election day

The polls show a Democratic advantage in the House and a Republican one in the Senate. But be ready for anything because surprises in politics always happen.

In odd-numbered years, Election Day is a hodgepodge of races. But in an era when all politics is national, these low-profile elections have a lot to say about the direction of the country.

Tuesday is Election Day for many cities and towns across North Carolina.

A voting rights group called Tuesday for state and local officials to investigate whether allies of North Carolina's former governor and the state Republican Party broke laws when hundreds of peopl

Donald Trump won. Hillary Clinton lost. But 2016 is the election that no one — not even Trump himself — can get over.

With the long campaign almost at an end, the two candidates and their families head to their respective New York polling places.

The tradition goes back to the 19th century, when the U.S. was largely an agrarian, Christian society. People needed a day to travel by horse and buggy to vote and November was after the fall harvest.