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Republicans were projected to win control of the U.S. Senate for the first time in four years in Tuesday’s U.S. elections, after the party flipped two seats previously held by Democrats. It remained too early to determine which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans currently hold a narrow majority.Both chambers of Congress will ultimately determine the legislative agenda for the country and will certify the winner of the presidential race between Donald Trump and U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris.For live coverage of the U.S. election, GlobalNews.ca has up-to-the-minute results along with coverage and analysis. 2:28 US election 2024: The races that will help de...

Canadians shouldn’t judge the quality of America’s democracy regardless if Kamala Harris or Donald Trump secure the presidency, the U.S. ambassador to Canada says. David Cohen told Global News on election night America has survived challenging elections in the past, and still remains prominent on the world stage more than 250 years since its creation.“I don’t think that you can judge the quality of the democracy by campaign rhetoric. You have to look more to governing and how people govern,” Cohen said Tuesday.“I certainly do not think that you can judge the quality of a nation’s democracy on the basis of the outcome, and the conduct of one election among hundreds of elections that are being held today.” 2:08 ...

Rudy Giuliani made a bold choice Tuesday afternoon, showing up to vote in the presidential election in a Mercedes-Benz convertible he was ordered to surrender last week. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was spotted Tuesday arriving at Donald Trump’s polling place in Florida in a 1980 Mercedes-Benz SL500, flouting last week’s deadline to hand over most of his assets to two Georgia election workers who won a US$148 million defamation judgment against him.Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss — the two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment — claim that in addition to the car, he also cleared out valuables from his Manhattan apartment and is refusing to answer questions about the location of most of the items subject to the ...

Polls began closing in Georgia and other states in the U.S. presidential race between U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, after millions of Americans cast their votes Tuesday. Preliminary exit poll results from multiple major U.S. media outlets released in the final hours of voting showed the economy, immigration and the state of democracy were key issues driving people to vote in the highly-consequential election that will determine control of the White House and Congress.Polls closed at 7 p.m. ET in Georgia, one of the key battleground states seen as crucial for Harris or Trump to win. However, some polling places in the state were allowed to remain open for slightly longer due to hoax bomb threats that delayed voting earlier Tuesday.The Associated Press declared Trump wo...