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WASHINGTON (AP) - Control of the Senate won't be decided until the new year after Republicans won a seat in Alaska on Wednesday. Neither party can lock the majority until January runoffs in Georgia.In...

President Donald Trump has won the state of Alaska.The Republican nominee was awarded the state's three electoral votes, pushing his Electoral College tally to 217.His Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, ...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis pledged Wednesday to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offered prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a day after the Vatican released a detailed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats clinched two more years of controlling the House but with a potentially razor-thin majority, a bittersweet finale to last week's elections that has left them divided and wi...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Virginia and across the country, Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday announced plans to significantly increase statewide testing capacity and to l...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland will reduce indoor operations for bars and restaurants from 75% to 50% in response to rising coronavirus cases and increased hospitalizations, Gov. Larry Hogan announced...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Democrat Cal Cunningham conceded to incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina on Tuesday, saying "the voters have spoken" and it was clear Tillis had won. With ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A more conservative Supreme Court appeared unwilling Tuesday to do what Republicans have long desired: get rid of the Affordable Care Act, including its key protections for pre-exist...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Republican Michelle Steel defeated first-term Rep. Harley Rouda on Tuesday in a Southern California district, only the second time in more than two decades that a GOP candidate in t...

NEW YORK (AP) - J.C. Penney is on course to emerge from bankruptcy by Thanksgiving, after a U.S. bankruptcy court approved the sale of the ailing 118-year-old retailer to its two largest landlords and...