Federal health officials also offered two new ways to shorten quarantine periods. Those without symptoms may end quarantine after seven days if they are tested for the virus and receive a negative result, or after 10 days without a negative test.

“We can safely reduce the length of quarantine, but accepting that there is a small residual risk that a person who is leaving quarantine early could transmit to someone else if they became infected,”

Some patients may not develop symptoms until two weeks after exposure, and even longer in a very small fraction of cases. Infected individuals may pass the virus to others before they develop symptoms; recent studies show they are most infectious two days before symptoms begin, and for about five days afterward.

President Trump is signaling that he may try to become only the second president in American history to win another term after being defeated.

Mr. Trump has been laying plans to run again in 2024 with a kickoff as early as this month or possibly on his successor’s Inauguration Day.

“It’s been an amazing four years,” he told guests in remarks posted online by a member of the Republican National Committee. “We’re trying to do another four years. Otherwise, I’ll see you in four years.”

A Texas man who appeared to claim on social media accounts to be the “Trump train” driver who rammed a vehicle last week in a Joe Biden campaign caravan also had been videotaped driving through Black Lives Matter protesters in Texas this summer.

President Donald Trump has hailed the harassing drivers as “patriots.” Cisneros retweeted Trump’s message “I love Texas” over a video of the highway confrontation.

The black Ford F-150 pickup that collided with the Biden campaign car appears to be the same one Cisneros drove through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in San Antonio in June. 

Louisiana voters passed a ballot measure in Tuesday’s election that enshrines anti-abortion language in the state’s constitution, The Associated Press projected. 

Amendment 1 adds language to the Louisiana Constitution stating that nothing in it “shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.”

state courts would not be able to declare that abortion restrictions violate the Louisiana Constitution. Any restrictions would be fair game, from limits on when a woman can have the procedure to an outright ban. 

A Florida ballot initiative that will gradually raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour is projected to pass, according to The Associated Press. 

Amendment 2, needed at least 60% approval to pass under the state constitution. 

wage of $8.56 will rise to $10 next year. It will increase $1 each year thereafter until it hits $15 in 2026. After that, it will adjust annually according to an inflation index.

Oregon became the first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all illegal drugs after voters passed a ballot initiative in Tuesday’s election.

Oregonians can no longer be criminally charged for possessing small amounts of illegal drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine. The punishment for these felony and misdemeanor drug possession offenses will now be a simple $100 fine. The initiative also redirects some taxes raised through sales of legal marijuana to finance a new voluntary treatment system for drug users.

his marks the nation’s most significant development toward ending the 50-year war on drugs launched by President Richard Nixon.

Republican U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall held off state Sen. Barbara Bollier to win an open U.S. Senate seat in Kansas, The Associated Press projected Tuesday night, spoiling Democratic hopes of an upset in the deep-red state where they haven’t won a Senate contest since 1932.

Marshall will fill the seat Sen. Pat Roberts (R) held for more than two decades. Roberts’ decision to retire at the end of this term set off a heated GOP primary race to replace him, especially after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided against a run. Marshall defeated former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an anti-immigration hard-liner whose campaign Democrats tried to boost in hopes it would help them turn the seat blue.

Democratic upset hopes were driven in part by President Donald Trump’s declining support in a state he won by more than 20 points four years ago. Polling averages ahead of Election Day showed Trump barely above 50% among Kansas voters, at times holding a single-digit lead over Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Bollier, meanwhile, crafted a moderate campaign platform that went heavy on some Democratic priorities ― she advocated for adding a public option to the Affordable Care Act and boosting public education funding ― while avoiding issues like abortion and gun control. Marshall, who opposes abortion rights, focused on the GOP’s confirmation of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the repeal of Obamacare and Trump’s efforts to build a wall on the southern border.

Democrats will hold on to control of the House of Representatives.

Democrats will retain control of the House, and will likely add a small number of seats to their existing 232-197-1 majority. 

That will mean that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will likely retain control of the chamber, and that Democrats will play a major role in governing, no matter who wins the White House.

Madison Cawthorn, a 25-year-old Trump-loving conservative, is projected to win the North Carolina House seat once held by Mark Meadows, now White House chief of staff.

