Updated: 4:57 PM An Associated Press exit poll finds six in 10 voters across the country picked the economy as the most important issue facing the nation.

Posted: 1:38 PM As Americans went to the polls to elect a new president, U.S. soldiers based in Afghanistan are keeping tabs on the election. Soldiers in Mosul, Iraq, where war still rages, seemed to be in more of a mood for sports than politics at breakfast this morning.

Posted: 12:39 PM Gov. Kathleen Sebelius shrugs off speculation that campaigning for Barack Obama could lead to a Cabinet job.

Updated: 12:19 PM Barack Obama traveled to Indianapolis for a final campaign stop Tuesday, helping about two dozen members of United Auto Workers Local 550 in Indianapolis work the phones at their union hall.

Posted: 12:07 PM The Democratic lawmaker in charge of increasing the party's majority in the House says he's confident of solid gains, even though there has been a tightening in several races.

Posted: 11:59 AM Scattered voting glitches are being reported at some polling places from the Eastern Seaboard to Chicago.

Posted: 11:38 AM Secretary of State's office has received close to 200 complaints.

Posted: 11:30 AM Nearly half a million Kansans voted early.

Updated: 12:14 PM Republican John McCain has cast his ballot at a church near his central Phoenix home.

Updated: 11:40 AM Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has cast her vote for Barack Obama, saying that voters understand that the nation needs "a serious president for serious times."

Posted: 10:27 AM Scattered voting glitches are being reported at some polling places from the Eastern Seaboard to Chicago.

Posted: 10:11 AM Denver Election Commission spokesman Alton Dillard says the days of having "close to final results by 10 p.m. are over."

Posted: 9:58 AM The Democratic vice presidential contender voted shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday at a private school about half a mile from his Delaware home.

Posted: 9:55 AM John McCain is counting on a narrow path to victory over Barack Obama.

Updated: 3:24 PM Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has returned to Alaska to cast a ballot for president in her hometown of Wasilla.

Posted: 9:23 AM A gay candidate's run will determine whether conservatives can engineer a 5-to-5 split on the State Board of Education.

Posted: 9:21 AM Both parties expect Republican John McCain to carry Kansas in this year's presidential election. But Democrats hope a surge of new voters gives Barack Obama a better-than-usual showing.

Updated: 11:18 PM Republican Congressman Todd Tiahrt, the senior member of Kansas' delegation in the House, has won an eighth term.

Posted: 9:16 AM Republican Pat Roberts hopes that nearly three decades of federal funds delivering for Kansas would win him a third term in the Senate.

Posted: 9:13 AM Democrat Nancy Boyda has known she's been a political target ever since she won the seat for Kansas' 2nd Congressional District.

Posted: 9:10 AM Republican Jerry Moran hasn't had much trouble keeping the seat for the state's 1st Congressional District.

Posted: 8:58 AM Republican challenger Nick Jordan hopes discontent with Congress will allow him to unseat Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore.

Posted: 8:43 AM A likely record voter turnout on Election Day has polling officials across the country braced for problems, and some difficulties surfaced early Tuesday as people turned out in droves even before balloting began in Eastern Seaboard states.

Updated: 8:36 AM Democrat Barack Obama is joining the nation's earliest voters in filling in a ballot in his historic presidential contest with Republican John McCain.

Posted: 8:25 AM Many overseas citizens say they are weary after eight years of Bush administration policies, while others are inspired by Barack Obama's historic run to be the first black U.S. president.