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Us Mid-Term: How Election Results For Tropp || BBC news ||

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Us Mid-Term: How Election Results For Tropp It's taken almost two weeks, but most of the dust has finally settled from the 2018 mid-term elections. What initially appeared to be a mixed picture for Donald Trump and the Republicans has grown darker - but there is a Sunshine State silver lining. On the morning after polling, Mr Trump said the results showed almost a "complete victory". Even at the time that was difficult to square with the reality that his party had lost control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years. There was the prospect that the Republicans were going to make historic gains in the Senate, however. The president boasted of the possibility of a four-seat pick-up - which would build the largest majority for his party in more than a century. Such a historic win was not to be Here's a look at some of the most significant developments since the first round of election-night instant analyses, many of which were wr

Johnston Press: News Letter owner bought over by new company

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BBC news Front covers of various incarnations of the Belfast News Letter The media group which owns the oldest English language daily newspaper in the world  has been bought out hours after filing for administration. A newly formed company, JPIMedia, has bought Johnston Press, which publishes the News Letter and several weekly papers in Northern Ireland. JPIMedia has said the move ensures staff will keep their jobs. The newspaper group put itself up for sale last month, but said none of the offers it received were strong enough. It filed for administration on Saturday morning as part of a rescue plan aimed at ensuring its survival. David King, the new chief executive of JPIMedia, said the sale ensures "that operations can continue as normal, with employees' rights maintained, suppliers paid, and newspapers printed". Prior to the sale, The News Letter's deputy editor Ben Lowry wrote on Twitter that the paper was in good health and p