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Republicans scrape back control of US House

Control of the House after the US midterms is crucial as it will allow the Republicans to launch an array of congressional investigations.
Control of the House after the US midterms is crucial as it will allow the Republicans to launch an array of congressional investigations. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Republicans have won back control of the House of Representatives, scraping a victory from a midterm election that many had expected to be a red wave of wins but instead turned into more of a trickle.

Nevertheless, the party finally won its crucial 218th seat in the lower chamber of Congress, wresting away control from the Democrats and setting the stage for a showdown with Joe Biden in the next two years of his presidency.

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