Conservative School Boards Face Election Defeats in Trump Heartland
Conservative school board candidates saw a string of defeats in parts of Texas where voters had backed President Donald Trump in November. Why It Matters In recent years, school boards, usually nonpartisan, have become political battlegrounds in broader culture wars. Conservatives have targeted public education, arguing that parents should have more control over what their […]
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Elon Musk Reacts To Losing Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
By Khaleda Rahman is Newsweek’s National Correspondent based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on education and national news. Khaleda joined Newsweek in 2019 and had previously worked at the MailOnline in London, New York and Sydney. She is a graduate of University College London. Languages: English. You can get in touch with Khaleda […]
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Trump, GOP Dominate Florida Special Election with Jimmy Patronis’ District 1 Win
By Anna Commander is a Newsweek Editor and writer based in Florida. Her focus is reporting on crime, weather and breaking news. She has covered weather, and major breaking news events in South Florida. Anna joined Newsweek in 2022 from The National Desk in Washington, D.C. and had previously worked at CBS12 News in West […]
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What Trump’s Election Win Means for China, Ukraine-Russia War, and the Israel-Hamas War
✓ Link copied to clipboard! Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 25, 2024. Trump is back in… Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments […]
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Trump Demands Investigation After Top Iowa Pollster Ends Election Polling
President-elect Donald Trump is calling for an investigation into veteran Iowa pollster Ann Selzer following an announcement she was ending her operation, which comes weeks after her final poll dramatically missed the mark in predicting the presidential election outcome. Selzer, known for her decades of polling work in Iowa, released a survey three days before […]
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Sadhguru’s Message to America After Donald Trump’s Election Victory
Indian spiritual leader and environmental campaigner Sadhguru has a message for Americans after Donald Trump‘s election victory, and it’s about soil. Sadhguru is at COP29, this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, to deliver a rallying cry to rejuvenate soil across the world, with 52 percent of it already degraded, according to […]
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Video Shows Georgia’s Election Chief Doused in Black Paint
Georgia’s Central Electoral Commission meeting to validate the results of the contentious parliamentary elections held on October 26 was disrupted Saturday when black paint was hurled at Giorgi Kalandarishvili, the CEC chairman. David Kirtadze, an opposition commission member from the United National Movement, is shown in videos circulating on social media approaching Kalandarishvili amid a […]
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Trump Has Lost Nearly $800 Million in His Own Stock Since the Election
President-elect Donald Trump has lost nearly $800 million in his own stock since the 2024 election. Trump owns 114.75 million shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), according to Reuters. On Election Day, the stock price closed at $33.94 per share, making Trump’s stake in the company, which owns Truth Social, worth close to […]
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Bill Maher Mocks Kamala Harris’ Election Loss With McDonald’s Job Quip
In reference to a 2024 presidential campaign comment, talk show host and comedian Bill Maher joked on Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris called her former employer McDonald’s on election night to ask for her old job back after losing to President-elect Donald Trump. On a Friday night episode of his HBO show Real Time […]
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Were 2024 Election Polls Wrong? Pollsters Give Verdicts
In the weeks and days leading up to the 2024 presidential election, the polls broadly captured a very close race, with voters more-or-less evenly split between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, including across the seven battleground states. There even appeared to be momentum in Democratic nominee Harris’s favor towards the very end, with some of […]
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