Colorado rejects conservative effort to require police to cooperate with immigration officers

Amendment 81 would have required law enforcement to notify federal agents if people accused of violent crimes were not lawfully present in US Colorado voters have spurned a conservative group’s effort to force police and prosecutors to aid the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Amendment 81, which failed to receive 55% of the vote on … Read more

Stock market surges on election results

Investors drove the DOW up more than three percent with bullish sentiment following Democrats’ historic win in the elections. NBC News’ Christine Romans explains what helped push markets higher.

Election results yield historic firsts

From state capitals to the halls of Congress, the elections resulted in a sea of fresh faces and a wave of firsts in political leadership across the country. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz reports on the history making changes.

As Australia ponders how to deal with a castrated Trump administration, one lesson is clear: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ | Zoe Daniel

Donald Trump’s crushing defeat in the US midterms over cost-of-living pressures is a warning for politicians closer to home Fascinating, isn’t it, that for all that Donald Trump has got away with, it’s arguably the cost of fuel that’s finally led to an absolute rout in the midterms. So many Americans held their noses at … Read more