Reuters - Riding a wave of resentment against Republican President George W. Bush, Democrats headed toward winning possibly their biggest majorities in the U.S. Congress in decades in Tuesday's elections, polls showed.

AP - Democrats reached for a blowout at the polls Tuesday that would add more than 20 seats to their House majority in an anti-GOP wave fueled by voters' economic anxieties and yearning for change.

AP - Words that cannot be said on television are not often uttered at the Supreme Court, at least not by high-priced lawyers and the justices themselves.

AP - Now all that's left is to vote, even for the man who would be president.

AP - Pushing back against predictions of defeat, Republican John McCain scheduled campaign stops in two Western battlegrounds on Election Day after a seven-state sprint that brought him home to Arizona after midnight Tuesday.

Politico - In 14 national polls completed over the weekend, Barack Obama surpassed the 50-percent threshold in all but one, suggesting he is within striking distance of a feat no Democrat has accomplished since Jimmy Carter in 1976: winning a majority of the vote.

AP - Swiss officials said Monday they have evidence that a Roman Catholic priest sexually abused two dozen boys in France and Switzerland over a 35-year period.

AP - Long lines have formed as polls open in Eastern states. John McCain is counting on a narrow path to an upset victory today while Barack Obama pinned his hopes for becoming the nation's first black president on a ground organization designed to swell precincts with voters across the country.

AP - Barack Obama's campaign manager is urging voters to be patient with the balloting process, saying participation in the process is vital if people want change in America.

AP - Rwandan forces fired tank shells and other heavy artillery across the border at Congolese troops during fighting last week, the United Nations said Tuesday.

AP - Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin has arrived in Alaska to cast a ballot for president in her hometown of Wasilla.

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday the leaders of Congo and Rwanda have agreed to meet him very soon to help resolve the rebel-sparked conflict in eastern Congo along the Rwandan border.

AP - John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, says she hopes, prays and believes that she will be able to take her experience as a reformer to Washington as vice president.

Politico - Finally — polls that count.

AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has cast his ballot.

AFP - Democrats hope that economic woes, a rise in voter turnout and disdain with Republican policies will propel them to a commanding majority in the US Congress in Tuesday's election.

AP - A divided Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday talking about dirty words on television without once using any.

The Christian Science Monitor - As a United Nations aid convoy rolled past rebel lines, top European, US, and UN envoys continue to discuss how best to prevent the latest crisis from spiraling out of control.

Politico - In presidential elections, not all counties are created equal.

AP - Even before one vote was counted, this result was clear: The presidential race was a verdict on George W. Bush.

Politico - Virginia Republican Congressman Tom Davis said Tuesday that the GOP will have to “retool” after the election because it has become “a white, rural, regional party.”

AFP - No one would say the word in court, but a four-letter obscenity muttered on US television by the likes of Cher and Bono was the focus of attention in the Supreme Court Tuesday as lawyers argued whether it was too crude for broadcast.

AP - Preliminary results from a national Associated Press exit poll of voters in Tuesday's elections:

Politico - Despite a record turnout, election officials across the country reported only sporadic voting problems on Election Day.

AP - Seeking a transcendent victory, Democrat Barack Obama made a final-hour push for Republican-leaning Indiana on Tuesday after casting his own ballot with his young daughters at his side. 'It's going to be tight as a tick here in Indiana,' Obama told volunteers in Indianapolis trying to get out the vote for the Democratic ticket with only seven hours to go in the area's balloting. 'So the question is who wants it more.'

Reuters - Virginia's former Democratic Gov. Mark Warner won the seat of retiring Republican Sen. John Warner in Tuesday election as Democrats tried to expand their control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Reuters - Luxembourg's prime minister and the German and Dutch finance ministers backed Democrat Barack Obama to win the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday.

AP - Barack Obama has seized command of the race for the White House.

Politico - North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan has pulled off one of the early upsets of election night, knocking off Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in a race that was one of the nastiest Senate contests in the country.

AP - Tom Udall still wears cowboy boots under his business suits, a habit that reflects his upbringing in a ranching family that once drove cattle across territorial New Mexico.

AP - The Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday talking about dirty words on television without once using any or making plain how it would decide whether the government could ban them.

AP - Barack Obama asked John McCain for his help in leading the country in a telephone call Tuesday night, moments after the Democratic senator was declared the country's first black president.