Politics

Former President Donald Trump won Kentucky for the third consecutive election on Tuesday, adding eight electoral votes to his tally.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Rep. Thomas Massie won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Kentucky on Tuesday. Massie was unopposed in the northern Kentucky district. In the primary, he easily defeated two challengers.

South Dakota will decide Tuesday whether to add protections for abortion rights to the state constitution and potentially overturn the state's abortion ban.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A voter filed a lawsuit against a county in ruby-red West Virginia on Tuesday calling for a special election after close to 700 people cast erroneous ballots that omitted the name of a Democratic state senate candidate.

The final answer may or may not come on Tuesday, but news organizations that have spent months reporting on the presidential campaign between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump finally have the opportunity to report on actual results.

WINNIPEG — A public memorial honouring former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools, Murray Sinclair, is set to take place in Winnipeg on Sunday.

WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) — A judge in a rural Virginia city has ordered two officials there to certify the results of the election after they filed a lawsuit last month threatening not to certify unless they could hand-count the ballots.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the co-founder of The Home Depot, a billionaire philanthropist, and a big Republican donor, has died. He was 95.

BATON ROUGE, La.

OTTAWA — Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says she will relentlessly stress the importance of transparency by default if she's allowed to continue in her job.