BERLIN (AP) — Around the world, throngs packed outdoor plazas and pubs to await U.S. elections results Tuesday, many inspired by Barack Obama's promise of change amid a sense of relief that —...

Republicans saw a chance to take back power in several state legislatures Tuesday, while Democrats hoped voter enthusiasm for the White House would boost their chances to pick up seats. In more than a...

Democrat Barack Obama joined the nation's earliest voters Tuesday as people around the nation began lining up to cast ballots in a historic election pitting Republican John McCain against the man seeking...

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin returned to where her political career began to cast her vote in the snow-dusted, two-story city hall where she once presided...

The Reilly Center has cancelled its plans to host an election watch party in the Student Union tonight. The event was cancelled because of concerns about keeping students on campus late enough to watch...

Lines stretched around buildings and crossed city blocks as people waited to cast ballots in the historic presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain. Touchscreen voting machines malfunctioned...

CHICAGO (AP) — Barack Obama unwound with a couple hours of basketball Tuesday as he awaited Election Day results that he hoped would give him not only the White House, but by a margin that would...

Preliminary results from a national Associated Press exit poll of voters in Tuesday's elections: THE ECONOMY DOMINATES Six in 10 voters picked the economy as the most important issue facing the nation....

WASHINGTON (AP) _ John McCain carried Kentucky, and Barack Obama countered with a Vermont victory as he bid to become the first black president Tuesday night, first spoils in the race for the White House....

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Pushing back against predictions of defeat, Republican John McCain scheduled campaign stops in two Western battlegrounds on Election Day after a seven-state sprint that brought...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats reached for a blowout at the polls Tuesday in heavy early congressional balloting that could add more than 20 seats to their House majority. Long lines formed as polls...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson continued to fight for political survival Tuesday in a Democratic primary runoff against a former television reporter who argued that scandal...