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Democrat Scott Colom Defeats Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith for Mississippi’s Senate Seat

On the day after the election, Scott Colom led Cindy Hyde-Smith by 65 votes in an incomplete, unofficial count. On Wednesday evening the Associated Press declared…

Democrat Scott Colom Defeats Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith for Mississippi’s Senate Seat

Mississippi Still Has No Senate Winner. Democrat Scott Colom Leads by 2,574 Votes With the Last Late Ballots Due Tuesday.

Trump Demands Alaska Give Sen. Sullivan the 8,446 Votes Cast for Two Other Candidates, and He Trails by 637

Lauren Boebert Loses Her Colorado House Seat to Retired Navy Admiral Eileen Laubacher

Los Angeles Is Projected to Pick Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman, Not Karen Bass, for Mayor

As Mississippi Keeps Counting, Democrat Scott Colom Leads Cindy Hyde-Smith by 1,138 Votes in the Senate Race

Trump Loses Congress, and Mike Johnson Loses the Speaker’s Gavel to Hakeem Jeffries

Michigan Makes Abdul El-Sayed the First Muslim Elected to the US Senate

The Blue Tsunami Crushes MAGA as Democrats Win the House and Flip Senate Seats in the Carolinas and Texas

Annie Andrews Beats Trump-Backed Darline Graham in South Carolina’s Senate Race

Roy Cooper’s North Carolina Win Delivers 1 of the 4 Senate Seats Democrats Need

Floods in Florida and the Southwest Move Polling Places on Election Day

DOJ’s Record 1,000 Poll Monitors Are Guests of the States, Not Federal Observers

After a Record Early Vote, the Supreme Court Refused to Let the Justice Department Set Aside California Ballots

The Justice Department Is Asking a Judge to Consider Contempt Over an Analysis of Its List of 20,930 Alleged Noncitizen Voters in California

Comer Says There Is a ‘Big Possibility’ Peltola Won’t Be Seated if She Wins Alaska’s Senate Race. He Has No Vote on It.

A Federal Judge Barred the Trump DOJ From Threatening Election Workers Nationwide, Not Just in California

Corporations Have Put $737 Million Into the 2026 Midterms

Pope Leo Cast a Mail Ballot From Vatican City, the Kind of Vote Trump Spent the Year Trying to Block

20,000 California Ballots Will Be Counted After a Federal Judge Refused the Justice Department’s Demand to Set Them Aside

Minnesota Charges James O’Keefe With Unlawful Voting, Not the Election Judges He Filmed

Israeli Exit Polls Give Neither Bloc a Majority, a Deadlock That Would Leave Netanyahu in Charge

When the Justice Department Asked Washington to Set Aside 400 Voters’ Ballots, the State Called It Harassment of Citizens

After Asking Dearborn for Its Votes in 2024, Trump Called Abdul El-Sayed a ‘Jihadist’ Who Needs a Metal Detector to Enter the Senate

Trump Tells a Georgia Rally “We’re Making a Freaking Fortune” on Oil. Drivers Are Paying $1.23 More a Gallon Than Last Year.

Five Midterm Rallies in 12 Days Featured Trump Grading Men’s Bodies, From Husted’s ‘Ass’ to RFK Jr.’s ‘Build’

Two Rallies, One Script: Obama Tears Into Trump Over Canada, the Gold-Plated White House and ‘Straight Up Grifting’

Trump Says He Ordered the Suit to Hold Up Alaska’s Senate Result if His Candidate Loses. Nine Days Out, at a Record Low, He Is Building the Exit Ramp.

After Trump Ruled Out Striking Iran Before Election Day, the US and Israel Drafted Plans to Strike After It

Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Stop Officials From Weighing Student IDs, 12 Days Before Election Day