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A ballot is dropped off on Election Day at the Registrar of Voters office, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Norwalk, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California’s closely watched House primaries offer preview of battle to control Congress

California voters have settled House primaries across the state. But all eyes are on a handful of swing districts whose November matchups will help determine who controls Congress for the next two years.

Jenny Willis, center, looks on during the Republican caucus at Millcreek Junior High School Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Bountiful, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Caucus chaos makes Utah last state to report Super Tuesday results

FILE - No Labels leadership and guests from left, Dan Webb, National Co-Chair Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, and founding Chairman and former Sen. Joe Lieberman, speak about the 2024 election at National Press Club, in Washington, Jan. 18, 2024. The third-party presidential movement No Labels is expected to move this week toward fielding a presidential candidate in the November election. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Third-party group No Labels is expected to move forward with a 2024 campaign, AP sources say

State Supt. of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt speaks Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. Truitt lost narrowly Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in the Republican primary to Michele Morrow, a homeschooling parent and education activist who has accused public schools of indoctrinating students with left-leaning views on race and gender. (AP Photo/Bryan Anderson, File)

North Carolina schools chief loses primary to home-schooling parent critical of ‘radical agendas’

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday , Feb. 23, 2024. Paxton beat impeachment and now he wants political revenge. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

A Texas GOP brawl is dragging to a runoff. How the power struggle may push Republicans further right

Portugal election marks almost 50 years of democracy

The Portuguese people will be casting their ballots on Sunday for an early general election. The new vote is taking place after Socialist leader António Costa resigned as prime minister amid last November’s corruption investigation. He hasn’t been accused of any crime.

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FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the fast food bill surrounded by fast food workers at the SEIU Local 721 in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. Republican leaders in California are calling for an investigation into why a new state law requiring a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers includes an exemption for restaurants like Panera Bread. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign donor says his Panera Bread restaurants will follow minimum wage law

A wealthy campaign donor of California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his Panera Bread restaurants will comply with a new minimum wage law.

FILE - Demonstrators protest President Macky Sall's decision to postpone the Feb. 25 vote, citing an electoral dispute between the parliament and the judiciary regarding some candidacies in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The Senegalese government has announced March 24, 2024 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election. (AP Photo/Stefan Kleinowitz, File)

Senegal’s government sets March 24 as the new date for the delayed presidential election

The Senegalese government has announced March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election.

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 - Mark Harris speaks to the media during a news conference, Nov. 7, 2018, in Matthews, N.C. North Carolina voters in the primary election on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, were choosing nominees for president and a host of other positions, from governor and attorney general to seats in the U.S. House — including Harris' race in the 8th District — the General Assembly and state judgeships. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

North Carolina’s Mark Harris gets a second chance to go to Congress after absentee ballot scandal

The Rev. Mark Harris has won the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat in North Carolina, giving the pastor a second chance to go to Washington after a 2018 absentee ballot scandal.

Alexei Navalny’s widow calls for Russian election day protest against Putin

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has called on his supporters to join a protest of this month’s presidential election that Navalny devised shortly before his still-unexplained death.

FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., speaks during a campaign stop, Jan. 18, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. Phillips of Minnesota ended his long-shot 2024 Democratic presidential bid on Wednesday after failing to win a primary contest against President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips ends Democratic primary challenge and endorses President Joe Biden

Dean Phillips is ending his long-shot Democratic primary challenge of President Joe Biden after failing to win a primary contest.

FILE- San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers answers a question after a news conference, April 30, 2023, in Cleveland, Texas. The Texas sheriff whose office drew national scrutiny and an FBI investigation following a shooting last year in which a man is accused of killing five of his neighbors has lost his re-election bid. Capers had sought a fourth term as sheriff in San Jacinto County, which is about 60 miles north of Houston. But on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Capers lost the Republican nomination for sheriff to San Jacinto Count Precinct 3 Constable Sam Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Texas sheriff who was under scrutiny following mass shooting loses reelection bid

A Texas sheriff whose office drew national scrutiny and an FBI investigation following a shooting last year in which a man is accused of killing five of his neighbors has lost his reelection bid.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Super Tuesday election night party Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump has become the last Republican standing in the 2024 primary. Here’s how he bulldozed the field

Donald Trump is now the last major Republican candidate for president who’s still standing. He’s outlasted more than a dozen challengers now that Nikki Haley bowed out on Wednesday.

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Nikki Haley says she’s suspending her presidential campaign. What does that mean?

Nikki Haley says she’s suspending her presidential campaign. Not ending, not concluding, not terminating — suspending. There are reasons candidates use that term.

Nikki Haley exits 2024 presidential campaign, saying she has ‘no regrets’

Nikki Haley has suspended her presidential campaign. Haley did not endorse former President Donald Trump on Wednesday and called on him to bring people into the conservative cause.

