YouGov's poll, conducted the day after Election Day, among 2422 U.S. adults, found that compared to other events in their lives over the past 12 months, 26 percent of Americans said the 2024 election was the most stressful.

Special counsel Jack Smith referred to long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted while in office.

Conspiracy theories have emerged to claim the elections are being "stolen" from Republicans Sam Brown and Kari Lake.

“I think that there are lessons to be learned from this election in all directions,” he said. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., sent a letter on Wednesday morning to his Republican colleagues asking them to back him for another term leading the ...

It will take 218 seats to rule the House, and although neither party had yet to reach the threshold, the numbers appeared to favor the GOP.

Today is the deadline to mail ballots or drop them in ballot boxes, which will be available until 8 p.m. In Portland, voters will participate in a historic election, selecting a new mayor and 12 City Council members as the city transitions to a new form of city government.

Democrats’ recriminations started immediately, but Trump’s victory was decisive enough that there may have been little Kamala Harris could have done.

Massachusetts police are investigating “abhorrent racist” text messages that were sent to students as part of a nationwide trend after the election.

Voters in the Democratic-run state overwhelmingly approved a measure to impose harsher sentences for crimes and were on their way to ousting two progressive district attorneys.

Results for the 2024 New Hampshire State House Hillsborough District 5 general election. Find New Hampshire and national elections results at BostonGlobe.com.

Following the 2024 presidential election results, President Biden has invited President-elect Donald Trump to discuss the transition of power.