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What happened last night?

President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t minced words about what legacy legislation would be on the chopping block from President Obama's administration.

House Speaker Paul Ryan vowed Wednesday to help lead a “unified Republican government” with Donald Trump as president, promising Americans that the entire party can now work “hand in hand” to solve the country’s problems.

Hillary Clinton, in her first public remarks since her stunning defeat overnight to President-elect Donald Trump, urged her millions of supporters to “accept this result” and give her Republican rival a “chance to lead” as she voiced hope the country could move past the divisions of the grueling 2016 campaign.

The back story of this campaign is how some of Trump's advisers tried again and again to rein him in, failing time after time, and privately concluded that he could not be managed -- and therefore was unlikely to win. Only in the final weeks, when the race seemed all but lost, did Trump find a way to stop stepping on his message -- and paved the way for his stunning upset.

World leaders, by and large, were congratulatory to Donald Trump who seized enough Electoral College votes to win the presidency after a hard-fought campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race stunned the political establishment and the pollsters – but his campaign manager credited the phenomenon of “undercover Trump voters” and several other key factors Wednesday morning for their win.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving a thumbs-up to president-elect Donald Trump's victory.

Donald Trump defied the polls and pundits until the very end, defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s presidential election.

Donald Trump’s victory today came as a deeply divided country opted for change. His strength among white voters – and particularly working-class whites – led to an impressive performance in the upper Midwest, and he was able to attract enough support from blacks and Hispanics to hold Hillary Clinton at bay.

Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States early Wednesday morning after winning Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes and putting him over the 270 threshold, Fox News projected.

Donald Trump, the real estate mogul mocked and minimized by the media and political establishment, has stunned the world with a death-defying campaign that has captured the presidency.

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told supporters at the Javits Center in New York early Wednesday to go home and get some sleep while several other states tally up the remaining votes.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander conceded early Wednesday, ending his spirited bid to unseat incumbent Republican Roy Blunt in a race both parties had eyed as potentially pivotal in the battle over control of the chamber.

Donald Trump hadn’t even been declared president-elect when the first group of demonstrators gathered outside the White House early Wednesday morning to oppose a future Trump administration.

Louisiana will have to wait another month to elect its next senator.

Republicans won control of the Vermont governors' office Tuesday, picking up a previously Democratic seat in their quest to expand their statehouse leadership to their strongest levels in decades.

In the midst of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, anyone wishing to look into possibly moving to Canada had some difficulties Tuesday night.

Colorado voters overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure legalizing assisted suicide Tuesday, one of a number of issues decided at the ballot box across several states.

Donald Trump sent shockwaves rippling through America and across the globe Tuesday when voters rallied behind his longshot campaign and handed him victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to make him the 45th president of the United States.