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Even with their best opportunities to gain seats in years, Democrats so far have only picked up deep blue Illinois. They narrowly hung on in Nevada, which was Republicans' only offensive opportunity.

Election Day is finally here and NPR has everything you need to know about poll closing times.

Republicans are feeling the best they have this cycle about their chances of holding their majority, but even doing that requires several states to break their way on election night.

Republicans are hoping "check and balance" arguments can help save their majority, but Democrats have multiple paths to the four or five seats they need to win control of the Senate.

Nearly a year after Mikhail Lesin was found dead in a Washington, D.C., hotel, U.S. authorities say he died of blunt force injuries and that "acute ethanol intoxication" was a contributory cause.

Some down-ballot candidates are really embracing the non-traditional feel of this election year, especially when it comes to their advertisements.

The plan could include cash payments to individuals and communities that have been affected by the outbreak. But it has its critics.

States like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Missouri and North Carolina will be decisive, and they're all moving Democrats' way as Republicans are put further on the defensive by Donald Trump.

IBM's Deep Blue beat chess great Garry Kasparov in 1997. Humans and computers play the game differently, but have computers taught humans much about the game?

Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic's new editor, tells NPR about the magazine's unexpected endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president and anti-Semitic tweets directed at him and other journalists.