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Former President Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally in Erie, Pa., on July 29.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally in Erie, Pa., on July 29.
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Former President Donald Trump has been elected president once more, in line with a race name by the Related Press. Trump won the key states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, with a mixed 29 electoral votes to clinch greater than the 270 essential to win the presidency. As of 6:15 a.m. ET Wednesday, Trump had 277 electoral votes whole. A number of states, together with Michigan, Arizona and Nevada are nonetheless excellent.
Previous to the race name for Wisconsin, Trump spoke at Palm Seaside Conference Heart in West Palm Seaside, Fla., the place he stood flanked by household and employees and spoke to a crowd of supporters. “We overcame obstacles that no one thought doable,” Trump stated.
Trump stated he gained the favored vote, however these outcomes haven’t been tabulated.
He’ll return to the White Home after falsely claiming the 2020 election was rigged and stoking the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. He’s additionally the primary convicted felon to win the White Home.
Republicans have retaken the Senate. They might very nicely have within the neighborhood of 55 to 56 Senate seats when all of the counting is finished. The Home is not going to be decided for a while. It may take per week or so, as there are a lot of shut races. Sixty-two seats stay uncalled at this hour. Democrats want a internet acquire of 4 seats to take management of the Home. It seems they might come very shut. However whoever wins management will accomplish that by a really small margin.
— by Domenico Montanaro, NPR’s political editor/correspondent
- 🎧 Trump’s political profession was anticipated to finish after the Jan. 6 assault and a number of indictments, NPR’s Franco Ordoñez tells Up First. Trump’s message on the economic system resonated with many. Others informed Ordoñez what appealed to them was how he spoke, that he wasn’t politically appropriate and that he wasn’t a politician.
- 🎧 Individuals at Harris’ occasion in D.C. final evening realized issues weren’t going their means even earlier than North Carolina was known as in Trump’s favor, NPR’s Deepa Shivaram says. Democrats should now attempt to figure out how this happened and uncover methods the celebration can rebuild.
Now that Republicans have reclaimed a Senate majority, Trump could have the chance to nominate extra judges and enhance his affect over the courts. Nonetheless, any efforts to advance laws will rely on management of the Home, which remains to be too near name.
- 🎧 Democrats are nonetheless defending tight Senate races in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada, NPR’s Deirdre Walsh says. Within the Home, there’s a risk Democrats may win a slender majority. If Democrats cannot flip the Home, Republicans will management each chambers of Congress and the White Home.
- ➡️ Two Black ladies will serve collectively within the Senate for the primary time in U.S. historical past. Maryland’s Angela Alsobrooks and Delaware’s Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester doubled the number of Black ever women elected to the U.S. Senate from two to 4. Each are Democrats.
- ➡️ Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride additionally made historical past. She is the first openly transgender person elected to serve in Congress.
- ➡️ Voters in 10 states are deciding whether or not to incorporate protections for reproductive rights of their state constitutions. Right here’s where they stand now.
- ➡️ Arizona voters have accredited a GOP-backed immigration measure permitting state and native legislation enforcement to arrest undocumented migrants.
- 📷 NPR community photographers spent Election Day documenting People casting their votes. See photographs of what Election Day looked like across the country.
- 🎧 The presidential marketing campaign season has been filled with surprising moments, phrases and sounds. Take a step again and experience the 2024 race through archival soundbites.
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The East Colonnade, beforehand lined with static picture collages, now options digital shows below every archway, highlighting American historical past and key moments within the White Home and presidency, as seen on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024.
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The White Home has been providing the identical tour for many years, with little change through the years. Now, First Woman Jill Biden has launched a brand new tour that permits guests to stroll into rooms and expertise new interactive parts. These enhancements embrace movies, digital photographs and touchable replicas, offering a extra participating, museum-like expertise.
At present’s pay attention
Lucas and Arthur Jussen carry out with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra below the baton of Christoph Eschenbach in October 2024
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Brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen first carried out for the Dutch queen after they had been simply 12 and eight years previous. About 20 years later, they’re now touring the world and performing in main live performance halls. This month, the piano duo launched a set of recordings they name “tiny diamonds” — quick waltzes and lullabies influenced by, and in some circumstances diverging from, French Impressionism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This launch marks the first volume in a planned trilogy.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Child Haggis, a pygmy hippo, was born to folks Otto and Gloria at Edinburgh Zoo on Oct. 30.
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- Transfer over Moo Deng. There’s a brand new tiny pygmy hippo. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo introduced its personal new child. A female calf, named Haggis was born on Oct. 30.
- Rafael has strengthened right into a Class 1 hurricane. It is anticipated to batter the Cayman Islands and Cuba earlier than moving into the Gulf of Mexico.
- The black-footed ferret has efficiently given delivery, marking the primary time a U.S. clone of an endangered species produced offspring.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
