Elections

Former leader of Move Forward Party Pita Limjaroenrat talks to The Associated Press during an interview at Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Eight months ago, Pita shook up Thai politics by leading his progressive party to a stunning first-place finish in the 2023 general election, putting him in a good position to be named the country’s next prime minister. But Pita's fortune changed. Now he’s fighting an uphill battle just to retain his seat in Parliament, from which he has already been suspended. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Unfazed by political blows, Pita Limjaroenrat resolves to come back to lead ‘alternative Thailand’

Pita Limjaroenrat shook up Thai politics eight months ago by leading his progressive Move Forward party to a stunning first-place finish in the 2023 general election.

This image from police body-worn video and contained in the Justice Department statement of facts supporting the arrest of Carlos Ayala, shows Ayala outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Ayala, a Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections, was arrested on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Maryland, on felony and misdemeanor charges for participating in the Jan. 6 rioting. Michael Summers, the chair of the Maryland elections board, said in a statement Thursday, Jan. 11, he has accepted Ayala's immediate resignation. (Department of Justice via AP)

Maryland elections board member resigns after indictment for participating in US Capitol rioting

Donald Trump, Jr. greets members of the audience after speaking at the Machine Shed in Urbandale, Iowa, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump skips much of the final week before Iowa’s caucuses to go to court voluntarily instead

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp delivers the State of the State speech, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Gov. Brian Kemp draws political contrasts in his election-year State of the State speech

FILE - North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democratic North Carolina gubernatorial candidate, speaks about crime prevention and public safety measures at a news conference, May 1, 2023, at the Department of Justice building in Raleigh, N.C. Stein's campaign for North Carolina governor said Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, it raised more than $5.7 million during the past six months — a total that should keep the Democrat at or near the top of collections when all 2024 gubernatorial candidates report their donations. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum, File)

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein has raised $5.7M since July, his campaign says

Democrat announces long-shot campaign for North Dakota’s only US House seat

A Democratic military veteran is seeking North Dakota’s sole U.S. House seat. Trygve Hammer is aiming for an upset in a state where Republicans hold every statewide and congressional office and Democrats haven’t won a statewide election since Heidi Heitkamp’s U.S.

FILE -- Rick Jeffares, then a Republican state senator, prepares to vote on a bill during the legislative session in Atlanta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and Senate Republicans announced on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024 that they will seek to appoint Jeffares to the State Election Board. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

Georgia Senate nominates former senator as fifth member of election board

The Georgia Senate is nominating a fifth member to the State Election Board. Former state Sen. Rick Jeffares must still be confirmed by the full Senate after the Thursday announcement by Gov.

Who’s running for president? See a rundown of the 2024 candidates

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s announcement Wednesday that he’s dropping out of the presidential race narrows the Republican field to five candidates.

FILE - Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos speaks during an interview at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Backers of former President Donald Trump filed a petition Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, seeking to recall Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office, citing Vos's opposition to Trump and his not moving forward with impeaching the state's top elections official. (AP Photo/Harm Venhuizen, File)

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos targeted for recall for not supporting Trump

Backers of former President Donald Trump have filed a petition seeking to recall Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office.

5 candidates apiece qualify for elections to fill vacancies in Georgia House and Senate

Five candidates apiece are running in special elections for a Georgia state Senate seat west of Atlanta and a state House seat near Augusta.

Rep. Jorge Álvarez Máynez greets supporters after he was nominated by the Citizen’s Movement party to run for president in the upcoming general elections, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. The 38-year-old congressman will face front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena party, and opposition coalition candidate Xochitl Gálvez on June 2. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico’s small Citizen’s Movement party nominates congressman for president

Mexico’s small Citizen’s Movement party has nominated a youthful, little-known congressman to run for president in the June 2 elections _ a campaign that so far has been dominated by two women.

Kentucky state Sen. Chris McDaniel, left, chats with fellow Sen. Jason Howell, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Frankfort, Ky. McDaniel has resumed his effort to shift elections for governor and other statewide offices to coincide with presidential elections. His proposal won approval from a Senate panel on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

Lawmaker resumes push to end odd-year elections for governor and other statewide offices in Kentucky

A Kentucky lawmaker has resumed his effort to shift elections for governor and other statewide offices to coincide with presidential elections.

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, looks at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, at the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley and DeSantis tear into each other’s records in a hostile head-to-head Republican debate

DeSantis and Haley called each other liars and insulted each other’s records and character in the opening minutes of the debate.

FILE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters as he arrives for an election campaign rally of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

Over 50 countries go to the polls in 2024. The year will test even the most robust democracies

More than 50 countries that together have half the world’s population are expecting national elections in 2024.

FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele greets supporters after he presented himself as the presidential candidate for the New Ideas Party in his bid for reelection, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct. 27, 2023. Bukele's administration launched a new Internet voting system in January 2024, for Salvadorans living abroad, boosting access for people who previously had to cast their vote by mail. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

Votes by El Salvador’s diaspora surge, likely boosting President Bukele in elections

A record-breaking 51,226 Salvadorans living abroad voted in El Salvador’s upcoming presidential election in the first three days after the country opened overseas electronic voting for the first time, two electoral officials confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

New Jersey’s State of the State: Teen voting, more AI, lower medical debt among governor’s pitches

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has announced a series of new measures he wants the newly expanded Democrat-led Legislature to adopt.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, in Clinton, Iowa. Trump is seizing on his party's frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around voter fraud. Ahead of Iowa's caucuses next week, the former Republican president has repeatedly suggested that Democrats are planning to sign unauthorized migrants up to vote in 2024.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Trump suggests unauthorized migrants will vote. The idea stirs his base, but ignores reality

Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around voter fraud.

FILE - Solomon Peña, center, a Republican candidate for New Mexico House District 14, is taken into custody by Albuquerque, New Mexico, Police officers, Jan. 16, 2023, in southwest Albuquerque. Peña has been indicted on federal charges including interference with the electoral process in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque, according to a grand jury indictment that was unsealed Wednesday, May 31. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

New Mexico man pleads guilty in drive-by shootings on homes of Democratic lawmakers

One of three defendants has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque after the 2022 election.

FILE - Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind., listens during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Oct. 23, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pence, the older brother of former Vice President Mike Pence, said Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, that he will not seek reelection this year to a fourth term, becoming the latest House member to announce that they won't run for reelection. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

US Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana, former VP Mike Pence’s older brother, won’t seek reelection

Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana says he will not seek reelection this year to a fourth term, becoming the latest House member to announce that they won’t run for reelection.

FILE - The City of Racine Clerk's Office mobile voting van is seen on July 26, 2022, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center in Racine, Wis. On Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, a Wisconsin judge ruled that state law does not allow the use of mobile absentee voting sites, siding with Republicans who had challenged the city of Racine's use of the voting van that traveled around the city in 2022. (Ryan Patterson/The Journal Times via AP, File)

Wisconsin judge rules that absentee voting van used in 2022 was illegal

A Wisconsin judge has ruled that state law does not allow the use of mobile absentee voting sites, siding with Republicans who had challenged Racine’s use of a voting van that traveled around the city in 2022.

FILE - Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks at an event, Jan. 4, 2023, in Augusta, Maine. Republicans who want to remove Maine's secretary of state from office in the wake of her decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot will face long odds against an influential member of the state's majority-holding Democratic party. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine House votes down GOP effort to impeach election official who removed Trump from ballot

Democrats who control the Maine Legislature have turned back a Republican effort to impeach the state’s top election official for her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot.

FILE - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko listens, during his meeting with foreign correspondents, in Minsk, Belarus, on July 6, 2023. Belarusian authorities on Monday Jan. 8, 2024 said they will not invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the country's parliamentary and local elections, scheduled for Feb. 25. The move is the latest authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has undertaken in recent years to further cement his control over the country's political institutions. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

OSCE laments Belarus’ refusal to allow its monitors to observe February’s parliamentary vote

A top trans-Atlantic security and rights watchdog is criticizing Belarus’ refusal to allow the group to observe its parliamentary vote, saying that it defies the country’s international obligations.

FILE - Nikolai Kharitonov, a lawmaker of the Russian Communist Party, the second largest party in the lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, speaks to journalists after submitting his documents as a presidential candidate for the upcoming presidential election at the Russia's Central Election Committee in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. Russia’s national elections commission on Tuesday registered the Communist Party’s candidate to compete with President Vladimir Putin in the March election that Putin is all but certain to win. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

A Communist candidate gets approval to run in the Russian presidential election

Russia’s national elections commission has registered the Communist Party’s candidate to compete with President Vladimir Putin in the March election that Putin is all but certain to win.

This image taken from video shows liquid laundry detergent balls inside a package given by Nationalist Party (KMT) as a gift for supporter in Chunghwa, Central Taiwan, Saturday Jan. 6, 2024. At least three people have been hospitalized after mistakenly eating colorful pods of liquid laundry detergent that were distributed as a campaign freebie in Taiwan’s presidential race. (TVBS via AP)

3 people mistakenly eat laundry detergent in Taiwan election giveaway gone awry

At least three people have been hospitalized after mistakenly eating colorful pods of liquid laundry detergent that were distributed as a campaign freebie in Taiwan’s presidential race.

