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We broke down results of state and local races and ballot measures around the country -- and what they mean for the future.
Republicans in many states are now free to pursue their agendas on taxes, labor and social policies without Democrats standing in the way.
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Financial analysts at one Wall Street rating agency on Wednesday dropped Chicago Public Schools credit rating again, less than a week before the district is expected to sell hundreds of millions of dollars in long-term bonds.
In a blow to Atlantic City elected officials, New Jersey's Local Finance Board voted 5-0 Wednesday to grant its director, Timothy Cunningham, far-reaching governing powers over the beleaguered city.
Overnight, it seemed, Gov. Christie's fortunes reversed.
Millions of low-income Americans on Medicaid could lose their health coverage if President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress follow through on GOP proposals to cut spending in the state-federal insurance program.
Ilhan Omar made history Tuesday night as the nation's first Somali-American legislator, with a commanding win in a state House race.
Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election sparked protests across the nation Wednesday, with crowds marching through city streets, rallying at college campuses and staging walkouts at schools in an open disavowal of the president-elect.
The GOP successfully defended its majorities in most chambers and also picked up chambers in Kentucky and Iowa, giving the party full control of those states.
The first-ever environmental impact bond gives an agency some of its money back if its idea doesn't pan out.
Despite the Trump tide, voters at the local level approved new taxes on soda and bond measures for housing and transportation. They also ousted several tough-on-crime prosecutors, as well as Trump ally Joe Arpaio.
Judicial elections weren't a clear sweep for either party.
It was a lesser-noticed but important downballot trend from election night.
Democrats managed to flip the Vermont LG seat blue -- even as the state governorship flipped red.
Most races for states' attorneys general maintained the status quo, but one seat switched to Republican control.
With one election likely headed for a recount, Democrats have lost power in three states, including traditionally blue Vermont.
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Republican officials in Maine warned voters to “come out to vote in order to secure their ballot from misuse.”
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says a federal jury's conviction Friday of two former aides in a political payback scheme involving the George Washington Bridge does not reflect poorly on him and confirms what he thought when the scandal erupted in January 2014.
The Justice Department will deploy 500 personnel to polling stations on Election Day to help protect voters against discrimination and intimidation, down from 2012 as the result of a Supreme Court ruling that gutted part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
In January, Lucia Guzman hopes to do what she's done each of the last three times she's been elected to the Colorado Senate.
Federal judges in North Carolina and Pennsylvania have turned down Democratic Party requests for orders barring their Republican counterparts from harassing voters at the polls.
Powered by a historic number of early voters, many in Democratic strongholds, Florida's pre-election turnout hit a record 6.4 million Monday, more than any other state and equal to half of the state's nearly 13 million voters.
The costs of Oregon's most contentious campaigns continue to rise in the final days before the election.
The fifth strongest earthquake to hit Oklahoma came Sunday night about 7:44 p.m., rattling people's nerves and shaking buildings across central Oklahoma.
The week-long work stoppage that sidelined subways, trolleys, and buses and threatened to complicate a closely contested presidential election ended in the pre-dawn hours Monday as SEPTA and leadership for the Transportation Workers Union Local 234 reached a tentative five-year agreement on a new contract for 4,738 transit personnel.
A federal judge has rejected a bid by the Pennsylvania Republican Party to legalize a call from presidential nominee Donald Trump for supporters to serve as itinerant Election Day poll watchers.
A federal judge Friday ordered three North Carolina to restore names to voter rolls that were part of a recent mass purge.
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