election 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders on Tuesday, there's little expectation it will usher in a new era of cooperation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress' approval rating hovers around 15 percent, but there's one group of people excited about the institution: newly elected lawmakers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A political gambit by an endangered Senate Democrat is breaking loose long-stalled legislation to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline as the lame-duck Congress returns to a Capitol in which the results of last week's GOP blowout are still sinking in.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Mark Maynard owns a used car lot, runs a towing business and sometimes works on a professional drag racing pit crew.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's Washington's billion-dollar question: whether President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans can really make nice and forestall ever-greater dysfunction under divided government.

Should election day be a national holiday?

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York voters have agreed to let the state borrow $2 billion so school districts can buy computers, connect to the Internet, improve security and build classrooms for prekindergarten students.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans aren't yet done adding to their numbers in the Senate. They've now won more than the six seats they needed to control the Senate next year.

The Associated Press is calling the New York governor race in favor of incumbent Andrew Cuomo.

Here are the (Unofficial) results from the 2014 elections