Candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, and for mayor of New York City, campaigned in the final hours before the Nov. 4 election.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth touted the new name, the Department of War, saying "the era of the Department of Defense is over."

Welcome to Firstpost America. US President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned federal troop deployment to San Francisco after widespread protests and calls from tech leaders, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

NEW JERSEY - Voters in New Jersey are deciding who will succeed Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, with Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli vying for the governorship in a race that could signal early voter sentiment toward President Donald Trump and Republicans. Track real-time election results for the race below.

Christopher Hart, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University in the U.K., noticed something early on about how U.S. President Donald Trump communicates: The man loves to point, and it has a surprisingly powerful effect on his followers. (More on that later.)

The US president says: "On the scale from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12." Beijing says the results were "hard won".

Watch live as Trump boards Air Force One to leave Washington, D.C. for Halloween weekend in Palm Beach. It's the opening for social season at the president's Mar-a-Lago.