Nine stories to know today, US first: Democrats lock in wide majorities, Trump and Vance on the Iran war's role in the midterms, Wall Street's big rally and oil's plunge, a historic Senate first, reported tanker fires in Hormuz, bomb threats on European flights and a new sentence for Joshua Wong.
File photoDemocrats will hold at least 54 Senate seats and a wide House majority after Tuesday's midterms, with Senate races in Alaska and Mississippi still undecided.
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File photoPresident Trump accepted his party's midterm defeat and acknowledged that the Iran war and high gas prices played a role, but said the war had to be fought.
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File photoVice President JD Vance blamed the war with Iran for Republican losses in the midterms, writing on X that 'the reason we lost is the war.'
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File photoThe Dow surged 3% on Wednesday, its best day since April 2025, as the clear midterm result and falling oil prices lifted Wall Street.
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File photoBrent crude fell almost 9% to settle at $94.62 a barrel, its third straight daily drop, as traders bet the US election results would speed efforts to end the Iran war.
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File photoDemocrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan, becoming the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. Senate.
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File photoIran's Revolutionary Guard said two oil tankers and a tugboat caught fire in separate incidents in the Strait of Hormuz, one after hitting a mine. The claims have not been independently verified.
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File photoA Dublin-to-Rome Aer Lingus flight landed safely at a French military air base after a bomb threat, as threats against commercial flights were also reported in several other European countries.
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File photoHong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law.
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