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A costly campaign by abortion-rights advocates for state supreme court seats yielded mixed results in Tuesday's election, ...

Former Greenacres Mayor Joel Flores won the first election in the new District 3, whose boundaries were redrawn to give it a Hispanic majority.

While Donald Trump is notorious for threatening government shutdowns, his presidential victory could lower the risk of crossing another fiscal cliff next year: the debt ceiling.