Lori Lundin

How a candidate wins the election is more complicated than just who gets the most votes. It comes down to what is called the Electoral College, where the winner is decided by which candidate gets the most votes in individual states. A deep dive into how the presidial election process works.

Donald Trump was elected as the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday. He is the first person convicted of a felony to win the White House and the first former president to regain power since 1892. We talk to John Mark Hansen, professor in political science at the University of Chicago.

What will a Donald Trump presidency look like in terms of foreign affairs. He has summarized his approach as peace through strength. The pre-election polls indicated it was a tight race. But in the end, American voters chose Donald Trump. A look at how Trump won a decisive vote.

International aid groups say Israel hasn’t met the U.S. demand deadline for allowing more humanitarian access into the Gaza Strip. This week, the outgoing Biden administration is expected to judge whether Israel has done enough to meet a demand issued last month to get more aid flowing into Gaza.

President Joe Biden welcomed President – elect Donald Trump to the White House Wednesday. Despite the unprecedented nature of the election, the Biden administration continued a long-standing tradition of the United States’ democratic process of a peaceful transfer of power.

The word unprecedented has been used a lot in analyzing the victory of President–elect Donald Trump. But U.S. history is replete with examples of what some think is unusual. We talk with presidential historian Lindsey Chervinsky, Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library.

This year's U.N. climate summit is struggling to focus minds on the health of the planet, with turbulent geopolitics, a confrontational host and the reelection of U.S. climate skeptic Donald Trump stealing the limelight. We talk with reporter Chermaine Lee, who is at the conference.

The Kremlin warned that U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied missiles would escalate international tensions. Biden’s shift in policy added a new and uncertain factor to the conflict.

Putin lowers Russia’s threshold for using nuclear weapons, after Ukraine fires U.S. supplied longer-range missiles into Russian territory as Kyiv marks 1,000 days since Moscow’s full –scale invasion. Moscow says Ukraine fired six American-supplied longer-range missiles at Russia’s Bryansk region.

British long-range missiles and U.S. land mines are now being used by Ukraine against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Ukraine has fired long-range British Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory for the first time. The U.S. and other foreign embassies close in Kyiv Wednesday over security threat.