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FILE - Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón speaks during a news conference Feb. 22, 2023, in Los Angeles. Eleven candidates are challenging Gascón, a former police chief and two-term San Francisco district attorney, to lead the nation's largest prosecutor's office. The primary for Los Angeles County district attorney is March 5. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

LA County’s progressive district attorney faces crowded field of 11 challengers in reelection bid

One of the country’s most progressive prosecutors is set to be tested as he seeks reelection against 11 challengers to remain the district attorney of Los Angeles County.

FILE – Former California Assemblymember Rudy Salas in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 12, 2019. Salas, a Democrat, is running for Congress in California's 22nd district in 2024. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California voters will set matchups for key US House races on Super Tuesday

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., greet each other during a campaign rally in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 4, 2019. McConnell is the highest ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to endorse Donald Trump's bid to return to the White House. But that's potentially about to change. McConnell's political team and Trump's campaign have been in talks over a possible endorsement and a strategy to unite Republicans on the party's ticket for the November election. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

McConnell weighs endorsing Trump. It’s a stark turnaround after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump greets members of the National Guard on the U.S.-Mexico border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Recent statements by Trump have fueled Democrats' sense that there's an opening among voters with strong military ties, and progressive veterans' organizations are working to bridge the gap with what has long been a reliably red constituency. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Democrats make play for veteran and military support as Trump homes in on GOP nomination

FILE - Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli speaks to supporters during a campaign rally, in Panama City, Feb. 3, 2024. Panamanian authorities on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, ordered the arrest of Martinelli, who has been holed up in the Nicaraguan Embassy since receiving political asylum from that country earlier this month. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera, File)

Panamanian electoral court bars former president Martinelli’s candidacy in May elections

California Gov. Newsom campaigns for mental health ballot measure

Californians are set to vote Tuesday on a statewide ballot measure that is touted by the governor as a major step to tackle homelessness and would be the first major update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years. (March 5) (AP Video/Terry Chea)

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Trump hails Supreme Court decision to keep him on the ballot as a ‘great day’ for the country

Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, says only Congress, not states, can use insurrection clause

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FILE - Former baseball player Steve Garvey speaks during a televised debate for candidates in the senate race on Jan. 22, 2024, in Los Angeles. Several prominent Democratic House members are jostling to fend off Republican former baseball great Steve Garvey in the fight for the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

California Senate race: Democrats aim to block Republican from contest to fill Feinstein’s seat

Several prominent Democratic House members are jostling to fend off Republican former baseball great Steve Garvey in the fight for the U.S.

In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, from left, former President Donald Trump speaks on July 8, 2023, in Las Vegas, and Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks on Feb. 18, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. Biden and Trump are on the brink of winning their party's presidential nominations on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024, and set up a historic rematch that many voters would rather not endure. Haley winning any of Super Tuesday's contests would take an upset. And a Trump sweep would only intensify pressure on her to leave the race. (AP Photo)

Coast-to-coast Super Tuesday contests poised to move Biden and Trump closer to November rematch

President Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump are poised to have the biggest day of the primary campaign move them to the brink of winning their party’s presidential nominations and set up a historic rematch that many voters would rather not endure.

FILE - North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore walks on the floor Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Raleigh, N.C. Former President Donald Trump so far has endorsed candidates in two of the five open North Carolina Houose seats with Addison McDowell in the 6th District and Moore in the 14th District. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

North Carolina’s congressional delegation headed for a shake-up with 5 open seats and party shifts

Primaries in North Carolina will mark an exceptional change in the state’s U.S. House delegation. Dozens of Republicans are competing for five of North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats on Super Tuesday.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

In North Carolina, primary voters choosing candidates to succeed term-limited Gov. Roy Cooper

North Carolina primary voters are choosing potential successors to term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

Nevada Democratic US Sen. Jacky Rosen, at union hall rally, makes reelection bid official

Nevada U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen has announced that she has officially filed for reelection in a presidential battleground state that is a top GOP target in a challenging 2024 Senate map.

FILE - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, speaks with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear during a ceremony in the Rotunda at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 2, 2024. The Republican-dominated Kentucky House voted Monday, March 4, to remove any role for the state's Democratic governor in deciding who would occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of McConnell. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Kentucky House supports special election to fill any Senate vacancy in Mitch McConnell’s home state

The Republican-dominated Kentucky House has voted to remove any role for the state’s Democratic governor in deciding who would occupy a U.S.

