VIDEO: VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren looks at the results of the 2018 Midterms. What do the results mean for the Trump administration’s political and international agenda? Guests include: spokesperson for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Justin Sayfie; former Florida Congressman Patrick Murphy and Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On November 8, 1900, the author of Gone with the Wind , Margaret Mitchell, is born in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her writing career as a journalist, but after an injury, she devoted herself to fiction largely about the South before and during the Civil War. Gone with the Wind sold over 1 million copies within six months of its publication in 1936. Eight million copies had been sold by the time Mitchell died in 1949. To date, over 25 million copies have been sold. The book was so popular that it was made into a classic 1939 movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

World leaders have been reacting to the U.S. midterm election results, as America’s partners and rivals try to decipher what the Democratic Party’s new majority in the House of Representatives could mean for the future of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda over the coming years .

China has pledged to use its army of consumers to boost imports dramatically over the next decade or so – a move that is aimed in part at addressing complaints about its trade surplus and unfair trade practices .

President Donald Trump forced his controversial Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign on Wednesday, setting the stage for a potential showdown with newly energized Congressional Democrats over the investigation of Russia’s suspected involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

A Syrian artist draws sketches of colorless, broken and undefined features in an attempt to cope with the horror and trauma of his time in prison, where he was subject to constant torture and abuse by Syrian government forces .