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Last updated Friday, November 6, 2026 — 3:00 AM EST
Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, resigned Thursday, the first senior official to step down after Democrats’ midterm sweep.
Democrat Scott Colom leads Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by roughly 1,800 votes in Mississippi with thousands of mail and provisional ballots outstanding, setting up a tense multi-day count.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told staff on Wednesday he would not run for minority leader after Republicans lost their majority in the midterm elections. The party elects new leadership on November 10.
Vice President JD Vance said the war with Iran was ’the real reason’ Republicans lost the midterms, breaking with President Trump’s stance that the conflict was worth its cost as the 2028 cycle opens.
US equity futures erased steep early losses overnight as the Democratic sweep in the midterm elections was judged largely priced in, with tech earnings next in focus.
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated former representative Mike Rogers in Michigan, becoming the first Muslim American elected to the Senate, CBS News projected.
Democrats took the House and seven Senate seats from the Republican Party in the 2026 midterm elections, returning the party to full control of Congress for the first time since 2023.
CBS News projected that Democratic state Representative James Talarico defeated Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, giving Democrats their first Texas Senate seat since 1988.
