Most Americans used to vote on Election Day, and a small percentage of voters cast their ballots as absentee voters through the mail. That changed starting in the late 1970s, when some states began to allow no-excuse absentee voting and early in-person voting. Many more states chose to add these methods after the 2000 election, and by 2016, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus orchestrated an unusual play on the House floor during a rare election night, 5 p.m. pro forma session that resulted in killing, at least for now, a broadly popular bill that was set to hit the floor as soon as next week.

Reps. Garret Graves, R-La., and Abigail Spanberger, D-...Read more

The dollar staged its biggest rally since March 2020 as the early results of the U.S. presidential election indicated that Donald Trump had an edge in some key states, triggering a sharp rise in Treasury yields on speculation his policies would keep U.S. interest rates elevated.

The rise in bond yields promised to pull cash into the U.S. an ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe won the race to become the state’s 58th governor on Tuesday, after a campaign centered on his extensive business experience and promises of steady conservative leadership.

Kehoe, a 62-year-old former Jefferson City car dealer, state senator and current lieutenant governor, courted voters ...Read more

MIAMI — Incumbent Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott was reelected Tuesday, defeating former Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in an election that ended up not being as close as the latest polls had been suggesting.

Scott won with 54% of the vote, surpassing the 44% obtained by Mucarsel-Powell, according to data available at 8:15 p.m. on ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Embattled City Council member Omar Torres was arrested on suspicion of child molestation Tuesday, hours after submitted his resignation to the city.

The connection to a police investigation into his alleged sexual interest in minors revealed last month was not immediately clear, but the details made public in that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani is playing hide-and-seek with “the vast majority” of belongings he was ordered to hand over to the Georgia mother and daughter he was found liable for defaming, the women’s lawyers said in court filings Tuesday.

Around four weeks ago, Giuliani emptied his multimillion-dollar E. 66th St. apartment, save for “...Read more

Soft cheeses sold under several brands have been recalled from California, Texas, Missouri and nine other states after listeria was found in the manufacturing facility.

Savencia Cheese USA is based in New Holland, Pennsylvania, but said in its FDA-posted recall notice that the problem was in the company’s Lena, Illinois, facility.

“Through...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump returned to Palm Beach County on Tuesday, where he voted, told his staff the campaign was on the verge of victory, and returned to Mar-a-Lago to wait for results that may show if he’ll win another term as president.

“I feel very confident,” he said after voting in Palm Beach.

The former president, ...Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump ushered in Election Day with a late-night turned early-morning rally in Michigan's second largest city, telling thousands of supporters inside Van Andel Arena that "if we win Michigan, we win it all."

Trump railed against his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and an "evil Democrat ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon that there has been “a lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia” throughout the day.

Where that “talk” was coming from is not clear. Aside from a few minor dustups — the kind typical of any election day in a big city — Republicans ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters on Tuesday were on the verge of deciding the historic election to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a race that pitted Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank against Republican and former Dodger All-Star Steve Garvey.

After an expensive and acrimonious primary battle among Democrats, the general election ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge said Tuesday that he would issue a stay of execution for Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech, who was scheduled to be put to death next week after a failed attempt to do so earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow, a senior judge from the District of Arizona, said at an afternoon hearing that it ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center forecasts Tropical Storm Rafael to grow into the season’s 11th hurricane Tuesday as it moves toward Cuba with winds and storm surge expected to affect the Florida Keys this week.

As of the NHC’s 4 p.m. Eastern time advisory, Rafael was located about 105 miles east of Grand Cayman and 120 miles...Read more

WASHINGTON — Blanca de Leon won’t be closing up shop or boarding up the windows of her beauty parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast because of fears about the election, even as other businesses around the city brace for the worst.

That doesn’t mean de Leon, who owns Capitol Hair Salon a block away from the Capitol, isn’t nervous.

“...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams — who has seemed reticent in recent days to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ name — did so just before voting in Tuesday’s high-stakes election for the White House.

“Same person I endorsed: VP Harris,” Adams told reporters when asked who he was voting for as he walked into Brooklyn’s PS 81 to cast ...Read more

PHOENIX — Vice President Kamala Harris thinks she can win the election on an abortion rights message. Former President Trump thinks he can win on immigration.

In Arizona, they’ll find out who was right.

None of the seven swing states puts the two campaigns’ top issues in such stark relief. Arizona is the only border state among the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Two men were fatally shot Tuesday afternoon at Navy Pier by a gunman who authorities believe was a recently terminated worker.

Speaking with reporters at the pier, Chicago police Chief of Patrol John Hein stressed that authorities did not believe the suspect posed a danger to the public, though the shooter remained at large, as of 4...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump returned to Palm Beach County on Tuesday, where he voted, told his staff the campaign was on the verge of victory, and returned to Mar-a-Lago to wait for results that may show if he’ll win another term as president.

“I feel very confident,” he said after voting in Palm Beach.

The former president, ...Read more