wednesday identified a Michigan man as the person arrested as he tried to enter the U.S. Capitol on Election Day, reeking of fuel and carrying a torch lighter and a flare gun.
Harris says she concedes the election, but not her fight
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris formally acknowledged her loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday in a defiant and emotional speech, defending her campaign as a fight for democracy that she would continue, even if not from the Oval Office.
Trump will return to power with a more expansive agenda
WASHINGTON — As he declared victory, President-elect Donald Trump said that his mission now was nothing less than to “save our country.” His version of doing that involves an expansive agenda that would reshape government, foreign policy, national security, economics and domestic affairs as dramatically as any president in modern times.
Behind the election anger may be something else: Lingering COVID grief
LOS ANGELES — When Americans voted in the last presidential election, people were profoundly isolated from their friends and loved ones. Tens of millions of schoolchildren were still learning virtually, and office workers were hunkered down at home, experiencing the world through their smartphones and laptops.
How a 178-year-old magazine stays relevant, one Instagram post at a time
NEW YORK — On a Tuesday morning in early October, Stellene Volandes, the editor-in-chief of Town &Country, sat around a conference table on the 19th floor in the Hearst Tower with three senior editors. They were intensely debating cover lines for the print magazine’s philanthropy issue, coming out in November with multiple cover subjects, including actress Mariska Hargitay and former football player Michael Strahan.
How do you get kids to read? Give them pizza
On a recent afternoon, Frank Torok sat inside a pint-size Pizza Hut pop-up, lifted the lid of a miniature pizza box and was overwhelmed by a wave of nostalgia (and a whiff of fresh hot mozzarella).
A vivid Trump-Harris contrast in campaign’s grueling final days
It was the final Sunday of the campaign for president, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were continuing to race across battleground states in their search for support. But in message and demeanor, Harris, the Democrat, and Trump, the Republican, could not have been more different.
Weary, troubled and nervous: Americans flood the early vote
An anxious America, weary from a vitriolic campaign season and worried about the state of the nation’s democracy, is voting with determination, with roughly 75 million people having cast ballots in the early voting period.
They want to ensure that, this time, white women vote for a woman
NEW HOPE, Pa. — Armed with a clipboard and campaign literature, Liz Minnella strolled through a neighborhood in New Hope, Pennsylvania, optimistic that by the end of her day of door-knocking, the small town would live up to its name for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign.
If you think you can hold a grudge, consider the crow
Over and over, the crows attacked Lisa Joyce as she ran screaming down a street in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Harris and Trump zero in on the economy in the final stretch
ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump swept through Southern battleground states Saturday, outlining sharply divergent economic messages for voters in areas where the presidential race remains in a dead heat.
1 in 4 Child Deaths After ER Visits Are Preventable, Study Finds
The morning after Phyllis Rabinowitz brought her newborn daughter home from the hospital, she knew something was terribly wrong. The baby, Rebecca, had thick mucus, trouble breathing and lethargy unlike anything Rabinowitz had seen in her first child.
Xenophobia and hate speech are spiking heading into the election
The last time there was a presidential election, the country was coming off a summer of protests in favor of greater racial equality. Support for increased immigration was at the highest level ever polled.
Harris calls Trump’s violent language about Liz Cheney ‘disqualifying’
Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that Donald Trump had disqualified himself from serving as the nation’s chief executive by suggesting that Liz Cheney, a prominent Republican critic, should be put on a battlefield “with nine barrels shooting at her.”
Lakers’ rookie ‘wasn’t above anyone else,’ his ex-teachers recall
BATH TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Carrie Brown was an exasperated middle school teacher who had a famous student she knew she could count on.
They’re giving scammers all their money. The kids can’t stop them.
When Chris Mancinelli walked into his father’s home for the first time after the 79-year-old man died last summer, he stopped to look at family photos displayed on the refrigerator door. Near a crayon drawing spelling out “grandpa” in rainbow colors were photos of his father’s three granddaughters at a swimming pool.
In election’s final days, dark money and ‘gray money’ fund ‘dirty tricks’
The campaign literature that landed in Republican mailboxes in North Carolina this week was jarring. On one side was a sonogram image of a human fetus, with this message: “Her heart is beating. We all know it. Only the courageous few will protect her.” On the other side was a call to action: “You have the courage and the conviction to vote for Randall Terry.”
