Track the latest polls about Democrat Aftyn Behn and Republican Matt Van Epps in the special election in Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District.

A panel of federal judges ruled Wednesday that the US state of North Carolina is allowed to use a newly-drawn congressional map in next year's midterm elections, according to media reports.

Democrats started this year in the doldrums, having lost both the White House and control of Congress and with their party heading toward record-low approval ratings.

The Trump administration said on Monday it is ending temporary legal status for citizens of Myanmar in the United States, arguing they can safely return to the war-torn Southeast Asian country and citing the military junta's planned elections as evidence of an improving situation.

US cites Myanmar’s ‘sham’ election to withdraw immigration status - Activists denounce ‘egregious’ decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status that may force 4,000 Myanmarese citizens to return home