Voters are going to the polls across the United States on Tuesday, casting ballots in a midterm election that will determine the control of U.S. Congress during the remaining two years of President Donald Trump’s term.
Among the races to watch are seats in three districts that Republicans won in 2024, but also where a majority of voters supported Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
According to EAC data, most voting precincts count votes by using electronic scanners to read paper ballots.
VOA's Michael Lipin reports on what the midterms could mean for the last two years of the president’s foreign policy agenda.
Voters across the United States have already begun casting ballots in the midterm elections that are being closely watched as Democrats and Republicans battle for control of Congress.
Marefati was convicted in March 2026 by an Islamic revolutionary court in Tehran on charges alleging participation in activities against national security, entering religious sites with the intent to destroy them, and participating in the burning of a mosque and a religious seminary.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told members of the National Assembly’s intelligence and defense committee last month that North Korea has laid an estimated 960,000 land mines in the Demilitarized Zone since 2024.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health announced that the campaign, in coordination with international partners, would run from November 2 through November 5. The campaign will extend to the Southern Zone from November 3 through 6, and in the Logar Province from November 9 through 13.
Representative John Moolenaar, the chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is calling on Beijing to release all political prisoners in China.
Afghanistan ranked 142nd out of 143 countries in the WJP’s 2026 Rule of Law Index, published in October, just ahead of Venezuela, while Denmark, Norway and Finland occupied the top three positions.
A Russian human rights group says at least 69 people subjected to political persecution have died in Russia or Russian-occupied territory since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022.
The U.S. military has released a clear image showing China's secretive reusable spaceplane docked with a satellite in orbit.
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