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The Florida secretary of state ordered recounts in the U.S. Senate and governor races on Saturday, an unprecedented review of two major races in the state that took five weeks to decide the 2000 presidential election.

Here are the winning numbers in Friday's Mega Millions lottery drawing.

As the last votes are counted and the last candidates conceded, which party actually won?

Here are the winning numbers in Wednesday's Powerball lottery drawing.

Now that the 2018 midterms are over, what do you do with all your election swag?

Sessions announced his plan to resign in a letter to the White House on Wednesday.

The Mega Millions jackpot is back on the climb after a single winning ticket claimed a $1.6 billion jackpot last month.

The grief-stricken widow of a Utah mayor killed in Afghanistan paid tribute to her husband on Election Day by urging Americans to get out and vote and carry on his legacy in fighting for democracy.

The U.S. Olympic Committee is moving to revoke USA Gymnastics' status as the governing body for the sport at the Olympic level, meting out the nuclear option to an organization that has botched its own reorganization in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal involving former team doctor Larry Nassar.

Reed, who had served as the North Shore's DA for 30 years, was convicted in 2016 on corruption charges.