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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s sleepy campaign for governor is ending. Voting concludes Tuesday in the race to be governor of the nation’s most populous state. Democratic incumbent Gavin Newsom is heavily favored to win a second term. He’s facing Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, who is not well known

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet is trying to win reelection to the U.S. Senate against a challenge from Republican businessman Joe O’Dea, a first-time candidate. A win would send Bennet to his fourth term. Bennet hammered O’Dea on the threat of Republican control in Washington and abortion rights.

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An independent candidate with backing from Democrats is attempting to end the Republican stranglehold on U.S. Senate seats in Utah, hoping to harness the antipathy many voters in the state feel toward former President Donald Trump becoming the GOP’s standard-bearer. Evan McMullin has spent months

BERLIN (AP) — German officials and media say police raided two branches of Swiss bank UBS in Germany in connection with alleged money laundering by a Russian businessman. A prosecutor in Frankfurt didn’t name the suspect but said Tuesday that the raids were connected to an investigation in which officials raided a luxury yacht and

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The race to choose Wyoming’s next U.S. representative is getting less attention since Harriet Hageman beat Liz Cheney in the GOP primary in August. But it’s still on. Hageman is now running against Democrat and Native American activist Lynnette Grey Bull. Grey Bull was also the

BERLIN (AP) — The German government may decide this week to block the sale of a chip factory to a Swedish subsidiary of a Chinese company. It comes after a recent compromise over a Chinese shipping firm’s investment in a German container terminal. Germany company Elmos said late Monday that it had been informed by

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado voters are deciding whether theirs will be the second state, after Oregon, to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and older. A ballot measure would create state-regulated “healing centers” for participants to experience the drug. Proponents hope Colorado will join Oregon in establishing a regulated system

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo voters are deciding Tuesday who they want to be their next tribal president. The position wields influence nationally because of the tribe’s hefty population and the size of its reservation in the U.S. Southwest. Incumbent Jonathan Nez is looking for another four years in the

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet The concept of “going home for the holidays” changes throughout your life, and many millennials are currently going through that transition. Even people the same age can be at very different life stages, with a wide range of financial situations, relationships and expectations from family about holiday visits. Setting financial

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Four Republicans are attempting to maintain the party’s stranglehold on the Utah’s congressional delegation. Reps. Blake Moore, Chris Stewart, John Curtis and Burgess Owens are expected to be re-elected with decisive victories in the midterm elections, helping Republicans win back control of the U.S. House

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A tumultuous election season that tugged again at America’s searing political divides and raised questions about its commitment to a democratic future comes to a close on Tuesday as voters cast ballots in the first national election of Joe Biden’s presidency. Democrats were braced for disappointing results,

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BERLIN (AP) — An ambassador for the World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as a “damage in the mind” in an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF only two weeks before the opening of the soccer tournament in the Gulf state. Former Qatari national team player Khalid Salman told a German reporter in an

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin would be the first Native American in the U.S. Senate in nearly 20 years. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Mullin left open his U.S. House seat in eastern Oklahoma to run for the seat being vacated early by U.S. Sen.

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kathy Hochul is looking to make history Tuesday by becoming the first woman to win an election for governor in New York. But first she has to get past Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin. Hochul became the state’s first female governor last year after her

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, with trading likely to stay bumpy in a week that brings new inflation data and other events that could shake markets. Germany’s DAX added 0.1% to 15,543.08, while the CAC40 in Paris slipped 0.4% to

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Eight-time NBA All Star Dwight Howard is headed to Taiwan to play for the Taoyuan Leopards in the island’s top division. “I can’t wait to see the fans, eat the food and have the best time ever … and bring a championship,” the 36-year-old center said in a social media post.

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Party officials say Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has postponed the resumption of his protest march on the capital, Islamabad, to challenge his successor’s government for later this week. They say that instead of Tuesday as previously announced, the march is now to resume on Thursday.

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock’s first popularly elected Black mayor is hoping to fend off reelection challenges despite criticism over the city’s spiraling homicide rate and Republican-backed efforts to unseat him. Mayor Frank Scott faces three challengers in Tuesday’s election. Scott was first elected mayor of Arkansas’ capital

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s interior minister says a Bulgarian police officer has been shot dead at the border with Turkey. The incident occurred at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, when an unidentified person shot at a border police officer and a serviceman who were patrolling a stretch of the border near the village of Golyam