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Texas elected its first blue senator, Kansas its first first in nearly a century — but how did the blue tsunami affect the US’s stock market.

Among the nine people aboard a private jet that plummeted to the ground Sunday afternoon in Florida were a 20-year-old co-pilot and a Texas family that included two young children.

The nine people onboard the fatal plane have been named as investigations continue.

The 20-year-old co-pilot heard in the Learjet’s heartbreaking final transmission posted an image of herself from the cockpit of a similar aircraft just months before.

Three customers and two employees were burned on and around their mouths after a granulated substance was mistaken for sugar, a health official said.

Republicans have secured an unexpected boost in Michigan, with an endorsement from a prominent Democrat,

Harrowing final transmissions have revealed frenzied final moments on board the Learjet 60 which crashed in Florida, killing all nine people on board.

Newly released police documents have shed light on the disappearance of a mother who vanished after appearing alongside her former fiance on a reality TV show. 

The US Justice Department is escalating a criminal investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.

A 34-year-old is facing 26 years in prison after walking in on his wife and children sitting in bed with an underwear-clad man.

A skeleton belonging to a smaller relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was sold at auction for nearly $US47.3 million ($67m), far beyond projections. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The seven founders, who left OpenAI to create Anthropic in 2021 after disagreements over how AI should be built, are poised to become the latest tech billionaires.

A police investigation has been launched following the discovery of a man’s body on Sunday near the iconic California entertainment precinct.

Donald Trump’s latest campaign rally has been punctured by labelling a Muslim Senate candidate a “jihadist’ and directing the crowd to look at rap star Nicki Minaj’s “beautiful arse”.

Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem died after he was ‘ejected’ from a high-speed ride earlier this month.

The woman claims she was restrained in the basement for up to 45 minutes while her husband allegedly watched the football upstairs.

Andrea Shaw says her 18-month-old twins became sick and died after receiving routine childhood vaccinations. Prosecutors disagree.

Three bodies were found with fatal gunshot wounds after a chilling early morning emergency service call in which a voice could be heard whispering the word ‘help’.