The recount underway in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race marks the end of a chaotic post-election period that has become the latest example of how disputed election rules can expose weak points in a core function of American democracy.

House Leader Hakeem Jeffries won reelection Tuesday as the Democratic leader.

Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court is weighing in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick.

Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has conceded defeat in the race narrowly won by Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, saying he will not pursue a recount.

Beyoncé is coming to your home on Christmas — provided you have Netflix and are tuning in to the Ravens-Texans game.

After one of the most chaotic and least productive U.S. House sessions in modern history, voters made a surprising choice in elections — they overwhelmingly stuck with the status quo.

Incoming Democratic Senator-elect Ruben Gallego of Arizona says building authentic connections with working-class voters can help Democrats find their way back to power in Washington.

Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District.

Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured withering and often misleading GOP attacks on the issue.

Demand Justice, a progressive organization focused on the judiciary, is set to bombard Capitol Hill with a message for the closing weeks of the 118th Congress: Do “whatever it takes” to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominees as a second Donald Trump presidency looms.

The U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania between Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick is headed for a statewide recount, as counties continued Wednesday to sort through outstanding ballots and the campaigns jousted over which ones should count.

Democratic governors and attorneys general are set to reprise their roles in battling President-elect Trump's policies.

Veteran broadcaster Chris Wallace is leaving CNN after three years but, at age 77, he's not interested in retiring.

The Associated Press declared Democrat Ruben Gallego the winner of Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat after vote updates on Monday and over the weekend increased his statewide lead and closed off any remaining paths to victory for Republican Kari Lake.

Republican Don Bacon has been elected to a fifth House term representing Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd District, nearly three days after the polls closed.

Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania, winning the battleground state’s valuable presidential electoral votes, posting a two-seat gain in its U.S. House delegation and sweeping all four statewide offices on the ballot, including a U.S. Senate seat.

Republicans running on the ballot underneath President-elect Donald Trump have made gains in numerous state legislatures.

House Republican leaders are projecting confidence that they will keep control of the U.S. House.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for state lawmakers to convene a special session in December to help safeguard the state's progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and immigration ahead of another Trump presidency.

The majority in the U.S. House hangs in balance.

Republicans reclaimed control of the Michigan House of Representatives with a 58 to 52 majority.

Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin won Michigan’s shotgun-tight race for U.S. Senate, defeating former Republican congressman Mike Rogers in a battle of attrition.

The Associated Press declared that Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin won reelection to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin after it determined that Republican Eric Hovde wouldn’t be able to take the lead once the remaining untabulated ballots were counted.

Donald Trump’s presidential win is going to be certified in Congress in January by the candidate he beat, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Democratic candidate Judge Carl Marlinga conceded to John James in the Michigan U.S. House District 10 race.

Incumbent Kyra Harris Bolden will continue to serve in Michigan’s Supreme Court, the Associated Press projects.

Kimberly Anne Thomas will be joining Michigan’s Supreme Court, the Associated Press projects.

Republicans have seized the majority in the United States Senate for the first time in four years.

For the first time ever, two Black women have been elected to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Senate.

A massive lead gained from votes cast before Election Day helped deliver victory to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Follow live 2024 election results for the Texas U.S. Senate race between Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Collin Allred.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

In a new video posted early Election Day, Beyoncé channels Pamela Anderson in the television program “Baywatch” – red one-piece swimsuit and all – and asks viewers to vote.

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Republican Donald Trump won North Carolina, capturing one of the seven heavily contested battlegrounds while votes in six other swing states are still being counted.

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Republicans have taken the Senate majority and are fighting to keep control of the House.

On the night before Election Day, at campaign events across the country, celebrities turned out in force for Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.

Democrat Eugene Vindman and Republican Derrick Anderson remained locked in a close contest early Wednesday in a U.S. House race in Virginia for the seat being vacated by three-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger.

Vice President Kamala Harris won't say how she voted on a ballot measure in her home state of California that would reverse criminal justice reforms approved in recent years.

The races for control of Congress are at a stalemate.

The debate over abortion rights is leading to expensive campaigns for state Supreme Courts in several states this year.

Donald Trump has spent months laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the 2024 election if he loses.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by state.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have hosted dueling rallies within miles of each other in a fevered final push for votes in swing state Wisconsin’s largest city.

Protesters often create awkward moments for presidential candidates.

Here is where you will find the Nov. 5, 2024, General Election Presidential race results from the seven key swing states:

Here is where you will find the Nov. 5, 2024, General Election Presidential race results from the seven key swing states:

Billions of dollars in ads are raining down on voters across the Rust Belt, Rocky Mountains and American southwest as the two major political parties struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.

