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Republican Jeff Crank won election to a U.S. House seat representing Colorado on Wednesday. The political consultant and talk radio host will succeed Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn, who did not seek reelection, in a district that includes Colorado Springs. Crank defeated embattled Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, in the

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday. The deal with federal prosecutors was described in a letter partially endorsed by a Manhattan federal

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy in her name and attempting to collect the benefits. A federal jury in March found Cory Martin guilty in the 2018 killing Brandy Odom, a sex

Associated Press AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware. The

Democrat Gil Cisneros won election to a U.S. House seat representing California on Wednesday. He was previously elected in 2018, but then unseated by Republican Young Kim in 2020. This year, Cisneros ran to fill a different seat left vacant by Rep. Grace Napolitano’s retirement. During the Biden administration, he served as the under secretary

Democrat Emily Randall won election to a U.S. House seat representing Washington on Wednesday, holding the open seat for her party. The 6th Congressional District covers the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas and most of Tacoma. The seat opened last year when Democratic Rep. Derek Kilmer announced he would not seek reelection for a post he

Democratic Rep. Marilyn Strickland won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Washington on Wednesday. This will be Strickland’s third term representing the 10th District, which includes the state capital of Olympia, Joint Base Lewis-McChord and eastern Tacoma, where she served two terms as mayor before being elected to Congress. She won the seat after

Republican Michael Baumgartner won election to a U.S. House seat representing Washington on Wednesday, holding the open seat for his party. The former state senator is serving his second term as Spokane County treasurer. He defeated Democrat Carmela Conroy, who served as a deputy prosecutor in Spokane County. Baumgartner will replace Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who

Democrat Kamala Harris earned a statewide win in Maine, collecting a pair of electoral votes on Wednesday. Maine is one of two states that divide their electoral votes with two votes going to the statewide winner and one vote apiece to the winner of each congressional district. The last time a Republican won the statewide

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrats will lose their historic trifecta after Republicans gained a majority in the state House of Representatives. Democrats still hold the majority in the Senate, which was not up for reelection this year, meaning the House Republicans will at most stall Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s agenda in the final two

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On the list of U.S. presidents, several have been tapped to serve for more than one term, with Donald Trump now joining the group. But only one other president did it the way he will — with a gap of four years between terms. That was Grover Cleveland, who

LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina prosecutor says he won’t pursue involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of a 12-year-old boy at a nature therapy camp. District Attorney Andrew Murray said Wednesday that Clark Harman’s death in February was tragic, but it “did not involve criminal intent or recklessness sufficient to warrant criminal

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights advocates prevailed on seven ballot measures across the U.S. in Tuesday’s election and lost on three. The losses are the first on statewide reproductive rights ballot measures anywhere in the U.S. since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a ruling that struck down the nearly

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fernando Valenzuela was remembered for “having the heart of a lion” throughout his stellar pitching career with the Los Angeles Dodgers during a funeral highlighting his Catholic faith. The public Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles included fans wearing Dodgers gear, some in

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. In the end, Slotkin carried the state after there were not enough ballots left to be counted for Rogers to overtake her roughly 18,000 vote lead at the

Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday refused to stop the nation’s third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is planned in Alabama for later this month. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. denied a request to block Alabama from executing Carey Dale Grayson on Nov. 21 using the same nitrogen

Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republicans have tightened their hold on the West Virginia Legislature, notching election wins that will relegate Democrats to an even smaller fraction of the chamber’s 134 seats and giving themselves one of the country’s largest legislative supermajorities. Just two out of West Virginia’s 34 state senators will be Democrats

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes has won reelection to a second term representing a northeast Ohio district targeted by Republicans, but fellow Democrat Marcy Kaptur’s race remains too early to call. Sykes defeated Republican Kevin Coughlin in a district centered on her native Akron, where she comes from a family

Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin won election to Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat on Wednesday. Slotkin’s victory preserves a key seat for Democrats following the retirement of longtime Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Slotkin is a former CIA analyst who was first elected in 2018 to Congress, where she serves on the House Armed Services Committee. Slotkin

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump and his Republican allies spent months seeding doubt in the integrity of American voting systems and priming supporters to expect a 2024 election riddled with massive and inevitable fraud. The former president continued laying that groundwork even during a mostly smooth day of voting Tuesday, making unsubstantiated

