Transition discussions are expected to ramp up later in the week.

UPDATE: Control of the House of Representatives is still unknown, but the final viewership numbers are in for last night’s election, and it ain’t a winner. Across 18 networks, Donald Trump’s sweeping victory for a return to the White House he was kicked out of four years ago was watched by an audience of 42.3 […]

=Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and Democratic strategist and pollster Anna Greenberg talk about what drove Trump's victory and what it tells us about the future of U.S. politics.

Obviously we are ecstatic that President Trump was elected to the White House. Its going to be good for Connecticut and good for the country."

Four years after President Biden defeated him, former President Donald Trump has made a historic political comeback. The president-elect defeated Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday to become the 47th president of the U.S. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns, Nidia Cavazos and Robert Costa have more.

While Trump and his advisers have offered outlines, many questions remain about how they would deport anywhere close to the 11 million people estimated to be in the country illegally.

Since President-elect Donald Trumps first term in office, the U.S. has wielded its trade restriction and sanctioning powers in an effort to curb Chinas technological advances. Now that hes headed back to the White House, the semiconductor war between the U.S....

Gavin Newsom wants the newly reelected Donald Trump to know California has a line, and the former president better think twice about crossing it when he returns to the White House next year. Waiting until Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech this afternoon in Washington DC, the Governor praised his longtime political ally […]

One day after former President Trump swept the battleground states to win back the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris concedes the 2024 election in an address at Washington DC's Howard University

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech Wednesday following former President Donald Trump's projected win. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reports. Then, political strategists Hyma Moore and Maura Gillespie join with analysis.

The White House plans to rush billions of dollars in security assistance to Ukraine before President Joe Biden leaves office in January, sources said today, hoping to shore up the government in Kyiv before President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

Despite Republicans taking back the White House and U.S. Senate, Democrats at the local level had a strong showing across DuPage County in Tuesday's election.

With control of the White House and Senate already in the bag, Republicans are one step away from claiming the coveted political trifecta. All they need is the House of Representatives, which is currently in limbo.

The top prosecutor in Massachusetts said her office spent time ahead of Tuesdays election to identify prospective threats that could surface during President-elect Donald Trumps second term in the White House.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday accused the Democratic Party of largely ignoring the priorities of the working class and pointed to that as the biggest reason for why they lost control of the White House and Senate. It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people...

Former President Donald Trump has declared victory in the U.S. election against Vice President Kamala Harris. It's an outcome that will have implications far beyond the United States, so here's what another Trump administration could look like for China. Finding Perspective: Beijing and Washington are the world's two largest economies and another Trump term will have a major impact on where the re...

The GOP has won back control of the White House and the Senate, and theyre within striking distance of taking the House. It will all make for a dramatic shakeup in Congress for the next two years.

"It is historically unprecedented in the modern era," said GOP pollster and strategist Patrick Ruffini.

Trump won the election fair and square -- he won the electoral college vote and is expected to win the popular vote as well. He improved his margin in every county in the country.

Donald Trump won a second non-consecutive term in the White House by defeating Kamala Harris in convincing fashion.