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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is hoping to win a second term Tuesday in a race that pits her against a lesser-known Republican lawyer. The Democrat is opposed by Queens commercial litigator Michael Henry, who has been endorsed by various police unions but is

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Election machine mishaps and delays in vote counting became the latest fodder for political misinformation on Election Day. News of problems with vote tabulating machines in Arizona spurred baseless conspiracy theories about vote rigging, while the near certainty that many races won’t be decided on Election Day led to misleading

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — State Treasurer Seth Magaziner has won the congressional seat in Rhode Island being vacated by longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin, keeping it in Democratic control. Magaziner defeated Republican Allan Fung, a former Cranston mayor, in the general election. National Republican leaders had hoped to flip the

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Several congressional lawmakers have won reelection in Tennessee. Meanwhile, voters in the Nashville area determine the fate of a U.S. House seat redrawn by the GOP to favor a Republican pickup. Republican U.S. Reps. David Kustoff, Diana Harshbarger and Chuck Fleischmann have won

By ANITA SNOW and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A printing malfunction at 60 polling places across Arizona’s most populous county slowed down voting Tuesday, but election officials assured voters that every ballot would be counted. Still, the issue gave rise to conspiracy theories about the integrity of the vote in the pivotal

By KAREN MATTHEWS and DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer has been elected to a fifth term, easily defeating a little-known Republican political commentator. Schumer is the Senate majority leader and will keep that post only if the Democrats retain control of the chamber after Tuesday’s election. The New

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey easily won a second full term against Democrat Yolanda Flowers, the first Black woman to win a major party’s gubernatorial nomination in the state. Flowers’ candidacy was an interesting historical footnote. But it posed no real threat to the GOP’s control of

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to claw back power in Congress, energized Republicans are working to break the Democrats’ one-party hold on Washington and threaten the future of President Joe Biden’s agenda. As polls began closing Tuesday on the East Coast, Democrats risked seeing their fragile grasp

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island voters are deciding whether the Democratic Party will maintain its three-decade hold on the U.S. House seat being vacated by longtime Democratic Rep. Jim Langevin, or if a Republican will join the delegation. The liberal state is currently represented in Congress by Democrats. All

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana voters are electing candidates in two newly-drawn U.S. House districts after the Republican-controlled state gained a second seat for the 2022 election due to population growth. Democratic attorney Monica Tranel and Libertarian John Lamb face former U.S. Interior Secretary Republican Ryan

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a libertarian-leaning conservative and former presidential candidate, won a third term Tuesday by defeating a rival from the other end of the political spectrum, progressive Democrat Charles Booker. First elected in the tea party-driven wave of 2010, Paul’s victory extended

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Client data of Australia’s largest health insurance company has been published by an extortionist following through on a threat to do so. The client data made public Wednesday from the Medibank company includes details of customers’ medical procedures. Medibank had announced Monday that it would refuse

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a vote for Monday on a resolution that would call for Russia to be held accountable for violating international law by invading Ukraine, including by paying reparations. The draft resolution obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press would recognize the

By SARA BURNETT, JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A fierce competition for control of Congress along with dozens of governors’ mansions and key election posts is unfolding as polls begin closing in several closely watched states along the East Coast. In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Fraternity parties are temporarily suspended at Cornell University after reports that a student was sexually assaulted over the weekend and four others were reportedly drugged in recent weeks. Leaders of the Ivy League university in upstate New York said this week that all of the incidents occurred at residences affiliated with

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams are facing off in a rematch of the state’s last governor’s race. Abrams, a 48-year-old lawyer whose 2018 loss to Kemp helped launch her into Democratic stardom, would be the first Black woman to serve as a

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s new congressional district map is producing some tight U.S. House races in Tuesday’s election. An independent panel redrew the lines after the 2020 census. The 3rd District anchored in Grand Rapids is an open seat after Republican John Gibbs unseated Rep. Peter Meijer. The

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer hopes to win another four years as Michigan’s governor when she faces off against Republican challenger Tudor Dixon on Tuesday. Whitmer helped Democrats regain control of the state’s top office in 2018 after eight years of Republican leadership and

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A trial is underway for two Native Hawaiian men charged with a hate crime in the 2014 beating of a white man who bought a house in their remote village on Maui. Attorneys for Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi AkiJr. don’t dispute the assault but say it

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Republicans are hoping that a midterm election wave will sweep Democrat Sharice Davids out of her Kansas City-area congressional seat. Davids is the only Kansas Democrat in Congress and in Tuesday’s election faces a rematch with 2020 Republican challenger Amanda Adkins. Redistricting