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Today — 8 November 2024Main stream

What a Second Trump Term Could Mean for Your Money

Here’s what the president-elect has said he might do with your taxes, student loans, Social Security and more.

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In Donald J. Trump’s first term as president, income tax rates fell for most people, but those tax cuts last only through the end of 2025.

Trump’s Strange Bedfellows: Arab Americans and Right-Leaning Jews

8 November 2024 at 09:59
Donald J. Trump won votes from Arab Americans and conservative pro-Israel Jews. Someone is likely to be disappointed.

© Nick Hagen for The New York Times

Voting in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday. President-elect Donald J. Trump increased his support in the majority Arab American city by 12 percentage points over 2020, though turnout may have been lower.

Harris’s Short 2024 Campaign Was Her Undoing — and Biden’s Fault

8 November 2024 at 08:08
By seeking re-election, Biden deprived Harris of months of campaigning that might have helped her.

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President Biden’s decision to seek a second term effectively cleared the field of Democratic challengers.

Trump’s Energy Policies May Be a Mixed Bag for Oil Companies

7 November 2024 at 23:51
The president-elect has promised to make it easier to build energy infrastructure and secure drilling leases. But higher production could hurt prices and profits.

© Brittany Greeson for The New York Times

President-elect Donald J. Trump, shown at a rally in August, has urged companies to “drill, baby, drill” and pledged to cut energy bills by at least half, without specifying how.
Yesterday — 7 November 2024Main stream

Kamala Harris Took Women for Granted

7 November 2024 at 18:03
Apart from promising to safeguard abortion rights, the campaign didn’t do enough to address other issues important to women.

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Trump’s Narrow Loss in New Jersey Signals a Shift to the Right

7 November 2024 at 16:00
In New Jersey, Democrats outnumber Republicans and control every branch of government. But Tuesday’s vote reflected a shift to the right.

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Voters in Hoboken, N.J., on Tuesday. The number of voters who cast ballots for the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, fell precipitously in 2024 compared with when President Biden ran in 2020.

Russia Keeps Hitting Ukrainian Cities With Waves of Drones

7 November 2024 at 18:03
Moscow has been using decoy drones with no warheads to overwhelm defenses, and surveillance drones and strike drones to gather intelligence, Ukrainian officials said.

© Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times

An apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, was damaged by debris last week. Attacks in the city by explosive-laden drones have become a near-nightly occurrence.

China Braces for a New Era of U.S. Rivalry With Trump’s Return

7 November 2024 at 18:04
Beijing is expecting more volatility and competition with the United States, though a lackluster economy may limit China’s options for pushing back.

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A passer-by in Beijing on Wednesday watching a state news broadcast of Donald J. Trump declaring victory in the U.S. presidential election.

How Harris’s Loss Could Haunt Biden’s Legacy

In the wake of Donald J. Trump’s resounding victory, many Democrats are casting President Biden as a one-term president who set his party on a path to failure in 2024.

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Many Democrats said they were angry that President Biden’s timing to drop out of the race left just months for Vice President Kamala Harris to mount a campaign.

Voters Were Fed Up Over Immigration. They Voted for Trump.

7 November 2024 at 05:28
Voters across party lines shifted to the right on immigration. They blamed Biden-Harris for failing to control the chaotic border.

© Rachel Woolf for The New York Times

The surge in migration, which reached record levels during the Biden administration, hardened many Americans’ views on immigration.

Trump’s Win Ends a Post-World War II Era of U.S. Leadership

7 November 2024 at 01:36
For the past four years, President Biden has argued that the first Trump term was a blip in American history. The election has proved that President-elect Donald J. Trump was no aberration.

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President Biden speaking at a news conference during the NATO Summit in Washington in July. Mr. Biden is one in a long line of presidents who have largely viewed America’s allies as a force multiplier.

What’s at Stake for Mexico in a Second Trump Presidency?

Tariffs, border crossings, mass deportations of migrants and military strikes on cartels: Mexico is in the firing line of the president-elect.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Donald J. Trump talking about border security and migrant crime during a campaign stop in Austin, last month.
Before yesterdayMain stream

How Trump Won, Again

By: Nate Cohn
6 November 2024 at 20:37
He made gains in every corner of the country and with nearly every demographic group.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Donald J. Trump’s election night party in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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