Today's headlines: Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will be stepping down from her leadership position in January after two decades of leadership. The republicans who are expected to chair the House Oversight Committee next session have already expressed their plan to lay out evidence that the Biden family is defrauding the United States. Democrat Mary Pelota in Alaska will be heading to the House of Representatives after defeating republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich; Karen Bass won her race for mayor of Los Angeles. John Kelly has revealed that when Trump was in office he repeatedly stated that he wanted the IRS to investigate a number of his political enemies. Finally for today, Ticketmaster announced that they’re NOT going to be holding a general ticket sale for Taylor Swift’s tour as they don’t have enough tickets.

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Today's headlines: Republicans have officially won control of the House of Representatives, with the current seat count at 218 to 210 seats for Democrats; The Respect for Marriage Act received enough votes for the Senate to agree to vote on it; Mitch McConnell has officially been re-elected minority leader. Oregon voters approved a measure to strengthen gun ownership requirements in the state. The missile that killed two Polish citizens was most likely an accident. Revolutionary protests against the Islamic Republic in Iran continue to escalate, with four protesters being sentenced to death. Finally for today, NASA launched its Artemis I rocket yesterday, which is expected to pave the way for the US to send astronauts to the moon for the first time since the 1970s.

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Today's headlines: Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential run from Mar-a-Lago last night. Control of the House of Representatives is still not officially decided, with Republicans one seat short of the 218 majority while Democrats hold 207 seats. Rick Scott will challenge Mitch McConnell for the Senate Republican leader. Two Polish citizens were killed yesterday near Poland’s border with Ukraine, after possibly being hit by heavy Russian strikes. Finally for today, the Mormon Church announced yesterday that it will support proposed federal legislation that would safeguard same-sex marriage and interracial marriage.

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Today's headlines: Control of the House of Representatives is still not clear, with Republicans holding 212 seats to the Democrats’ 204.The  governor’s race in Arizona was called last night for democrat Katie Hobbs. Voters in Nevada last week approved a measure that would establish ranked-choice voting in the state, while Georgia election officials have banned early voting on the Saturday before election. US intelligence officials have reportedly compiled a classified report detailing efforts by the United Arab Emirates to manipulate the American political system. A student at the University of Virginia opened fire on his classmates, killing 3 yesterday. A second federal court has issued another order blocking the Biden administration’s student debt relief program. Finally for today, 48 thousand academic staff members at the University of California’s school system went on strike yesterday.

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Today's headlines: Democrats now control 50 senate seats to the Republican’s 49. Nevada has elected Republican Joe Lombardo as governor, but rejected one of the worst republican election deniers in the country, Jim Marchant, as their Secretary of State. Nevadans also voted to add a state constitutional amendment to increase the minimum wage to $12 dollars an hour by 2024. In Toledo, Ohio, the city council approved $800,000 dollars to purchase the medical debt of its residents, creating roughly $200 million in debt relief. Trump claims he sent the FBI to Florida to stop voter fraud in 2018, while officials say no such thing happened. Elon Musk spent the weekend tweeting his way into potential bankruptcy, while the company is operating with half of a staff and serious internal turmoil. Finally for today, FTX, One of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges run by Sam Bankman-Fried, has spent multiple millions of dollars trying to lobby the government to implement easy regulations on the growing crypto industry.

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Today's headlines: Control of Congress is still undecided but, the count in the Senate now stands at 49-49, after the Arizona senate race was called for democrat Mark Kelly late last night. Montana voters rejected a measure that would have required health care providers to take "reasonable actions" to save an infant who is born alive or face felony criminal charges and fines up to 50 thousand dollars. Several top privacy executives resigned from Twitter yesterday, including the chiefs of information security, privacy, and compliance; Elon Musk also sent an email to every employee of twitter at 2:30am, announcing the end of remote work and letting them know that they were required to return to the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week. Finally for this week, a Connecticut judge has ordered Alex Jones and his company to pay an additional $473 million dollars in punitive damages to Sandy Hook families.

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Today's headlines: As of this recording at midnight eastern time this morning, control of both the House and Senate still remain up in the air - 49 seats for the Republicans and 48 for the Democrats. In New York, voters approved a $4.2 billion dollar bond to pay for major projects as a response to climate change and pollution. South Dakota voted to amend the state constitution to expand Medicaid to all adults who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Missouri voters approved a ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana for adults over 21. Universal free lunch passed with 55 percent of the vote in Colorado. Alabama, Tennessee, Vermont and Oregon have removed slavery loopholes from their constitution, while Louisiana has not. Finally for today, President Biden gave a speech about the midterm results, and the Kremlin is reportedly pulling its troops out of the key city of Kherson.

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Today's headlines: Congress is still undecided as of now, with 221 seats for Republicans, and 214 for Democrats with control leaning likely towards republicans, but not all races have been called. Right now the Senate is tied 48-48, with races in Arizona and Nevada still not fully counted. In Arizona, we likely won’t know the results of the governor and Senate races until tomorrow at the earliest. So far, only 80 of the 300 election deniers nationwide were elected into office. Finally, Tina Kotek has been elected governor of Oregon, making her the second out lesbian elected to lead any state, and Louisville judge Mary Shaw has lost her race in Missouri.

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Today's headlines: Our first look at Election results is here! In the House of Representatives, the Democrats currently hold 217 seats, while the Republicans have 218, with numerous races not called yet. Overall, Democrats had way more wins than most polling had indicated. The Republican's best performance happened in Florida, where Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio and Matt Gaetz were all reelected. More results arrive tomorrow!

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Today's headlines: Election Day is here - 16.7 billion dollars has been spent on it, with almost 8 of those billions alone being spent on niche state and local races. Republican officials and candidates in at least 3 battleground states have been pushing to disqualify thousands of mail ballots In Pennsylvania; In Michigan, the republican nominee for Secretary of State sued an election official in Detroit; in Wisconsin, Republicans won a court ruling that will prevent some mail ballots from being counted. And finally for today, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin made the first open admission that he had interfered in the US elections in the past.

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