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The state has 19 electoral votes and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held a blitz of rallies on eve of electionTo celebrate his anniversary this year, Phil Haegele joined the back of a long line at a polling station with his wife on a warm autumn afternoon and waited to cast his ballot for Donald Trump.It was the first time that Haegele, a 47-year-old plumber, cast an early ballot. But he had heard on the radio that a judge had extended early voting in Bucks county, a battleground in south-eastern Pennsylvania where he lives. He proceeded to get bombarded with “probably 50 text messages” encouraging him to come out and vote, so he did. Continue reading...

While Republicans are looking to expand control of the lower chamber, Democrats need only five seats to winUS election 2024 live: latest polls, results and updatesAll 435 members of the US House of Representatives face re-election on Tuesday, with Republicans looking to expand their narrow majority after two chaotic years in power.Control of the lower chamber appears to be a true toss-up, as Democrats only need to win five more seats than they did in 2022 to regain their majority. The country may have to wait days to learn who won the House, given that it took more than a week to make that call in 2022, but early results in battlegrounds like North Carolina’s first district and Virginia’s seventh district will give the first clues as to how Americans voted. Continue reading...

Calling the Harris-Trump race could take days – here’s what to know about the presidential and congressional resultsUS election 2024 live: latest polls, results and updatesOver the last 25 years, Americans have regularly found themselves up into the early morning hours waiting for news organizations to make the decisive call of the last state needed to put a presidential candidate in the White House, and to learn who controls Congress.A moment like this on election night in 2000 led to our common language of Republican states as red states and Democratic states as blue states, as the US watched the Meet the Press host Tim Russert on NBC talk late through the night about what was happening in Florida.Don’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...

Gut bacteria changes from toxic ‘forever chemicals’ can decrease kidney function, research also suggestsA new study links toxic PFAS “forever chemical” exposure in young adults to reduced gut health, which researchers suspect is a driver of kidney disease later in life.Kidney disease is one of the well-established health problems linked to PFAS exposure, and the new research suggests changes in gut bacteria and associated metabolites caused by the chemicals seems to be responsible for up to 50% of a decrease in kidney function seen over a four-year period. Continue reading...

Party faces uphill struggles with incumbents trying to hold 23 seats while only 11 Republicans are up for re-electionUS election 2024 live: latest polls, results and updatesThirty-four seats in the US Senate – one-third of the 100-member chamber – are up for grabs on Tuesday in contests that could influence the makeup of the new administration, impact the balance on the supreme court and shape policy on areas ranging from foreign affairs to abortion.Democrats are trying to cling to a one-seat majority with the knowledge that the odds appear stacked against them given the impending retirement of the West Virginia senator Joe Manchin and the likelihood that his seat will almost certainly fall to a Republican. Continue reading...

AP’s David Scott talks about how the newsroom predicts who won, the ‘red mirage’, and one county’s whiteboardUS election 2024 live: latest polls, results and updatesThe way the US counts votes is unique. In fact, there is no one central vote-counting system but rather tens of thousands of them in local precincts all across the country.To help determine who has won where, the Guardian and many other newsrooms rely on the Associated Press, which has been calling US elections since 1848. (Some television networks, such as CNN, use their own analysis of results to make race calls.) Continue reading...

Here is an hour-by-hour guide on how to watch election night like an expertIt may have felt like it would never happen, but the day is here. After months of anxiety-inducing uncertainty and a seemingly endless series of history-making events, the US presidential race will (finally) come to a close on Tuesday.Americans – along with so many people around the world – will gather around their televisions and phone screens to learn who will be the next president of the United States: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Continue reading...

State department says Israel is still not doing enough to meet certain requirements to avoid potential sanctions ahead of a looming 30-day deadlinePalestinian media sources report that Hezbollah claims to have targeted Israeli forces in the north of the country at Dovev, which is close to the UN-drawn blue line that separates Lebanon and Israel.Earlier the Israeli military reported that warning sirens were sounding in the Upper Galilee area. Continue reading...

Dramatic debates, a president stepping down and two assassination attempts are just some of the standout events It has been called the most critical election in US history, and it has certainly been one of the wildest races, with an incumbent president stepping down late in the campaign, a criminal guilty verdict for one of the candidates and a couple of assassination attempts. We revisit the key moments, played out against the backdrop of two seismic global conflicts, of a political struggle that holds American democracy itself in the balance. Continue reading...

With no clear swing-state advantage for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the US is poised for a long – and tense – wait for resultsUS election 2024 live: latest polls, results and updatesElection day has arrived in America, with tens of millions of voters set to head to the polls on Tuesday in one of the closest and most consequential contests in modern US history.The Democrat Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, appear locked in a knife-edge contest with hardly any daylight between the pair in national opinion polls that have barely budged in weeks. Continue reading...