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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, November 04, 2026Getty ImagesBy creating more consistent givers, faith communities across the U.S. could generate up to $30 billion more in donations annually, according to a report released by Givelify Philanthropic Research & Insights, a research initiative of online and mobile donation platform Givelify.In…

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday morning reacted to the stunning GOP midterm losses. The Democrats flipped the House and the Senate on Tuesday evening. Texas even turned blue. Vance said the Iran war is the reason we lost. Vance’s full statement: One of the things the data analysts on…

Typically, when a bear catches a nutritious salmon, they don’t eat it under a rushing waterfall. But one unnamed black bear (Ursus americanus) eating at Anan Creek in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest decided to park underneath a waterfall and enjoy his fishy snack.  For this culinary innovation, the U.S. Forest…

An election worker processes mail-in ballots for the California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center in City of Industry, Calif., on June 5, 2026. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA Kansas postal worker was indicted on Tuesday for allegedly stealing thousands of pieces of mail, including political mailers.Kelly…

Politics40 sources·Updated Nov 4, 2026·1 min readVice President JD Vance blamed Republicans’ sweeping 2026 midterm losses, including the loss of both chambers of Congress, chiefly on the war in Iran, saying many voters who backed Donald Trump in 2024 switched to support Democrats. He argued turnout was not the central…

Stock markets gained on Wednesday following the outcome of the midterms that had Democrats seizing control of Congress. The uncertainty of the outcome historically weighs more heavily on investors than the result itself. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 1,131 points, or 2.2% higher on Wednesday morning, with the S&P gaining…

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise have thrown their hats into the ring to replace Speaker of the House Mike Johnson after he said Wednesday that he would not run for minority leader in the next Congress.Republicans suffered a stinging defeat on Tuesday evening, with voters…

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday called for a major pivot in the Trump administration’s priorities after the Republicans lost control of the House and Senate in the Tuesday evening midterm contests.Democrats took Senate seats not just in battleground states, but in typically Republican bastions like Texas, Kansas, and South…

The Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s campaign arm, failed to win reelection in his own safe red seat as members of his party lost across the country Tuesday night. Republican North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson fell to Democratic challenger Richard Ojeda in North Carolina’s Ninth…

President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning that he believed Republican candidates would have performed better and that he could work with Democrats on “many things.” Trump called in to Fox News Channel’s midterm election coverage around midnight Wednesday, shortly after Democrats officially secured majorities in the House of Representatives and…

Sen. Mark Kelly: “The American people just impeached Donald Trump.” The post ‘Lawyer Up’: Democrats Declare War on Trump Administration first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Here in the U.S., with few exceptions, we have a commendable tradition that victorious politicians do not use the criminal justice system to prosecute or otherwise disable their rivals and adversaries.  At the presidential level, before Trump the two most prominent examples against that tradition were the prosecution of Aaron…

Pro-lifers and patriots did so much for these midterm elections – brought out voters, educated them, and made the margins of so many races much narrower than they otherwise would have been – and I thank all of them for their work. We are far from finished. The results of…

A top House progressive lawmaker is pushing for aggressive oversight of artificial intelligence now that Democrats will decisively take over the House in January. Democrats should take advantage of their decisive sweep in the midterm elections to force AI executives to testify before Congress and pass AI safety bills, Congressional…

The  returns from the 2026 midterm elections had hardly finished being reported when Politico’s senior political columnist, Jonathan Martin, let loose with an orgiastic burst of joy over what he considers to be the very favorable prospects of a Democratic being elected to the White House in 2028. The gloating…

President Donald Trump made the right decision to go to war to stop the theocratic, suicidal lunatics in Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. It had to be done, and until Trump decided to do it, everyone — Republican and Democrat — agreed it had to be done. Unfortunately, luck…

ABC’s “bona fide news program” The View was in party mode on Wednesday as the openly joined Democrats in “celebrating” their “blumani” electoral wins in the 2026 midterms. They didn’t even try to hide their excitement as they looked forward to Democrats taking control of the House and Senate next…

