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Tiffany Meier's panel reacts to Sen. Ted Cruz's post-election apology after Democrats won the governor's race and the Senate seat in Texas—with James Talarico becoming the first Democrat elected to the Senate from the state since 1988. They also weigh the still-unresolved Alaska race, where Mary Peltola leads Dan Sullivan by roughly 600 votes.

Retired Marine Col. and Heritage Foundation fellow Mike Jernigan joins Tiffany Meier after Vice President JD Vance questioned whether the Iran war was worth the cost and an earlier recommendation to end it was sound advice. He weighs President Trump's defense that the campaign stopped Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, reports that a return to major combat is under consideration, and how a Democr...

Liberty Sentinel president and author Alex Newman joins Tiffany Meier after six Democratic Socialists of America candidates won reliably blue House seats, expanding the DSA's presence from two to eight members. He weighs whether their push for universal healthcare, free childcare, and abolishing ICE can become law, the White House's $49 trillion cost estimate, a new DSA mayor-elect in Los Angeles,...

A significant Democratic victory in the U.S. midterm elections: Is it a gain or a setback for China—or is it perhaps both? We examine the facts and explain what the results could mean for Beijing. Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong will spend another decade behind bars. The court's ruling has drawn sharp criticism from the United States and Taiwan. An unprecedented meeting between Presid...

Hoax bomb threats affected at least 27 flights across Europe on Thursday, the second wave this week, forcing several aircraft to make unplanned landings and prompting fighter jets to escort or intercept others. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's office said he had sent fighter jets to intercept an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome and escort it to an air force base at Evreux after the p...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says Tuesday's midterm results were a "blue tsunami" and a "Watergate-level repudiation" for Republicans, who lost control of both the House and Senate. In a lengthy post on X, Cruz said Republicans failed to respond to voters' frustration over the cost of living. The losses hit hardest in his home state. Democrats won every statewide race in Texas, including James Talarico...

The Nasdaq-100 index was set to lose a whopping $1.8 trillion in stock value on Thursday as investors feared that the Democrats' sweeping midterm victory could stall the pace of AI infrastructure expansion. The rout marked a dramatic slide from a relatively mild initial reaction in the previous session, when the index, stacked with elite tech companies, rose on hopes that an end to election-relate...

Taking a look back at American history and the Revolutionary War, Patrick K. O'Donnell joins NTD to discuss how a loosely organized band of farmers, frontiersmen, and settlers overcame the world's greatest military power. O'Donnell is a military historian and combat veteran, was a consultant on the hit World War II HBO Series "Band of Brothers," and is the author of a new book, "Revolutionary Snip...

You may have woken up this morning feeling either hopeful or worried about Tuesday's midterm election results. Cary Dunst and Stefania Cox speak with financial planner Lawrence Sprung about the best ways to ensure rationality keeps driving people's decisions about money.

With the Blue Wave shaking up the balance of power, what comes next? NTD spoke to Jeff Crouere, a political analyst and the host of 'Ringside Politics.'

Erika Kirk urged conservatives to treat the Republican setbacks as a reason to regroup rather than turn on one another. In a lengthy post on X, the CEO of Turning Point USA said voters' economic concerns—along with the war in Iran—were reflected in exit polls. She said this echoed what Turning Point had been hearing from students. She defended free enterprise over socialism, but said conservatives...

Crowds gathered in the Place de la République square in Paris on Thursday as demonstrations took place across the country in a renewed challenge to President Emmanuel Macron after weeks of unrest. The nationwide protests and a strike by public workers, called by trade unions and backed by student groups, followed demonstrations over living costs, public services, and education that triggered the w...

President Donald Trump has again urged Congress to make daylight saving time permanent. In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump said the costs and effort spent on changing the clocks twice a year were "ridiculous." The Sunshine Protection Act would end the twice-yearly clock change by keeping daylight saving time year-round. A recent poll found that 56 percent of U.S. adults would prefer day...

The White House is pushing back after Republicans lost control of Congress in Tuesday's Midterm elections. In a statement yesterday, the administration said President Donald Trump will "again defy the odds," adding that everyone who has written him off before has been wrong. The White House predicts Democrats will spend the final two years of Trump's term working to undo his agenda, from border se...

Imagine for a second—if everything you've ever known were to exist inside a computer simulation. If that were true, then something would be on the outside, looking in. Part 1 of this series looks at the theories and the science of whether or not reality is really as it seems. Now, we're asking a far more dangerous question: if we are in a simulation, what's outside it? Philosophers have wrestled w...

Democrats won a major victory in the U.S. midterm elections, giving them control of both the House and the Senate. What could this mean for U.S.–China relations? And how might it affect Taiwan? Do you have Chinese stocks in your portfolio? You may not know what you're actually investing in—or what Chinese companies are concealing from American investors. A multibillion-dollar artificial intelligen...

Unmanned drones have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine. Now, maritime drones could play a critical role in Taiwan's defense if conflict erupts across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan is already taking steps to prepare. The United States and Japan are stepping up their military cooperation. The two allies plan to establish a joint production facility in Japan to manufacture missiles used by the F-35...

Following the Blue Wave in the Midterms, NTD discussed with a panel including John Rogers, the Executive Director at America First Works, and Brad Bannon, Democrat strategist and pollster, as well as the President of Bannon Communications Research.

Last night's results handed Democrats control of both the House and Senate in a decisive wave. The question now is what those results will mean for the country. Rod Martin, founder and CEO of Martin Capital and author of "Trump's New World Re-Order," and Madeline Summerville, Democratic strategist and CEO of "Georgia Trial Consulting" join NTD in the studio for analysis.

A series of gubernatorial races has reshaped the political map, with Democrats flipping governorships in Georgia, Texas, and Ohio. In Florida, Republican Byron Donalds will succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis. NTD takes a look at the key gubernatorial races.

The two major candidates in Alaska's U.S. Senate race urged supporters to be patient as results began coming in late on Tuesday, delivering rousing speeches and expressing confidence against the backdrop of allegations of partisan tricks to recruit a candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent. Headlined by two-term Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democratic former U.S. Rep. Mary Pel...

Democrats have won control of the House, but Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is vowing that Republicans will stay in the fight. NTD's Daniel Monaghan has the key takeaways from Johnson and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is expected to become the next House speaker.

With the Midterms here, where does the Mom-Vote stand? Kimberly Fletcher, President and founder of Moms for America, joined NTD Good Morning with an important message for all the moms out there.

Both parties are preparing for potential legal battles ahead of the midterms. NTD spoke about the issue with Don Palmer, a senior legal fellow for election integrity at The Heritage Foundation.

With the Midterms in progress, many questions are being posed about the balance of power and when the results will be revealed. NTD discussed these issues and more with John Rogers, executive director at America First Works.