2024 Elections: News, Polls and Analysis

As Iran faces domestic and foreign challenges, its bellicose rhetoric on the United States and Israel has given way to signs that it wants less confrontation.

By Farnaz Fassihi

His siblings have long retreated from the inner circle, but the president-elect’s eldest son has made a name for himself as the person who can best assess loyalty to the Trump political brand.

By Katie Rogers

Democrats were badly outflanked online in the election, and progressive influencers are now trying to create networks to be a left-wing answer to Turning Point USA.

By Shane Goldmacher and Ken Bensinger

The president-elect has long been critical of Mr. Zuckerberg’s social media platforms, saying they censor conservative viewpoints.

By Mike Isaac, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Theodore Schleifer

The discussion between President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and the president-elect came after Mr. Trump threatened tariffs unless Mexican authorities stopped migrants and drugs from coming across the border.

By Simon Romero

“Buckle up and pack a lunch, because it’s going to be four years of this,” the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania said.

By Jess Bidgood

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on hypocrisy.

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other candidates for top health posts are at odds with the drug industry, setting the stage for tense battles over regulatory changes.

By Rebecca Robbins, Christina Jewett and Kate Kelly

The party’s donor class is still wrestling with Donald Trump’s victory, worried about retribution and sluggish liberal energy. Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country.

By Theodore Schleifer

Investors are bracing for the latest data as the president-elect’s economic agenda of cutting immigration and taxes, while raising tariffs takes shape.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Vivienne Walt

The forecast is bad for the famous parade on Thursday. But that’s not Macy’s only problem.

By James Barron

When it comes to weeding out corporate influence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas often align best with some of Trump’s loudest critics.

By Emily Baumgaertner

The lawyer Jamieson Greer is set to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, a crucial position given the president-elect’s threats to impose tariffs on imports from other countries.

By Ana Swanson

The special counsel will leave behind a complex legacy, having amassed considerable evidence against Donald J. Trump but having lost key legal battles that could constrain future investigators.

By Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer

Scott Bessent’s former colleagues and rivals see the prospective Treasury secretary as a thoughtful choice with a broad understanding of financial markets.

By Maureen Farrell

The administration of Mayor Eric Adams is fearful that President-elect Donald J. Trump may target a Brooklyn tent complex housing 2,000 asylum seekers on federal land.

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Dana Rubinstein

Automakers and parts suppliers would struggle if President-elect Donald J. Trump followed through on his threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.

By Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette

The dollar gained and investors sold off stocks after the president-elect promised to levy new restrictions on the United States’ biggest trade partners.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Adam Satariano

We cover an analysis of the 2024 election.

By David Leonhardt

A parade of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s allies showed their loyalty at his criminal trial in Manhattan. Many are now in line for key government jobs.

By Benjamin Oreskes

Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust regulator, who put technology’s harms on the global agenda, reflected on a decade of taking on the biggest companies and what comes next.

By Adam Satariano

President-elect Donald J. Trump ordered the investigation by his legal team into Boris Epshteyn, a powerful figure in the transition. Mr. Epshteyn denies the allegations.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing.

By Charlie Savage

Incumbent vice presidents running for president face unique challenges — and have a poor track record in elections.

By Ian Prasad Philbrick

The special counsel effectively brought to a close the Justice Department efforts to hold Donald J. Trump accountable in the election and classified documents cases.

By Alan Feuer, Charlie Savage and Devlin Barrett

Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

With critical races in Georgia and North Carolina just two years away, the party is soul-searching on a time crunch.

By Maya King

Steve Witkoff’s involvement with two sovereign wealth funds as he bought and then sold Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel demonstrates the potential conflicts his new role will present.

By Eric Lipton

The president-elect has named wealthy financiers for key economic positions, raising questions about how much they will follow through on promises to help the working class.

By Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson

Gov. Gavin Newsom said California would fill the void for residents if the Trump administration killed a $7,500 E.V. tax credit.

By Lisa Friedman, Soumya Karlamangla and Shawn Hubler

Investors seemed to signal their approval for Scott Bessent as a safe choice to implement the president-elect’s economic agenda.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced and Lauren Hirsch

We explore Donald Trump’s climate agenda.

By Lisa Friedman

Long-range missiles, North Korean troops and starker threats from Russia — the war has entered a more volatile phase.

By Sabrina Tavernise, Anton Troianovski, Rob Szypko, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Michael Simon Johnson, Will Reid, Maria Byrne, Patricia Willens, Michael Benoist, Marion Lozano and Alyssa Moxley

Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate’s responsibility to vet nominees were “ignoble” and “just made up.”

By Adam Liptak

Donald Trump’s populist pitch bumped Democrats off their traditional place in American politics.

By Nate Cohn

Fewer people will be able to afford electric cars and trucks if President-elect Donald J. Trump and Republicans in Congress eliminate a $7,500 federal tax credit.

By Lawrence Ulrich

They said they believed that Donald J. Trump’s attacks on undocumented immigrants were directed at recent asylum seekers rather than their own community members.

By Orlando Mayorquín and Christina Morales

Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.

By Ken Bensinger and David A. Fahrenthold

Donald Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations has driven fearful immigrants to seek protections and advice.

By Miriam Jordan

A longtime vendor in Manhattan’s Chinatown is finding it harder to make a living as people shun his intricate crafts, haggle over cheap knickknacks and shift their spending online.