Democratic Rep. Emilia Sykes won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Ohio on Wednesday. Sykes, a first-term congresswoman, was previously leader of the Ohio House Democratic caucus. Democrat Joe Biden narrowly carried the Akron-based district in 2020. The Associated Press declared Sykes the winner at 2:53 p.m. EST.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. With nearly all of the vote counted, the AP called the race

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith is evaluating how to wind down the two federal cases against Donald Trump before the president-elect takes office in light of longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Smith charged Trump last year with

Democratic Rep. Norma Torres won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California on Wednesday. Torres defeated Republican Mike Cargile. Torres is a longtime incumbent who sits on the House Committee on Administration. Originally from Guatemala, Torres co-founded the New Americans Caucus. Torres previously served in California’s state Legislature and as mayor of the city

Associated Press Voters had the chance this election to break the highest glass ceiling in American politics by electing Kamala Harris the nation’s first female president. Instead, they returned Donald Trump to the White House, a comeback that relied on significant — even somewhat improved – support among women. Some female voters on Wednesday mourned

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New legislative district boundaries didn’t pay off quite as well as Wisconsin Democrats hoped for in Tuesday’s elections. But they did help the party set up a push for the majority in 2026. Republicans have controlled the Senate and the Assembly for most of the last 13 years. Democratic

Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have launched a new wave of arrests, seeking to uproot any sign of dissent ahead of January’s election in which authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a seventh term. The Viasna human rights center said that more than 100 people have been arrested across the country since

Democrat Nellie Pou won election to a U.S. House seat representing New Jersey on Wednesday. Pou won the seat vacated by longtime Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., who died earlier this year. She defeated Republican Billy Prempeh and two others. Pou is a longtime state legislator, serving in the Assembly from 1997 to 2011, then the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lead in Michigan became insurmountable after he improved his margin in Detroit’s county and won overwhelmingly in Republican-leaning parts of the state, closing off Vice President Kamala Harris’ path to victory. As in other battleground states, Trump’s victory, called at 12:54 p.m. Wednesday, came at the margins in

The Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have approved a plan to borrow $10 billion for various climate programs. It will be the state’s largest investment to date in fighting climate change. It was among 10 statewide propositions on the California ballot Tuesday. Voters also approved an initiative making shoplifting a

LONDON (AP) — British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa. Scientists said the risk to the public remains low. Authorities announced the first case of

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Mainers have turned back a proposal to resurrect the state’s original flag. Residents on Tuesday voted to retain the existing blue flag instead of adopting a flag that tracks closely with the state’s first flag — a simple pine tree and blue North Star. Versions of the original flag

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three Pennsylvania races for the U.S. House remain uncalled by The Associated Press. That’s as vote counting continued Wednesday and Republicans fight to keep their slim majority in the U.S. House. In all three of Pennsylvania’s uncalled races, the Republican candidate held a slight lead. One race is in eastern Pennsylvania,

Donald Trump’s election victory was history-making in several respects even as his defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris prevented other firsts. She would have been the nation’s first Black and South Asian woman to be president. At 78, he is the oldest person elected to the presidency. When sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025, he will

MILAN (AP) — An Italian naval ship carrying migrants was en route Wednesday to Albania to have asylum applications processed under a five-year deal to handle asylum claims outside the European Union’s borders that has already hit a legal roadblock. An Italian interior ministry spokesman confirmed that the naval ship Libra was en route to

LONDON (AP) — Corning is facing European Union antitrust scrutiny after the bloc’s watchdog said it’s investigating the speciality glass maker’s exclusive deals for its Gorilla Glass used in cellphones. The European Commission said Wednessday it opened a formal investigation to determine whether Corning Inc. abused its dominant worldwide position for the toughened glass used

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican legislative supermajority will remain unchanged after Democrats failed to flip seats in a handful of competitive races. But the minority party didn’t give up ground, either. Unofficial election results from Tuesday show that Republicans will continue to hold 75 out of the 99 seats inside the House

Republican Rep. John James won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Michigan on Wednesday. James fended off a challenge from Carl Malinga, a Democrat he has faced before in the suburbs north of Detroit. James is an Army veteran who became president of his family’s supply chain management firm before running for Congress. Voters

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Wisconsin on Wednesday. Van Orden was on the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and is one of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters. He defeated Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke, a former Democratic fundraiser. Van Orden flipped the seat in 2022

