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All of these seats were in districts redrawn in 2023 to favor Republican candidates.

Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.

Plus, billions of dollars in orders are complicating an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and the blue wave sets off a potential regime change in markets.

Democrats won control of the House on Tuesday by flipping more than three dozen Republican-held seats, picking up perennial swing districts and seats that were once considered deep red.

Democrats have flipped seven Senate seats, nearly 30 House districts, five governorships and up to 12 state legislative chambers in a historic 2026 midterm rout.

ABC News projects that the Democratic Party has won a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate. Here’s how Democrats won some key races to get there.

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Several key races – particularly in the Senate – were at the heart of this emphatic win. We track which seats were flipped and retained – and which are still in play.

Craig Starcevich, a two-time premiership coach, confirmed he’d received a call from Collingwood to gauge his interest in returning to his former club.

Twenty-one days and an "army" of voters is all it took for a social media movement to grow so vocal it delivered Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva an historic fourth presidential term.

Defence has since confirmed one of the six-wheeled vehicles had tipped over in a previous training exercise, after the ABC revealed it had photographic evidence of the incident.