Washington — It's one week after Election Day 2024, and while control of the White House and the Senate have been decided, in a handful of races for the U.S. House of Representatives, the results are still outstanding, and their outcomes will determine Republicans' margins in the lower chamber.

Control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance, teetering between a Republican or Democratic majority with more than a dozen races left to be called.

In what is likely to be the narrowest margin of victory since 2000, Trump probably benefitted from who stayed home.

The Associated Press surveys the numbers posted by local election officials and projects the winner using vote returns and other data. Races can be called within minutes of polls closing on election night. However, if a race has tight margins or an expected high volume of mail-in ballots, it can take longer to call.

An estimated daily suicide count published by a data aggregator based on past statistics has been shared online since Nov. 6 misrepresented as suicide reports linked to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.

Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that so far has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump’s loss.

With the results of several races outstanding, it remains to be see which party will control the House of Representatives after Election Day on Nov. 5.

Registered voters tend to hold onto their vote-by-mail ballots until election day and all turn them in at once, said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. C

Republican Kari Lake lost Arizona's Senate election to Democrat Ruben Gallego, but MAGA supporters have cast doubt on the outcome.

Election offices in over half of Minnesota’s 87 counties have received bomb threats since Friday, Secretary of State Steve Simon said Tuesday.

PROVIDENCE — Nine candidates who lost their elections in Rhode Island last week are asking for a recount, though only six are expected to qualify.