Donald Trump is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the campaign’s final days.

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The same Michigan voters Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris needs in the critical swing state will also determine whether her party maintains its foothold on state government two years after pulling off a historic sweep.

Kamala Harris on Tuesday sought to remind Americans what life was like under Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden’s 50 years in elected office are nearing their end.

Kamala Harris recently went on two podcasts in hopes of reaching more voters as Election Day approaches.

Kamala Harris is trying to fire up younger voters in the battleground state of Michigan and urging them to vote early.

The Democratic Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election faces a rare Republican challenger in her bid for reelection.

Kamala Harris is seeking to energize voters in Philadelphia, a crucial Democratic stronghold.

Beyoncé has spoken at a Houston rally for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, telling the crowd: “I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician.

Leonardo DiCaprio is endorsing Kamala Harris for president.

This year’s presidential election could come down microscopic margins, so Kamala Harris is hunting for votes in even the most unlikely of places.

Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama lent their star power to Kamala Harris’ quest for the presidency on Thursday as the vice president implored Georgia voters to consider the “brutally serious” consequences if Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House.

Beyoncé is expected to appear Friday in her hometown of Houston at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris.

If the presidential election hinged on abortion or climate change, Kamala Harris might be feeling pretty comfortable right now, based on the polls.

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tensions over abortion have only intensified, setting the presidential election up as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, his wife and their son went to a polling place in St. Paul, Minnesota, to cast their ballots early.

A senior U.S. intelligence official says viral online content spreading baseless attacks on Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was created by Russia.

With Donald Trump's encouragement, Republicans are joining Democrats at the polls to cast their ballots early this year.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to head to reliably Republican Texas just 10 days before Election Day to try to refocus her campaign against former President Donald Trump on reproductive care.

In a stretch of what once was Pennsylvania steel country, Democrats and Republicans are looking to test their strength with Latino voters.

Pennsylvania voters are expected to play a pivotal role in the Nov. 5 general election, with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress and the state Legislature hanging in the balance.

Michigan may play a decisive role in a presidential election for the third consecutive time.

North Carolina voters will cast ballots for president and governor in the Nov. 5 general election while many in the state are still dealing with the aftermath and massive destruction caused by Hurricane Helene.

Georgia voters are once again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election on Nov. 5, even as many are focusing on recovering and rebuilding from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene.

The federal government plans to provide up to $325 million to Hemlock Semiconductor to produce a key material for computer chips, an announcement Monday with possible political significance as the new factory would be in the swing state of Michigan.

Kamala Harris’ campaign and affiliated Democratic committees raised more than $359 million in September alone and about $633 million for the quarter ending Sept. 30.

Vice President Kamala Harris says Republican former President Donald Trump was “cruel” for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill.

Vice President Kamala Harris says Republican former President Donald Trump was “cruel” for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill.

A former Park Service ranger says U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan.

The state and national Republican parties are appealing a judge’s ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia’s State Election Board are “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says the death of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.”.

In an election where the future of reproductive rights is on the ballot in Maryland and elsewhere across the country, the state’s all-male congressional delegation stands to gain an influx of women.

Kamala Harris is spending her week trying to shore up support in the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Vice President Kamala Harris has brought her campaign to a place many Democrats have long considered enemy territory — Fox News Channel.

Donald Trump has offered uncharacteristic personal compliments of Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, noting her ability to “survive" — though it came with a subtle jab.

Both presidential campaigns are placing a major focus on Michigan over the next few weeks.

Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California are getting a pay bump under a state law.

In the political ad, it’s somewhat easy to overlook the blunder of printing the wrong date for Election Day in the Michigan Bulletin. It reads, “On Nov. 6, vote for Tom Barrett.”

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both making pushes to energize key constituencies that their allies worry might be slipping away.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz unveiled his ticket’s plans to improve the lives of rural voters as Vice President Kamala Harris looks to cut into former President Donald Trump’s support.

A survey has found that abortion has passed inflation to become the top issue in the presidential election for women younger than 30.

National Republicans and Democrats are keenly eyeing the Pacific Northwest, where two of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country are playing out.

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked to name three virtues that her opponent in next month's election, Donald Trump, possesses — but was unable to come up with even one.

Donald Trump is rolling out more plans for tax breaks without offering details on how they would work and the impact they would have on the federal budget.

Anne Hathaway, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth and Audra McDonald and other stars of stage and screen are set for a campaign rally for Kamala Harris in New York City next week.

In some of the closest House races in the country, Democratic candidates are leaning into an issue that Republicans have made a centerpiece of their pitch to voters — immigration.