It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.

“The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself,” observes the loyal-to-a-fault Macduff in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “consisting of the soul’s slow agonizing descent.”

In the wake of Democratic voters in cities and suburbs around the country staying home or trending right, resulting in big swings to Donald Trump almost uniformly, analysts and commentators have cast about for answers. We can posit at least one relatively straightforward one: lack of housing.

Matt Gaetz, the House-wrecking Florida congressman, cannot be U.S. attorney general. No way at all. We know that this isn’t a joke because Donald Trump published the proposed nomination on his Truth Social at 3:24 Wednesday afternoon, surprising flabbergasted Democrats and Republicans.

U.S. intelligence community warnings, nongovernment think tank analysis and international press reporting since summer have painted a picture of aggressive Russian, Chinese and Iranian spy services’ covert influence operations to manipulate U.S. voter choices and sow discord in the citizenry over hot button issues — immigration, inflation, ballot security, gun laws.

News outlets called the last outstanding U.S. Senate race this week for Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona. That gives Republicans a 53-47 edge in the chamber after picking up four seats.

After months of obsessing over the presidential contest, it was jarring to tune in to the annual Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery and see President Joe Biden center stage. The all-but-forgotten president is too literally a lame duck; his stride has given way to a shuffle. He looks lost. He tried to project force in his tribute, but you braced for the verbal trips.

After the rhetoric comes the reality. For anyone who thought Donald Trump’s immigration talk was just stirring up fear to get elected, his first appointments should make clear he is going to work to make it happen.

November is generally the month where we think about and express gratitude. Despite the somewhat checkered history of Thanksgiving Day, the fact that we have earmarked a day on which we give thanks for what we have rather than complaining about what we don’t is probably a good thing.

I’m a proud, first-generation, college-educated and gay Mexican American with undocumented family in the United States, including a mother who was previously deported to Mexico, and I experienced homelessness as a child. I am everything Democrats claim to support, right?

The week after he won the White House, Donald Trump announced his national security advisor. It was 2016 and the pick was Mike Flynn, a man with an oddly pro-Russian worldview who only would last three weeks in the role, having lied to the vice president about talking to the Russians. Flynn was also under investigation for being an unregistered foreign agent. Later convicted of crimes, Flynn was ultimately pardoned by Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump is moving aggressively on mass deportation, installing two of the most strident anti-immigrant voices in his circle in key positions.

Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the presidential election was a stunning rebuke by the American people of the policies and leadership of the Biden-Harris administration.

In winning the solid majority of the voting public, Donald Trump would have added to that total plenty of non-citizen, undocumented immigrants had they been able to cast ballots (and no, there’s no evidence that non-citizens voted) because he pledged his deportation plans would ship out the bad people, the murderers, rapists and drug lords.

The 2024 election results make clear: The Asian American electorate has shifted further right. The trend portends a new future for this voting bloc that bodes well for the Republican Party. And it has been brewing for years.

As the dust settles on the election, the pro-choice majority of Americans have spoken. Voters in New York, despite a swing towards Donald Trump, overwhelmingly approved ballot Proposal 1, enshrining in the state Constitution a right to exercise reproductive freedoms, despite somewhat being vaguely worded and confusing.

We don’t yet know exactly how many votes Republicans will control in the U.S. Senate, but control they will — which means Brooklyn’s own, Democrat Chuck Schumer, will no longer be majority leader.

Much will be studied, analyzed and written for years to come about why Americans voted an openly authoritarian leader back into power in apparently greater margins than they did eight years ago. What’s clearer and more important at this moment is what millions of our fellow citizens did by putting Donald Trump back in the White House.

When it came to their ballot choices on Tuesday, many of the same women who voted to enshrine reproductive rights in their state constitutions also voted to return to the White House the man responsible for stripping them of that right, Donald Trump.