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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania is home to five heavily contested races for the U.S. House, contests that will be critical to determining control of a narrowly divided chamber where Democrats need...

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts voters decided five ballot issues Tuesday, including giving union rights to drivers for ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft. Other questions would allow the use of ce...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri voters enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution Tuesday, a result that is expected to undo a near-total ban on the procedure. The measure guarantees peop...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California voters were deciding on 10 ballot measures including one that would turn some nonviolent crimes, like shoplifting, into felonies again, and another that would make...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, on Tuesday won election to Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, which was redrawn after a lengthy ...

Connecticut voters on Tuesday approved an amendment to the state's constitution that could make it easier to cast ballots by mail or through drop boxes in future elections. The amendment lifts long-st...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Voters in Washington state on Tuesday upheld a groundbreaking law that is forcing companies to cut carbon emissions while raising billions of dollars for programs that include ha...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer won reelection Tuesday to a third term in the U.S. Senate, besting challenger Dan Osborn, a former labor union boss and military veteran who gained t...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A first-term Wisconsin Republican who was in the nation's Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was vying for a second term Tuesday, while another candidate running with t...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig won a fourth term Tuesday in Minnesota's tightest congressional race, a faceoff against Republican challenger and former federal prosecutor Joe Teir...