Democrats' midterm rout and what it means
Today is Saturday, November 7, 2026
Player controls
Story 1 of 26: Weather
weatherWeather
Stories
- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 60 and a low of 45, with clear skies.
- Tuesday's midterms were a sweeping rejection of the Trump administration. Heather Cox Richardson counts more than 12 million voters backing Democrats, with the Economist calling it the biggest congressional landslide in fifty years.
- Trump replaced Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller, the architect of his immigration crackdown. Trump says Wiles moves to his political operation. Democrats called Miller a dangerous extremist, while some Republicans praised him as a fighter.
- The Nasdaq fell 5.5% Thursday, a correction, wiping out about $2.5 trillion. Investors fear anti-data center measures will slow the AI buildout. Axios says Anthropic's IPO valuation talk has dropped from $2 trillion to about $1 trillion.
- Employers added 165,000 jobs in October, more than double what economists expected, and unemployment dipped to 4.1%. Wage growth ticked up but still trails inflation.
- Analysts expect the Trump administration to be more volatile in its final two years. Democrats are not unified on foreign policy, and Ukraine and Israel are contested.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing questions about his future, and impeachment is being talked about, after voters punished Republicans over gas prices and the Iran war.
- Senate Democrats are coordinating investigations and plan a sustained case on cost, chaos and corruption. A December 11 funding deadline could become a fight over blocking money for the Iran war.
- A federal judge temporarily halted construction of Trump's proposed triumphal arch for 14 days, hours after a commission approved it. Judge Tanya Chutkan cited national security claims and harm to local governments.
- Elon Musk says Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production in 2027 to make room for the Cybercab. Sales peaked below 40,000 in 2024, far short of the 250,000 a year Musk once envisioned.
- Hispanic voters moved hard toward Democrats. About seven in ten Texas Hispanics backed James Talarico. Democrats won every House district touching the Mexican border for the first time since 2008, and Black turnout rose.
- Senate Democrats want to avoid looking like they investigate everything and nothing. Their plan is a sustained narrative built on cost, chaos and corruption, with Jan.
- Two top Justice Department officials resigned, including the head of national security, and the US Attorney in South Florida left under pressure from leadership. Trump also reportedly demanded the Civil Rights chief be fired.
- The administration is invoking executive privilege again as it braces for Democratic oversight, testing limits of presidential secrecy. Legal experts say it lacks a larger strategy.
- Paraguay's Senate voted to impeach President Santiago Peña, who faces a criminal investigation tied to the collapse of a major bank he had business links to.
- Votes are still being counted in Mississippi, where incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith leads Democrat Scott Colom by a narrow margin with most ballots in. CNN has not called it.
- Sixty-seven US counties now have no general Medicare Advantage plans for 2027 after having at least one this year. Up to 2.9 million members may be affected, mostly in rural areas.
- A judge blocked a Medicaid rule that would have forced medically frail recipients to prove they cannot work. Bundled with the Medicare caregiver program, it's a health-policy day.
- A Wisconsin infant became the third US measles death this week, and Washington reported the first US bird flu death of 2026. The FDA plans to update infant formula nutrition rules for the first time in nearly 30 years.
- From December 11, a law bans hemp products with more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container. That would sweep in many non-psychoactive gummies, tinctures and beverages.
- Dozens of counties will have no Medicare Advantage plans next year. Those folks will drop back to original Medicare, but they'll need a separate drug plan, or they could face big extra costs.
- A court in Kenya has handed a cult leader a 200-year prison term. He was convicted over the deaths of 191 people, nearly all of them children, tied to a regime of abuse and forced fasting.
- A London jury found Russell Brand guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, after a four-week trial.
- LIV Golf is winding down after five years and roughly $5 billion in Saudi funding, with liquidation of assets beginning after a bankruptcy hearing. Players who left the PGA Tour now face an unclear path back.
- Jacksonville beat Baltimore 33 to 10 in Baltimore, and now has the top playoff odds in the league. The Ravens are 4 and 5 with their starting quarterback out.
- And that's your world for today. The full stories and the links are waiting in the app. Tap through, bookmark what matters, and share what's worth sharing. And if you want to see what stuck, take today's quiz in the app: five quick questions. And if Hark is making your mornings a little better, share it with a friend. It's the best way to help us grow. I'll see you again tomorrow morning. Until then, have a great day.