Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Here’s what’s shaping the day: |
- Trump Declares Victory: President-elect Donald Trump declared victory in the race for the White House early on Wednesday morning.
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Congratulations: The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Israel congratulated Trump on the victory.
- Republicans Capture Senate: Before Trump’s projected victory, Republicans regained the U.S. Senate with victories in Ohio and West Virginia.
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No to Weed and Abortions: Florida voters rejected referendums which would have legalized recreational marijuana and expanded abortion access.
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Sacred and Mundane Time: The Greeks had two different gods of time. Learning the difference can help you focus on what’s important. Story below.
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| Written by Ivan Pentchoukov,
U.S. National Editor |
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President-elect Donald Trump is joined by his family as he speaks to supporters after winning the presidential election in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 6, 2024. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
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Trump Projected to Win White House
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Former President Donald Trump is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential election, according to Decision Desk HQ. |
- The president-elect won the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Wisconsin, while leading comfortably in Michigan and Arizona.
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By the time Trump took the stage at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, Republicans had already captured the U.S. Senate with victories in Ohio and West Virginia.
- Further buttressing his mandate, the former president was on track to win the national popular vote.
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"God spared my life for a reason," Trump said, referring to the assassination attempts on his life. "This was a movement like nobody has ever seen before, and frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There's never been anything like this in this country," Trump said.
"We're going to help our country heal. We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly. We're going to fix our borders. We're going to fix everything about our country." |
- Earlier in the night, as Trump supporters gathered at his watch party in Florida, Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris–Walz campaign took the stage in Washington, D.C., to inform the crowd that the vice president won’t be speaking that night.
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“We still have votes to count. We still have states that haven’t been called yet,” Richmond said. “We want to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken, so you won’t hear from the vice president tonight.”
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- The outcome of the abortion referendum makes Florida the first state to reject such a measure in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s striking down of Roe v. Wade.
- A 60 percent majority was required for the measure’s adoption. At 9 p.m. on election night with 91 percent of the vote in, the measure had received 57 percent of the vote.
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- The amendment would have made it legal for adults ages 21 and older to purchase and possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana and use the drug recreationally.
- By 9:30 p.m. on Election Day, with 92 percent of the vote in, the proposal had received 55.8 percent of the vote. It needed a 60 percent majority to pass.
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- The National Weather Service confirmed that six tornadoes hit Oklahoma on Nov. 3, putting the state on pace for a record number of twisters.
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A federal jury in New York has convicted a Kenyan national for participating in a plot to hijack a commercial aircraft and crash it into a building in the United States.
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A legal rift between the most seriously wounded survivor of the 2018 Parkland high school massacre and the families of some of the 17 murdered victims was settled Monday with all sides now owning an equal share of the killer’s publicity rights and an annuity he might receive.
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By Michael Poliakoff and Jack Miller Over the last 60 years, there has been unconscionable neglect of civics and American history at both the K–12 and university levels. |
- Surveys show that fewer than 20 percent of colleges nationwide require an American history or government course for graduation.
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Unsurprisingly, this deficit has made its way into the training of teachers too. Future K–12 teachers are unlikely to learn the basic facts about our founding principles and our long history of working toward that more perfect Union our founders envisioned.
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Fortunately, more and more public universities are doing their part to reverse this trend.
In 2016, the Arizona legislature created the School for Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. This school has become a valuable training ground for ASU students seeking a thorough understanding of our nation’s governing institutions and the responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. The model has since been replicated at 13 universities in several other states… (Read the Full Column) |
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, bringing a longstanding conflict to a head. |
- Netanyahu planned to move Foreign Minister Israel Katz to the position of defense minister and replace him with Gideon Sa'ar, who would be added to the Cabinet.
- Netanyahu and Gallant had been at odds throughout the war in Gaza, but Netanyahu had held off on firing him.
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A previous attempt to fire him in March 2023, before the war broke out, sparked widespread street protests after Gallant said the government’s attempts at judicial reform endangered national security.
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“My highest duty as prime minister of Israel is to safeguard Israel’s security and lead us to a decisive victory,” Netanyahu said on Nov. 5.
“During wartime, more than ever, a complete trust between the prime minister and the defense minister is essential. Unfortunately, while we initially had this trust and accomplished much in the early months of the campaign, over recent months, the trust between me and the defense minister has eroded.” More world news: |
- The trade chief-designate of the European Union pledged tough action on China’s overcapacity exports.
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A U.S. soldier who was injured in May while assisting in the U.S. humanitarian aid pier mission for Gaza has died. The U.S. Army identified the deceased soldier as 23-year-old Sgt. Quandarius Davon Stanley.
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A Lithuanian presidential adviser alleged that Russia is behind a series of explosive parcels sent to European countries.
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Germany’s coalition leaders are meeting this week for crisis talks seeking to prevent a political impasse that Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck warned would strike “at the worst possible time” for the country’s stability.
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With winter on its way, it’s time to bolster our health for flu season. Three superfoods—sweet potatoes, spinach, and garlic—can improve immune function and support our fight against various diseases. If you’re prone to colds, fatigue, or seasonal allergies, your symptoms might reflect a weakened immune system.
In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that “food and medicine come from the same source,” meaning food can be used as medicine. It is therefore recommended that you eat foods that boost the immune system. |
- Sweet potatoes are rich in vitamin A, primarily because of their beta-carotene. One sweet potato can have up to 156 percent of the recommended daily intake of vitamin A.
- Spinach contains a variety of antioxidants, such as flavonoids.
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Garlic has been used for centuries as a natural medicine to boost immunity and prevent disease. It contains a compound called allicin, which has powerful antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties.
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Our colleague Dr. Jingduan Yang draws on a mix of ancient wisdom and modern science to show how these three superfoods can help keep you healthy throughout the cold season. Read Yang’s column here. |
Section of the fresco "Time as Occasion (Kairos)," 1543–1545, by Francesco de' Rossi. |
Do you remember when school vacations seemed to extend forever? Six weeks was an infinite amount of time to do almost everything in, and only perhaps in the last few days did you have that uneasy feeling that the vacation was soon to end. Now, six weeks? You blink and it’s gone. I’m writing this in early September, and blink, Christmas will be here!
The fine American novelist, now a Panamanian resident, Christa (Wojo) Wojciechowski has recently published a blog titled “It’s About Time: My attempt to slow down the perception of time,” and it’s fascinating. |
- As she puts it: “As we each spend more time on Earth, our perception of it shrinks. At first, it’s by small degrees. Then suddenly, a year seems like a few months. It’s frightening, disorienting, and it seems the harder we try to hold on to it, the more quickly it slips through our fingers.” Surely, we have all—at least all of us of a certain age—experienced this.
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Time seems to evaporate, and there is never enough to do what one wants to achieve. In her blog, Wojciechowski describes how she tried to get back to that plenitude of time that she once had by not doing anything: by only meditating, journaling, and reading; and yet for all the enforced non-doing, the experiment failed.
- As she says, “I did not succeed in slowing down my perception of time in a significant way.”
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