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The United States woke on Wednesday morning to the news that Donald Trump had won a second term, becoming the nation’s 47th president. And as the day after the 2024 election continued, residents across the DMV adjusted to a historic victory, and what a return to a Trump White House could mean over the next four years.

D.C. police arrested a teenage boy in the brutal beating of a man last month that’s being investigated as a hate crime.

Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the race to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday. Our coverage of the 2024 general election continues on The News4 Rundown.

Many of Harris’s supporters returned to Howard University on Wednesday afternoon to hear her speak. Students said Harris’ focus on resiliency resonated with them and helped them think about the future. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

Democrat Eugene Vindman has won Virginia’s most competitive congressional race, defeating his opponent in a blow to the GOP’s hopes of flipping the open House seat. In Virginia’s 7th District, Vindman defeated Republican Derrick Anderson Wednesday by a close margin after conservatives targeted the House seat. Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger...

Any president of the United States has enormous power when it comes to D.C., because it’s not a state. Trump has threatened to “take over” the city many times on the campaign trail. Here’s what that would mean for the District.

University of Maryland government and politics professor Breanna Gray spoke with News4’s Molette Green about what took President-elect Donald Trump over the edge to win the presidency again. She pointed to the gender divide, the rural/urban divide and the composition of voters racially.

After heightened security and fears of possible violence, the Metropolitan Police Department told News4 they made no arrests overnight.

A Michigan man who showed up to the visitors’ center of the U.S. Capitol on Election Day smelling like fuel and carrying a torch and a flare gun also brought an apparent manifesto about war in the Middle East, police say.

A 53-year-old woman from Germantown, Maryland, and a 40-year-old woman from Philadelphia were charged for an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the 53-year-old’s ex-boyfriend, according to police.

We’re following the latest election results in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, plus former President Donald Trump’s win. Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak to supporters at Howard University at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Follow live updates below.

Vice President Kamala Harris chose not to address voters gathered at Howard University in D.C. on election night. As former President Donald Trump took a commanding lead, the mood changed and the crowd thinned.

The amendment says the state may not interfere with that right “unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”