The Latest: Some in GOP cheered by Moore loss in Alabama
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on the Alabama Senate election (all times local): 9 p.m. Some establishment-minded Republicans are cheering Roy Moore`s loss in Alabama`s Senate race. The prospect of a high-profile Republican senator dogged by sexual misconduct accusations had unnerved a GOP that`s fearful of an albatross on its candidates in next year`s campaigns. Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby says Moore would have brought a `radioactive` element to the Senate GOP. Shelby cast a write-in vote for another Republican and never backed down in his opposition to Moore. President Donald Trump acknowledges that `acknowledged, `A lot of Republicans feel very happy about the way it turned out.` Trump and...