School BoardsThere were lots of school board elections on Tuesday, in red and blue states like Pennsylvania, Washington, Kansas, Idaho, Colorado and Texas. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. In Colorado, all four conservatives on the Douglas County school board were up for reelection, and progressive candidates were leading in all of these races as of early Wednesday. AdvertisementAll of the union-backed candidates for Denver’s school board are leading as of Wednesday, meaning they will likely retain their majority on the 11-member board. In Erie County, voters elected a Democrat to the County Executive’s Office and pushed out a Republican incumbent.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGJustices at the Supreme Court appeared deeply skeptical Wednesday about whether President Donald Trump has the authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval. “The vehicle is imposition of taxes on Americans, and that has always been the core power of Congress,” he said. “So to have the president’s foreign affairs power trump that basic power for Congress seems to me to kind of at least neutralize between the two powers, the executive power and the legislative power.”Advertisement“We’re not saying this is the power to tax, this is regulatory,” Sauer insisted. (Trade deficits with foreign trade partners have been, in fact, quite regular over the past 50 years.) But even a loss may not deter Trump from acting: The administration has other means available to impose tariffs beyond IEEPA, including provisions of the 1930 Tariff Act.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGNew York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani called out President Donald Trump in his victory speech Tuesday after defeating disgraced former Gov. “We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed,” Mamdani said Tuesday. AdvertisementHe continued, “New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. Mamdani: So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up. Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Cut Through The Chaos Americans just sent Trump a clear message — and Dems are calling it "a 5-alarm fire" for the president.

How ‘us vs. them’ works — and who it really works for. “Basically, politicians who use ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ rhetoric are exploiting what cognitive and social psychologists call ‘in-group, out-group’ bias,” Aaron Montgomery, a clinical psychologist from Newport Beach, California, told HuffPost. As HuffPost previously reported, mental health experts are already concerned that normalizing the divisive and toxic rhetoric coming from leadership can harm our communities IRL. And this kind of “us vs. them” language works in tandem with that to yield adverse outcomes for the real world we have to live in. “One hope is that individuals begin to reward more bipartisan (or less ‘us vs. them’) rhetoric, incentivizing elites to follow suit.”But is there a way out of this stalemate?

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it was taking the extraordinary step of reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 “high-volume” markets beginning Friday morning to maintain travel safety as air traffic controllers exhibit signs of strain during the ongoing government shutdown. Air traffic controllers have been working unpaid since the shutdown began Oct. 1, and most have been on duty six days a week while putting in mandatory overtime. Secretary Duffy and FAA Administrator Bedford spoke of the need to cut thousands of flights due to lack of FAA staffing at airports because of the ongoing government shutdown. Last weekend saw some of the worst staffing shortages of the shutdown, which became the longest on record early Wednesday. From Friday to Sunday evening, at least 39 different air traffic control facilities announced there was some potential for limited staffing, according to an Associated Press analysis of operations plans sent through the Air Traffic Control System Command Center system.

It can be eaten as a whole soybean or turned into many other foods, such as tofu or soy milk. “However, we now know that rodents break down soy isoflavones differently than humans, so they don’t have the same effect on us. For men, soy is perfectly safe and doesn’t negatively affect testosterone levels, as some myths suggest. “The recommendation is to consume 25 grams of soy protein per day for cholesterol reduction. That is easy to do when using concentrated sources of soy protein,” Messina said.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGNov 5 (Reuters) - The death toll has risen to nine in the crash of a UPS cargo plane that erupted into a fireball moments after takeoff in Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday, city and state officials said Wednesday. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived on site Wednesday to begin the process of finding out what went wrong when the 34-year-old MD-11 cargo plane caught fire around 5:13 p.m. The plane had a crew of three according to UPS UPS.N and officials said none of the crew survived. Fire and smoke mark where a UPS cargo plane crashed near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on November 04, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the first UPS cargo plane to crash since August 2013, when an Airbus aircraft went down on a landing approach to the international airport in Birmingham, Alabama, killing both crew.

It looks more than likely that the court will take away one of Trump’s favorite toys, a move he claims will “destroy” the country. AdvertisementSuch a decision would mark the clearest case of the court breaking with Trump since he won back the White House in the 2024 election. AdvertisementThis fear of presidential meddling in the economy dovetails with the second reason the court may finally check Trump. The major questions doctrine was developed by the conservative justices during the Biden administration to state that Congress cannot delegate policy decisions to the executive branch on major questions of economic or political significance without explicit language authorizing those specific policies. By using the major questions doctrine to strike down Trump’s favorite tariff tool, the conservatives could be seeking to show that the major questions doctrine isn’t just a one-way legal mechanism.

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“From, we should reopen this right now, to, you’ve got to be kidding me? Progressives argue the victories show Democratic efforts to directly battle Trump and highlight skyrocketing health care costs are working. And Trump telling GOP senators the shutdown is hurting the party could crack the door open for fuller negotiations. Republicans need at least five more Democrats to join them in breaking a filibuster and voting to reopen the government. “It’s time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that’s terminate the filibuster,” Trump said in public remarks before the meeting.

“Jesus says very clearly at the end of the world, we’re going to be asked, you know, how did you receive the foreigner? And I think that there’s a deep reflection that needs to be made in terms of what’s happening,” the pontiff said. Pope Leo called on Tuesday for "deep reflection" about the way migrants are being treated in the United States under President Donald Trump's administration and said the spiritual needs of those in detention needed to be respected. Leo, the first U.S. pope, has previously decried the federal government’s treatment of immigrants caught up in a hard-line crackdown that has roiled cities across the country. AdvertisementIn answer to reporters’ questions on Tuesday, Leo also took issue with the U.S. government’s dispatch of warships to the seas around Venezuela.

“We did, and found that anger, far more than fear, was responsible for these threat-driven ‘shift to the right’ effects,” Lambert said. In those cases, anger shifted opinions in a liberal direction on the issues directly tied to the threat. Although the study didn’t address it, Lambert gave some thought to how anger drove voters into Trump’s arms not once, but twice. Advertisement“Anger was a significant driver of their support for Trump, and that was true both times he was elected,” Lambert said. Rather, it was almost certainly due, at least in part, to the anger that conservative voters felt towards Democrats.”

After Texas Republicans followed Trump’s orders to eliminate five Democratic-held seats in the state, California will now be able to do the same after Proposition 50 passed. Gavin Newsom, who has presidential aspirations, led the charge to put Proposition 50 in front of voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The campaign offered a channel for the rage felt by California Democrats and independents at the apparent lawlessness of the Trump administration. Democrats in the state legislature already voted to put an initiative before voters next year to set aside the state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission. Then voters would need to approve an initiative next spring, and the legislature will need to quickly draw a new map.

AdvertisementThe retailer is also under fire after French authorities last week found sex dolls with childlike features listed on the retailer’s website. Fast-fashion giant Shein is facing a fresh wave of controversy as it opens its first permanent store in Paris on Wednesday inside one of the city’s most iconic department stores. via Associated PressAdvertisementIn response, Shein said it has banned all sex-doll products, and temporarily removed its adult products category for review. Several dozen protesters camped outside the BHV department store on Wednesday morning, while some shoppers queued ahead of the opening. An online petition opposing the Paris opening has surpassed 120,000 signatures, and child-protection and environmental groups have condemned Shein.