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5 things to know for Nov. 7: Election, Ukraine, Climate crisis, Severe weather, Elon Musk

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — As Democrats grapple with election night losses, Trump administration officials are ramping up preparations to return to the White House in January. Trump’s team, however, has actively skipped a series of key deadlines during the initial planning process which could complicate matters between now and his inauguration. Here’s

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Leaders rush to pay homage to Trump as they brace for him shaking up the old-world order

By Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — In the hours after Donald Trump secured another term in the White House, a familiar exercise was unfolding in foreign capitals. Dusting off their proverbial Trump playbooks, leaders from Paris to Jerusalem to Riyadh and beyond began posting congratulatory messages online and

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Convicted January 6 rioter tells court he expects Trump to pardon him and is ‘awaiting information’ from the president-elect

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The ripple effect of Donald Trump’s election victory on Tuesday is already being felt in Washington, DC, where some defendants charged in the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, could soon be pardoned by the incoming president who has promised as much. One rioter wasted no time in citing

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What we know about the transition so far

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — With the presidential election called for President-elect Donald Trump, the Biden administration is now preparing for a peaceful transfer of power to its predecessor 76 days from now – even though Trump’s team has actively skipped a series of key deadlines during the initial planning process. Representatives from

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Where Harris’ campaign went wrong

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — It was supposed to be everything short of a free ad – a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president’s campaign always hoped were going to

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Republican Tim Sheehy will defeat Sen. Jon Tester in competitive Montana race, CNN projects

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Republican Tim Sheehy will defeat three-term Montana Sen. Jon Tester, CNN projects, adding to Republicans’ newly won Senate majority. Montana has long been a deep-red state in presidential elections — and every other statewide office is currently held by a Republican. But Tester, a seven-fingered dirt farmer who had

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Trump will win second term, CNN projects, in historic comeback after losing four years ago

By Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump will be America’s 47th president, CNN projected Wednesday, after mounting the most momentous comeback in political history that will hand him massive, disruptive power at home and will send shockwaves around the world. Four years after leaving Washington as a pariah, following his attempt to overturn the

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Eight takeaways from the 2024 election

By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg and Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has completed a paradigm-shattering political comeback, winning the White House in an election shaped more by Americans’ dissatisfaction with the direction of the country than by Democrats’ dire warnings of the threat the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president poses to its founding

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7 states vote to protect abortion rights, while efforts to expand access in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota fail

By Amy O’Kruk, Annette Choi, Lauren Mascarenhas, Kaanita Iyer and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — More than two years after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion, voters in 10 states cast ballots on whether to cement reproductive rights in their state constitutions. Measures

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What to watch for on Election Day

By Eric Bradner and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — It’s decision day in America’s battle for the White House and control of Congress – even if the results could take days or weeks to sort through. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are battling over seven swing states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,

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Harris offers Americans a chance to turn the page on Trump era on election eve – without mentioning his name

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Her message has been consistent, but Kamala Harris has in the closing days of the presidential race dropped two notable words from her stump speech: Donald Trump. The former president’s name was again absent from the vice president’s speeches on Monday night in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where she promised

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Democrats look to make new gains in state legislatures, and protect recent ones

By Arit John, Veronica Stracqualursi and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — On a recent 70-degree Tuesday evening, Democratic state Rep. Judy Schwiebert went canvassing in a north Phoenix neighborhood where yards were adorned with Halloween decorations and Trump campaign signs. When Schwiebert, who is running for a Republican-held state Senate seat, knocks on doors, she

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Battle to replace McConnell remains wide-open as top candidates quietly woo key senators — and Trump

By Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell’s potential successors have been crisscrossing the country, cozying up to former President Donald Trump and barnstorming key battleground states in the final days of the election to help their party win back the Senate — and help themselves, too.

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CNN Exclusive: Bill Clinton has hopes and fears on what comes after 2024 – for the country, the party and himself

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Michigan’s West Coast (CNN) — Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality – potentially American democracy’s or the Democratic Party’s, but also his own. The nation’s 42nd president believes Kamala Harris will win and that the economy will “explode” over the next

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What Americans heard about Trump heading into the campaign’s final week: fascism and french fries

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — In the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign, much of the most discussed news around former President Donald Trump revolved around fascism and french fries, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are actually hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential nominees. Conversations

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8 states will vote to bar noncitizen voting, CNN projects, something already illegal in federal elections

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Voters in eight states, most of them heavily Republican, will approve ballot measures to require US citizenship to vote, CNN projects, even though it is already illegal for noncitizens to cast ballots in federal elections. The victorious ballot measures in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina

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CNN Exclusive: Bill Clinton has hopes and fears on what comes after 2024 – for the country, the party and himself

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Michigan’s West Coast (CNN) — Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality – potentially American democracy’s or the Democratic Party’s, but also his own. The nation’s 42nd president believes Kamala Harris will win and that the economy will “explode” over the next few

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Harris makes surprise appearance on SNL and gives advice to fictional self played by Maya Rudolph

By Samantha Waldenberg and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” making a surprise stop during the show’s last episode before Election Day to give her fictional self some advice ahead of the presidential election. “You got this,” Harris told her “SNL” alter ego, Maya Rudolph. The cold

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Frustration grows as federal agency struggles to combat election lies spread by Americans

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The federal agency tasked with protecting the nation’s elections systems has retreated from some of the key work it did to counter false and viral information about voting in the 2020 election, including dismissing or ignoring multiple internal and external policy proposals to combat disinformation, numerous sources familiar with

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