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To learn more about who Trump might select for key positions in his cabinet, you can read our explainer here.

You can also check out our story on what Trump’s return to the White House could mean for Palestinian and Lebanese civilians living under Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon.

We will be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s main events:

• In his first major staffing decision, Donald Trump has named campaign manager Susie Wiles – an influential figure credited with helping secure his return to the White House – as chief of staff.
• Final results continue to trickle in from Tuesday’s election, with Republicans winning a majority in the Senate while control of the House of Representatives has yet to be determined; Trump remains on track to win the popular vote.
• President Joe Biden has thanked Kamala Harris for an “inspiring campaign”, addressing the nation for the first time since Trump’s victory and pledging a peaceful and orderly transfer of power.
• A Reuters-Ipsos poll has found that a plurality of voters want Trump to prioritise immigration during his first 100 days in office; the Republican leaned into anti-immigrant rhetoric during his campaign and has promised to carry out mass deportations.

Trump’s win is being celebrated by Israel’s government – but not by Palestinians and others under Israeli attack. He has promised to bring peace, without saying how.

So, what could Trump’s return to the White House mean for Israel, Palestinians and the wider Middle East?

Find out in the Inside Story podcast below.

The appeal from a joint committee between Harris and the DNC comes as Republicans have taken back control of the Senate.

“Right now, there are a number of very important Senate races that are yet to be called or have been won by small margins and will be subject to legal challenges,” reads the fundraising email, which was shared by a New York Times reporter on social media.

It added that people cannot “throw up our hands when it’s time to roll up our sleeves”.

Harris’s campaign raised more than $1bn after she entered the presidential race in July.

Trump developed a close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first term in the White House.

While in office, the Republican president moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, upending decades of policy, recognised Israeli control over Syria’s occupied Golan Heights, and withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, all major Israeli demands.

Late last year, Trump had harsher-than-usual words for Netanyahu, saying the Israeli leader was “not prepared” for the October 7 attacks by Hamas on southern Israel.

But Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Trump on his victory and said the two had a “warm and cordial” phone call on Wednesday.

As Democrats struggle to understand what went wrong in an election that saw their Republican rivals make inroads with working-class and Latino voters, a Texas county on the border with Mexico that flipped decisively to Trump may offer clues.

“I think they forgot about the middle class,” Jorge Bazan, who works for the utility company in Rio Grande City, the seat of the most Hispanic county in the nation, told The Associated Press news agency. “People are suffering right now. Everything’s very expensive.”

Starr County, where the median household income is just $36,000, went to Trump by a margin of 16 points after more than a century of supporting Democratic presidential candidates.

“I was always a lifelong Democrat, but I decided to change to Republican with the political landscape that it is now,” another resident, 32-year-old Luis Meza, told AP.

“I felt that going Republican was the better choice, especially with the issues of immigration and everything like that that’s going on.”

As immigrant rights groups prepare for an onslaught of anti-immigrant measures under Trump, a Texas judge has ruled against a Biden administration programme offering some immigrants with spouses who are US citizens a pathway to citizenship.

US District Judge J Campbell Barker said the “Keeping Families Together” initiative, launched in August and applicable to about 500,000 undocumented immigrants, exceeded Biden’s executive authority.

The Trump campaign had called the effort “mass amnesty”.

We’ve published several new pieces of content covering all aspects of the US election.

Here are a few highlights:

• Explainer: Beyond abortion rights – Why did Kamala Harris lose women’s votes?
• Video: Biden urges Americans to ‘bring the temperature down’ after Trump win
• From the ground: ‘We warned you,’ Arab Americans in Michigan tell Kamala Harris
• Analysis: ‘Too early to rejoice’ – Why Russia isn’t celebrating Trump win, yet

And there’s plenty more here.

The NAACP, one of the largest Black civil rights organisations in the US, has condemned racist text messages reported to have been sent to Black people across the country after Trump’s election victory.

Black people in states including North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama and Pennsylvania reported receiving messages from an unknown source telling them “to report to a plantation to pick cotton”, the NAACP said in a statement.

“The unfortunate reality of electing a president who, historically, has embraced and at times encouraged hate, is unfolding before our eyes,” said Derrick Johnson, the group’s president.

The messages generally used a similar tone but varied in wording. Some instructed the recipient to show up at an address at a particular time “with your belongings”, while others didn’t include a location. Some of them mentioned the incoming presidential administration.

The FBI said it was in touch with the Justice Department on the messages, and the Federal Communications Commission said it was investigating the texts “alongside federal and state law enforcement”.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks hate groups in the US, also said it was looking into the matter.

“The text sent to young Black people, including students at Alabama State University and the University of Alabama, is a public spectacle of hatred and racism that makes a mockery of our civil rights history,” President and CEO Margaret Huang said in a statement.

The @NAACP will continue to advocate for policies that dismantle systemic injustices and strive to improve the lives of the Black people and all Americans. #Election2024

— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) November 6, 2024

Trump supporters who were convicted of crimes or are facing charges linked to the US Capitol riot are now hoping the Republican president-elect will pardon them once he takes office in January, US media outlets are reporting.

Lawyers for a man who entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021, during the insurrection, asked a court this week to postpone his case.

“Throughout his campaign, President-elect Trump made multiple clemency promises to the January 6 defendants, particularly to those who were nonviolent participants,” the lawyers said in a court filing, CNN reported.

“Mr. Carnell, who was an 18 year old nonviolent entrant into the Capitol on January 6, is expecting to be relieved of the criminal prosecution that he is currently facing when the new administration takes office.”

During his campaign, Trump suggested that he would pardon the January 6 rioters. “Oh, absolutely, I would. If they’re innocent, I would pardon them,” he said in July.

More than 1,488 people have been charged in relation to the attack on the Capitol, according to the Justice Department.

Private contractors that work with US agencies on immigration enforcement and detention facilities have seen their stock prices shoot up since Trump emerged as the winner of this week’s election.

The Republican has promised to begin a mass deportation campaign when he enters the White House early next year.

The GEO Group, a private prison contractor, saw its stock price surge by 59.3 percent over the last five days. CoreCivic, another firm that offers similar services, saw its price jump by 58.9 percent.

TSMC, a Taiwan-based semiconductor giant, has said that plans for investment in the US “remain unchanged” following Trump’s election victory.

The company has invested billions of dollars in US manufacturing operations, encouraged by a Democrat-led bill pouring investments into domestic semiconductor production.

Trump and his Republican allies have suggested they could repeal the law.

Elizabeth Warren has said that while the country must accept Trump’s victory, Democratic lawmakers should not “roll over and play dead”.  Instead, they must embrace an economically populist message in order to win over working-class voters.

In an op-ed in Time Magazine, the progressive US senator also said that Democrats must prepare to challenge Trump’s agenda in Congress, where Republicans are expected to secure a majority, and in the courts.

“If Democrats want to earn back the trust of working people and govern again, we need to convince voters we can—and will—unrig the economy,” she wrote.