According to The New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez’s seat was the second most expensive House race in the country after Republican challenger John Cummings raised more than $10 million to try and unseat her. She easily won her race with just under 75 percent of the vote.  The Associated Press called Tlaib’s race early Wednesday morning with over 66 percent of precincts reporting, winning her first race against a Republican opponent, David Dudenhoefer. She did not face a Republican when she was first elected in 2018.  Omar brushed aside GOP challenger Lacy Johnson after he failed to make inroads with his promise to fight poverty and crime through education reform and business savvy. Omar and Tlaib became the first Muslim women elected to Congress in 2018.  Pressley won her strong blue-leaning district over write-in Republican Rayla Campbell. 

A man who died from the coronavirus appears to have won a seat in North Dakota's state legislature, according to unofficial election results. David Andahl, 55, was a Republican nominee for one of two District 8 House seats in the November general election. He and his running mate Dave Nehring, of Bismarck, were leading their Democrat counterparts with around 35% and 41% of votes, respectively, early Wednesday, results showed.

An Australian man says he was able to survive a late-night house fire after his pet parrot roused him from bed. Anton Nguyen had been fast asleep when his two-storey house caught alight in Brisbane, Queensland, on Wednesday. "I heard a bang and Eric - my parrot - he started to yell so I woke up and I smelled a bit of smoke," he told ABC. "I grabbed Eric, opened the door and looked to the back of the house and saw some flames... and so I took off and bolted downstairs." By the time firefighters arrived at about 01:00 local time (14:00 GMT Tuesday), the house was engulfed in flames. It took four crews over an hour to contain the blaze in the suburb of Kangaroo Point. Mr Nguyen, who lives alone, said he had escaped with the bird and a bag, and suffered no injuries.

Regardless of who wins the US presidential election, the United States officially pulls out of the Paris climate agreement on 4 November. The move marks a blow to international efforts to halt global warming. The landmark deal, struck in 2015, aims to limit global warming to “well below” 2 °C above pre-industrial temperatures. But in June 2017, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States — the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases — would withdraw from the agreement. Nature examines how the withdrawal will affect global efforts to mitigate climate change.

There’s a record-setting number of openly queer candidates running for elected positions in both state and local government, which means that the Rainbow Wave could hold far-reaching implications for queer inroads into politics this year, even if it trickles in over a couple days.

Fulton County’s absentee-by-mail processing operation at State Farm Arena was delayed four hours today after a water pipe burst in a room with ballots.

A supporter of QAnon, the collective delusion that ridiculously claims President Donald Trump is fighting a satanic cabal of elites who abuse children, has been elected to Congress for the first time. It is hard to overstate this moment. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s election in Georgia could help legitimize a dangerous mass delusion that has festered in the Trump era, where baseless conspiracy theories embraced by the White House were laundered into the American consciousness by willing social media platforms. There have been real-world consequences. QAnon believers have engaged in an armed standoff with federal officials at the Hoover Dam. They’ve tried to hijack legitimate efforts to fight child sex trafficking. They have sent death threats to a Democratic member of Congress. Someone who believed in its precursor, Pizzagate, opened fire in a popular DC pizza parlor, saying he was looking to free children who have been sexually abused. It has infected the minds of boomers and young students alike. Greene — who has espoused QAnon theories, posted a video of herself threatening “antifa terrorists” with an AR-15, and shared a meme of herself with a gun next to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of "the Squad" — won election in Georgia’s 14th District. Decision Desk HQ called the race shortly after polls closed in the state at 7 p.m. ET. She didn’t face any opposition on Tuesday night after her Democratic opponent dropped out of the race.

Well, we don't want that ... or do we?

In Iowa, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio Joe Biden’s lead may have disappeared

The uncertainties of 2020 led the folk duo to discover a new emotional urgency in songs about the slow, challenging, beautiful heat of living.

There’s a good chance we won’t know who won the presidential election on election night. More people than ever are voting by mail this year due to the pandemic, and mail ballots take longer to count than ballots cast at polling places. But because each state has its own rules for how votes are counted and reported, some will report results sooner than others. Those disparate rules may also make initial returns misleading: The margins in some states may shift toward Democrats as mail ballots (which are overwhelmingly cast by Democrats) are counted, while states that release mail ballots first may experience a shift toward Republicans as Election Day votes are tallied. Here’s a general picture of how much of the vote we expect to be counted on election night in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. If you click on a given state, it’ll take you to a more detailed description of when to expect results and whether to expect a red or blue shift in the vote count.

Julius Caesar was the Donald Trump of his day, by Timmy, age 11.

This may finally flush away that “Amber Turd” nickname. The British judge who ruled that Johnny Depp repeatedly beat ex-wife Amber Heard also closely analyzed shocking claims that she defecated in their marital bed — ruling that the offending turd likely came from one of her pet pooches. High Court Judge Andrew Nicol spent almost 600 words of Monday’s judgment analyzing the headline-grabbing incident that led to Depp giving his now-ex-wife the gross nickname — and finally dumping her.

A judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to sweep some mail processing facilities on Tuesday afternoon for delayed ballots and immediately dispatch them for delivery in election battlegrounds such Pennsylvania and Florida among other places. Affected by the order are central Pennsylvania, northern New England, greater South Carolina, south Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Alabama and Wyoming as well as the cities of Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, Detroit and Lakeland, Florida.

Pro-Trump pundit Jesse Kelly suggested in a tweet that Republicans might “need” alleged Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse on Election Day. On Monday afternoon, Kelly shared a New York Post article about Rittenhouse being held on a $2 million bond, asking, “But what if we need him tomorrow?

Four years ago, Trump won a landslide in Appalachia, including a crowning victory in the Democratic strongholds of West Virginia. The region has the highest concentration of white poverty in the nation, and so Trump's success helped launch theories of his 'white working class' base, invited a great deal of introspection and debate on the left, and gave Appalachia a cultural day in the sun unseen since the Johnson era. Now in 2020, years after Vance, Hochschild, and 'the Red State Revolt', Tarence Ray provides a new view from the heart of so-called "Trump Country." 

As concerns over political turmoil grew, the Secret Service gave a $1 million fortification contract to a familiar firm.

Sales surged in the spring amid coronavirus fears and climbed higher during protests for racial justice

Chowdry denied the allegations. "We are taking care of them as our guests," he said. "They are given proper food and access to all facilities." When Chowdry was asked about the whereabouts of the 306 Rohingya already on the island, he said none was available to meet the gathered journalists.

Multiple caravans of Trump-supporting motorists cruised through the streets and highways of New York on Sunday, threatening counter-protesters and blocking traffic on major bridges, just two days ahead of the November 3rd election. The coalition, which included the group "Jews for Trump" and several Long Island-based organizations, convened at various checkpoints throughout Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as part of the nationwide #MAGADrag event. The NYC convoy was accompanied by an NYPD escort, which did not intervene as participants halted traffic on the Whitestone Bridge to wave pro-Trump and pro-police flags in the roadway. The group continued upstate, later taking over the Mario Cuomo Bridge, according to video posted by Freedom News TV. A separate Trump motorcade blocked the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, reportedly shutting down express lanes for miles.