Alaska
Republican Sarah Palin re-emerged in Alaska politics over a decade after resigning as governor with hopes of winning the state’s U.S. House seat.
After winning an August vote to serve out an unexpired term, Peltola now gets a full two-year term in Congress.
The three-term senator, one of few moderates in the chamber, fended off a challenge from Donald Trump's endorsed candidate, Kelly Tshibaka.
As expected, it will take weeks to count votes for the Republican candidates under their state's new system of ranked choice voting.
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Neither gained the majority of votes needed to claim the seat outright under Alaska’s ranked choice voting system.
A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 8,435 miles.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce said he also had no plans to end his campaign just a few weeks before the Nov. 8 election.
The fate of the animals is "a canary in a coal mine for other species that need cold water," one researcher said.
747, named after the jumbo jet, weighs an estimated 1,400 pounds — but fraud nearly cost him the annual competition.
Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea.