By Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Tropical Storm Nicole is whipping the northwestern Bahamas and could become a Category 1 hurricane before hitting Florida’s east coast by early Thursday, forecasters say, poised to deliver heavy rain, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes to some places still recovering from Hurricane Ian. Nicole’s center, with sustained 70-mph
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN The battle for control of Congress is still up in the air, with the Senate coming down to three key races while Democrats and Republicans are still hanging onto hopes of winning a narrow majority in the House. Republicans began the night with a rout in
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, Devan Cole and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Voters in four states moved to affirm abortion rights on Tuesday, CNN projects, following a months-long push from Democrats nationwide to act on the issue in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June. Party lawmakers and organizers cast the midterm
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN Democrat John Fetterman will win the Pennsylvania Senate race, CNN projects, defeating Republican Mehmet Oz, flipping the seat and boosting Democratic hopes of keeping their majority. Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor since 2019, and Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, ran one of the most contentious and expensive
Continue ReadingBy Maeve Reston and Stephen Collinson, CNN Democrats will pick up a GOP-held Senate seat in Pennsylvania in a huge boost to their hopes of clinging to the chamber, while the red wave that Republicans hoped for has yet to materialize in the House. Democratic nominee John Fetterman‘s victory over Republican Mehmet Oz means Democrats
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Republican U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer has again won reelection to the U.S. House.
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Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and current Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt will watch election results pour in with supporters in St. Louis.
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) The Democratic nominee for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Roy Blunt, Trudy Busch Valentine, lost her bid to be the next senator for Missouri. Busch Valentine was hoping to be the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Missouri since former Sen. Clair McCaskill defeated Todd Akin in 2012. The
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Missouri voters gave the state the ability to require Kansas City to give more money to its police force but the state’s decisions on other constitutional amendments were still up in the air at 11 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida’s hard-charging Republican leader who became a household name during the pandemic, will win a second term leading the Sunshine State, CNN projects, a development that will almost immediately turn the focus of his future to 2024. “We not only won election, we have rewritten the political map,”
Continue ReadingBy Maureen Chowdhury, CNN Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the one-time press secretary and communications director for former President Donald Trump, will win Arkansas’ gubernatorial race, CNN projects. She will be the first woman elected governor of Arkansas. Huckabee Sanders defeated Democrat Chris Jones, a minister and former nonprofit leader who got a degree in nuclear engineering
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy and Tami Luhby, CNN Soaring prices were top of mind for voters as they cast ballots in this year’s midterm elections, according to the preliminary results of the national and state exit polls conducted for CNN and other news networks by Edison Research. Nearly a third of voters said inflation was the
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business US stocks were mostly unchanged in premarket trading as results from Tuesday’s midterm elections rolled in. Investors have been betting on a big Republican wave in the elections. If Republicans take at least one chamber of Congress, that will likely result in more gridlock, which the market usually
Continue ReadingBy Maeve Reston, CNN Democrat Katie Hobbs is leading Republican Kari Lake in Arizona governor’s race with a little more than half of precincts reporting, and though much could change as ballots are counted, the GOP nominee is already casting doubt about the election results. Lake won the GOP primary after amplifying former President Donald
Continue ReadingBy Simone Pathe, CNN The conditions are ripe for Republicans to win the US House of Representatives. So while Senate control is still up for grabs, the discussion on the House side has shifted to just how large a possible new GOP majority could be. Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission, which is expected to send an uncrewed spacecraft on a test mission around the moon, is delayed yet again, as NASA’s Space Launch System faces Tropical Storm Nicole, which is now expected to strengthen into a hurricane before it slams into Florida’s East Coast. The space agency
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and cool with lows in the low to mid-50s. TOMORROW: Breezy with a few clouds. Highs reaching the upper 70s. EXTENDED: We can expect cloud cover to hold into this evening, keeping temperatures in the low to mid-50s overnight. Tomorrow will be warm and breezy with temperatures soaring into the upper 70s,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Head coach Eli Drinkwitz said that Neyland Stadium will likely be the toughest place that his team will play in this season, as the Tigers prepare to take on No. 5 Tennessee on Saturday. Mizzou is heading to Knoxville off a close loss to Kentucky at Faurot Field. The Tigers had a
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