Markets were set to rise sharply Wednesday morning following a shift toward Republicans, including a decisive and consequential victory for former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s US presidential election. Dow futures soared 1,200 points, or 2.9%. Futures for the broader S&P 500 were 2.3% higher and the tech-heavy Nasdaq surged 1.8%. In part, markets were probably juiced by the fact that the election was decided relatively quickly. The election has served as a cloud...

Republicans on Tuesday took control of the Senate by winning seats from Democrats in Ohio and West Virginia.  The GOP's first win came early in the night when Jim Justice, West Virginia's GOP governor, handily won the state's open Senate seat. The 73-year-old Justice won over Democrat Glenn Elliott, 68.8-to-27.7%, according to the Associated Press.  The seat was held by Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who earlier this year became an independent.  Republicans sealed...

Police raided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Saturday night, Channel 12 reports, saying that the raid was unprecedented. The report says it was not immediately clear if the raid was connected to a probe into leaks of war intelligence from the PMO, or a second investigation that was revealed today, apparently linked to reported efforts by Netanyahu to doctor minutes of war meetings.

Latino voters delivered big for the GOP this week, giving the party arguably its best-ever numbers at the presidential level and hinting at a lasting political realignment. Presumptive President-elect Donald Trump scored somewhere between 41% and 45% of the Hispanic vote, and also seems to have improved among Black voters, particularly in crucial swing states. He solidified GOP margins in Florida and Texas, flipped Sunbelt and Rustbelt states he needed to secure the Electoral College win,...

Former President Donald Trump has won a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, winning the battleground state map by margins that surprised even Trump’s closest allies. Stock futures surged as states were called for Trump and Republicans gained several Senate seats. Trump promised to impose heavy tariffs on imported goods if he was elected, claiming that they will simultaneously boost U.S. revenues, strengthen domestic industries and...

Stock prices, bond yields and bitcoin surged Wednesday as voters returned former President Donald Trump to the White House and the Republican party gained control of the Senate. Investors expect Trump’s victory to lead to faster economic growth and more market-friendly policies. Ahead of U.S. markets opening Wednesday, the future for the S&P 500 gained 1.23% and the future for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.02%. The Nasdaq composite future was 1.43% higher. The...

New opportunities to reset relations between Moscow and Washington have opened up, the influential head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday after Donald Trump declared victory in the US presidential election. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the Soviet Union and the US came close to nuclear war. Both Russian and US diplomats say relations between the world’s...

Donald Trump has done it again. Eight years after his stunning upset of Hillary Clinton and four years after Joe Biden evicted him from the White House, the former president is about to return to power. On the back of a victory that swept across the key early voting battleground states – and improved on his electoral margins in much of America – he claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate” to govern. “This will truly be the golden age of America,” he promised the cheering crowd at...

The next vice president of the United States will be a senator from Ohio. Former president Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance edged out Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the presidential election called Wednesday morning by the Associated Press. Trump and Vance will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, just two years after Vance took the oath of office for his first Senate term. More:JD Vance, a Cincinnati resident and Middletown native, to be next vice president Now, Ohio...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump — has won her bid for re-election in overwhelming fashion. Willis — a noted Democrat incumbent — defeated Republican challenger Courtney Kramer on Tuesday. Willis easily defeated Kramer by a whopping margin of nearly 68% to 32%. Trump's lawyers have called for Willis to be removed from the case due to her seeming conflict of...