🌾 Kansas

• Democrat Adam Hamilton defeated Republican Sen. Roger Marshall on Nov. 3, ending Kansas Democrats' 94-year U.S. Senate drought. →

• Democratic state Sen. Cindy Holscher led Republican Ty Masterson by 5,557 votes early Nov. 4 in Kansas' still-uncalled governor's race. →

• Democrats won enough Kansas House seats Tuesday to break Republicans' veto-proof supermajority in the chamber. →

• Emporia and El Dorado voters approved citizen-initiated bans on high-impact data centers and certain battery energy-storage systems Tuesday. →

• Citizen Journal's completed Nov. 3 election-night live blog showed Democrat Chris Mann leading Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach, though Kobach had not conceded and the AP had not called the race. →

🇺🇸 US

• Democrats won control of the Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections, flipping seven Republican-held seats including Texas and Kansas for the first time in decades, NBC News projected. →

• Democrats won control of the House in Tuesday's midterm elections, positioning Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries to become speaker in January, NBC News and CBS News projected. →

• Republicans' mid-decade redistricting push backfired, with Texas delivering a net Republican loss of one House seat instead of the five-seat gain the party had sought. →

• Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas, becoming the state's first Latina governor as Democrats also flipped governorships in Georgia, Ohio and Iowa. →

• Restrictions on data centers led in 39 of 40 reported Nov. 3 ballot measures tracked by Redbud Consulting's Data Centers on the Ballot project. →

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November 4, 1979: Iran Hostage Crisis Begins After U.S. Embassy in Tehran Is Stormed

On this day, radical student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, and seized 90 hostages, enraged that the exiled Shah had been admitted to the United States for medical treatment. While many captives were later released, 52 Americans remained in captivity for 444 days, creating a prolonged international crisis that crippled President Jimmy Carter’s administration.

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