Current affairs: Republican lost control of the House in US midterm elections

President Donald Trump clashed with CNN journalist Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House.

President Donald Trump clashed with CNN journalist Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House. Source: AP

Americans have voted in the first major test of the Trump era - the country's midterm elections - and the results are not all good and not all bad for the president. President Trump's Republican Party to lose its control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats, but the Republicans did retain control of the Senate. Ivan and Crista report.



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