They split the ticket. Meet the abortion rights voters who also went for Trump Data from a large survey of U.S. voters found that a significant subset of voters who supported abortion rights ballot measures also voted for Trump. Read more on NPR

The transition to the Trump administration is underway. But it’s already behind The presidential election is over, and the complicated two-month sprint has begun to hand over the levers of power from one administration to the next. Read more on NPR

New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians. Read more on NPR

From Taiwan to technology, China ponders what’s to come under Trump 2.0 Chinese business people may be able to find creative ways to avoid U.S. tariffs, but for Beijing, its concerns for the incoming Trump presidency go beyond trade. Read more on NPR

2020’s debunked election fraud claims are coming back due to Trump’s 2024 victory Election deniers have spent the past four years focused on false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it raised similar alarms about fraud — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in. Read more on NPR

Mail ballot challenges are dropped in Pennsylvania shortly after Election Day Within two days after Election Day, right-wing activists and two Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania withdrew thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ absentee ballot applications. Read more on NPR

Why it’s so hard for parents to let their kid quit Piano lessons and soccer practice can encourage grit. But if your kid isn’t into it, it can become a stress-inducing obligation. Here’s how to have hard conversations with your child about quitting. Read more on NPR