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“No matter what happens,” said Beth Dabruzzo, who hand-wrote thousands of postcards to voters encouraging them to vote for Democrats, “I literally could not have done anything more than I did.”https://nyti.ms/2Dte4OO 

A worldwide strike by antiquarian booksellers against an Amazon subsidiary proved successful after 2 days, with the retailer apologizing and saying it would cancel the actions that prompted the protesthttps://nyti.ms/2Ds0Gua 

“This was a wipeout for Republicans in the Northeast”https://nyti.ms/2Qqo3Hl 

A city in India broke a world record with more than 300,000 Diwali lamps illuminating the streetshttps://nyti.ms/2QtfoDZ 

A man who destroyed President Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a pickax in July reached a plea deal requiring him to pay nearly $9,500 for the marker’s replacementhttps://nyti.ms/2DtbY1q 

Two years after a divided country elected President Trump, voters returned to the polls and delivered a cascade of contradictory results that added up to a portrait of a nation at odds with itselfhttps://nyti.ms/2Dr6UdZ 

A small number of rich and internationally connected cities keep widening their economic advantages over everywhere elsehttps://nyti.ms/2DpQ9jn 

The new discovery indicates that people in Borneo were already making figurative images at the same time as people in Europe — or perhaps even thousands of years beforehandhttps://nyti.ms/2Qx9OAQ 

Google employs around 7,000 in New York, and a space that size could allow it to more than double its local work forcehttps://nyti.ms/2DtfdG8 

The White House suspended credentials for CNN's Jim Acosta and made a false claim against him after a clash with the presidenthttps://nyti.ms/2QrdW57 

A former U.S. representative from Texas was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay about $1 million in restitution after being convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for charity and using it to pay for personal expenseshttps://nyti.ms/2DsQq4L 

More than 150 L.G.B.T. candidates, a record, were elected in the U.S., and Massachusetts voted to uphold a state law protecting transgender people from discriminationhttps://nyti.ms/2Dt9CQ8 

In life, the Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof claimed many titles: “America’s pimp” and the “Trump of Pahrump.” In death, he earned a new title: Nevada state assemblyman.https://nyti.ms/2QrV4Df 

How the GOP lost the House: Republicans were mired in infighting over messaging and money while Democrats united in a focus on health carehttps://nyti.ms/2QpptBW 

Midterm election coverage delivers a ratings surge, with Fox News in the lead among total viewershttps://nyti.ms/2DsBcgn