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The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents

As thousands of U.S. counties and towns report vote totals, it can be hard to figure out when the results reported so far will reflect the outcome

Powerful Hurricane Milton is closing in on Florida's Gulf Coast

Powerful Hurricane Milton has made landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm

Hurricane Milton spawned dozens of tornadoes and barreled across Florida, knocking out power to millions, damaging homes, causing flooding and leading to hundreds of residents needing rescue

Cleanup from Hurricane Milton is underway as residents are returning home after the storm barreled across Florida

The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton directly struck Tampa Bay was 1921 when the city was a sleepy backwater

U.S.-arranged flights have brought about 250 Americans and their relatives out of Lebanon this week during escalated fighting between Israel and Hezbollah

A lawyer for a New York City subway rider who was inadvertently shot in the head by police at a station has filed a legal claim against the city, accusing the officers of showing “carelessness and reckless” disregard for bystanders’ lives when they opened fire on a man holding a knife in front of a train

The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract