WASHINGTON Republicans retained their lock on the House for two more years early today as GOP candidates triumphed in a checkerboard of districts in Florida, Virginia and Colorado that Democrats had hoped Donald Trump’s divisive comments about women and Hispanics would make their own. Democrats who’d envisioned potentially big gains in suburban and ethnically diverse […]

LOS ANGELES Donald Trump’s presidential victory set off protests early today by hundreds of people on California college campuses and in Oregon. Police says at least 500 people swarmed on streets in and around UCLA, some shouting anti-Trump expletives and others chanting “Not my president!” There were no immediate arrests. Smaller demonstrators were held at […]

World leaders, presidents and prime ministers, officials, politicians, people from all walks of life and even the Taliban in Afghanistan are reacting to Donald Trump’s astounding victory as America’s 45th president. Here are the highlights of what some of them said today: “Russia is ready and wants to restore full-format relations with the United States. […]

Filling a void created by congressional inaction, voters in a scattering of states tightened gun control laws and approved increases in the minimum wage. The campaign to legalize marijuana achieved a major breakthrough, with victories in at least six states. In all, more than 150 measures appeared on statewide ballots in Tuesday’s election. California, Nevada […]

(AP) — Canada and the prospect of Americans moving there appears to have drawn so much online interest that it knocked out the country’s immigration website. Internet searches for “move to Canada” and “immigrate to Canada” spiked Tuesday night as election returns favored Republican President-elect Donald Trump. “Canada” was a leading U.S. trend on Twitter, […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The New York gravestone of Susan B. Anthony is thickly encrusted with “I Voted” stickers on an Election Day that could put America’s first female president in the White House. A steady stream of people lined up at Rochester’s Mount Hope cemetery starting before dawn to pay respects to the women’s […]

SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — A police officer was fatally shot outside a fast-food restaurant in eastern Arizona, and authorities identified a suspect and moved to make an arrest. There was no immediate word on a motive or how the shooting occurred in the town of in Show Low, but the 36-year-old suspect was reportedly […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts evangelist will ask a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that accuses him of waging a long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. An East African gay advocacy group filed the lawsuit in 2012 against minister Scott Lively under a statute that allows non-citizens to file U.S. court actions […]

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A jury is still weighing murder charges against a Georgia man whose toddler son died after being left for hours in a hot car. Jurors are scheduled to resume deliberations for a second day Wednesday in the trial of Justin Ross Harris. He was charged with malice murder and other crimes […]

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Hershey has come to the rescue of a college student who had his Kit Kat bar brazenly stolen. Kansas State University student Hunter Jobbins tells The Wichita Eagle he left his car unlocked with a Kit Kat in the cup holder last month before running into his dorm building. When he […]