Predictions from five leading US political websites suggest that 12 states lie at the heart of the battle for control of the US Senate in the mid-term elections. Democratic two-term Senator ...

Democrats failed to move forward on a bill that would have ended a tax break critics say rewards companies who send jobs abroad. Legislation is going nowhere ahead of Election 2010.

All the results of the 2010 US mid-term elections, including the Senate, House of Representatives, governors' elections and ballot initiatives in individual states.

The 39-year-old Tea Party favourite beat not only his Democrat rival to Florida's Senate seat, but also the Republican Governor, Charlie Crist, who ended up campaigning as an independent.

US Republicans ride a wave of economic unease to win the lower house of Congress in key elections, but President Obama's party keeps the Senate.