All four midterm ballot measures recognizing the biological differences between males and females appear to have passed Tuesday, as even voters in Blue states chose to protect girls’ and women’s sports.In the Blue state of Washington, for example, Initiative 638 prohibiting biological males from competing in girls’ sports will be…

There is no good way to frame the 2026 midterms. They were a disaster for Republicans, and America is going to be in a much worse place come January as a result of how they want. President Trump appears to have learned at least something of a lesson, however, as…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) holds a press conference in Washington on Nov. 4, following the Nov. 3 midterm elections. …

Four years after Harriet Hageman took Liz Cheney’s seat in Congress with then-former President Donald Trump’s backing, Wyoming voters are sending her to the U.S. Senate. The Republican congresswoman defeated Democrat James Byrd on November 3rd to succeed retiring Senator Cynthia Lummis. One commentator who celebrated the win on election…

Donald Trump won’t have much choice in the matter. One has to wonder whether Democrats recognize their similar predicament.Late last night, Trump called in to Fox News’ election coverage well after the direction of the midterms became obvious. Trump sounded philosophical, expressing some surprise that “they” – Republicans – didn’t…

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would not remain in leadership Wednesday after Democrats reclaimed control of the House. Democrats took control of the House during Tuesday’s midterm elections and are projected to win around 250 seats. Johnson said during a staff call that he would not run to be…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech President Donald Trump spent Tuesday evening in disbelief as the walls of his carefully crafted alternate reality came crashing down around him. On his social media echo chamber Truth Social, Trump took cheap…

Massachusetts voters allowed a restrictive gun-control law to remain in place by a nearly 35-point margin Tuesday as part of a Democratic midterm sweep. Pro-Second Amendment activists, such as the Gun Owners’ Action League (GOAL), previously secured nearly 100,000 signatures to put a referendum on the 2026 Massachusetts ballot to…

In some stunning news to come out of the midterm election debacle for Republicans, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that he will not be attempting to become the House Minority Leader now that Republicans have gotten shellacked in the midterms. Simultaneously, it leaked out that Rep. Jim…

House Speaker Mike Johnson will not seek to remain the leader of House Republicans in the next Congress after Democrats won control of the chamber. That’s what Johnson told staff on a Wednesday morning call, according to multiple reports. The Louisiana Republican’s decision comes a day after midterm losses ended…

Former Minnesota state Senator Nicole Mitchell won a seat on the Woodbury City Council on November 3rd, edging out an incumbent by 101 votes just over a year after a jury convicted her of burglarizing her stepmother’s home. The Democrat had resigned from the Legislature days after the verdict. On…

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) already decided to run for the position. The post Mike Johnson Won’t Run for House Minority Leader first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

PARIS (CN) — Lawmakers in France’s National Assembly — its lower chamber of Parliament — are at an impasse over a tricky 2027 budget as social unrest roils the streets.On Tuesday, Parliament postponed a critical revenue budget vote for the second time while thousands of high schoolers blockaded schools and…

Two weeks before Election Day, I wrote here that the 2026 midterm elections would turn out to be the “gasoline prices are too damn high” election, not the data center election. Despite punditry still pointing to data centers today as the big issue, the polls show that far more voters…

Abortion activists successfully executed another round of deceptive ballot measure schemes in multiple states on Tuesday. The midterm support for unlimited abortion in three states poses a striking contrast with Americans’ feelings about ending life in the womb. Pew Research Center’s 2026 American Trends Panel found the the lowest support,…

It’s not over. There are so many races that haven’t been called. The post 2026 Midterms Results: Democrats Win the House and Senate first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Democrats won a sweeping victory on Nov. 3, taking control of both houses of Congress and flipping at least four state executive mansions. Midterm losses are not unusual for the party of the incumbent president, though the degree varies. In the Senate, Democrats flipped long-held Republican seats in the South…

