Most states improved improved their election performance between 2008 and 2012, with overall wait times at polling stations decreasing in many places.

Live election results and maps for North Dakota, including the race for President, Congress and statewide ballot measures.

A United Nations treaty to ban discrimination against people with disabilities went down to defeat in the Senate on Tuesday in a 61-38 vote.

Casey's victory also cements a seat that Democrats had counted on in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate. Casey, 52, of Scranton, an ally of organized labor, had been a heavy, early ...