Foreign Interference Recap We look at the various threats sent to polling places on election day this week, as well as the extent to which foreign actors tried to interfere with the presidential election. Read more on NPR

Officials say Qatar has decided to suspend its mediation efforts on Gaza Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel, officials said Saturday. The announcement comes after growing frustration with the lack of progress on a deal. Read more on NPR

Donald Trump wins Nevada Former President Donald Trump has won Nevada’s six electoral votes, according to a race call from the Associated Press. This is the first time in 20 years that Nevada has elected a Republican in a presidential election. Read more on NPR

Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe There’s an area in China that’s home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it…

Opinion: Witnessing my daughters’ first votes was a moment to remember NPR’s Scott Simon accompanied his daughters to the polls, as they voted in their first presidential election. Read more on NPR

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