Despite all evidence, many still believe that the opposition Democrats secretly overwhelmed the power of the Trump administration in 2020 to steal an election by 7 million popular votes and 70 electoral votes.

It takes 218 seats to have a majority in the House, which Republicans crossed last week. The GOP has currently 218 seats to Democrats’ 213, with four races still uncalled. More on that below. But, as The Associated Press reports, the GOP’s majority is thin and a highly functioning House isn’t guaranteed.

Walnut City Council: As of the 4:52 p.m. update, incumbents Linda Freedman and Nancy Renne Tragarz appeared to hold a clear lead for two of the three available seats. For the third seat, Kaylee May Law held about a four percentage point lead over the rest of the field. A total of six candidates ran for the three available City Council seats.

A conservative legal organization is ratcheting up its opposition to the requirement in Illinois that mail-in ballots be counted for 14 days after Election Day by calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse federal court rulings that upheld the law because three Republican plaintiffs lacked the legal standing to challenge it.

Conspiracy theories that the election was miscounted, hacked and stolen have spread in some left-leaning online communities.

Experts express concern that AI could have impacted election integrity through deepfakes, disinformation, and bias.

Distressed by rising use of abortion pills, activists devise aggressive new action now that Republicans will be in charge.

The reaction from Democrats to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory is, to put it mildly, very much unlike their reaction to his 2016 win. Instead of mass protests in the streets, Democrats have been, for the most part,

Donald Trump's lawyers told a judge that the Republican's conviction for illegally covering up hush money payments to a porn star should be dismissed because he won the U.S. presidential election and sentencing would threaten government stability.