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The 29-year-old Ethiopian immigrant was one of several candidates to win with backing from the Democratic Socialists of America or its local chapters.

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Keisha Lance Bottoms' win marks the first time Georgia has elected a Democratic governor in more than 20 years.

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the legacy of the Democratic Party.

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Donalds, who billed campaign as ‘a continuation of the DeSantis-era of success’, becomes state’s first black governor

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Republican Byron Donalds will be the next governor of Florida, and its first Black leader, after defeating Democrat David Jolly in one of the country’s most-watched midterm races.

Donalds was endorsed by Donald Trump and appeared twice with the president at rallies in the campaign’s closing days despite previously appearing to distance himself. He will succeed Ron DeSantis, the former presidential candidate who will be termed out of office in January.

Donalds, who was backed early by President Trump, will become the state's first Black governor.

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State’s ex-governor bests Michael Whatley, ex-chair of Republican National Committee, by focusing on lower costs

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Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s former governor, will be the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate in 10 years, after defeating Michael Whatley, a former chair of the Republican National Committee.

Cooper will succeed the outgoing Republican Thom Tillis and his win marked the first Senate seat to turn blue in this year’s midterms.

Moody is elected over Nixon in a contest seen as a measure of whether the state remains reliably Republican

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Ashley Moody fended off a challenge from Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist, to win Florida’s special election and retain her seat in the US Senate.

It was the first election win for the Republican, who was appointed by Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis in January 2025, when Marco Rubio became US secretary of state. Moody will serve the remainder of his term until the 2028 election.

Growing number of countries are resisting Russia’s reintegration into international hockey after a sports court lifted a ban on competition

Canada has joined a coalition of countries refusing to play ⁠ice ​hockey teams from Russia, with prime minister Mark Carney saying Russian skaters will not be able to compete in ⁠a world junior championship next month due to the war in Ukraine.

“While Russia and Belarus are supporting this illegal, unjustified, horrific ‌war in Ukraine, as long as that’s going on, there will be none of ​those athletes competing for their countries in Canada,” Carney told reporters on Tuesday.

Growing number of countries are resisting Russia’s reintegration into international hockey after a sports court lifted a ban on competition

Canada has joined a coalition of countries refusing to play ⁠ice ​hockey teams from Russia due to the war in Ukraine, with Mark Carney saying Russian skaters will not be able to compete in ⁠the world junior championship next month.

“While Russia and Belarus are supporting this illegal, unjustified, horrific ‌war in Ukraine, as long as that’s going on, there will be none of ​those athletes competing for their countries in Canada,” the prime minister told reporters on Tuesday.

Pappas focused campaign against Republican John Sununu on serving as a bulwark against Trump administration

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Chris Pappas, the four-term Democratic congressman, has won New Hampshire’s US Senate race, protecting the open seat from a Republican flip in a closely fought contest against John Sununu, the former senator.

Pappas, 46, is a centrist voice in the US House who has at times broken with his party on major legislation. He focused his Senate campaign on serving as a bulwark against the Trump administration, which is unpopular in the Granite State. Pappas will be the first out gay man to serve in the US Senate.

Rising Democratic star made his re-election campaign a referendum on the Trump administration’s misdeeds

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Jon Ossoff, a rising star in the Democratic party who has been cited as a potential presidential contender in 2028, has been re-elected to the Senate in Georgia, defeating Mike Collins, his Republican challenger.

The senator made his re-election campaign a referendum on the Trump administration’s misdeeds, highlighting self-serving stock trades and business deals by the president and others in his orbit, as well as the consequences of the war in Iran and Trump’s trade policies on the pocketbooks of Georgia’s voters.

Pappas focused campaign against Republican John Sununu on serving as a bulwark against Trump administration

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Chris Pappas, the four-term Democratic congressman, has won New Hampshire’s US Senate race, making him the first out gay man to serve in the upper chamber.

Pappas, 46, is a centrist voice in the US House who has at times broken with his party on major legislation. He focused his Senate campaign on serving as a bulwark against the Trump administration, which is unpopular in the Granite State, and defeated the former senator John Sununu in a closely fought contest.