Democrats won control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections, ending unified Republican control of Congress for the last two years of President Donald Trump's term. The Senate count stands at 54 Democratic seats, including independents who caucus with the party, and 44 Republican, with two races still uncalled as of Thursday.
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Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, won Michigan's U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mike Rogers by about eight percentage points and becoming the first Muslim elected to the Senate. El-Sayed is 42, a physician and epidemiologist, and the son of Egyptian immigrants.
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A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked construction of President Donald Trump's planned triumphal arch in Washington. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a 14-day restraining order barring any construction, excavation or related work at or near Memorial Circle, the site on the Virginia side of the Potomac River near Memorial Bridge.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that he is commuting the death sentences of all 548 people on the state's death row to life without the possibility of parole. He made the announcement in an open letter released by his office, in the last months of his term.
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A 7-month-old child from an Amish family in rural Lewis County, New York, has died of measles, the first known measles death in New York State in more than 30 years. The New York State Department of Health and Lewis County Public Health announced it in a joint statement on Monday.
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US stocks fell sharply on Thursday, with technology and AI shares taking the worst of it, a day after a post-election rally. The Nasdaq Composite closed down 5.5%, its worst day since the April 2025 tariff crash.
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Nithya Raman, a Los Angeles City Councilmember and democratic socialist, has defeated Mayor Karen Bass in the race for mayor of Los Angeles. Bass conceded on Thursday and called Raman to congratulate her.
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Voters across the country sided overwhelmingly with limits on data center development in local ballot measures on Tuesday, and candidates who ran against the buildout won governorships and Senate seats in several states. Counts differ by when they were taken and what they include.
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Oil prices fell for a fourth straight session on Thursday as traders bet that Tuesday's midterm elections, in which President Donald Trump's Republicans lost control of Congress, make an end to the US-Israeli war on Iran more likely.
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Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that the war with Iran cost Republicans the midterm elections, in which Democrats won control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. "The reason we lost is the war," Vance wrote in a post on X.
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Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections. Iranian leaders on Wednesday welcomed the result as a rejection of President Donald Trump's war policies.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted tentative approval on Monday to a generic version of lenacapavir, the twice-yearly injection that prevents HIV. The drug is made by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories of India and is meant for 120 low- and middle-income countries at $40 per person per year.
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Democrats are projected to flip the House of Representatives after Tuesday's midterm elections. One forecasting tracker showed 52% favoring Democrats and 43% favoring Republicans.
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Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Georgia governor's race on Tuesday, defeating Republican Rick Jackson. She is the first Black woman elected governor of any US state and Georgia's first woman governor.
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York announced Wednesday that he will run for Speaker of the House, asking his colleagues for their support as Democrats prepare to take the majority after Tuesday's midterm elections. If elected, the 56-year-old would be the first Black Speaker in the chamber's history.
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Democrat Sherrod Brown won Ohio's U.S. Senate special election on Tuesday, defeating Republican Sen. Jon Husted and flipping the seat from Republican to Democratic. The race was called at 11:10 p.m. Eastern.
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Democrat Josh Turek won Iowa's open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, defeating Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson. The race was called late Tuesday night with more than 90% of ballots counted.
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Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician and mother of three, won the US Senate race in South Carolina on Tuesday, defeating Republican Darline Graham. She is the first woman elected to the Senate from South Carolina and the first Democrat elected to it since Fritz Hollings won his final term in 1998.
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Adam Hamilton, a Democrat and first-time candidate, won Kansas's U.S. Senate seat in Tuesday's election, defeating Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. The margin differs by count: with most of the vote tallied, reported leads ranged from about six points to nearly nine, and Hamilton's share ran from 51% to 53%.
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Democrat James Talarico, a Texas state representative, defeated Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race in Texas on Tuesday. The race was called shortly after 10 p.m. Texas time, and Paxton conceded before 10:30 at his election night watch party.
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