FILE - A polling judge, right, helps guide a voter's ballot into a voting machine during the Pennsylvania primary election, at Mont Alto United Methodist Church in Alto, Pa., on May 17, 2022. Voter-by-voter electronic election records are not subject to public scrutiny, a Pennsylvania court ruled Monday, March 4, 2024, in a case that began with a request for those records by an election researcher whose work has fueled right-wing attacks on voting procedures. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Pennsylvania court rules electronic voting data is not subject to release under public records law

A Pennsylvania state court says spreadsheets of raw data associated with every ballot cast in an election aren’t subject to public scrutiny.

U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga 7th District, speaks to journalists after signing paperwork to qualify for reelection at the Capitol in Atlanta on Monday, March 4, 2024, the first day to file paperwork to qualify for legislative and congressional races. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Congressional candidates jump onto ballot as qualifying begins for 2024 Georgia races

Georgia’s 2024 elections have kicked into high gear with the start of qualifying for state and federal offices.

FILE - Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board administrator Glen Gilzean listens to chairman Martin Garcia, left, during the board's meeting in the headquarters of the former Reedy Creek Improvement District at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Aug. 23, 2023. Less than a year after being picked to lead Walt Disney World's government after it was taken over by Gov. Ron DeSantis' allies, the district's administrator was appointed by the Florida governor on Monday, March 4, 2024 to run elections in the county that is home to the Disney theme park resort and other theme parks. Gilzean was appointed by DeSantis to be supervisor of elections in Orange County, Florida's fifth largest county. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

DeSantis names Disney World district administrator to run elections in Democratic Orange County

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new job for the longtime supporter who has led Walt Disney World’s government since his allies took it over.

FILE - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting of the Union State Supreme Council with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. A bill in Belarus that would outlaw the promotion of homosexuality and other behavior is set to land on lawmakers' desks amid an unwavering crackdown on dissent initiated by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in 2020. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Thousands of Belarusians convicted on politically driven charges in sweeping crackdown on dissent

Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically driven charges over the last three years as part of a relentless crackdown on dissent.

FILE - Ohio Rep. Derek Merrin stands while he advocates a yes vote on the Heartbeat Bill at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. 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. (Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

The latest shake-up in Ohio’s topsy-turvy congressional primary eases minds within the GOP

This weekend’s suspension of a troubled congressional campaign in Ohio has eased the minds of establishment Republicans hopeful they can flip a Democratic seat this fall by defeating the longest-serving woman in Congress.

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)

What to know about Super Tuesday and why it matters

Super Tuesday is traditionally the biggest day nationwide for primary elections and caucuses before the actual Election Day in November.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Takeaways from Trump’s Supreme Court win: He stays on ballot, but his legal peril is just starting

The decision shuts down a push in dozens of states to end Trump’s candidacy through a clause in the 14th Amendment, but it may open the door to further electoral uncertainty.

FILE - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe speaks during an interview, Sept. 22, 2009, in Warsaw, Poland. A federal judge in Nashville on Monday, March 4, 2024 dismissed a challenge to a Tennessee law aimed at making sure primary voters are “bona fide” members of the party they are voting for. Ashe sued state election officials in November, claiming the law is so vague that he could be prosecuted for voting in a Republican primary. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Judge upholds Tennessee law to stop crossover voting in primaries. Critics say the law is too vague.

A federal judge in Nashville has upheld a Tennessee law aimed at making sure primary voters are “bona fide” members of the party they are voting for.

FILE - In this March 2, 2015, file photo, Wisconsin Republican state Rep. Andre Jacque looks on at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis. The Republican state senator announced Monday, March 4, 2024 he will run for an open congressional seat representing northeastern Wisconsin. Jacque is running for the 8th Congressional District seat being vacated by Mike Gallagher. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Republican state senator to run for open congressional seat representing northeastern Wisconsin

A Republican state senator says he will run for an open congressional seat representing northeastern Wisconsin.

FILE - Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs on the Stravinski Hall stage at the 49th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland on July 4, 2015. The estate of Sinead O’Connor has asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies, saying the late singer considered the former president a “biblical devil.” (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, File)

Sinead O’Connor’s estate asks Donald Trump to stop playing her music at rallies

The estate of Sinead O’Connor has asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies. It says the late singer considered the former president a “biblical devil.”

A view of a local scrolling on the X app formerly known as Twitter on a smartphone, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, March 4, 2024. An online protest campaign exposing corruption has rattled government officials and others in Uganda, where street protests are practically outlawed. The campaign, which relies on leaks of official documents, has been presented on the social media platform X as an “exhibition” — in a sequence of postings — about controversial issues, from failing hospitals to potholes in the streets of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. (AP Photo/Ajar Nalwadda)

An online protest movement exposes corruption in Uganda. Officials and others are rattled

An online protest campaign exposing corruption has rattled government officials and others in Uganda, where street protests are practically outlawed.

Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi briefs the media on Friday's elections, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 4, 2024. While praising Iranians for withstanding "bad weather and continuous propaganda by the enemy," Vahidi said the vote saw 25 million ballots cast — a turnout of just under 41%. The lowest previous came in the last parliamentary election in 2020, which saw a 42% turnout.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Hard-liners dominate Iran parliamentary vote that saw a record-low turnout and boycott calls

Iranian hard-line politicians dominated the country’s vote for parliament. However, the election Friday also saw a record-low turnout.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Va. A lawsuit settlement offers new details about how two attorneys for former President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states. The agreement settles a civil lawsuit filed by Democrats against the attorneys and the fake electors. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Trump keeps making incendiary statements. His campaign says that won’t change

Candidates on the verge of winning their parties’ nominations generally change their messaging as part of a so-called pivot. Not Donald Trump.

Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters upon her arrival to her opening campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Friday, March 1, 2024. General Elections are set for June 2. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)

5 key issues at stake in the upcoming 2024 Mexican elections

Mexico is almost certainly about to get its first woman president. Whoever wins, there’s a lot at stake: migration, anti-drug cooperation, the intertwined economies of the U.S. and Mexico, Latin American populism and even the fate of democracy in Mexico.

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

Supreme Court restores Donald Trump to ballot

Former President Donald Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state’s primary, which is Tuesday.

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2020, file photo, envelopes containing ballots are shown at a San Francisco Department of Elections at a voting center in San Francisco. Democratic infighting is rattling elections in California swing districts that could be key to U.S. House control. Democrats are hoping to regain seats the party lost to the GOP in 2020 in the heavily Democratic state. But rival Democrats are trading attacks that could undercut the party's chances. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Democratic infighting roils California swing districts that could be key to US House control

Democratic infighting is rattling elections in swing congressional districts in California that could be key to helping determine control of the U.S. House.

Arkansas State Sen. Clint Penzo speaks at a legislative hearing at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Penzo is challenging U.S. Rep. Steve Womack in the Republican primary for the third congressional district in Arkansas. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

Republican Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas faces challenge from state lawmaker in GOP primary

Republican Steve Womack faces a challenge from the right in the Arkansas primary from a state lawmaker trying to portray the congressman as not conservative enough.

FILE - Candidate supporters stand outside a polling location in the presidential primary election, Jan. 23, 2024, in Windham, N.H. Super Tuesday is feeling anything but for many Americans, with the leading presidential contenders already appearing set. A primary season that engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the presidential candidates is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes many voters and differs starkly from that of most other democracies around the world. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Super Tuesday highlights how presidential selection process can exclude many US voters

Super Tuesday is almost here, with 16 states holding contests this coming week. It’s the biggest day on the election calendar.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Why some Republican voters say they won’t vote for Trump if he’s the nominee

A small but substantial group of GOP voters say they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee that they wouldn’t vote for him in November’s general election.

FILE - Opposition lawmakers hold banners reading: "Stole the elections" during a Serbia's parliament constitutive session in Belgrade, Serbia, Feb. 6, 2024. Officials say a key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade is to be rerun later this year. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a fraud in the vote for Belgrade’s city assembly. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

An election for control of Serbia’s capital is to be rerun following opposition fraud claims

Officials say a key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade is to be rerun later this year. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a fraud in the vote for Belgrade’s city assembly.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gestures during a press conference regarding parliamentary elections, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Sharif, the main political rival of ex-Pakistani premier Imran Khan challenged him Tuesday to form a government if he had the support of the majority of the newly elected lawmakers in the parliament. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Shehbaz Sharif returns as Pakistan’s new premier as Imran Khan allies in parliament allege rigging

Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly have elected Shehbaz Sharif for a comeback term as prime minister.

Kylie Moreland, the Monroe County Elections Supervisor poses in her office in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Moreland, 24, worked on the municipal election in November as assistant to the election supervisor and was promoted to the supervisor role Feb. 12. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

An Indiana county hires yet another election supervisor, hoping she’ll stay

A county in Indiana has lost its top election official nearly every other month since its longtime supervisor resigned over a vote-counting mistake in the 2022 election.

Mourners attended the wake of mayoral candidate Armando Perez in Maravatio, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Perez, a member of the opposition National Action Party, and another mayoral hopeful for Maravito were both fatally shot the previous day within hours of each other (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Organized crime attacks on local candidates raise fears Mexico may face its bloodiest elections ever

As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico’s bloodiest elections ever.

This is a locator map for the Gulf Cooperation Council member states: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo)

Kuwait to hold parliamentary elections on April 4, latest round of voting in years of turmoil

Kuwait says it will hold elections for its national assembly on April 4, its latest round of voting after years of political turmoil.