MIAMI -- It has been nearly three decades since a Democrat held the mayor’s office in Miami, a span of futility the party is hoping to reverse during a special runoff election this week in one of the last electoral showdowns before next year’s midterms.

Republican Matt Van Epps will fill Tennessee’s open 7th District Congressional seat, in the last showdown election of 2025.

Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House. Van Epps was backed by President Donald Trump.

Tennessee special election for GOP House seat draws national attention as Republican Matt Van Epps faces Democrat Aftyn Behn in closely watched race.

Matt Van Epps, who was backed by Trump, is projected to defeat Democrat Aftyn Behn in a congressional district the president won by 22 percentage points in 2024.

In five of the last seven presidential elections, voters opted for a president from the other party. In the same time period, voters elected a new Senate majority five times and picked a new House majority four times.

Nasry Asfura, the conservative candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, clung to a razor-thin advantage in Honduras' presidential race on Friday as counting stretched into its sixth day in a tight contest drawing close attention from Washington.

Honduras on Sunday will hold general elections marked by preemptive allegations of voting fraud and an intervention by the United States.