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In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. Biden and Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, following the failed border deal that was opposed by the Republican front-runner. (AP Photo)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Texas’ state and presidential primaries

Less than a week after staging rival events on the banks of the Rio Grande River along the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face voters on the Texas primary ballot in a state that has openly clashed with the Biden administration over how to address a rec

FILE - Ohio Rep. Craig Riedel speaks with members of the media after the Ohio House of Representatives voted 90-0 to remove Rep. Larry Householder, as Speaker of the House on Thursday, July 30, 2020 at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Since last year, GOP candidates for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District have left and entered the field on a dime, endorsements have hopped from campaign to campaign, and several big-name Republicans have split their loyalties three ways. (Joshua A. Bickel /The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)

High-stakes GOP congressional primary in Ohio takes voters, Republicans on a roller coaster ride

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a Republican campaign event, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Haley says she raised a strong $12M in February, but can’t point to long-term plan to beat Trump

FILE - Hundreds gather for a protest rally for in vitro fertilization legislation Feb. 28, 2024, in Montgomery, Ala. The recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos can be considered children, halting IVF treatments in the state, is a clear example of why races for state supreme courts will be among the most expensive and hotly contested this year. State high court seats will be on the ballot in more than 30 states, and several of those races have the potential to flip political control of the court. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)

Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections

FILE -Candidates, from left, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., and former baseball player Steve Garvey, stand on stage during a televised debate for candidates in the senate race to succeed the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the California state and presidential primaries

How many delegates will it take for candidates to get the nomination? AP Explains

With the Super Tuesday elections on March 5, a slew of delegates is up for grabs for the candidates competing for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations. (March 1)

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Republican rivals to Robinson report spending surge in North Carolina governor’s race

Democrat Josh Stein and Republican Mark Robinson remained among the top fundraisers overall for North Carolina governor entering the final weeks before Tuesday’s primary elections.

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Alabama’s state and presidential primaries

The 2024 presidential campaign rolls through Alabama on Tuesday as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump look to continue their streak of lopsided primary victories in anticipation of an expected general election rematch.

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Arkansas’ state and presidential primaries

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete for votes in Arkansas on Tuesday but not against each other. At least not yet.

In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, left, and former President Donald Trump speaks on July 8, 2023, in Las Vegas, center, and Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, speaks on Feb. 18, 2024, in Columbia, S.C., right. (AP Photo)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Super Tuesday’s presidential nominating contests

With contests in 16 states and American Samoa, the Super Tuesday primaries next week will be the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election, Both Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican front-runner Donald Trump hope to amass a string of lopsided victories that will hel

FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak listens to Amanda Pritchard Chief Executive of NHS England speaking at a press conference at No 9 Downing Street about the British National Health Service, and a 15 year plan to boost employment in the NHS, in London, Friday, June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)

An election in the UK is likely this year, we just don’t know when. Here’s what to know

The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable boats.

George Galloway gives a speech after being declared winner in the Rochdale by-election, which was triggered after the death of Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd, in the town of Rochdale, England Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Veteran British left-wing disruptor George Galloway wins a special election dominated by war in Gaza

A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a heavily Muslim town in northern England following a contest that has been mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza.

FILES - This combination of two file photos shows Xochitl Galvez, at left, arriving to register her name as a presidential candidate on July 4, 2023 in Mexico City, and at right, Claudia Sheinbaum at an event that presented her as her party's presidential nominee on Sept. 6, 2023 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, Files)

Mexico is about to have its biggest election ever. Here’s what to know

Campaigning formally starts on Friday for the biggest election in Mexico’s history. Voters will choose the country’s president, along with the 628 seats in Congress and thousands of local posts _ more than 20,000 positions overall.

Democratic lawmakers ask Justice Department to probe Tennessee’s voting rights restoration changes

A group of Democratic Tennessee lawmakers is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate how the state has further restricted the process for people with felony records to get their voting rights back.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

What makes Super Tuesday so important? It’s all about the delegates. Here’s a look at the numbers

More than one-third of the total delegates available in both the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries will be awarded on Super Tuesday, when 16 states and one territory hold presidential nominating contests.

