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Osmanu says there are at least 900 DSA members in Connecticut. He says they’re small in number, but that’s not stopping them from celebrating their electoral victories. They picked up an extra councilman-at-large seat in Hamden, and won reelection in New London and New Britain as four DSA members won council seats within their municipalities.

House Republicans still have no plan to elect a Speaker and the fight over the future is splitting the party.

Arizona Democrats are pressing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., over her handling of negotiations on the party's big spending package in Congress.

Britain's Conservative government laid out its plans for the next year in a tradition-steeped ceremony in Parliament — but without Queen Elizabeth II, who was absent for the first time in six decades.

Democrats won two hard-fought governorships of Virginia and New Jersey in Tuesday's off-year elections. In California, voters rejected eight ballot measures, including propositions backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But there was a key victory for the GOP -- New Yorkers re-elected Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Madeleine Brand discusses the results of the vote with Slate political correspondent John Dickerson.

A competitive Republican primary highlights the open Senate contest in Missouri. One of the GOP candidates is causing some to worry that if he wins, it could put the Republican-held seat in jeopardy.

China is warning it will respond with "strong measures" if U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi travels to Taiwan. China claims Taiwan as its territory.

Israel goes to the polls this week, in the fifth election in less than four years.

Itaewon was the location of a deadly stampede in Seoul Saturday night. Some 100,000 people were estimated to have passed through the area.

President Biden is on his biggest midterm campaign outing yet, a trip that is taking him to Colorado, California and Oregon. But compared to past presidents, he hasn't been on the road that much.\