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McDonald's stock has fallen about 11% over the last year. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - How Texas Turned Blue
Photographs by Paola ChapdelaineFor decades, Texas has been the foundation of the Republican Electoral College map, holding up the red bloc of midwestern and southern states like a pedestal. Democrats have long dreamed of winning it back, only for their hopes to be crushed in election after election. And now, suddenly, James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa have accomplished what no Democrat could for more than a generation: winning statewide elections in Texas. Whether or not Texas is truly a battleground state now, a few things have become clear. Republicans can no longer take Texas voters for granted. Donald Trump harmed his party’s chances by propping up a weak Senate candidate in Attorney General Ken Paxton. And even Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire, couldn’t buy the result he wanted. Heading into election day, polls showed Talarico with a modest lead over Paxton, while the incumbent Republican governor, Greg Abbott, was favored to fend off Hinojosa. But not long after the polls closed, it became clear that both Talarico and Hinojosa would win comfortably. The Talarico Election Night party was jubilant, with cheers erupting every few minutes as new races were called for Democrats and updated results continued showing him with a sizable lead. James Edge, a Republican mayor pro tem from Bryan, Texas, stood eating a cookie and enjoying what he was seeing. He had endorsed Talarico just after Labor Day. “My party, the Republican Party, needed a kick in the pants,” he said. “This is uncharted waters. If it holds, it’s an earthquake like we’ve never seen.” [Read: Trump has pushed some Texas Republicans too far]At Paxton’s Election Night event in Dallas, party activists groaned as Fox News updated its ballot totals and the magnitude of the loss began to sink in. The Democrats even won the race for Texas railroad commissioner—a job held by Republicans for the past 36 years—as Jon Rosenthal easily defeated Bo French, who ran a race-baiting campaign that outraged the state’s growing Indian American population. Jarrod Atkinson, a Dallas-area Republican activist, walked out of the ballroom where Paxton was scheduled to speak, looking stunned. He laid the blame squarely on Trump. “The fact that he keeps telling everyone to vote like he’s on the ballot is absolutely insane,” he said. “He has said some of the dumbest things that have ever been uttered.”Before tonight, Texas had not elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994, and had not… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Visualizing the AM Class A Stations in the U.S. as of 2026
Our Tuesday Trivia question on Nov. 3 in our Radio World SmartBrief email newsletter asked readers a simple question: How many Class A AM stations, the “clear-channel signals” or at least as they were one time known, are licensed in the U.S. as of November 2026? The answer is 73. Below is a map where you can view the locations of each signal. Below the map is a state-by-state listing of each station. The data is courtesy of my RadioLand app project. And a reminder, if you’re not subscribing to our SmartBrief, you’re missing out! Having trouble viewing the map? Open the interactive map in full screen. The post Visualizing the AM Class A Stations in the U.S. as of 2026 appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - US stock futures mixed as Democrats score key midterm election wins
U.S. stock futures were edging up Wednesday morning, reversing sharp early losses as Democrats scored key victories in the midterm elections and the Fox News Decision Desk projected the party will take control of both chambers of Congress.S&P 500 futures were up 0.35%, while Nasdaq-100 futures rose 0.16%. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.84%.The election results added to uncertainty on Wall Street as investors weighed what a shift in Washington’s balance of power could mean for taxes, government spending, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, defense, health care, banking and cryptocurrency regulation."Markets appear to be pricing in the possibility of a stronger-than-expected Democratic showing, which could reduce expectations for further fiscal stimulus," Charu Chanana, chief investment strategist at Saxo in Singapore, told Reuters.WHAT THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS COULD MEAN FOR MARKETS, DEBTHistorically, shifts in congressional control have not derailed stocks. The S&P 500 rose through year-end in five of eight midterm cycles since 1930 when the president's party lost the House, according to Ned Davis Research.LARRY KUDLOW: THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS WILL SPEND PLENTY IF THEY WIN, BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL VETO ALL OF ITPrediction markets had increasingly pointed to Democratic control of both chambers as election results rolled in, with more than $1.48 billion wagered on the midterm elections.Chanana said investors may be concerned that Democratic control of Congress could bring greater regulatory scrutiny of AI and Big Tech, particularly as investors question lofty valuations and rising AI-related spending."However, lower Treasury yields could eventually provide some relief, so the initial selloff may not necessarily be sustained," she said.The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield fell 6 basis points to 4.906%.AFFORDABILITY TAKES CENTER STAGE AS AMERICANS CAST THEIR BALLOTS IN HIGH-STAKES MIDTERMSThe U.S. dollar also weakened. The euro and British pound both gained against the dollar, while the dollar index fell 0.32%.CLICK HERE TO GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GOMarkets overseas also moved lower. Japan's Nikkei fell 3%, South Korea's KOSPI dropped 1.6% and a broad index of Asia-Pacific stocks outside Japan declined 0.5%.FOX Business' Eric Revell and Reuters contributed to this report. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Repudiation
