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Television networks offered warm, admiring interviews to newly elected Democrats in Texas, Kansas, Michigan and elsewhere the morning after the 2026 midterms, while a PBS recap of “historic firsts” omitted Florida’s first Black governor, a Republican.

Republican Byron Donalds defeated Democrat David Jolly in Florida’s governor’s race, extending the GOP’s long hold on the state and succeeding term-limited Ron DeSantis.

Stanford Medicine researchers say a new brain-scan scoring method can distinguish “super agers” from Alzheimer’s patients with about 85% accuracy and predict cognitive decline years before memory loss appears.

A 34-year-old Palm Bay father died Monday after his truck became trapped in flash floodwaters in Brevard County, Florida, moments after a panicked FaceTime call to his wife.

LSU women’s basketball set the Division I record for largest margin of victory in a rout of Texas Southern, while a Warriors Pride-night anthem and Hooters’ return to NASCAR in Homestead also made headlines.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his continued support for President Trump and defended his food-policy record after Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock and Angela Alsobrooks called for him to resign or be fired.

Republican strategist Janet Kelly says the GOP’s midterm losses, including Sen. Jon Husted’s defeat in Ohio, show voters don’t trust Republicans on AI policy, and she’s urging the party to act on child safety and tech accountability before 2028.

President Trump’s announcement that Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff drew swift condemnation from Democratic lawmakers, several of whom pledged to investigate Miller over immigration enforcement policies.

President Trump announced at Kennedy Space Center that NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars within two years, tying the mission to the broader Artemis moon program and his new “American Declaration of Freedom in Space.”

Hakeem Jeffries called Stephen Miller a “dangerous xenophobe” who should be fired, just before Trump announced Miller would instead become his new White House chief of staff.