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s mayor faces a new accusation that he asked his daughter to lie about how she sustained a head injury. Marty Small Sr. was charged Monday with witness tampering involving the girl. He and his wife, La’Quetta, were previously charged with assault and abuse. Prosecutors say Marty

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Tim Sheehy shaved Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s margins in Montana’s populous counties and ran up his lead in the state’s more rural regions. That built a cushion the incumbent couldn’t catch when The Associated Press called the race. Sheehy cut into Tester’s margins from six years ago in the

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats have toppled two Republican incumbents in the Georgia state House, but won’t narrow the Republican majority as much as they once hoped. With four races still uncalled Wednesday, Republicans have 98 of the 180 House seats, while Democrats have 78. Republicans held a 102-78 lead when voting began. GOP

Democratic Rep. Nikki Budzinski won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Illinois on Wednesday. The freshman congresswoman was once a former senior advisor to Gov. JB Pritzker and worked as a labor union activist. She defeated Republican Joshua Loyd. The narrow Democrat-leaning district cuts through central Illinois from the St. Louis area to Champaign.

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Allison Greenfield, the law clerk whom Donald Trump assailed with falsehoods during his civil fraud trial last year, has been elected as a New York City judge. Greenfield was one of six candidates for six seats on Manhattan’s civil court, which handles small claims and other lesser-stakes lawsuits. A

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Two police officers are expected to recover after being shot at a mental health center in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A police spokesperson says the officers are being treated at a hospital after the shooting early Wednesday. WKBO-TV reports that the shooting happened at LifeSkills Adult Crisis Stabilization Unit. No other

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House means he’ll want to stand up an entirely new administration from the one that served under President Joe Biden. The president-elect now has a 75-day transition period to build out his team before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. One top item on

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin has won a third term, delivering a victory for Democrats in the swing state that President-elect Donald Trump carried. Baldwin defeated Republican challenger Eric Hovde, a bank owner and real estate investor endorsed by Trump. Hovde has not conceded the race, which was within the

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Donald Trump will return to the U.S. presidency at a time of unprecedented conflict and uncertainty in the Middle East. He has vowed to fix it. But Trump’s history of strong support for Israel coupled with his insistence during the campaign that the war in Gaza should end

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says the bodies of four people have been recovered from the sea just off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes. Another 25 people have been found on land after a migrant smuggler allegedly forced his passengers overboard while transferring them from Turkey to Greece. The

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents. It’s a 538-member group that elects a president. The framers of the Constitution set it up to give more power to the states and as a compromise to avoid having Congress decide the winner. Each state’s electoral votes go

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Lebanese government minister says his country has filed a complaint against Israel at the U.N.’s labor organization over the string of deadly attacks involving exploding pagers, saying workers were among those killed and injured. The explosions in mid-September were widely blamed on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s army chief who led soldiers through a critical period in the fight against Islamic extremists in the West African nation’s hard-hit northeast, has died. Lt. Gen. Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, who served as army chief since June 2023, died Tuesday night in Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos after a

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Nine people have been detained after unrest that erupted during a protest over last week’s deadly roof collapse in a northern Serbian city that killed 14 people and injured three. Prosecutors said Wednesday that the detained are facing charges of violent behavior, destruction of property, causing public danger and attacking the

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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared that Republican Donald Trump won Wisconsin — and with it, a return to the White House — once it determined that the remaining uncounted votes mostly from the greater Milwaukee area would not be enough to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to overtake Trump for the

Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet won election to a U.S. House seat representing Michigan on Wednesday. Her victory means Democrats will retain control of a competitive district after Rep. Dan Kildee, who has represented the Flint area for about a decade, decided to retire. McDonald Rivet currently represents a competitive state Senate district that covers Midland,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Montana voters chose to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitution. The ballot initiative sought to enshrine a 1999 Montana Supreme Court ruling that said the constitutional right to privacy protects the right to a pre-viability abortion by a provider of the patient’s choice. Though there’s no defined time

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The verdict of U.S. voters was more decisive than most pollsters and pundits had predicted. Now the world waits to see whether the election of Donald Trump as president for a second time is as destabilizing as many American allies fear. Trump’s first term saw him insult and alienate longstanding

