NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Adam Hamilton, a pastor who became the first Democrat in nearly a century to win a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas.

Senate control hangs in the balance as Americans head to the polls in one of the most closely watched midterm elections in years.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said “America is back” as CNN projects that Democrats will gain control of both the House and Senate.

Because of an "ordering" mishap, a voting location in Linwood, Kansas, briefly ran out of ballots around 8 a.m. Tuesday. "We were able to figure that out really fast."

"At that point, her contractions were about five minutes apart," said Jake Fisher, Shawnee County assistant election commissioner. "... She goes, ‘I'm here to vote, and I'm going to vote my ballot.'"

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is set to hold a press conference Wednesday morning after Democrats pulled off a stunning midterm comeback, winning control of both chambers of Congress. Democrats flipped GOP-held Senate seats in states including Texas, South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa, delivering a major blow to President Trump and the GOP. Decision […]

In the once reliably red South, Republicans shed Senate seats in both Carolinas while Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff enjoyed a commanding reelection victory. The missing Republicans in the Plains states stayed missing as Republicans lost Iowa — a state Trump won thrice — and Kansas,

Election Day 2026 revealed just how much of the country loathes Silicon Valley’s data center projects. Communities across the nation voted on 41 data center-related ballot initiatives on Tuesday. The measures were introduced in California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. TK Number of those municipalities voted to keep data centers out. Twenty-eight localities in six states specifically...