Trump’s win in the state gives him 301 electoral votes, even as Democratic incumbent hangs on to Senate seat

Complaint unsealed in Manhattan court says unnamed official of the guard instructed a contact in September to create a plan to surveil and kill Trump

Arizona, with its 11 Electoral College votes, is now the last state to be called — and Donald Trump holds a lead there too.

City’s Bronx borough saw historic realignment as Trump made inroads into a once solid Democratic voter bloc

The Republican’s second presidential term heralds a more inward-looking US where resentment has replaced idealism and nobody wins without someone else losing

Former House speaker says Ms Harris could have emerged as a ‘stronger’ candidate if she had taken on rivals for her party’s nomination

Democrats now carrying out public postmortem on failure of Harris campaign after Trump swept to victory

Elon Musk has called for Jack Smith, the chief prosecutor overseeing Donald Trump’s election-interference case, to be “punished”.

Donald Trump tapped into voter dissatisfaction, flipping a swathe of New York’s electorate – and the Democrats have to try to win them back

Despite New York City traditionally voting Democratic, Staten Island remains a reliably red borough. In Tuesday’s election, where the Republican party won a second term in the White House, 65% of Staten Island voters supported Trump — the largest margin he’s seen in the area. The Independent spoke to locals to understand their support, from economic policies to foreign affairs. In Staten Island, a city that has received some 200,000 new migrants in the last two years, Trump’s campaign promising mass deportations appears to have resonated.

Control of the House has yet to be determined as a number of critical races remain too-close-to-call, leaving lawmakers — and voters — waiting to see which party will hold the majority next ye…

Populism seems certain to lose some big fights to traditional GOP policies over the next few years

What we learned from the balance of Congress after 2020 and 2022 showed that when it comes to the House, the consequences aren’t always what you might expect