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In Victory, Democrats See Economic Mandate to Cut Costs and Curtail Trump

TONY ROMM

Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the president’s tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.

Moderate Democrats Increase Their Numbers, and Their Clout

ROBERT JIMISON AND OLIVIA DIAZ

Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.

Katherine Clark Could Be the House Majority Leader. Who Is She?

ANNIE KARNI

A Massachusetts liberal who has never sought the No. 1 leadership spot, Ms. Clark is known as an adept member manager.

Multiple people shot at United States Postal Service office in Des Moines, suspect detained

Police in Des Moines, Iowa, said multiple people were injured and a suspect is in custody following a shooting Thursday at a United States Postal Service facility.

MICHAEL RUIZ: 'Today' segment may explain key Apple Watch detail in Nancy Guthrie ransom note, expert says

A retired detective says Savannah Guthrie's "Today" show Tucson segment may have sparked her abductor's interest in Nancy Guthrie before her kidnapping.

Cops return to New Jersey mother's home months after she was found stabbed and husband called 911

Police returned with at least 15 vehicles to Brooke Hanlon's Chester, New Jersey, home weeks after her autopsy ruled the stabbing a homicide.

How Trump Is Reacting to the Midterm Results

MAGGIE HABERMAN, JOHN PAPPAS, NOUR IDRISS, LÉO HAMELIN AND NIKOLAY NIKOLOV

In the days after Republicans suffered massive midterm election defeats, President Trump appeared unmoved. The New York Times’s White House correspondent Maggie Haberman explains how Trump’s public demeanor compares with what he has shared behind closed doors about voters’ frustration with some of his policies.

Putin special envoy speaks at White House event on Oleshky ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump

An envoy to Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a White House event celebrating a temporary ceasefire in Oleshky brokered by Melania Trump

How Democrats Won Across the South

PATRICIA MAZZEI

They won Senate races in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, with a Mississippi race still too close to call. Their wins lifted down-ballot candidates too.

Postal employee shot 2 coworkers at an Iowa post office before being captured, police say

Authorities say a female postal employee shot two colleagues at the main post office in Iowa's capital city before being captured nearby

Chabria: Newsom wants to empty death row. Most politicians wouldn't bother — or dare

ANITA CHABRIA

Newsom's decision, as he ponders a run for the White House, is a self-inflicted test of political endurance from a savvy politician who didn't need to go there.

Gov. Newsom says he will commute all death sentences in state to life without parole

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he'll change all death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Marine veteran working security hailed as hero after stopping active shooter at Florida Citibank campus

Florida Marine veteran John Fraley took a tactical position in a restroom and shot the Citibank Center campus gunman five times, the sheriff said.

Harmeet Dhillon, California attorney who radically reshaped DOJ civil rights unit, resigns

KEVIN RECTOR

Dhillon has been a powerful and divisive figure inside the Justice Department since her confirmation last year as assistant attorney general.

Escaped Tennessee killer hid in Illinois shed with beer and garlic bread before capture: Sheriff

Jacob Allen Morley hid in an Illinois shed near Marion, drinking beer and making garlic bread before FLOCK cameras helped track the Tennessee escapee.