Cawthorn’s campaign issued a statement calling out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive firebrand from New York City who at 31 is currently the youngest member of Congress. He had previously said that Ocasio-Cortez’s rise inspired him to run.

Cawthorn, who became paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident in 2014, has been a controversial candidate. During the campaign, he was accused of sexual misconduct, an allegation he said was politically motivated. He acknowledging the encounter but said he was acting “just in a flirtatious way.”

“We are in the grip of the gravitational forces of democracy, which are pulling us toward the results.”

“Either we’re gonna get sucked over the event horizon into a well of corruption that not even votes can escape from, or we’ll use this gravity well to slingshot and pick up speed and go off in an entirely new direction — maybe that planet where Baby Yoda lives. He’s cute.”

applauding a caravan of his supporters that reportedly harassed a bus of Joe Biden campaign staffers

“The actions actions you take today will determine what kind of country we decide to be.”

“decide as a nation who we really are.”

“Make a decision about what you’re going to do about it and then go do it — our democracy depends on it,”

CNN’s Don Lemon questioned his own network’s choice to air a speech President Donald Trump delivered at his campaign’s Virginia headquarters on Tuesday while voters were still casting their ballots, calling the president’s remarks “propaganda.”

not much of what he said, if anything, was true,” Lemon said, after fact-checking multiple components of Trump’s remarks. 

“losing is never easy”

Donald Trump’s daughter bragged about her father changing Washington and said “there’s more to come.”

“Let me just tell you, Washington has not changed Donald Trump. Donald Trump has changed Washington,” the president’s daughter boasted to supporters at a rally in Wisconsin.

“And there’s more to come,” she promised.

Kanye West’s first presidential campaign ended with him voting for the first time ever.

“Today I am voting for the first time in my life for the President of the United States, and it’s for someone I truly trust...me.”

“I can’t blame somebody for not supporting my perspective if they have literally never heard it.”

we “don’t typically see very many Democrats,” and how he manages to stay so unflappable in his calm delivery of the facts.

Most of the viewers of Fox News don’t agree with me politically and definitely the people kind of controlling the content on that network, in my view, aren’t always being fair.”

Kayleigh McEnany lambasted Joe Biden’s campaign for saying that “under no scenario” would Trump be declared the victor on election night.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany made a bold prediction on Tuesday morning, declaring that President Donald Trump’s campaign “believes that tonight will be a landslide.” 

“under no scenario will Donald Trump be declared a victor on election night.” 

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the polls look very different this year. Photos show winding lines, spaced-out voting booths and unusual face masks as people exercise their right to participate in American democracy.

Eboni Price and Cornelius Ates ride horses to a polling station on Election Day in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 3, 2020.

The Los Pasajeros mariachi band plays for voters at a polling place at Dodger Stadium on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Los Angeles. 

Republican Tommy Tuberville, the former coach of Auburn University’s football team, was projected to easily defeat Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones to pick up a Senate seat long targeted by the GOP, according to The Associated Press.

Tuberville ran as a standard-issue Republican, closely aligning himself with the president. “I’m going to stand with President Trump to finish the border wall, cut your taxes and protect life,” he said in his final ad of the campaign.

He has relied almost totally on the endorsement of President Donald Trump and Alabama’s heavy Republican lean — Trump won the state by 30 percentage points in 2016 — to win the election, rarely campaigning and declining to debate Jones.

Last month, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said he believed President Donald Trump to be a moral and ethical man.

Gardner, 46, endorsed Trump once he became president and enthusiastically backed his agenda, staying quiet even when other GOP senators spoke out against his worst behavior.

Gardner claimed he would protect people with preexisting conditions, citing a bill he introduced with other vulnerable GOP senators designed to give them political cover on the issue ahead of the November election.

The 30-year-old, who beat Republican Steve Washington in Delaware, said she hopes her win shows LGBTQ kids “that our democracy is big enough for them.”

Sarah McBride made history on Tuesday night when she became the highest-ranking openly trans official in America after winning a seat in Delaware’s state Senate.

“Sarah’s overwhelming victory is a powerful testament to the growing influence of transgender leaders in our politics and gives hope to countless trans people looking toward a brighter future.”