7:15 p.m. Wednesday — Cotter Smasal concedes in VA-02, Dyer claims victory in VB mayor

2:28 p.m. Wednesday — Trump marketing campaign points assertion on Harris’ concession over the cellphone

2:09 p.m. Wednesday — Harris congratulates Trump on election victory

10:30 a.m. — CISA Election Assertion

5:35 a.m. — Republican Donald Trump secures second presidency

11:12 p.m. — Jennifer McClellan reelected to Virginia Home District 4

11:05 p.m. — Rob Wittman reelected to Virginia Home District 1 

11:02 p.m. — Portsmouth mayor Shannon Glover reelected

10:52 p.m. — Tim Kaine wins Virginia’s Senate race

9:50 p.m. — What comes subsequent after Election Day?

9:40 p.m. — School city votes processed

9:30 p.m. — Scott wins U.S. Home District 3

8:45 p.m.  — Winner referred to as in Poquoson mayoral race

7:54 p.m. — Packed home at Chesapeake Mayor Rick West’s watch occasion

7:51 p.m. — Sen. L. Louise Lucas arrives at daughter’s watch occasion

7:24 p.m. — Voters at Missy Cotter Smasal watch occasion eagerly await her arrival

7 p.m. — Voting polls shut throughout Virginia

6:48 p.m. — Voters at Hampton polling place wait hours to solid ballots

6:30 p.m. — Hampton voters discuss mayoral race

6:20 p.m. — Williamsburg turnout continues to extend

5:20 p.m. — Virginia Seaside precincts see combined bag of turnout

4:30 p.m. — Richmond Electoral Board removes a precinct chief

3:20 p.m. — Voters in Cradock, Portsmouth chat with 13News Now

3 p.m. — Virginia Seaside, Williamsburg report voter turnout

12 p.m.  — Preliminary voter turnout reported throughout Hampton Roads

11 a.m. — Jen Kiggans casts her poll in Virginia Seaside

10 a.m. — Division of Elections offers replace on voting throughout Virginia

8 a.m. — Missy Cotter Smasal casts her poll in Virginia Seaside

6:30 a.m. — Virginia Division of Elections to supply 3 updates Tuesday

6 a.m. — Polls open in Virginia for Election Day 2024

5:30 a.m. — Ballot staff prep for busy voting day in Virginia Seaside

Voter information for Election Day 2024

Pattern ballots for the 2024 elections

Mortgage debtors have been placed on discover that rates of interest will take longer to come back down after the Financial institution of England warned Rachel Reeves’s funds would add to inflation whereas boosting financial development.

Giving its verdict on final week’s funds because it introduced a quarter-point minimize in rates of interest to 4.75% on Thursday, the central financial institution mentioned the chancellor’s plans would drive up inflation to a recent peak subsequent yr.

The Financial institution’s financial coverage committee (MPC) voted by a majority of eight to 1 to cut back charges for the second time this yr to ease the strain on households and companies from excessive borrowing prices.

Nonetheless, it mentioned Reeves’s £70bn of extra spending backed by larger taxes and borrowing would add about 0.5 share factors to headline inflation by the center of subsequent yr and 0.75% to gross home product (GDP).

Updating its forecasts after taking funds measures into consideration, the Financial institution mentioned it anticipated inflation would now peak at 2.75% by the center of subsequent yr after which stay above the two% goal in 2026, till falling again in 2027 – a yr longer than it had anticipated in its earlier forecasts, revealed in August.

The pound rose in opposition to the US greenback after the Financial institution’s choice to chop charges, whereas monetary markets reacted by betting that Threadneedle Avenue would minimize rates of interest fewer occasions and at a slower tempo over the approaching yr.

“Whereas slicing rates of interest from 5% to 4.75% at present, the Financial institution of England implied that the funds means charges will proceed to fall solely progressively,” mentioned Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics. He mentioned charges had been now on monitor to fall to about 3.5% by early 2026 quite than to three%.

Threadneedle Avenue mentioned it anticipated the federal government’s growing of the speed of employer nationwide insurance coverage contributions (NICs) and the “nationwide residing wage” risked including to inflationary pressures if firms handed on the prices within the type of decrease wage rises and better costs within the retailers.

Different measures together with elevating the cap on bus fares and VAT on personal colleges may additionally push costs up. The event led one member of the MPC, the exterior economist Catherine Mann, to push for rates of interest to be held at 5%.

Sarah Coles, head of private finance on the funding platform Hargreaves Lansdown, mentioned the slower tempo of charge cuts would have an effect for hard-pressed households.

“The very fact so few cuts are anticipated throughout 2025 can be a blow for anybody who hoped for his or her mortgage to be much less of a burden within the coming months,” she mentioned.

