The race to represent Little Saigon and the rest of the 45th congressional district is coming down to the wire, with the ballot count released Friday night showing challenger Derek Tran, a Democrat who lives in Orange, closing the gap on Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Seal Beach, to just 58 votes.

Ten days after Election Day the registrar is still counting close races in Los Angeles County that are up in the air.

In the 2024 election, two states have had more than three-quarters of their eligible voting population cast a ballot so far, according to the Election Lab’s 2024 data. They are Minnesota (76.41%) and Wisconsin (76.37%), who had the highest rates of voter turnout among the states

Heading into the second weekend after Election Day, these local races in Orange County remain tight. Other races might not be as close, but with an estimated 74,700 ballots still to count in the county,

Election certification meetings in Nevada’s two most populous counties have been roiled by voting conspiracies.

In his first public remarks since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump thanked his allies and gloated over winning “the most consequential election” in a Thursday night speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Calls to a voting helpline increased massively relative to the 2020 election, according to data shared exclusively with Newsweek.

A large batch of absentee-ballot results reported late on election night from Milwaukee was normal under Wisconsin counting procedures and “forecasted,” the state Elections Commission chair said in response to posts online suggesting the sudden appearance of votes mostly favoring Democrats was proof of fraud.

Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights. For America's LGBTQ+-rights movement, it adds up to one of the most sustained setbacks in its history.

The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow all fell for the week, while pharmaceutical stocks slid after Trump picked anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. to lead HHS.