Stephen Richer, the election official and a lifelong Republican, had sued Lake, who made election denialism a centerpiece for her unsuccessful 2022 campaign for governor.

Conspiracy theories that the election was miscounted, hacked and stolen have spread in some left-leaning online communities.

In the 2024 election, two states have had more than three-quarters of their eligible voting population cast a ballot so far, according to the Election Lab’s 2024 data. They are Minnesota (76.41%) and Wisconsin (76.37%), who had the highest rates of voter turnout among the states

HBO's Bill Maher called out the far-left for "doubling down" on what he argued led to their devastating election defeat, urging them to make going "too woke" a "cancelable offense."

MSNBC has seen its audience flee since President-elect Trump’s Election Day victory over Vice President Kamala Harris despite a historic news cycle that has unfolded in the days since.

After the election, a new theory spread quickly on TikTok that a heroic presidential candidate was quietly investigating corrupt deep-state actors who rigged the results, waiting in the wings until those corrupt actors could be rounded up and tried for their crimes.

For Democratic pro-Palestinian activists, Donald Trump’s reelection delivered a bitter vindication. Led by the Uncommitted National Movement, they spent months pushing and pleading with the Biden administration to scale back its support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

Washington — More than a week after Election Day 2024, the results in a handful of races for the U.S. House of Representatives are still outstanding. But enough races have now been decided for CBS News to project that Republicans will hold onto control of the House with least 218 seats, the number needed for a majority.

Nearly two dozen Democrats are seen as possible contenders ahead of an invisible primary that will be shaped partly by Trump and his second term.

A large batch of absentee-ballot results reported late on election night from Milwaukee was normal under Wisconsin counting procedures and “forecasted,” the state Elections Commission chair said in response to posts online suggesting the sudden appearance of votes mostly favoring Democrats was proof of fraud.

The mass exodus includes stars like Oscar-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis and The Guardian newspaper, which announced that it would no longer be posting on its official X accounts