Heather Timmons

Updated Nov. 9 at 9:00am EDT

If you thought America was politically divided before, just wait until January, when the newly elected members of the US Congress take their seats.

Updated at 8:30pm EDT with the time of the protests.

Donald Trump does not like to be challenged.

The US midterms offered some bitter disappointment for progressive Democrats who were hoping to unseat Ted Cruz as senator of Texas, hold onto their Senate seats, and knock back the Republicans who embraced Donald Trump’s hardline, nativist views.

Donald Trump’s presidency has pulled the Republican party far to the right, and several of the candidates on the ballot tonight have openly embraced extremist views to court his base, including railing against non-white immigrants and courting white supremacist groups. Nearly all of the incumbents have voted closely with Trump since he took office.

US voters set new records for getting their ballots in early ahead of the midterm elections, and the president was among them.

This article has been updated with new data, and clarified. 

American voters are expected to turn out in record numbers today to elect 435 House representatives, 35 senators, 36 state governors, and hundreds of local politicians.

There’s a record number of women running in the US midterm elections Nov. 6—and a record amount of money from women voters has rushed in to support them and other candidates that support women’s rights.

The US Department of Justice said today (Nov. 1) it has charged a Chinese state-owned company with economic espionage, after a 20-month investigation that featured a unique partner—Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice.

Donald Trump’s dispatch of thousands of US military troops to the southern border is a hastily planned campaign stunt that takes soldiers from other duties and leaves the Pentagon with the bill.

Just days ahead of the midterm elections, the US is struggling with deadly political violence and stomach-lurching market drops. Forgoing centrist appeals, Donald Trump is now pushing a polarizing fringe anti-immigrant agenda; this week, his historically low approval ratings dropped even further.

Steve King, the Republican congressman from Iowa, has been making derogatory statements about minorities since he joined Congress in 2003. His rhetoric has only escalated in recent months.

The FBI has been alerted to an alleged plot to discredit special prosecutor Robert Mueller after a woman said she’d been offered money to falsely say that he’d sexually harassed her.

The US is sending thousands of troops to “harden” the border with Mexico, Pentagon officials said today (Oct.29), as thousands of asylum-seekers approach on foot from Central America.

Donald Trump plans to send 5,000 US troops to the country’s southern border, a massive increase from the 800 originally planned, in order to secure legal ports of entry, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Cesar Sayoc Jr. was tracked down swiftly as the FBI joined forces with New York City police, the US Postal Inspection Service, and officers in Florida, Justice Department officials said today (Oct. 26)

This article was updated with information about the suspect who has been arrested at 12:15pm. 

Director and actor Robert De Niro’s New York restaurant and production company is the latest target of a suspicious package that’s believed to be a bomb, New York Police said early Thursday morning (Oct. 25); last night a Delaware mail facility intercepted a similar package addressed to former vice president Joe Biden.

Explosive devices were found in mail addressed to Barack Obama in Washington and Hillary Clinton in suburban New York City, the US Secret Service said today (Oct. 24).

The United States will kick some Saudi diplomats out of the country, and could freeze the assets of others in retaliation for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, officials said today.

Updated Oct. 20 at 10:22am EDT. 

This article has been updated.