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Democrats and Republicans are battling for control of the House of Representatives, viewed as a toss-up by forecasters two weeks before the November 5 election. Republicans are defending their narrow eight-seat majority, which includes more than a dozen GOP-held seats…

A storm system monitored by National Hurricane Center (NHC) experts has strengthened into a tropical storm as of late Monday morning, and forecasts show it making landfall in one of three at-risk states as the storm nears the United States.…