Georgia prosecutor granted special grand jury in Trump election probe

Incumbent GOP Sen. Rand Paul is running for re-election, while progressive Charles Booker again seeks the Democratic nomination. NBC News isn’t showing a breakdown by type of vote in Kentucky. Some states and some individual counties provide results broken down by the type of ballot cast, which can include Election Day votes, or those cast early, either in person or by mail. That information isn’t widely available in Kentucky.

Three GOP candidates are vying for the party’s nomination. The Democratic candidate is running unopposed, thus NBC News will not display results in that race. NBC News isn’t showing a breakdown by type of vote in Idaho. Some states and some individual counties provide results broken down by the type of ballot cast, which can include Election Day votes, or those cast early, either in person or by mail. That information isn’t widely available in Idaho.

Rep. Ted Budd is the winner of North Carolina's Republican Senate primary following an endorsement by former President Donald Trump, and former state Supreme Court justice Cheri Beasley wins the Democratic nomination, NBC News projects.May 18, 2022.

North Carolina has 13 U.S. House seats. In the closely-watched GOP primary to represent the 11th Congressional District, first-term Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost to state Sen. Chuck Edwards. Primaries with only one candidate are not included on the ballot. Thus, there is no coverage of results for the Republican primary...

The benefits of internet privacy laws can sometimes be hard to grasp: With the right regulations, users can sometimes have a vague reassurance that advertisers or the government can’t snoop as easily on their personal information. But this week, residents of Illinois have been getting a more tangible benefit:...

Projected Pennsylvania Republican governor nominee Doug Mastriano said during his victory speech that if he wins in November that "only biological females will play in biological female sports" and that "on day one, you can only use the bathroom that your biology and anatomy says." May 18, 2022.

Idaho has two U.S. House seats. The expected vote is the total number of votes that are expected in a given race once all votes are counted. This number is an estimate and is based on several different factors, including information on the number of votes cast early as well as information provided to our vote reporters on Election Day from county election officials. The figure can change as NBC News gathers new information.

A Virginia board is considering restoring the names of two schools which were originally named for Confederate generals but changed in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. The Shenandoah County School Board in 2020 voted to change Stonewall Jackson High School to Mountain View High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School to Honey Run Elementary School.

Democratic Gov. Kate Brown is term-limited from running again, and the race to succeed her is open. The Democratic primary features a number of candidates, including former state House Speaker Tina Kotek and state Treasurer Tobias Read, while Republicans have a field of 19 vying for the nomination.

After losing the Republican primary in North Carolina, Former Gov. Pat McCrory says state party leaders subjected him to a “kind of a McCarthyism.”May 18, 2022.

A disaster was declared in a Texas county Wednesday because a wildfire that ignited earlier this week swelled to 5,000 acres and led to evacuations. The Mesquite Heat Fire took a turn for the worse, according to a Wednesday statement from the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office. The fire was 30 percent contained earlier in the week, however, as weather conditions worsened, the blaze grew to 5,000 acres and containment dwindled to only 5 percent.

On the Republican side, Mehmet Oz is locked in a three-way fight for the GOP nomination with Dave McCormick and Kathy Barnette. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman fended off challengers to capture the Democratic nomination.

Antonia Hylton reports from GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s campaign event in N.C. where his election night event is "pretty sparsely populated."May 18, 2022.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis apologized Monday after getting booed and heckled for remarks she made on sexual identity during a University of Wyoming graduation speech. A first-term Republican from deep-red Wyoming, Lummis said in Saturday’s speech in Laramie that human rights are derived from God but...

A disaster has been declared in Texas as the Mesquite Heat Fire, a wildfire in Taylor County, has grown to 7,000 acres and burned dozens of homes.May 19, 2022.

Officials in New Mexico say the area is like a “tinder box” and have announced closures of the Santa Fe and Carson National Forest. KOB’s Griffin Rushton reports.May 18, 2022.

As early-season wildfires burn in New Mexico and Colorado, federal officials said Tuesday that Santa Fe and Carson national forests would close effective Thursday. The New Mexico parkland would be of-limits as a precaution as the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire burns along the southern end of the Rocky Mountains, known in the state as the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, federal fire incident spokesperson Renette Saba said.

Fire officials say more bodies may still be inside the multi-family home that caught fire early Saturday morning. WBTS' Diane Cho reports.May 17, 2022.