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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.

Democrat Roy Cooper has won North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, according to a race call from the Associated Press, providing the party with a key Senate flip.

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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts about tonight's midterm elections.

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Zelenskyy says 33 killed while more than 50 could be trapped in the rubble in Komyshuvakha; Russia hammers Ukraine’s ⁠energy infrastructure. What we know on day 1,715

Thirty-three people were killed and more than 50 could be trapped in rubble a day after multiple Russian strikes on a Ukrainian village, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday, calling it one of Moscow’s worst attacks of the war. Rescue operations were ongoing in the frontline south-eastern village of Komyshuvakha, where Russian forces had struck a former school building that Ukraine said was being used to distribute aid. The attack hit after a ceasefire held for several days in the Kherson region, Pjotr Saeur reports, allowing for a rare humanitarian mission.

Russia bombarded Ukraine’s ⁠energy infrastructure in waves on Tuesday, knocking out power to swathes of the country with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, a week before US-brokered peace talks were due to resume. Zelenskyy said Russia had launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight, hitting power plants and substations from the Black Sea port of Odesa in the south to Rivne in the west. Ukraine’s largest private generating company, DTEK, said three of its five thermal power plants had been knocked offline. The Kyiv ‌mayor, Vitali Klitschko, writing on Telegram, described the situation with power in the city as “extremely difficult”.

A further suspect has been arrested in connection with a fire at a Polish Starlink station in September, German prosecutors said Tuesday. The Turkish national was detained in the southern German city of Reutlingen, three weeks after two other Turkish suspects were also arrested in Germany over the same case. The two men arrested in October are in custody ahead of their possible extradition to Poland. Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has called the fire an “act of hybrid warfare”, at a time when Ukraine’s allies have accused Moscow of such hybrid attacks.

Ukraine has opened an investigation into reports a group of alleged army deserters had been held against their will, an incident that renewed focus on the sensitive issue of military conscription during Russia’s invasion. The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) announced the probe after reports circulated on social media of “the allegedly illegal detention of soldiers” at a house in the Kyiv region, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Agence France-Presse reported videos circulating on social media showed angry crowds outside the house, where the SBI said clashes had erupted.

Management at Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ⁠said on Tuesday that a Ukrainian drone had killed two people ⁠in a car, ⁠including a ​female employee. The statement gave no indication where the ⁠incident occurred. It said the employee was the third killed in the past ⁠two weeks and the 13th since April. “Attacks on ​civilian cars, killing ‌of peaceful ‌people – this is targeted terrorism. People must not ‌become targets,” the statement said. Ukraine did not comment.

Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Czech Republic will refuse to play Russia at the next year’s men’s Ice Hockey world championship in Germany due to safety concerns and ⁠geopolitical tensions, their national federations said ⁠Tuesday. The Court of ​Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled last week to allow Russia to compete in International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) events again, overturning the governing body’s decision to exclude Russian teams following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.