The Financial institution of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, signalled that borrowing prices had been nonetheless prone to come down in future, though cautioned in opposition to expectations for fast motion.

“We want to ensure inflation stays shut to focus on, so we are able to’t minimize rates of interest too rapidly or by an excessive amount of. But when the economic system evolves as we count on it’s possible that rates of interest will proceed to fall progressively from right here,” he mentioned.

Inflation fell again to 1.7% in September – after peaking at 11.1% in October 2022 – however was already on monitor to return to above 2% after a rise within the Ofgem power worth cap for households in Nice Britain in October.

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Reeves mentioned the rate of interest minimize can be “welcome information” for hundreds of thousands of households however that households had been nonetheless dealing with a problem after Liz Truss’s mini-budget.

She mentioned: “As we speak’s rate of interest minimize can be welcome information for hundreds of thousands of households, however I’m beneath no phantasm in regards to the scale of the problem dealing with households after the earlier authorities’s mini-budget.

“This authorities’s first funds has set out how we’re taking the long-term choices to repair the foundations to ship change by investing within the NHS and rebuilding Britain, whereas guaranteeing working individuals don’t face larger taxes of their payslips.”

With expectations that Donald Trump’s US election victory would additionally pave the way in which for renewed inflationary pressures on the planet economic system, Bailey mentioned a “gradual” method to slicing borrowing prices was required.

He signalled the Financial institution would “wait and see” if Trump would impose sweeping import tariffs on America’s buying and selling companions – as threatened by the president-elect throughout the marketing campaign – whereas saying it was too early to “prejudge what would possibly occur”.

Nonetheless, he warned Britain was an open economic system uncovered to disruptions in international commerce. “We do have to observe very rigorously the fragmentation of the world economic system … There are lots of dangers hooked up,” he mentioned.

“There’s larger uncertainty on the market. To start with there’s larger international uncertainty, definitely. The second factor to say is, after all there are home uncertainties. We have to clearly see how the funds measures go by when it comes to their financial results.”

Canned fruit model Del Monte has launched 4 fruit-themed bagged snacks that are below 73 energy per 20g pack.

Produced below below license with D2 Worldwide the line-up options Del Monte Lemon Apple Sticks, Del Monte Strawberry Apple Sticks (20g), restricted version festive Del Monte Spiced Apple Crisps, and Bare Apple Crisps.

All the snacks are created from 100% pure substances, with the crisps retailing at £1, and the sticks at £1.19.  After Christmas, the Spiced Apple Crisps might be changed by Bare Apple Crisps.

Martin Tilney senior business director at Del Monte UK & Europe says: “These new merchandise exemplify our dedication to innovation and assembly client demand for tasty, nutritious snacks. With flavours that attraction to all ages, we’re assured they’ll resonate with health-conscious customers searching for scrumptious choices.”

Stephen Simpson heead of grocery gross sales at D2 Worldwide provides: “We’re excited to accomplice with Del Monte to carry these distinctive snacks to the UK market, combining nice style with high quality substances. This vary highlights our dedication to offering more healthy snacking choices.”

North Carolina Lawyer Basic Josh Stein defeated scandal-plagued Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson within the state’s gubernatorial race, NBC Information initiatives, conserving the seat in Democrats’ arms.

Stein had been the clear favourite to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper within the battleground state after a marketing campaign that was outlined by Robinson’s lengthy historical past of inflammatory statements.

In September, CNN reported that Robinson had made feedback on a porn web site over a decade in the past through which he referred to as himself a “black NAZI,” expressed assist for bringing again slavery and recounted sexually graphic tales, together with one about his reminiscence of “peeping” on girls in health club showers when he was 14.

Robinson has denied that he wrote the feedback. However within the days after CNN’s story was revealed, a number of key staffers resigned from his marketing campaign, whereas the Republican Governors Affiliation confirmed it could now not run advertisements backing Robinson. Former President Donald Trump didn’t pull his endorsement of Robinson, however he didn’t seem with him on the marketing campaign path following the report.

Democrats had already been utilizing Robinson’s litany of previous controversial remarks to forged him as excessive on abortion, training and LGBTQ points.

In a speech to supporters after the race was referred to as, Robinson conceded defeat whereas nodding to media consideration his previous feedback garnered throughout the marketing campaign.

“It’s not in regards to the lies. It’s not in regards to the half-truths,” he stated of his failed marketing campaign. It’s in regards to the individuals who consider in you.”

“I stand right here sturdy and proud — glad to have run a race that was upright and first rate,” Robinson stated.

“Victory is agreeable God, and typically with a view to please God, you need to lose,” Robinson stated.

Stein’s marketing campaign ran advertisements highlighting Robinson’s feedback calling abortion “homicide” and “genocide” on his private Fb web page in 2018.

