AP National News

Even with a final outcome uncertain Tuesday night, the 2024 presidential election has already exposed the depths of a fractured nation as the candidates navigated a political realignment based on gender and class under the near-constant threat of misinformation and violence

Donald Trump scored a decisive victory in a deeply divided nation

For the first time ever, two Black women have been elected to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Senate

Share prices and bond yields have surged as the Republican party gained control of the Senate and former President Donald Trump closed in on the 270 electoral votes that would return him to the White House

Stock prices, bond yields and bitcoin have surged as voters returned former President Donald Trump to the White House and the Republican party gained control of the Senate

The U.S. stock market, Elon Musk’s Tesla, banks and bitcoin are storming higher as investors bet on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and world

U.S. stocks stormed to records as investors made bets on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and the world

A strong across-the-board showing by Donald Trump helped propel the Republican former president to victory in Florida, once a preeminent swing state that has increasingly slipped out of Democrats’ grasp

Rafael has strengthened into a powerful Category 3 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in Cuba

Hurricane Rafael has pushed into the Gulf of Mexico after plowing across western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire country’s power grid