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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

12:06 AM on Wednesday, November 5

President Donald Trump’s power to unilaterally impose far-reaching tariffs is coming before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a pivotal test of executive power with trillion-dollar implications for the global economy

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

11:12 PM on Tuesday, November 4

10:23 PM on Tuesday, November 4

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

10:09 PM on Tuesday, November 4

Democrat Jay Jones has won Virginia’s election for attorney general despite turmoil late in his campaign over texts he sent in 2022 embracing violence against a fellow lawmaker

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

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

12:08 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