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FEMA's administrator said the employee told a team responding to hurricane survivors to skip homes with yard signs showing support for Donald Trump.

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President-elect Donald Trump won the election by flipping Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin after President Biden won them in 2020. Looking at how Democratic counties voted explains how he did it.

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The Arab Gulf nation, a U.S. ally that has been a haven for Hamas leaders for nearly two decades, also said it will no longer host the Palestinian militant group’s political office, an official said.

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Republican Kelly Ayotte's victory in New Hampshire will bring the total number of women holding governor’s offices to 13 — surpassing the previous high of 12 set in 2023.

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The versatile actor had hundreds of screen credits to his name, including Platoon, The Rock and Final Destination.

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Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel, officials said Saturday. The announcement comes after growing frustration with the lack of progress on a deal.

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Former President Donald Trump has won Nevada’s six electoral votes, according to a race call from the Associated Press. This is the first time in 20 years that Nevada has elected a Republican in a presidential election.

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There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.

NPR's Scott Simon accompanied his daughters to the polls, as they voted in their first presidential election.

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We look at the various threats sent to polling places on election day this week, as well as the extent to which foreign actors tried to interfere with the presidential election.

Data from a large survey of U.S. voters found that a significant subset of voters who supported abortion rights ballot measures also voted for Trump.

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The presidential election is over, and the complicated two-month sprint has begun to hand over the levers of power from one administration to the next.

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The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

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Chinese business people may be able to find creative ways to avoid U.S. tariffs, but for Beijing, its concerns for the incoming Trump presidency go beyond trade.

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Within two days after Election Day, right-wing activists and two Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania withdrew thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ absentee ballot applications.

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Election deniers have spent the past four years focused on false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it raised similar alarms about fraud — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in.

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Piano lessons and soccer practice can encourage grit. But if your kid isn’t into it, it can become a stress-inducing obligation. Here’s how to have hard conversations with your child about quitting.

The bomb exploded when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, the capital of the restive Balochistan province, said a senior police officer.

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The judge overseeing Trump's 2020 election interference case canceled remaining court deadlines as prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the presidential victory.

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Firefighters gained ground Friday against a wildfire that has destroyed at least 132 structures, as favorable conditions were expected to continue through the weekend after two days of gusty winds.

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