President Trump has been the dominant political figure of this century. He pulled off one of the most unlikely campaign victories in American history, and then staged the greatest political comeback. He has altered the United States’ relationship with the world, rewritten the rules and expectations of the presidency, inflamed the nation’s divisions, and changed how—and how often—Americans think about his office. He is omnipresent, and draws his power from that ubiquity.But tonight, Trump has been forced to face his political mortality. He asked voters to make these midterm elections a referendum on him, to imagine that his name was on the ballot. They listened—and then rejected him. It is a stunning, widespread rebuke. Democrats appear poised to win the House and, if trends hold, could also capture the Senate after Americans registered their strong disapproval of the direction in which the president has taken the country over the past two years. Trump will now likely have to deal with congressional Democrats who could block his agenda and wield the power of the subpoena. He also must face the possibility that the political party he remade in his image may soon start looking beyond him. Donald J. Trump is now officially, thoroughly a lame duck.But we haven’t heard the last of him. He remains the commander in chief, dominates global affairs, wields the expansive power of executive orders, and remains unequaled at capturing attention. He has escaped the political graveyard more than once before, and emerged stronger. Yet for all his power, for all his volume, he cannot browbeat the unrelenting calendar: The next national election will be the one to replace him. Trump will before long begin to slip in the headlines, pushed off the front page by the presidential campaign. He’ll face the possibility of being succeeded by a Democratic president who could employ the Department of Justice to plumb the previous four years and look into Trump’s allies, friends, family, and businesses. And he’ll confront arguably his greatest fear: irrelevance.Trump will not go quietly. It is not clear whether he and fellow Republicans will even accept the midterm results—and he has defied expectations so often that it would be a foolish exercise to set any. Tonight’s expected losses will not humble him. But they mark the beginning of the end.Trump’s midterm campaign ended in the most ridiculous, yet predictable, way possible. For months, the president had been… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - What Is It About Jon Ossoff?When Jon Ossoff was first elected, in January 2021, he felt a little like an accidental senator. He was 33 years old and had won by just 55,000 votes, defeating the unpopular Republican incumbent, David Perdue, in a runoff election overshadowed by President Trump’s bogus claims of voter fraud.He doesn’t feel accidental anymore.Ossoff cruised to reelection tonight. The final margin of victory is not yet known, but networks called the race early; soon after the polls closed, any drama was gone, even though he had been campaigning in a state that is barely purple. His triumph does not change much about the Senate’s electoral calculus overall, because Democrats were expected to hold his seat, but the decisive victory immediately propels him into the top ranks of the party and any discussions about the 2028 presidential contest.Ossoff’s win is a testament to his deftness as both senator and candidate. In office, he has emphasized constituent services but also mastered the art of getting under the skin of Republican officials during Senate hearings, without ever seeming ruffled himself. On the stump, his campaign showed an acute sense of how to use media, even producing a new coinage—the “Ossoff angle”—to describe the upward camera perspective that his team worked to produce.He paired these good visuals with a knack for the sound bite. In the most famous instance, in August, he slyly said that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie.” Although he omitted her last name, the moment made the president’s assistant Natalie Harp—who was previously familiar only to political reporters and political junkies—into a prominent figure. The ensuing news cycle was both damaging and distracting to the White House. As the youngest senator, Ossoff has shown a mastery of short-form video that few of his peers can dream of.Like many other Democrats this cycle, Ossoff benefited from the president’s unpopularity, disastrous agenda, and lack of political focus. He was running in a state that Trump had won by barely two points in 2024. Ossoff was also very lucky in his opponent. After failing to recruit a stronger candidate, Republicans landed on Mike Collins, whose many connections to white nationalists, including his son-in-law, helped sink him. But Ossoff made some of his own luck by intimidating better candidates into not running. He also showed a killer instinct on debate stages, savaging Collins over… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
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