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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz followed the path of Vice President Kamala Harris in delivering an impassioned concession speech Friday, where he acknowledged the Democratic tickets’ bruising election night defeat while injecting his own brand of humor that he became known for on the campaign trail.

“I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a week,” Walz said as he opened his first public remarks since it became clear Donald Trump would return to the White House. "It's good to be home," he told the crowd in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

The Pentagon is bracing for "major upheaval" ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's second term, according to CNN, with officials already holding informal talks about how the Defense Department will respond if Trump orders it to deploy active-duty military troops on his own citizens and makes good on promises to boot large swaths of workers.

Trump insinuated during his campaign he could use the military as a law enforcement mechanism to carry out his plan for mass deportations, and that he would replace government workers with loyalists.

A member of Donald Trump's inner circle has set up a site to crowdsource MAGA on who President Donald Trump should appoint to his next Cabinet, Mother Jones reported on Friday.

Ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been central to building the site, according to the report.

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to buck up the spirits of dejected staffers in a post-election call this week — but it left many angry and even further disillusioned.

Axios reported the call with team members came after Harris delivered a powerful concession speech Wednesday, emphasizing her commitment to the peaceful transition of power in contrast to the January 6 plot four years previously.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is pointing fingers at President Joe Biden as Democrats look for someone to blame for Donald Trump winning the 2024 election.

Speaking to the New York Times Friday, Pelosi complained: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”

Watchers of the Supreme Court have a grim outlook on the right flank's ability to decide cases fairly and independently with a new Donald Trump administration coming in — particularly given that many suspect it played its own role in helping Trump win.

But they are keeping an eye on one Trump-appointed justice in particular who has so far decided cases in a slightly different way than her conservative colleagues, reported CNN.

The University of Florida men's basketball coach, Todd Golden, has been accused of stalking and sexually harassing students, the school newspaper, The Alligator, reported Friday.

Documents obtained by the newspaper show "an undefined number of women" who filed complaints. A university spokesperson told the paper the school received a complaint on Sept. 27 but it was legally unable to comment.

Republican U.S. Senator-elect Dave McCormick’s lawyers withdrew a request on Friday for a Philadelphia judge to intervene to prevent election officials from counting provisional ballots without adequate Republican observation, according to court records.

McCormick’s campaign filed the lawsuit Thursday after the Associated Press declared him the winner of the Senate race by a narrow margin over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. Casey refused to concede, with his campaign saying that up to 100,000 provisional and overseas absentee ballots remained to be counted.

Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa announced his resignation Friday on the heels of another election cycle in which his party

suffered blowout losses atop the ticket and vastly underperformed expectations.

During the 2024 presidential race, radio host Charlamagne tha God predicted that if Vice President Kamala Harris defeated GOP nominee Donald Trump, the "corrupt" U.S. Supreme Court would go along with one of Trump's legal challenges and still hand the election to Trump.

But President-elect Trump enjoyed a decisive victory, and Harris subsequently gave her concession speech. Trump not only picked up at least 295 electoral votes — according to the vote count, he appears to have won the popular vote as well.

The election marked a first in United States' 248-year history when Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris while awaiting sentencing on 34 criminal charges. The president-elect has faced criminal indictments in three other cases as well.

Justice Juan Merchan is scheduled to sentence Trump on those 34 charges on Nov. 26.

A federal judge agreed to freeze the election interference case against Donald Trump three days after his election win.

Special counsel Jack Smith asked District Judge Tanya Chutkan to vacate upcoming deadlines in the case, which defense attorneys did not oppose. She put the prosecution on hold indefinitely, reported NBC News.

President-elect Donald Trump courted union voters during his successful 2024 presidential bid, and now Bloomberg reports that his incoming administration is poised to deliver a "body blow" to organized labor that has enjoyed a significant renaissance under President Joe Biden's administration.

While Biden's administration has helped multiple unions score big new contracts and organizing victories, as well as eliminating noncompete clauses that hold workers back, Trump's last National Labor Relations Board was far more hostile to organized labor and his next one could be even more so.