A TV monitor in Taipei, Taiwan flashes news that a satellite launched from China passed over southern Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. Taiwan’s defense ministry issued an alert Tuesday saying China has launched a satellite and urging caution days before the island's elections. (Kyodo News via AP)

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry mistranslates an alert, erroneously saying China launched a missile

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has mistranslated an alert into English, saying China had launched a missile instead of a satellite and urging caution days before the island’s elections.

A Bhutanese woman shows the ink mark on her index finger after casting her vote in the national elections in Deothang, Bhutan, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The landlocked country in the eastern Himalayan mountain range is electing a new Parliament, with the parties in contest promising to fix the nation’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Bhutan’s People’s Democratic Party wins election in Himalayan kingdom and returns to power

The People’s Democratic Party has won the most seats in Bhutan’s parliamentary elections and will form the new government as residents hope politicians make good on promises to fix the economic crisis in the Himalayan nation.

A video plays before former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center, Iowa, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Well before Trump takes the stage, a waiting audience of hundreds of supporters sits captivated as dramatic music begins to swell throughout the room. On projector screens, a rotating Planet Earth appears. “Making America Great Again starts one place on Earth, and one place only,” a deep-voiced narrator begins as the image zooms into the middle of the U.S. “Right here in Iowa.”(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

How an animated character named Marlon could help Trump win Iowa’s caucuses

Donald Trump’s campaign is hoping to generate a commanding win in Iowa’s leadoff voting contest by attracting new caucusgoers.

In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 photo, a touchscreen voting machine and printer are seen in a voting booth, in Paulding, Ga. Election integrity activists want a federal judge to order Georgia to stop using its current election system, saying it's vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that could cost voters their right to cast a vote and have it accurately counted.(AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trial gets underway for constitutional challenge to Georgia’s election system

The trial in a long-running legal challenge to the constitutionality of Georgia’s election is getting underway in federal court in Atlanta.

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a Fox News Town Hall, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Haley accuses Biden of giving ‘offensive’ speech at the church where racist mass shooting occurred

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is taking aim at the Democrat she’d like to face in the November election.

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, shows U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. A home owned by the judge overseeing the federal election subversion case against former president Donald Trump was targeted by a fake emergency call Sunday night, the latest in a spate of similar false swatting reports at the homes of public officials. (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts via AP, File)

Judge in Trump’s DC election case is targeted by fake emergency call in latest high-profile swatting

A home owned by the judge overseeing the federal election subversion case against former president Donald Trump was targeted by a fake emergency call Sunday night, the latest in a spate of similar false swatting reports at the homes of public officials.

FILE - Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind., speaks during a town hall in West Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 24, 2017. Bucshon says he will not seek reelection this year to an eighth term and will retire from Congress after 14 years. Bucshon did not explain Monday, Jan. 8, 2024 why he had decided not to seek reelection to the 8th District but said in a statement that he reached his decision to retire from the U.S. House after “much discernment and prayer" over the Christmas holiday. (Austen Leake/The Tribune-Star via AP, file)

US Rep. Larry Bucshon of Indiana won’t seek reelection to 8th term, will retire from Congress

Republican U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon of Indiana says he will not seek reelection this year to an eighth term and will retire from Congress after 14 years.

FILE - This combination of Aug. 4, 2022, images shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren during separate news conferences in Tampa, Fla. An elected prosecutor in Florida who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis after he made comments opposing abortion prosecutions said Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, that he wouldn't seek re-election because he believes the Florida governor would suspend him again if he won the race. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)

Florida prosecutor fighting DeSantis over suspension says he won’t seek re-election

An elected prosecutor in Florida who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis after he signed a statement opposing abortion prosecutions says that he won’t seek re-election because he believes the Florida governor would suspend him again if he won the race.

FILE - White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu speaks during a briefing at the White House, May 12, 2023, in Washington. After two years as the White House infrastructure coordinator, Landrieu is leaving his post and is expected to help push publicly for President Joe Biden's reelection. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House infrastructure czar Landrieu leaving job and expected to make case for Biden reelection

White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu is leaving his post after two years and is expected to help push publicly for President Joe Biden’s reelection.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, where nine worshippers were killed in a mass shooting by a white supremacist in 2015. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Biden condemns white supremacy in a campaign speech at a church where Black people were killed

At a Black church, President Joe Biden says white supremacy is a “poison” and has no place in America.

Activists of Gono Odhikar Parishad stand wearing black clothes on the face to protest against what they called a one sided election at the National Press Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Jan.8, 2024. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won an overwhelming majority in Bangladesh's parliamentary election after a campaign fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, giving her and her Awami League a fourth consecutive term. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh’s democracy is strained as Hasina wins a 4th term in a boycotted, low turnout vote

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has swept to power for a fourth consecutive term in Bangladesh. Sunday’s election was boycotted by opposition parties and marked by protests and international scrutiny.