Friday, November 6, 2026 · Evening Edition

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By StaffNews Desk

Good morning. Republicans are struggling to regroup from a devastating midterm defeat, and the administration's first move tells you where its priorities sit: CNN's Kaitlan Collins flagged that signing an executive order was the president's first such action since the vote. Democrats decisively won control of Congress and clinched the Senate majority. NATO's Mark Rutte, guarding the US security umbrella he leans on, told Trump to keep your chin up, while MAGA's influencers tipped into a full freak-out, blaming one another.

The wins came in hostile terrain. North Carolina Democrats flipped several House seats in districts the GOP redrew in 2023 to favor itself. In Mississippi, Scott Colom narrowly leads Cindy Hyde-Smith on mail-in ballots the Supreme Court upheld. In Alaska, Mary Peltola is likely to hold her lead through ranked-choice tabulation. El-Sayed's swing-state win buried the media's manufactured wisdom about electability and Israel. Amy Klobuchar's Senate exit leaves a seat Minnesota law fills by gubernatorial appointment.

Trump's war on Iran contributed to the loss, and he is left weighing his next move with the stakes raised for the region and the global economy. Working people pushed back elsewhere too, rejecting data centers as 44 ballot measures to restrict them passed.

Now the test is what power delivers. Ron Wyden has laid out a Finance agenda even as the party has no coherent plan for AI, and the left is pressing: El-Sayed backs Van Hollen as calls to replace Schumer grow. In California, Gavin Newsom commuted all 548 death sentences to life without parole. MAGA influencer Russell Brand was convicted of rape. Abroad, Delhi confronts detentions and disputed voter-roll deletions, New Zealand's public healthcare faces attack by successive governments, and the veteran suing over Trump's triumphal arch calls it frankly blasphemous.