Alaska voters head to polls amid Senate race controversy | AFP

Voters cast their ballots in Alaska's US midterm elections, where Republican Senator Dan Sullivan faces Democrat Mary Peltola in a closely watched race overshadowed by a New York Times investigation into an alleged Democratic effort to recruit a namesake candidate to siphon votes from the incumbent. The Justice Department, led by a close Trump ally, has also sought to potentially block certification of the results if Sullivan narrowly loses, but a court rejected the move on the eve of the election.

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