Marco Bello/Reuters
Updated at 2357 GMT (0757 HKT) November 10, 2022
The midterm elections were held on Tuesday in the United States, and one of the big winners of the night was Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis, whose landslide victory gave him a strong case if he seeks the GOP presidential nomination in 2024. Control of Congress, however, remained up in the air days later as many races were still undecided. As of Thursday afternoon, CNN had not predicted which party would lead either the House or the Senate. But Democrats managed to break the historical precedent of losing a large number of seats in a president’s first midterm. Here are some of the stories that made headlines last week, as well as some photos that caught our eye.