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Day of the Dead and US midterms: photos of the day

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Democrats poised to flip House in midterm elections after two turbulent years of Trump

Victory for party comes despite unusual and aggressive efforts by Republicans to redraw congressional districts

Ukraine war briefing: race to free dozens trapped under rubble of Russian strikes on aid hub

Zelenskyy says 33 killed while more than 50 could be trapped in the rubble in Komyshuvakha; Russia hammers Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. What we know on day 1,715

Democrat Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire Senate race to become first out gay senator

Pappas focused campaign against Republican John Sununu on serving as a bulwark against Trump administration

Republican Ashley Moody defeats progressive Angie Nixon in Florida Senate race

Moody is elected over Nixon in a contest seen as a measure of whether the state remains reliably Republican

Prosecutors to drop charges against Russian-born Harvard scientist accused of smuggling frog embryos

US House projected to flip to Democratic control as Trump braces for 'bad night'

Canada joins coalition refusing to play ice hockey against Russia over Ukraine war

Growing number of countries are resisting Russia’s reintegration into international hockey after a sports court lifted a ban on competition

Jon Ossoff wins Georgia Senate race over Republican Mike Collins

Rising Democratic star made his re-election campaign a referendum on the Trump administration’s misdeeds

Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms Makes US History as First Black Woman to Be Elected State Governor

Billionaire Rick Jackson was favored to win until ex-Atlanta mayor campaigned with Barack Obama and Jon Ossoff

Christa Pike 'has rare blood cancer' as death row inmate issues desperate plea

Court documents reveal that convicted murderer Christa Pike is reportedly suffering from a rare form of cancer. The papers disclose that Ms Pike's legal representatives attempted to raise concerns that her diagnosis could affect her execution by lethal injection, two months before she remarkably survived the capital punishment procedure.

Democrat Annie Andrews flips South Carolina Senate seat held by Republicans since 1998

Andrews ran a campaign on healthcare affordability and beat Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham to win

Houses of Parliament could face 'Notre Dame-style fire' as renovation costs skyrocket

US House projected to flip to Democratic control as Trump braces for 'bad night'