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The districts that will decide control of the House and Senate next year are spread across the country. Voting officials in those places may face scrutiny and pressure they've never experienced.
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Democrat Amy Acton, Ohio's former health director, will be the state's next governor. Her win marks the first time in two decades that Ohioans have elected a Democrat to lead the state.
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The twin victories in the House and Senate return the Democratic Party to full control of Congress and deepen the level of expected friction between President Trump and congressional Democrats.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Eric Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, about how mid-decade redistricting affected the results of the midterms.
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Votes are still being counted to determine who will represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate. Democrat Scott Colom was only a handful of votes ahead of Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith early Wednesday.
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In Nairobi, a city prone to floods, workers in the "Green Army" are making preparations to prevent disaster when El Niño arrives.
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What makes special education teaching jobs so hard to fill? NPR set out to find some answers by talking to more than a dozen teachers who do this work every day.
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