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Pentagon stunned after Trump picks Pete Hegseth for defence secretary The Pentagon has been stunned by Donald Trump’s pick for…

New funding approved for police in Colorado after record homicides, gang taking over communities and charging for protection. Colorado voters…

Neither President-elect Donald Trump nor Sen.-elect David McCormick came close to winning Philadelphia County in Tuesday’s election, but the GOP…

Illinois judge shot dead; wife charged with murder: police The wife of an Illinois circuit judge has been arrested and…

Kamala Harris underperformed Biden’s numbers with women. South Dakota’s governor thinks she knows why. In her quest to become the…

The Republican Party has secured control of the U.S. Senate, flipping key seats in West Virginia, Ohio, and Montana. With these wins, Republicans are guaranteed at least 52 of the Senate’s 100 seats, though a few races remain undecided.

The polls have officially started to open across the US and voting has begun. Nearly 75 million Americans chose to vote early this election – but today many millions more will cast their ballots for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.

The FBI is warning voters on Tuesday about attempted deception in the 2024 election, saying that the agency has been impersonated in at least two fabricated videos aimed at shaking Americans’ confidence in the political process. 

Voting starts in North Carolina in blustery windy morning. Makeshift tents make up election booths in North Carolina, one of the areas most devastated areas by Hurricane Helene.

Tuesday’s front pages report on both domestic and international politics, while a handful of tabloids lead with showbiz news.
The US presidential election is unsurprisingly the lead for many front pages this morning as millions of Americans will head to the polls to cast their vote for either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump.
Some of the newspapers lead on politics a little closer to home as PM Keir Starmer announced student loans in England are set to rise, despite promising to abolish tuition fees. The papers describe it as an astonishing “u-turn.”
The newly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has started to appoint her shadow cabinet. The news of the appointments find space on the front of several newspapers.