FILE - People with the group No Labels hold signs during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 13, 2013. The third-party presidential movement No Labels plans to meet on March 8, 2024, amid fierce pressure on donors and potential candidates from Donald Trump critics who fear the deep-pocketed group would help the former president return to the White House. No Labels Chief Strategist Ryan Clancy says no candidates will be selected at the meeting. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The third-party group No Labels will meet privately as it decides whether to launch a 2024 bid

The third-party presidential movement No Labels plans to meet next week to decide whether to help launch an independent candidacy for the White House.

FILE - House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., delivers a statement as the House Rules Committee meets to prepare the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a floor vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Nearly two weeks after announcing he would not seek reelection, Green reversed course Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, and announced he will pursue a fourth term after all. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

In reversal, House Homeland Security chairman now says he’ll seek reelection to Congress

Tennessee Congressman Mark Green reversed course and has announced that he’ll pursue a fourth term after all.

FILE - Interim Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf works in an office where early votes are being counted, Oct. 26, 2022, in Pahrump, Nev. Kampf, top elections official in the rural Nevada county roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud that led to a partial hand-count in the 2022 midterms, is resigning, a county spokesperson confirmed Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Nevada county election official in charge of controversial 2022 hand-count plan resigns

A Nye County spokesperson says top elections official Mark Kampf is resigning. The rural Nevada county has been roiled by voting machine conspiracy theories.

Providence NAACP president convicted of campaign finance violations

Officials say the president of the Providence NAACP violated state campaign finance laws when he ran for City Council in 2022.

GOP contests so far do not show signs of expansion of Trump’s coalition

The first few GOP presidential contests did not show signs that Donald Trump has expanded his coalition. Trump is splitting the suburbs with Nikki Haley.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event Feb. 28, 2024, in Orem, Utah. Haley is making the case that roughly 40% of GOP voters support her over their party's dominant figure, suggesting Trump is especially vulnerable in a November rematch against President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Nikki Haley can’t win the Republican primary with 40%. But she can expose some of Trump’s weaknesses

Donald Trump’s campaign has vowed not to talk about her anymore, but Nikki Haley is still campaigning across the country — and plenty of Republican voters are coming to hear what she has to say.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a House Select Committee focusing on China on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

The US is bracing for complex, fast-moving threats to elections this year, FBI director warns

McLEAN, VA. (AP) — The United States expects to face fast-moving threats to American elections this year as artificial intelligence and other technological advances have made interference and meddling easier than before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday.

Judy Salter, left, joins others in a demonstration calling for the recall of Shasta County Supervisor Kevin Crye, in Redding, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Crye is one of the board members who voted to get rid of the county's ballot-counting machines in favor of counting ballots by hand. Salter is one of the organizers of the recall. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

A California county ditched its vote counting machines. Now a supporter faces a recall election

Voters in a rural Northern California county will decide whether to recall a local elected official in a race that centers on hand-counting of ballots.

Brattleboro Union High School students register to vote during a voter drive at the school, Feb. 14, 2024, in Brattleboro, Vt. Sixteen and 17-year-olds in Brattleboro will get to vote in local elections and if they're 18 by the November general election they can cast ballots in the Super Tuesday presidential primary. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

The future is now: 16- and 17-year-olds win the right to vote in local elections in a Vermont town

Sixteen and 17-year-olds in one Vermont town will get to vote in the local elections next week. And those who turn 18 by the November general election will be permitted to vote in the state’s presidential primaries on Super Tuesday.

FILE - The North Dakota Capitol tower rises in the background behind a stone sign, April 19, 2012, in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota will hold Republican presidential caucuses on Monday, March 4, 2024, the last chance for former President Donald Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination to slow his momentum heading into Super Tuesday on March 5, the biggest day of the primary campaign. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in North Dakota’s GOP caucuses

North Dakota will hold its Republican presidential caucuses on Monday. It’s the last chance for Donald Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination to slow his momentum heading into Super Tuesday, which comes the next day.