Nancy Lacore campaigns in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., on Oct. 31, 2026. Win McNamee/Getty ImagesA retired U.S. Navy admiral, removed by the Pentagon in 2025, has won a Republican-held House seat representing South Carolina.Retired Vice Admiral Democrat Nancy Lacore won 161,878, or 49.65 percent, of the votes in the race to…

Entertainment27 sources·Updated Nov 4, 2026·1 min readCasting listings compiled from Casting Networks highlight film, television, streaming, reality-show and commercial opportunities in Pittsburgh, Charleston, Buffalo, Reno and Las Vegas. The projects include the feature film “All The Kids Are Dead,” while commercial roles include Burger King employees, fans of its Original…

In a devastating loss to Republicans and their hold on the Senate, not to mention the morale of average conservative Americans, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed won his race for Michigan’s open Senate seat against Republican challenger Mike Rogers, a former representative backed by conservatives and many of the…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a press conference in Tallahassee, Florida, on Nov. 4. …

Why the GOP Deserved to Lose The midterm elections are now decided, and the Republican Party was handed a devastating defeat. I’ve watched this train wreck coming for years, and I’m here to tell you plainly: they deserve every ounce of the shellacking they received. The corporate media will spin…

The AI Tsunami Approaches In this week’s episode of the Zach-Adams Effect, my co-host Zach Vorhies and I peeled back the curtain on Anthropic’s explosive growth. The headline numbers are dazzling. The reality behind them is far darker. What we are witnessing is not merely another tech boom; it is…

Diplomatic channels remain open as Iran-U.S. talks conclude without breakthrough in Doha Iranian negotiators left Doha without a breakthrough after indirect talks with U.S. officials mediated by Qatar, though a draft proposal continues circulating. Tehran has condensed its seven-step September plan, offering to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48…

U.S. Strikes Iran’s Qeshm Island as Tehran Rejects Ceasefire Proposal and Demands Strait of Hormuz Concessions The United States has launched military strikes against Iran’s Qeshm Island, as negotiators for the Islamic Republic rejected Washington’s proposal for a ceasefire and demanded U.S. acceptance of Tehran’s conditions to reopen the Strait…

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a pause to the annual $4 billion military aid Washington gives to Israel [1]. The president made the announcement during an interview on the “Fox and Friends” program on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Trump said Israel is “a very thriving country” and “they don’t need…

U.S., South Korea and Japan Reaffirm Commitment to North Korea’s Complete Denuclearization The United States, South Korea and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to the “complete denuclearization” of North Korea, the U.S. Department of State said, according to an account of the talks published Saturday, Oct.31. The development came ahead of…

The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) is preparing to launch a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence (AI) software from the nonprofit Recidiviz to classify incarcerated individuals by their risk of future violence, the department said in a news release. The pilot is scheduled to begin on Dec. 1, 2026,…

A lawsuit filed Oct. 27 in the San Francisco Superior Court seeks a court order requiring ChatGPT to refuse questions about medication and direct those who ask them to a licensed medical provider, according to the complaint. The plaintiffs are Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, parents and heirs of the…

Review Finds Cancer Patients Report Discrimination in Family, Work, Insurance, Health Care Cancer patients report abandonment by partners, job loss, insurance denials and blame from doctors, according to a scoping review of 116 studies published in Psycho-Oncology in 2026 by researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. The findings describe…

Turmeric, black pepper and ginger: A powerful superfood combination that supports good health Turmeric gives curry powder its golden color and contains approximately 5% curcumin, its main active compound. Curcumin has been studied for its potential to support overall health and help the body manage oxidative stress. Black pepper contains…

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna held 49.5% of the vote in Florida’s 13th District U.S. House race Wednesday morning. Luna is running for a third term against Democrat Leela Gray, who held 48.7% of the vote, and the Associated Press had not yet projected a winner.  National Progressives of America candidate…

Democrats for the first time in 16 years have a majority of governors running states, after Tuesday night’s midterm elections in which they took five seats occupied by Republicans.Thirty-six states held governor races. Democrats flipped governorships in Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada and Texas. Republicans entered Tuesday’s elections with a 26-24…