In different Fb feedback on a livestream from 2019, Robinson stated abortion “will not be about defending the lives of moms. … It’s about killing the kid since you weren’t accountable sufficient to maintain your skirt down.”

Democrats additionally pointed to feedback Robinson made in 2023 calling public faculty lecturers “depraved folks” and telling dad and mom to not ship their youngsters to public colleges.

Stein’s victory was boosted by feminine voters, college-educated voters and independents, a key group wanted for victories in battleground races.

Sixty-one % of voters within the state who establish as independents voted for Stein, whereas simply 35% of these voters forged their ballots for Robinson, based on the NBC Information exit ballot.

One other 13% of Republicans crossed social gathering traces to forged their ballots for Stein, a a lot larger share than the quantity of Democrats who stated they voted for Robinson — simply 2%.

And whereas 63% of feminine voters within the state forged their ballots for Stein, whereas simply 34% of ladies pulled the lever for Robinson. Amongst males, the end result was extra evenly break up, with 50% of male voters deciding on Stein and 47% of male voters voting for Robinson, based on the exit ballot.

Stein, who beforehand served within the state Senate, will probably be North Carolina’s first Jewish governor.

He campaigned on his plans to enhance Okay-12 training within the state by investing in lecturers and addressing staffing shortages in colleges. He was additionally vocal on the marketing campaign path in his opposition to the state’s 12-week abortion ban.

Stein touted his work as legal professional common to clear a backlog of 1000’s of untested rape kits and collaboration with different state attorneys common to barter settlements with prescription opioid distributors amid the opioid and fentanyl epidemic.

Three folks have been charged in reference to Liam Payne’s demise in Argentina for supplying narcotics and the abandonment of an individual adopted by demise.

Toxicology checks discovered that when he died, Payne had traces of alcohol, cocaine, and a prescription antidepressant in his physique, prosecutors mentioned in a press release on Thursday.

The previous One Route star fell to his demise on 16 October from a 3rd ground resort balcony within the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

Friends on the time mentioned that they had heard banging and doorways slamming all through the afternoon, earlier than a loud scream. Workers had referred to as emergency companies to report a visitor who was “overwhelmed by medication and alcohol” who was “destroying” a room. The 31-year-old’s physique was discovered within the late afternoon in Casa Sur’s inner courtyard.

Police pronounced Payne useless on the scene, saying he had suffered a “very critical harm” to the bottom of the cranium. The forensic medical corps later concluded that Payne’s demise was brought on by “a number of traumas” and “inner and exterior haemorrhage” ensuing from the autumn.

One of many three accused reportedly visited Payne recurrently throughout his two-week keep within the metropolis. They’ve been charged with the abandonment of an individual adopted by demise – a sentence of which carries between 5 to fifteen years in jail – and the facilitation of narcotics.

The second particular person, who’s a resort worker, “should reply for 2 confirmed provides of cocaine”, prosecutors mentioned. The third particular person has additionally been accused of supplying narcotics on 14 October.

Prosecutors mentioned that officers had collected a number of dozen testimonies, and performed 9 raids on properties throughout Buenos Aires province, which resulted within the seizure of a number of private units. Greater than 800 hours of video footage have additionally been analysed.

Of their assertion, the prosecutors additionally dominated out suicide, saying: “The shortage of defence or self-preservation reflex within the fall, along with different related information from his consumption, permit us to conclude that Liam Payne was not totally aware or was experiencing a state of noticeable lower or lack of consciousness on the time of the autumn.”

“Bodily intervention by a 3rd celebration” was additionally eradicated as a risk.

Payne, who was born in Wolverhampton, England, turned a part of One Route after showing on British actuality present The X Issue as a young person. The group, which was one of many greatest boybands of all time, offered greater than 70m data worldwide, earlier than happening an indefinite hiatus in 2016.

Payne had beforehand opened up about struggles together with his psychological well being, saying that throughout the peak of the band’s fame he started utilizing alcohol and an epilepsy drug as a temper stabiliser to counter the “erratic highs and lows” he was experiencing.

Payne’s father, Geoff, travelled to Buenos Aires after his son’s demise, assembly followers and visiting the British Cemetery the place his son’s stays had been being stored. Earlier this week, Payne’s physique was repatriated to the UK.

Payne, 31, a father-of-one, grew to become one of the recognisable names in pop after showing on The X Issue and rising to fame with the boyband One Path within the 2010s.

Argentinian authorities have been investigating Payne’s ultimate days on the CasaSur lodge.

After the singer’s demise, police discovered substances in his lodge room and destroyed objects and furnishings. Resort employees had made two calls to emergency providers saying that they had a visitor who had taken “too many medicine and alcohol”, and was “trashing your complete room”, it was beforehand reported.

