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In securing two non-consecutive terms as president, Donald Trump has achieved a rare feat.

Only one other person has won two non-consecutive terms as US head of state: Grover Cleveland, who served as America's 22nd and 24th president. Out of the 10 one-term presidents in US history, Trump and Cleveland are the only two that have ever mounted a successful comeback.

Cleveland, a Democrat, served his first term from 1885 to 1889. Then, like Trump in 2020, he lost a re-election bid and spent four years out of office.

Four years later, he mounted another election campaign and won, returning to the White House in 1893.

Some have noted that Cleveland's career was also rocked by scandal. But it’s hard to draw any further comparison between Trump and Cleveland, who served in a very different political climate.

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As is diplomatic tradition, congratulations poured in for Donald Trump from all over the world after he was declared the winner of the election. Let's take a look at some of Trump's closest friends and allies:

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel: "History's greatest comeback"

• Trump was said to have been disappointed when Netanyahu congratulated Biden's win in 2020, but maintains they have "a very good relationship"

Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary: "A much needed victory for the World!"

• Earlier this month, Orbán said: “We will open several bottles of champagne if Trump is back". Trump previously described Orbán - who is accused of authoritarian leadership - as "one of the most respected men" in the world

Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy: "Good job, Mr President"

• Meloni called Trump on Wednesday night to congratulate him and confirm their "deep and historic friendship", she wrote on X, external

Javier Milei, President of Argentina: "You can count on Argentina to make America great again"

• Speaking about Milei in a rally in March, Trump said: "He’s a big Trump guy. He loves Trump, I love him, because he loves Trump."

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We've been getting a lot of reaction from world leaders to Donald Trump's re-election but we're yet to hear from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

However, Russian news agency Interfax, citing the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, reports, external that the subject "may be touched upon" at a conference later today.

The press secretary reportedly also hasn't ruled out contact between Trump and Putin ahead of the inauguration.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov previously said he wasn't aware of plans for Putin to congratulate Trump.

"Don't forget that [America] is an 'unfriendly country' which is directly and indirectly involved in a war against our state," he added yesterday.

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Nato chief Mark Rutte has been speaking with media this morning ahead of a European leaders' summit in Budapest today.

Referring to North Korea's involvement in the war in Ukraine and Russia's delivery of technology to North Korea, Rutte says he looks "forward to sitting down with Donald Trump" to examine such threats "collectively".

He adds the partnership between the two countries poses "a threat not only to the European part of Nato but also to the US mainland."

At the end of last month, Nato said for the first time that North Korean troops had been deployed to Russia, something the security bloc has called a "significant escalation".

Adam Easton
Warsaw Correspondent

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election will have serious consequences for European security, but he added he could not predict precisely what those consequences would be.

“The US elections will have serious consequences for European policy, especially in the area of security,” he told a news conference ahead of his flight to Budapest for a European leaders' summit.

“For us, it is very important, I want to emphasize this, Poland has clearly defined interests,” he said.

The Polish prime minister said his main message to other European leaders would be “to consolidate transatlantic relations”, adding that he had “good personal relations” with Trump during his first term when he was the President of the European Council.

He described Trump as a “demanding” partner who believed in utilising “unpredictability” in politics both towards his allies and enemies.

"We must be prepared for a change compared to Joe Biden’s presidency. Does this mean – for us in the key issues of security, Ukraine, Russia, war – an about turn in Washington? I don’t know anyone who could precisely answer this question,” he added.

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Moving away from the US and over to Hungary - where leaders are meeting to discuss Europe's security challenges.

Ahead of the summit, Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo told reporters that European countries needed to send a clear message to the US and the incoming Trump administration that they would support Ukraine as much as needed.

Finland, which is an EU member, joined NATO following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The war in Gaza and Lebanon is also expected to be discussed. Irregular migration and economic security are also said to be on the agenda.

The fifth meeting, external of the European Political Community in Budapest will include 47 heads of state and government from countries including the UK and Ukraine as well as EU institutions

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During his campaign, Donald Trump made a few promises - some more concrete than others - about who he wants to see in his administration. Here's a look at who he might bring in to help him in his second term:

Susie Wiles: She's seen as playing an instrumental part in Trump's presidential race, and could be his next chief of staff. Former domestic policy adviser Brooke Rollins is also considered a potential for the role.

Robert F Kennedy Jr: Trump has said - if elected - the former independent candidate and vaccine sceptic can "go wild" with food and medicines. Though it's not guaranteed that the Senate would confirm Kennedy in a cabinet post.

Mike Pompeo: The former CIA director and secretary of state in Trump's last presidency is dubbed as a contender for defence secretary.

Ric Grenell: He served as US ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence in Trump's last administration. He's considered a contender for secretary of state or national security advisor.

Elon Musk: We've seen and heard a lot of Elon Musk - the world's richest man - this election. Trump hinted at handing Musk a non-Cabinet role in his administration to help eliminate government waste in what the billionaire referred to as the “Department of Government Efficiency".

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Trump’s thinking towards war has "matured" since his first term in office, one Republican congressman tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

Pete Sessions says Trump's second term will be different than his first after "learning some things he would now do differently".

He says Trump has "matured some of his thinking" on Ukraine and he is "for stability not chaos".

Meanwhile, Sessions adds, he will be "disciplined enough" to offer direction on key policies.

On conflict in the Middle East, he says Trump will be "very interested in listening to [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu" and adds that Trump is "smart enough not to become engaged in a war”.

