KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban bombing in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province killed a candidate running in the parliamentary elections this weekend, a provincial official said, as attacks elsewhere in the country killed six policemen and two soldiers.

The attacks came as the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — They’re asking pastors to text their congregants about the importance of voting. They’re connecting with thousands of Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria. And they’re relying on groups like the NAACP, which has tripled its spending from 2016 to energize black ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing the prospect of bruising electoral defeat in congressional elections, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he won’t accept the blame if his party loses control of the House in November, arguing his campaigning and endorsements have helped Republican ...

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — The Democratic drive to take control of the U.S. House in November might rise or fall on the California coast. As part of its strategy, the party is targeting four Republican-held seats in Orange County, southeast of Los Angeles, which Hillary Clinton carried in the 2016 ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Close allies of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have resigned from his Cabinet to run in elections next year that will test his popularity and could determine his future political influence.

Among those running in the May 13 elections are Duterte’s former ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With less than three weeks until Election Day, South Carolina voters are getting a chance to see a matchup between the two candidates vying to be their next governor.

Gov. Henry McMaster and his Democratic challenger, state Rep. James Smith, meet for a debate on ...

Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke abandoned his optimistic tone and attacked Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz as “Lyin” Ted in their second debate before the election, borrowing a nickname first used by President Donald Trump.

It was one of the challenger’s last chances to gain ground on Cruz, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In a stunning October surprise, Alaska’s lieutenant governor resigned Tuesday for making unspecified “inappropriate comments,” imperiling the re-election hopes of Gov. Bill Walker, a man with whom he shared a brother-like bond.

Walker, who has been locked in a tough ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and fellow Democrat Kevin de Leon are set to face off Wednesday in their only scheduled debate ahead of Election Day.

It’s Feinstein’s first appearance with an election opponent since 2000 and a chance for de Leon to directly attack her as he ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial contender Michelle Lujan Grisham sought to tie her Republican rival to Trump’s policies, while Congressman Steve Pearce warned against a return to Democratic “corruption and cronyism” of the past.

Reps. Lujan Grisham and Pearce faced off ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing the prospect of bruising electoral defeat in congressional elections, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he won’t accept the blame if his party loses control of the House in November, arguing his campaigning and endorsements have helped Republican ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott resigned Tuesday over unspecified inappropriate comments, complicating what was already a difficult re-election fight for Gov. Bill Walker.

Mallott, in his resignation letter, said his decision was “compelled by inappropriate comments I ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce and his wife published summary pages of their 2017 tax returns on Tuesday, offering a new glimpse into the personal finances of a ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The right-wing front-runner in Brazil’s presidential race called his leftist rival a “puppet” while his opponent mocked him for avoiding debates, engaging in a heated Twitter exchange Tuesday less than two weeks before their runoff election.

The candidates haven’t met in ...

BOSTON (AP) — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she’s confident Democrats will retake the House in next month’s midterm elections.

Pelosi, who stands to become speaker if her party captures the chamber, ticked off a legislative to-do list including lowering health care ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Backers of a Montana citizen’s initiative that would add new mining regulations say a foreign-owned company is illegally bankrolling an industry campaign against the proposal.

In a complaint filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission, sponsors of Initiative ...

DENVER (AP) — A pro-Republican independent expenditure committee says in a TV ad that U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, Colorado’s Democratic candidate for governor, had a restraining order placed against him after pushing a female employee in 1999 — then got “big gun lawyers” to blame the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Projecting confidence about her party’s chances, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi outlined five of the top 10 agenda items Democrats will pursue if they retake the House in next month’s election.

Lowering health care costs, rebuilding infrastructure and running the House ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s interview with The Associated Press (all times local):

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President Donald Trump says he’s selected Washington lawyer Pat Cipollone to serve as his next White House counsel.

Trump tells The Associated Press in an ...

Democrats dominated Republicans in money races across the House map and in key Senate contests with three weeks left before midterm elections.

Money is no guarantee of electoral outcomes, but the numbers suggest that Democratic voters’ enthusiasm continues unabated in 2018, with ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democrat Ben McAdams has more money going into the final weeks of his campaign challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love in Utah’s most competitive race, according to new fundraising reports.

Love outraised McAdams, but also spent more as the race heated up in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The midterm elections, #MeToo, and the recent confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: All were key topics of discussion at an annual gathering for women filmmakers Tuesday in Manhattan.

“Nevertheless, we persisted,” intoned Jane Rosenthal, executive ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is apparently willing to risk further angering the state’s teachers by forcefully backing a measure that would massively expand the state’s private school voucher system.

The Republican governor, comfortable with a solid lead in his re-election bid, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Walter “Dee” Huddleston, a former two-term U.S. senator who lost his re-election bid in 1984 to Republican Mitch McConnell in one of Kentucky’s most storied and pivotal political campaigns, died Tuesday. He was 92.

The ex-senator died in his sleep at his son’s home ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — In Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, where President Donald Trump won by more than 15 percentage points in 2016, Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr has raised more than $4 million for his re-election.

It would have been a record if it weren’t for his Democratic ...