Nikki Haley supporters consider voting alternatives after she ends her presidential campaign

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has suspended her campaign. The Associated Press asked Haley supporters who they will vote for as the country heads toward a likely 2020 election rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Nikki Haley will suspend campaign for president

Nikki Haley will suspend her presidential campaign Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, according to people familiar with her decision.

Biden’s election year State of the Union Speech faces crucial test with voters worried about his age

This year’s State of the Union speech offers Joe Biden a platform for his broader vision and policy priorities as he campaigns for reelection.

Surprise winner in American Samoa Democratic caucus

President Joe Biden was sweeping every Democratic contest on Super Tuesday — except for American Samoa.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey tosses a baseball to supporters during his election night party, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Palm Desert, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Republican Garvey will target independents, soft Democrats, in bid against Schiff for Senate seat

Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey is hoping to win over independents and soft Democratic voters in his longshot Senate campaign against Democratic Rep.

Biden and Trump dominate Super Tuesday races and move closer to a November rematch

President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, romped coast-to-coast on Super Tuesday, all but cementing a November rematch and increasing pressure on the former president’s last major rival, Nikki Haley, to leave the Republican race.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., fields questions after voting, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Burbank, Calif. Schiff is running for U.S. Senate to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Why AP declared Schiff, Garvey will face off for California’s US Senate seat: Race call explained

The Associated Press has declared that Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey will advance to the November election for California’s U.S.

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt holds his traditional red ministerial box as he leaves 11 Downing Street for the House of Commons to deliver the Budget in London, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Britain’s Conservative government announces tax cuts it hopes can lift its ailing election fortunes

British Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt is seeking to bolster spirits within his Conservative Party with a series of tax cuts that he hopes can turn the political tide ahead of a general election this year.

Nikki Haley wins the Vermont Republican primary in an upset victory over Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley scored an upset victory against former President Donald Trump, who was seeking a clean sweep of the Super Tuesday contests.

As Super Tuesday votes are counted, Biden and Trump move closer to November rematch

As votes are counted on Super Tuesday, Biden and Trump have all but cemented a November rematch. (AP video: Thomas Peipert in Denver, Allen Breed in Morrisville, Rodrique Ngowi in Boston, Mark Vancleave in Minnesota)

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Nikki Haley suspends her campaign and leaves Donald Trump as the last major Republican candidate

Nikki Haley has suspended her presidential campaign. Haley did not endorse former President Donald Trump on Wednesday and called on him to bring people into the conservative cause.

Trump celebrates Super Tuesday wins, looks toward November’s likely rematch with Biden

Donald Trump celebrated his Super Tuesday wins in a victory speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort, calling it an “amazing night,” while turning his attention to President Joe Biden and their likely rematch this November.

Ron Worley, candidate for Gaston county commissioner, displays an I Voted Today sticker on Super Tuesday at the entrance to a polling location Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Belmont, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Super Tuesday takeaways: Biden and Trump momentum can’t be slowed as Haley suspends her campaign

Super Tuesday didn’t quite live up to its name. President Joe Biden won the states he needed to win, and so did Donald Trump.

How the AP called North Carolina for Biden and Trump

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won North Carolina’s primary elections. (March 5)

How the AP called Virginia and Vermont for Biden and Virginia for Trump

The Associated Press was able to declare Biden the winner of presidential primaries in Virginia and Vermont, and Donald Trump the winner in Virginia’s Republican primary because they had insurmountable leads over their rivals.

Southern California voters discuss Biden and Trump ahead of likely rematch

President Biden and former President Donald Trump continue to dominate their parties despite both facing questions about their age and neither commanding broad popularity across the general electorate.

Voters enter and exit a polling facility at the Seale Courthouse in Russell County during a primary election, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Seale, Ala. About 6,000 voters in a new congressional district, that includes Russell County, formed to boost Black representation, received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Thousands of voters in Alabama district drawn to boost Black political power got wrong information

About 6,000 voters in a new congressional district formed to boost Black representation received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.

Molly Menton, 40, stands next to a "Vote Here" sign outside the Eden Prairie Library polling place in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Menton, who identifies as a lifelong Democrat in the Twin Cities suburb, said she voted for Joe Biden in the primary election. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Biden beats long-shot challenger Dean Phillips in the congressman’s home state of Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden dealt challenger Dean Phillips a Super Tuesday defeat in the Minnesota congressman’s home state, while former President Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley in the state’s Republican primary.

San Francisco voter says he’s ‘tense’ on Super Tuesday

Voters in San Francisco will weigh in on a pair of public safety measures on Tuesday’s ballot that reflect frustration over crime and drug use in the politically liberal city.

Biden and Trump barrel into Super Tuesday, toward a likely November rematch despite voter concerns

Super Tuesday elections are being held in 16 states and one territory — from Alaska and California to Vermont and Virginia.