US election results

Republicans were closing in Wednesday on a narrow House majority in the U.S. midterm elections, while control of the Senate hinged on tight Arizona, ...

The seditious conspiracy trial of five alleged Oath Keepers leaders has become mired in conflict as U.S. 6 insurrection, some who participated in or were in the vicinity of the attack on the U.S. midterm elections early on Wednesday, but there still remains the possibility that Republicans could end up with control of both the House and the U.S. The result mirrored what happened in another red state, Kansas, where voters in August rejected changing that state's constitution to let lawmakers tighten restrictions or ban abortions. And despite the president bearing criticism from a pessimistic electorate, some of those voters backed Democratic candidates. Half of voters said inflation factored significantly, with groceries, gasoline, housing, food and other costs that have shot up in the past year. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for president in 2024 and could be a major GOP primary challenger to Trump. In the governor's race Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro beat Republican Doug Mastriano, an election denier who some feared would not certify a Democratic presidential win in the state in 2024. The party won governors' races, winning in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- battlegrounds critical to Biden's 2020 win over Donald Trump. A Republican House majority would likely trigger a spate of investigations into Biden and his family, while a GOP Senate takeover would hobble the president's ability to make judicial appointments. In a particularly symbolic victory, the GOP toppled House Democratic campaign chief Sean Patrick Maloney of New York. John Fetterman's success in flipping Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Senate seat lifted Democratic hopes of maintaining control of the chamber.