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s U.S. Senate race is too early to call. Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen has outspent Republican challenger Sam Brown by more than 3-1. Rosen has presented herself as a nonpartisan advocate for Nevadans in Washington, D.C. Brown is hoping the high cost of living in working class Nevada helps

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood New Progressive Party is leading polls in a historic gubernatorial election that could see her party secure a third consecutive term for the first time. Partial results released early Wednesday by Puerto Rico’s State Elections Commission show that González had 39%

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The price of bitcoin hit a new high Wednesday as investors bet that former President Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election will be a boon for cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin jumped nearly 8% in early trading, climbing above $75,000 and smashing its previous record set in March. Other cryptocurrencies

Former President Donald Trump won the key state of Wisconsin on Wednesday, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in a critical battleground. The win delivers 10 Electoral College votes to Trump. He narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016, becoming the first Republican since Ronald Reagan to capture the state. He lost it in 2020 to Democrat Joe

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — As one of the Arab World’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence. French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, who won France’s most prestigious literary award earlier this week, was not invited to this year’s event. This year’s Prix Goncourt winner and his French publisher Gallimard —

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing New York on Wednesday. Lawler is one of several Republicans who flipped traditionally Democratic New York districts in 2022. The 17th District contains the northern part of wealthy Westchester County and extends north and west to include suburban Rockland County and the Hudson

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Record-high air pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province prompted authorities to close additional schools and keep government employees at home Wednesday, as doctors reported an increase in people seeking treatment for smog-related ailments. Marriyum Aurangzeb, a senior minister in the Punjab province, urged residents to voluntarily wear face masks and avoid unnecessary

Democratic Rep. Ed Case won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Hawaii on Wednesday, defeating Republican Patrick Largey. This will be Case’s fourth term representing urban Honolulu’s 1st Congressional District. He first won the seat in 2018. This is Case’s second stint in the House. The first time was from 2002 to 2007, when

Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Hawaii on Wednesday. Tokuda’s 2nd Congressional District covers rural Oahu and all of Hawaii’s other islands. Tokuda was first elected to the seat in 2022 and is a member of the agriculture and armed services committees. She earlier served 12 years in the

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he is firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which could undermine the ruling three-party coalition that relies on Lindner’s pro-business party. The coalition has been arguing for weeks over ways to boost the country’s ailing economy, but were not able to find a compromise.

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Dozens of European leaders will be assessing a new global outlook during a one-day summit in Hungary’s capital. They will do so on Thursday, knowing that the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president could have far-reaching consequences for the continent. All eyes will be glued on

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has announced a package of steps to curb a surge in deepfake porn. A government task force said it’ll toughen punishment of offenders, expand the use of undercover officers and impose greater regulations on social media platforms. Concerns about nonconsensual explicit video contents that were digitally

Republican Rep. Burgess Owens won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Utah on Wednesday. Owens beat Democrat Katrina Fallick-Wang to win a third term in the central Utah district. A former Super Bowl champion who played for the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders, Owens is currently one of four Black Republicans in the

MOSCOW (AP) — The upper house of Russian parliament has ratified a treaty with North Korea envisioning mutual military assistance. The move on Wednesday came as the U.S. has confirmed the deployment of 10,000 North Korean troops to Russia. The “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty” obliges Russia and North Korea to immediately provide military assistance using

Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska 2nd House District contest proved again to be the state’s most competitive, pitting Republican incumbent Don Bacon against Democratic state Sen. Tony Vargas in a rematch from 2022. The race remained tight hours after polls closed. Two years ago, Bacon won with 51% of the vote. This time,

Republican Tom Barrett won election to a U.S. House seat representing Michigan on Wednesday, flipping a Democratic-held district. Two years after losing to Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in a high-profile House race, Barrett defeated Democrat Curtis Hertel to capture Slotkin’s seat. Slotkin this year chose to run for U.S. Senate. While the district includes Democratic

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters have passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access up to fetal viability. Doctors say that’s after 21 weeks, though there’s no defined time frame. It’s a major win in a battleground state for advocates of the measure who have been seeking to expand access beyond the current 15-week

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Police say five people died when a small jet crashed into a vehicle after taking off from an airport in suburban Phoenix. Police in Mesa say the Honda HA-420 business jet crashed while taking off Tuesday from Falcon Field Airport. Authorities say five people were confirmed dead at the scene, and