By Rong Xiaoqing

The picks to oversee public health have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream.

By Emily Anthes and Emily Baumgaertner

Trump’s picks for Treasury secretary and commerce secretary both lead Wall Street firms. Here’s what that could mean for their finances and businesses.

By Lauren Hirsch

After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.

By Mike Baker

The city tolerated Donald J. Trump, and then it loathed him. Now, some New Yorkers have begun to embrace him. The Kid from Queens couldn’t be happier.

By Shawn McCreesh

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.

By Dan Barry and Todd Heisler

A president has little control over global oil markets, economists say.

By Lisa Friedman

President-elect Donald Trump is filling key cabinet positions with controversial picks at a breakneck speed. Jonathan Swan, senior political correspondent at The Times, explains why these choices are significant, even if they don’t all make it into office.

By Jonathan Swan, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, James Surdam and Whitney Shefte

How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker and “Wicked” to Elon Musk.

By A.O. Scott

The forecasts, like those from Decision Desk HQ, Nate Silver and 538, are now ubiquitous, but their accuracy is hard to measure.

By Kaleigh Rogers

The country’s new leaders are trying to undo changes, like abortion restrictions and politicized courts, made by their hard-right predecessors. It “takes longer than you expect,” one minister said.

By Andrew Higgins

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how a family might proceed in the wake of a momentous presidential election.

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

She parties with Ivanka Trump and has turned Tesla products into fashion accessories on social media. Assuming these are political statements may be incorrect.

By Jacob Bernstein

The latest vote count shows that Donald J. Trump won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century. But Mr. Trump claims a “powerful mandate.”

By Peter Baker

Faced with unconventional and disruptive proposals, investors are figuring out how to place their bets.

By Jeff Sommer

In every neighborhood in New York City, from Red Hook in Brooklyn to Riverdale in the Bronx, Vice President Kamala Harris received markedly fewer votes than Joseph R. Biden, Jr., did in 2020, while in most neighborhoods, Donald J. Trump notched modest increases.

By Keith Collins, Zach Levitt, Malika Khurana and Nicholas Fandos

In the wake of the election, some New York City news addicts are quitting cold turkey. Can they really keep it up?

By Ginia Bellafante

Officers in Trenton have caused the deaths of innocent people, a Justice Department report found, citing a fatality that occurred after officers pushed a man’s face into the ground.

By Christopher Maag

Florida’s first female state attorney general, she became a member of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team and backed his false claims of election fraud in 2020.

By Glenn Thrush

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment and seams in the networks that connect systems.

By David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes

As Donald J. Trump nominates staunch supporters of Israel to key positions, advocacy groups are taking aim at the departing administration's policies.

By Ephrat Livni

The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.

By Annie Karni

In Ms. Bondi, who served on his legal team during his first impeachment, the president-elect turned to a loyal ally to put his stamp on a Justice Department that he sees as hostile to him.

By Devlin Barrett, Maggie Haberman, Eric Lipton and Kenneth P. Vogel

Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation’s top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets.

By Katie Glueck

Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, faced what appeared to be long odds of securing the votes needed for confirmation in the Republican-controlled Senate.

By Tim Balk and Maya C. Miller

Flash demonstrations intended to spread fear and anxiety are happening almost weekly, say experts who track the incidents.

By Audra D. S. Burch

Trump has said he’ll repeal President Biden’s climate law, but one North Carolina district shows how hard unwinding multibillion-dollar projects could be.

By Austyn Gaffney

The apps look and feel similar. Here is how to use Bluesky and what you might miss from X.

By Hank Sanders

Before managing the campaign of President-elect Donald J. Trump, Susie Wiles represented a tobacco company and a mining project, among others.

By Kate Kelly and Kenneth P. Vogel

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have unveiled their first plans to trim government spending, a blueprint that mirrors how the tech mogul cut costs at Twitter.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced and Lauren Hirsch

We explore his promise to impose a charge on foreign products entering the U.S.

By Ana Swanson

President-elect Donald J. Trump has repeatedly cited the case in his push for the mass deportation of millions of undocumented people.

By Michael Barbaro, Rick Rojas, Alex Stern, Sydney Harper, Luke Vander Ploeg, Mooj Zadie, Liz O. Baylen, Maria Byrne, Rachel Quester, Diane Wong, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Pat McCusker and Chris Wood

The president-elect is rounding out his second administration with television stars.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

A political autopsy. A focus group. A return to Herndon family hospitality.

By Astead W. Herndon, Anna Foley, Elisa Gutierrez and Akilah Townsend

Mexico is banking on its ability to negotiate with a deal maker like Donald J. Trump, and many officials say the country is better prepared and has more leverage than it did during his first term.

By Natalie Kitroeff

Western countries are confronting demands for trillions of dollars to fight climate change and to cope with its worsening effects.

By Max Bearak

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was never charged with a crime and vehemently denied to the police that a sexual encounter was coerced.

By Sharon LaFraniere

The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation will clear the Senate before the current session ends.

By Charlie Savage

His first term was marked by backlash and protest. But the president-elect has found new streams of embrace and approval.

Donald J. Trump’s grass-roots opponents search for a new playbook as they reckon with how little they accomplished during his first term.

By Katie Benner

Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices. Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s candidates face bigger questions.

By Carl Hulse