FILE - Chester County, Pa. election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester on Nov. 4, 2020. Law enforcement agencies, civil defense officials and election administrators have begun meeting in Pennsylvania to coordinate how they will identify and fight election threats with the presidential contest just eight months away in the battleground state, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration said Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Pennsylvania sets up election security task force ahead of 2024 presidential contest

Law enforcement agencies, civil defense officials and election administrators are meeting in Pennsylvania to coordinate against election threats with the presidential contest eight months away.

Rep. Tom Suozzi joins House Dems after ceremonial swearing-in

Democrat Tom Suozzi of New York was sworn in Wednesday following the special election to replace ousted GOP Rep. George Santos. (Feb. 29)

FILE - A map of a new proposed community in Solano County, Calif., is displayed during a news conference in Rio Vista, Calif. on Jan. 17, 2024. A billionaire-backed proposal to build an eco-friendly California city from scratch is off to a bumpy start in qualifying its voter initiative for the Nov. 5 ballot. The deadline for the Solano County counsel's office to give California Forever the ballot title they need to start gathering signatures is Thursday, Feb. 29. (AP Photo/Janie Har, File)

A billionaire-backed campaign for a new California city is off to a bumpy start. Again

A billionaire-backed proposal to build an eco-friendly California city from scratch is off to a bumpy start to put their idea before voters this November.

FILE - Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar speaks before Gov. Joe Lombardo signs an election worker protection bill into law at the old Assembly Chambers in Carson City, Nev., May 30, 2023. To fight a poll worker shortage that is especially pronounced in rural counties, Aguilar is taking a page from counterparts elsewhere and proposing that the legal community be tapped to help address the problem. (AP Photo/Tom R. Smedes, File)

Nevada and other swing states need more poll workers. Can lawyers help fill the gap?

Counties across Nevada are struggling to find poll workers in a pivotal election year. Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is proposing that the legal community be tapped to help address the problem.

A California county got rid of its vote counting machines. Now a supervisor faces a recall election.

Voters in a rural California county will decide whether to recall a local elected official in a race that centers on hand-counting ballots to prevent election fraud.

FILE - This combo image shows President Joe Biden, left, Jan. 5, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, right, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo, File)

What is Super Tuesday? Why it matters and what to watch

The biggest day of this year’s primary campaign is approaching. Sixteen states vote in contests known as Super Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Andy Kim delivers his campaign pitch to Burlington County Democratic voters on ahead of a vote to decide which candidate for U.S. Senate on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. Kim won the vote on Saturday but his odds look longer in populous northern counties where first lady Tammy Murphy has party leader support. AP photo/Mike Catalini)

How a congressman’s challenge to New Jersey’s first lady is shaking up a key Senate race

In New Jersey, the Senate seat held by Democrat Bob Menendez has become competitive because he was indicted last year on federal corruption charges.

FILE - Fred Von Canon, Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, North Carolina 13th District, speaks at a rally Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, in Roxboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

North Carolina’s 5 open congressional seats drawing candidates in droves

Dozens of Republicans are competing for five of North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats on Super Tuesday.

FILE - Children and their guardians gather outside a police station after they fled their homes in Cite Soleil due to gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2024. Indiscriminate violence in Haiti is escalating — especially in the capital and surrounding region — with armed gangs carrying out killings and acts of sexual violence, Ulrika Richardson, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation, said Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Caribbean leaders say Haitian prime minister agrees to hold long-awaited elections by mid-2025

Caribbean leaders say embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to hold general elections by mid-2025 as the international community pushes to raise money for a foreign armed force to fight gang violence in the Caribbean country.

FILE - This exhibit from video released by the House Select Committee, shows President Donald Trump recording a video statement on the afternoon of Jan. 6, from the Rose Garden, displayed at a hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, July 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court agreed on Feb. 28, 2024, to decide whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he interfered with the 2020 election and has set a course for a quick resolution. (House Select Committee via AP)

The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here’s what’s next

The action injects immediate uncertainty into the legal and political calendar over the next several months.

What to know about this Super Tuesday

Super Tuesday is March 5th, and voters from several states across the U.S. will be voting in primary elections. (Feb. 28)