Trump faces new political reality as Democrats vow investigations
US President Donald Trump faces a transformed and hostile political landscape after Democrats seized control of Congress in midterm elections.
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Democratic 'blue wave' swept through state capitals across US
Birds fly in front of the US Capitol at sunrise a day after the US midterm elections.
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Bangladesh’s ousted PM Sheikh Hasina says she’ll return from exile despite facing death sentence over deadly protest crackdown
Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina says she will return from exile in India in December, despite facing a death sentence over a deadly crackdown.Indiana carries out first of 3 executions taking place on a single day in US
An Indiana man who admitted killing two children in a house fire was executed early Thursday in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the US.Herbert Blomstedt, who headed San Francisco Symphony, dead at 99
Herbert Blomstedt, the former San Francisco Symphony music director whose conducting career spanned seven decades, has died at age 99.Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years in prison
Wong was charged in 2025 with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and he pleaded guilty to the offense earlier this year.70-year-old poet busted for backhanding Turning Point Action teen at the polls in viral footage
In a press release, Laconia police said Redic approached the Turning Point tent as he was leaving and wanted "to read a poem about rich people."