Hannah Miller
Political correspondent

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A senior UK government minister denies that past comments by Labour cabinet ministers will pose a challenge in building a relationship with Donald Trump.

“If it all worked on that basis he wouldn’t have had JD Vance as his running mate," Pat McFadden tells the Today programme.

He points to previous comments by the vice-president-elect, who questioned whether Trump was “America’s Hitler”.

"The truth is if Donald Trump didn’t speak to people who said things like that there would be a lot of people he wouldn’t be speaking to," says McFadden.

“The alliance between Britain and the United States is much more important than all that.”

Nevada and Arizona are the two swing states left to declare their results - with votes still being tallied.

The other five - Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - have all been taken by Donald Trump. Altogether, the seven make up 93 electoral votes.

Currently, with 94% of expected votes counted, Trump has 51.0% and Kamala Harris has 47.2% in Nevada.

And, with 70% of expected votes counted, the Republican has 52.3% and Harris has 46.8% in Arizona.

We will be posting the final results from both states on this page.

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Business reporter, BBC News, Singapore

As investors digest Donald Trump’s election victory, the US central bank is set to announce its latest decision on interest rates around 14:00 EST (19:00 GMT).

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut its key rate for the second month in a row as the pace of price rises eases.

Fed officials will also be grappling with concerns that the president-elect’s policies, including higher import taxes, may trigger more inflation.

Trump's win on Wednesday sent the US dollar soaring by about 1.65% against other currencies, including the pound, euro and Japanese yen.

Trump has also said he may want to have a say in the central bank’s decisions, potentially threatening its independence. In last term in office, he criticised Chair Jerome Powell after rates were hiked to tackle inflation.

Meanwhile, the UK's latest interest rate announcement is due at 12:00 GMT - a cut to 4.75% is expected

The Justice Department, and US special counsel Jack Smith, are in discussions about winding down federal prosecutions against Donald Trump, the BBC's US news partner CBS reports.

It says sources cite a longstanding policy of not prosecuting a sitting president.

Smith is currently leading multiple cases against Trump, who will become the first president to take office while several cases against him are pending.

These include a case over alleged mishandling of classified documents, and one over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

• Read more about the state of play in those cases

Republican commentator Scott Jennings earlier spoke to our colleagues on Radio 4's Today programme.

He says the "political information complex" in the US - citing the media, political parties and other institutions - are "totally disconnected from the people that just elected Donald Trump."

"We do need a robust, trusted, free press in this country - but I think that there has to be a reckoning about why it is that half the country is so disconnected from the people who are ostensibly in charge [of] setting the contours of our political conversations,"

Earlier, Jennings described the election results as the "revenge" of the working class.

"I'm interpreting the results tonight as revenge of just the regular old working-class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to," he told CNN.

Now we know Donald Trump is set to become the next US President, and that Republicans have retaken control of the Senate - there's one big race left to follow: the House of Representatives.

If Republicans take control of the House, that would put the party in control of Congress and the White House. Our US partner CBS says the race is leaning Republican - but we won't know until the remaining seats are called.

For context: Congress is the legislative body, which is split into the 100-member upper chamber called the Senate and the 435-member lower chamber called the House.

Every seat in the House - which was Republican-controlled before the election - is up for grabs. A party needs 218 seats for a majority.

• Here are some of the races that have yet to be called

What will actually change when Donald Trump's term begins?

The Americast team assemble to separate the fact from fiction - will he really declassify the JFK files and end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office?

Meanwhile, Justin Webb reports from Harris HQ on what the mood was like in the losing camp.

Listen to the latest Americast election results special here.

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Bernie Sanders - the veteran senator who tried to be the Democrats' presidential nominee in 2016 and 2020 - was re-elected to a fourth term in the Senate on Tuesday.

And he had plenty to say about the Democrats' failure to defeat Donald Trump for the presidency.

"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them," he says.

He adds that 60% of Americans are living "paycheck to paycheck" while America has "more income and wealth inequality than ever before".

Sanders mentions health care, saying America "remains the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right", and concludes: "While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change."

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While Donald Trump has secured his route back to the White House, he is not officially president yet - and it will take more than two months before he is back in the Oval Office.

The US handover of power is very different to how things are done in the UK. In July, Sir Keir Starmer was installed as prime minister within hours of polls closing and before Rishi Sunak had even packed up his belongings.

Across the Atlantic, it all takes a bit longer.

Trump won't have his inauguration until 20 January and Joe Biden will remain in power until then - though he will be severely limited politically in what he can do.

Four years after leaving the White House, Donald Trump is set to move back in, after millions of Americans voted to give him a second chance.

Away from the presidential race, Republicans have also retaken control of the US Senate, after flipping seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana.

Several races for seats in the House of Representatives remain undecided, but its control is also currently leaning Republican, according to our US partner CBS News.

If successful, that would put the party in control of the House, the Senate and the White House when Trump is sworn in in January.

All in, a clean sweep for the Republicans is looking likely after a hotly-contested campaign.

• Head here for a full list of the results state-by-state in all three races

In case you missed it, Kamala Harris gave her concession speech at Howard University in Washington DC on Wednesday.

While promising to help with the transition of power, she urged her supporters to "never give up the fight for our democracy."

You can watch a clip above.

The presidential result is a foregone conclusion but it will be a while until we know the final tally.

We're also still waiting to find out exactly what the Senate and House will look like - though we already know the Republicans are on course to control both.

Stay with BBC for the latest results and tallies.