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2026 election results

 

Tracking U.S. House retirement announcements

Legislators are announcing they won’t run for reelection earlier in the cycle, putting Congress on track for record turnover, according to an Associated Press analysis.

 

The secret world of animal sleep

Thanks to miniaturized sleep labs, scientists are able to track the extreme ways animals snooze in risky environments.

 

Takeaways from the 2025 general election, in charts

After voters swung toward Republican Donald Trump during last fall’s presidential election, states like Virginia and New Jersey swung back towards Democratic candidates at nearly the same velocity as 2024’s shift, an Associated Press analysis of election data from this week found.

 

How key demographic groups voted in 2025, according to the AP Voter Poll

There were signs in the AP Voter Poll that there’s plenty of room for Democrats to make up ground among groups that moved toward President Donald Trump in last year’s election.

 

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds

A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

 

Tracking approval and key issues: The latest AP-NORC polls

New and historicpolling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on presidential approval, the U.S. economy and other issues.