Politics

The day after the midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi celebrated the many women who won their respective campaigns and will be heading to Washington. One of them is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who will represent New York's 14th Congressional District. Mikie Sherrill, a political newcomer, will represent New Jersey's 11th CD.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has won a third term by beating Republican Marc Molinaro. The Democrat was seen from the start as the prohibitive favorite in the race, with big advantages in fundraising and name-recognition. He worked throughout the campaign to link Molinaro to President Donald Trump, who is unpopular with many New Yorkers.

Millions of Americans came to polling sites across the country on Tuesday to cast their ballots in a crucial test of President Trump's power and influence. Some voters lined up before the sun rose, some stood for hours or braved pouring rain or snow to vote in an election that will determine control of Congress and render a verdict on Trump's first two years in office.

NBC, Fox News Channel and Facebook all said Monday they will stop airing President Donald Trump's campaign advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of killing two police officers.

Voters are anxious. Uncertainty helps create anxiety. And elections are uncertain. But don't expect all of that anxiety to end after Election Day, experts say.

Messages of hate have been directed at both parties in Long Island's first congressional district seen throughout the streets of Suffolk County leading up to the midterm elections. Democratic challenger Perry Gershon is accusing Zeldin of running a campaign of phony lies. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican incumbent, said his opponent is bringing the campaign in the gutter.

The final weekend of campaigning in the midterms might come down to this: Donald Trump versus Barack Obama. The Republican president and his Democratic predecessor are both lending their considerable political clout to key Senate and gubernatorial battlegrounds in Indiana, Florida and Georgia this weekend, aiming to motivate voters before Tuesday's election.

Students at Hofstra University will be producing a live broadcast on election night that will appear on television, radio, Facebook, and on the web.

Rapper Kanye West says he's being used.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg is officially a Democrat again. He announced that he has registered as a Democrat after being unaffiliated for many years. He was also a registered Republican when he was first elected mayor of New York in 2001.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has defeated Democratic primary challenger Cynthia Nixon to win his party's nomination for a third term. Cuomo had far greater financial resources going into the matchup, and polls suggested he held a commanding lead before Thursday's primary.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign says a campaign worker created a mailer questioning Cynthia Nixon's support for Jewish people. The widely condemned flier came out days before Thursday's Democratic primary matchup between Cuomo and Nixon, a longtime activist and former "Sex and the City" star. It says Nixon opposes Jewish school funding, supports boycotts of Israel and is silent on rising antisemitism.

When it comes to voting in New York's state and local primaries, the statement "I normally don't vote" applies to a great majority of millions of voting-age residents. The turnout in 2016's state primaries topped out at around 11 percent, likely at least partially thanks to New York's tradition of holding federal, state, and presidential primaries on different days.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon swapped insults and clashed over policy Wednesday in their only scheduled debate before the Sept. 13 Democratic primary.

Democrats and Republicans vying to be governor of the state of Connecticut are having their primaries. Who sits in the office at the statehouse really depends on who turns out more people: the Democrats who are running against President Donald Trump and his unpopularity in this state or the Republicans who are running against Gov. Dan Malloy, a Democrat who is also unpopular in the state.

Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to "clarify" his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he had misspoken when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.