Good morning. It’s Thursday. Here’s what’s shaping the day: |
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Trump’s Mandate: President Donald Trump will return to the White House with a bigger mandate than in 2016 because he won the popular vote and is on track to sweep the battleground states.
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Harris Concedes: Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the election to President-elect Donald Trump and promised a peaceful transition. Trump accepted President Joe Biden’s invitation to the White House.
- Fate of the House: It was not yet clear on Wednesday night which party will control the House next year, as states continued to count votes in 39 races.
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The Shift: President-elect Donald Trump managed to greatly increase his success with Gen Z voters aged 18 to 29, garnering 46 percent of their votes.
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Auntie Anne’s Pretzels: A story of grief, healing, and triumph lies behind the creation of the world-famous pretzel chain. Story below.
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Written by Ivan Pentchoukov,
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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. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) |
President-elect Donald Trump will reclaim the presidency next year with a wide-ranging agenda for America and a significant electoral mandate to implement his plans. |
- Having already won 295 Electoral College votes by the afternoon of Nov. 6, Trump was on track to capture the national popular vote and sweep all seven battleground states.
- The president-elect was ahead by nearly 4.7 million votes in the national vote as of 11:16 p.m. on Nov. 6—a 3.3 percentage point margin.
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He is on track to best his own national totals from 2016 and 2020, having made significant gains in broad swaths of the country, notably in safe blue states, including New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Maine.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic opponent, conceded the election in a speech in Washington on the afternoon of Nov. 6. A spokesman for the Trump campaign said Harris called Trump to congratulate him earlier in the day and that “both leaders agreed on the importance of unifying the country.”
Trump’s commanding performance was buttressed by that of the Republican Party, which recaptured the U.S. Senate and was well on its way to winning the House of Representatives. As of 10:39 p.m. on Nov. 6, Decision Desk HQ projected that the GOP had a 90 percent chance to retain control of the lower chamber. (Continue reading.)
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The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an appeals court to take a second look at its decision setting aside an intellectually disabled Alabama inmate’s death sentence.
The legal proceeding goes back to 1998 when a Mobile County, Alabama, jury convicted Smith of intentional murder during a robbery for beating Durk Van Dam to death with a hammer, stealing $140, along with the victim’s boots and tools. The jury recommended the death penalty, which the trial court imposed. |
- Justices determined on Nov. 4 that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will have to clarify its 2023 ruling overturning the death sentence of Joseph Clifton Smith.
- Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the two-page order issued by the high court.
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We discuss the results from Nov. 5 and where events are headed in the run-up to the Jan. 20 inauguration. —Josh |
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to sack defense minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday led to a wave of protests, including a big demonstration which paralyzed downtown Tel Aviv.
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- As the world focused on the U.S. presidential election, Netanyahu suddenly announced that he had decided to dismiss Gallant and replace him with foreign minister Israel Katz.
- After the news emerged, thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv, bringing traffic to a standstill in the city center.
- The crowd, many holding Israeli flags, lit bonfires, blew whistles, and banged drums.
- Several thousand people demonstrated outside Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem, and elsewhere in the city.
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Netanyahu and Gallant have been at odds over the direction of the war in Gaza, and the prime minister said he had made the decision because of a “crisis of trust.” (Full Story) More world news: |
- Beijing responded to Trump’s victory by saying it will continue to manage its relationship with Washington based on “the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.”
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Three people have been sentenced to death in Iran after being convicted of spying for Israel in relation to the assassination in 2020 of a top nuclear scientist.
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Controversial Australian breakdancer Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has announced her retirement from competition, saying the backlash that has followed her appearance at the Paris Olympics has taken a toll.
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Australian children under 16 may soon be barred from social media as the government backs a stricter age limit for digital platforms.
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By Jeffrey A. Tucker We seem to be going back to basics. Generations have gone by when no one felt the obligation to think much about the concept of citizenship in the United States. Intellectual friends of mine are utterly confused by the topic, with no idea where the idea comes from or why it should matter at all.
And yet here we are: no topic is as important in determining the future of this country or the world.
In Ancient Roman times, to be a citizen was what it meant to be free. You were “free born,” which is to say that citizenship followed family lineage. To be a citizen meant to have a stake and some measure of say in the shape and direction of the regime and its laws. You had representation. You had rights. You could hold public office. You could own property.
In return, you paid taxes but also enjoyed certain benefits. For example, citizens could not be subject to certain punishments like flogging, torture, or crucifixion… Continue reading. |
Mr. Li Hongzhi is a four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and was nominated by the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. He is also the recipient of Freedom House’s International Religious Freedom Award. The above article has been translated from Chinese and was originally published on FalunDafa.org
Read Mr. Li Hongzhi’s Latest Articles: |
Anne Beiler grew Auntie Anne’s into one of the world’s biggest international food chains despite having no business background or formal education beyond eighth grade. (Courtesy of Anne Beiler)
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Anne Beiler, the founder of international soft pretzel chain Auntie Anne’s, says her business is miraculous not for its speed of growth, nor its popular pretzel recipe, but for how it grew out of personal grief to give hope to others. |
- An Amish-Mennonite couple, Jonas and Anne Beiler lost their 19-month-old daughter Angela in a terrible accident in 1975. Neither of them had a vocabulary for grief. “We grieved silently,” she said. The couple began to drift apart.
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Beiler was relieved when her pastor invited her to his office one day to talk. “I was shocked because I was actually able to talk about how I was feeling,” she said. But then, her pastor took advantage of her and began sexually abusing her. The abuse continued for seven years.
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One day, she felt she could no longer hold the anger and pain inside. She confessed to her husband about what was happening. So began a journey through which Beiler learned that “when you begin to talk, you start to set yourself free.”
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It took a long time for Jonas and Anne to become a happy, functional, and mutually trusting couple again. Their struggles inspired Jonas to help other couples. A mechanic by trade, he decided to study psychology in his spare time, to understand what happened in their relationship. Then, he began offering counseling, in a small way at first, in their home and local church.
He always wanted his services to be free because he didn’t want people to worry about affording it. “He was so passionate about this calling, but he wasn’t making any money,” Beiler said. So, in 1988, she bought a stand at a local farmer’s market to help fund his vision and pay the bills…
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“I’m eating fewer calories and exercising more, but I still can’t lose weight.” As a nutritionist, I hear this frustrated complaint so often. If you’ve struggled with weight loss despite carefully counting calories, you’re not alone—and more importantly, you’re not failing. |
- The real story of weight management is far more complex than simple arithmetic.
- Your hormones will affect your energy balance. In real-world scenarios where you’re aiming for weight loss, the close connection between your hormones and food cannot be ignored.
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Sheridan Genrich explores how successful weight loss requires an understanding of the connection between food and hormones. Read her column here. |
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