On Thursday, the general public prosecutor’s workplace stated toxicology checks revealed traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his physique.

A autopsy examination decided his reason for demise as “a number of trauma” and “inner and exterior haemorrhage”, on account of the autumn from the lodge balcony.

In keeping with the prosecutor’s workplace, medical stories additionally steered Payne could have fallen in a state of semi or complete unconsciousness.

The prosecutor’s workplace say this guidelines out the opportunity of a aware or voluntary act by Payne, they usually have concluded the singer didn’t know what he was doing nor have any comprehension of his actions.

As well as, authorities have carried out 9 raids on homes in Buenos Aires.

They’re persevering with to analyze Payne’s damaged laptop computer and different gadgets seized.

The prosecutor’s workplace added it has examined greater than 800 hours of video footage from safety cameras within the lodge and on public roads, and obtained dozens of testimonies from lodge employees, relations, mates and medical professionals.

The singer’s physique was launched to his household on Wednesday to be flown again to the UK.

This piece initially appeared as a part of NPR’s reside protection of the 2024 election. For extra election protection from the NPR Community head to our reside updates web page.

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina Democratic Lawyer Common Josh Stein has gained the state’s race for governor, based on a race name by the Related Press.

Stein defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whose marketing campaign cratered after CNN reported that he’d posted pro-slavery, pro-Nazi feedback on a pornographic web site. Robinson, who had been endorsed by former President Trump, has denied writing the posts – saying they had been faked – and is suing CNN for defamation.

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Stein will take over in January from two-term Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who was term-limited from working once more. He has been the state’s legal professional normal since 2017, and he beforehand served within the state Senate. Stein, 58, grew up in Chapel Hill, the place his father co-founded the state’s first built-in regulation agency. He shall be North Carolina’s first Jewish governor.

California voters have been requested to resolve ten statewide poll propositions within the November election.

The measures, as they usually do in California, lined a variety of topics embody bonds, same-sex marriage, involuntary servitude in prisons, hire management, well being care spending, felony penalties and minimal wage.

The outcomes under will likely be up to date.

About Proposition 2: Authorizes bonds for public faculty and group faculty services.

Proposition 2 would authorize $10 billion on the whole obligation bonds for public faculty and group faculty services, growing state prices of about $500 million yearly for 35 years to repay the bond. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

About Proposition 3: Constitutional proper to marriage.

Proposition 3 would amend the California Structure by eradicating language stating that marriage is barely between a person and a girl, and would acknowledge the basic proper to marry, no matter intercourse or race. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

About Proposition 4: Authorizes bonds for protected ingesting water, wildfire prevention, and defending communities and pure lands from local weather dangers.

Proposition 4 would authorize $10 billion on the whole obligation bonds for protected ingesting water, wildfire prevention, and defending communities and pure lands from local weather dangers, growing state prices of about $400 million yearly for 40 years to repay the bond. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

Proposition 5: Permits Native bonds for reasonably priced housing and public infrastructure with 55% voter approval.

Proposition 5 would enable native bonds for reasonably priced housing and public infrastructure with 55% voter approval; borrowing could be repaid with larger property taxes. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

About Proposition 6: Eliminates constitutional provision permitting involuntary servitude for incarcerated individuals.

Proposition 6 would amend the California Structure to take away the present provision that enables jails and prisons to impose involuntary servitude to punish crime (i.e., forcing inmates to work). NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

About Proposition 32: Raises minimal wage.

A sure “vote” on Proposition 32 would elevate the state minimal wage to $18 per hour in 2026. A “no” vote means the state minimal wage probably could be about $17 per hour in 2026. State and native authorities prices might improve or lower by as much as a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} yearly. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

About Proposition 33: Expands native governments’ authority to enact hire management on residential property.

Proposition 33 would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995 and develop native governments’ authority to enact hire management on residential property in California. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

About Proposition 34: Restricts spending of prescription drug revenues by sure well being care suppliers.

Proposition 34 would require sure well being care entities to observe new guidelines about how they spend income they earn from a federal drug low cost program. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

About Proposition 35: Supplies everlasting funding for Medi-Cal well being care providers.

Proposition 35 would offer everlasting funding for Medi-Cal well being care providers. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

Proposition 36: Permits felony costs and will increase sentences for sure drug and theft crimes.

Proposition 36 would enable felony costs for possessing sure medication and for thefts underneath $950 in California, if the defendant has two prior drug or theft convictions. NBCLA’s Conan Nolan explains.

How are propositions added to the California poll?

There are two methods a poll proposition can get on an election poll in California.

First, the prop may be positioned earlier than voters by the California State Legislature.

Second, a prop may be added by a petition, which may be introduced by anybody. If the petition receives sufficient signatures, it qualifies for the election poll.