Breaking: Court battles, climate talks and political shifts shake up America

Donald Trump and his reported chat with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine got messy when Russia said it never happened (which is odd since The Post wrote about it yesterday). Meanwhile Trump swept all swing-states leaving Democrats scratching their heads about their next-steps

The House race is still up-in-air with vote-counting going slow in places like California; Republicans need just 5 more wins to get control. The Senateʼs getting ready for some big-time changes too — theyʼre picking new leadership on wed and Trump wants to rush those tax-cuts through

The worlds climate-meetup kicked off in Azerbaijan today: its been rough going since last years promise to cut back on fossil-fuels hasnt really worked out. Bidenʼs green-rules might not last long since Trumpʼs win is making everyone nervous about whats coming next

Netanyahu seems pretty happy about Trumpʼs win while things get worse in Gaza — Israeli hits killed lots of people including 20 kids in a refugee-camp up north. Back home college kids are putting up pro-Hamas stuff which is causing some real problems

New York got hit with smoke from fires in New Jersey and Hudson Valley (a park worker died fighting one about 30 miles from Manhattan). The whole north-east hasnʼt seen rain in forever‚ and all those dry leaves arenʼt helping

Heres something different: a guy won his $70‚000 ring back in court after his wedding plans fell apart. The judge said from now on if you dont get married the ring goes back to whoever bought it — which makes sense if you think about it

The weatherʼs been super-weird lately; its way warmer than it should be (like 10 degrees above normal in more than 20 states). Scientists say its because of something happening way out in the Pacific Ocean thatʼs messing with our jet-stream