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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent more than a year in hospice care.

President Trump has demanded total loyalty from Republicans, but nowhere more dramatically than in Georgia — where the last thing the GOP needed was an intraparty fight ahead of the Senate runoffs.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block the battleground states from casting "unlawful and constitutionally tainted votes" in the Electoral College. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, experts say.

The state's top election official has faced calls to resign, death threats and pressure from fellow Republicans over the 2 1/2 weeks of post-election counting.

Hurricane Irma was the longest-lasting powerful hurricane or typhoon ever recorded, worldwide. It kept 185-mph winds for 37 hours — longer than any storm on record.