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FILE - Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right party PVV, or Party for Freedom, talks to the media after a meeting with speaker of the House Vera Bergkamp, two days after Wilders won the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Nov. 24, 2023. Two days of behind-closed doors talks between four Dutch political leaders appear to have forced a breakthrough in negotiations to form a new ruling coalition nearly four months after a general election won by Wilders. While the exact contours of a new coalition Cabinet remain unclear, Kim Putters, who led the talks, believes that the parties are now ready to hammer out a deal. Putters was writing up a report Wednesday March 13, 2024 that he will present to lawmakers on Thursday. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Closed-door negotiations appear to have broken a deadlock in forming a new Dutch government

Two days of closed-doors talks between four Dutch political leaders appear to have forced a breakthrough in negotiations to form a new ruling coalition.

FILE - 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. The sequel to the 2020 election is officially set as the president and his immediate predecessor secured their parties' nominations. Biden and Trump have set up a political movie the country has seen before — even if the last version was in black and white. (AP Photo, File)

Biden and Trump are now their parties’ presumptive nominees. What does that mean?

FILE - Moderator Chris Wallace speaks as President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate in Cleveland on Sept. 29, 2020. Wallace has written a book on the race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The race was narrowly won by Kennedy and featured the first televised presidential debates. Dutton announced Wednesday that “Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 311 Days that Changed America’s Politics Forever” will be published Oct. 8. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP, File)

Chris Wallace looks back at Nixon-Kennedy election in the book ‘Countdown 1960

FILE - People vote on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, at Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. Republicans vying for candidacy in Ohio’s upcoming March primary might be running for increasingly red congressional seats, but that doesn't make for an uneventful election on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 — especially as the GOP seeks a champion to flip the district of the longest serving woman in Congress. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Ohio’s Republican primaries for US House promise crowded ballots and a heated toss-up

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at the Earth Rider Brewery, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Biden is visiting Wisconsin and Michigan, looking to shore up a "blue wall" of swing states that long backed Democrats in presidential races. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden heads back to Wisconsin and Michigan as he looks to shore up Democratic ‘blue wall’

Trump wins enough delegates to be the Republican presumptive nominee for president

Former President Donald Trump has won enough delegates to be the presumptive Republican nominee for president for the third time. (March 13)

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FILE - 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. The sequel to the 2020 election is officially set as the president and his immediate predecessor secured their parties' nominations. Biden and Trump have set up a political movie the country has seen before — even if the last version was in black and white. (AP Photo, File)

US has its first presidential rematch since 1956, and other facts about the Biden-Trump sequel

November’s presidential race is actually a political movie the country has seen before.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP’s presumptive nominee for third straight election

Donald Trump will lead the GOP in a third consecutive presidential election after clinching the nomination Tuesday.

The sun sets on the New Mexico Statehouse in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, as legislators rush to pass bills before the end of a 30-day legislative session. Lawmakers are creating new endowments and trusts to support future spending amid a windfall in state income from oil production. (AP Photos/Morgan Lee)

Republican New Mexico Senate and House leaders won’t seek reelection

The top-ranked Republicans in the New Mexico House and Senate say they won’t seek reelection this year as their party seeks a stronger footing in the Democrat-led Legislature.

FILE - President Joe Biden waves to supporters after speaking at a campaign event, March 9, 2024, in Atlanta. Biden has formally clinched a second straight Democratic nomination. Now his party’s presumptive nominee, he faces an all-but-certain rematch with former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

How Biden won enough delegates for another Democratic presidential nomination

President Joe Biden’s path to unofficially clinching the Democratic nomination this year was much shorter and less dramatic than the one he followed in 2020.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in Columbia, S.C., Jan. 27, 2024. Biden has formally clinched a second straight Democratic nomination. Now his party’s presumptive nominee, he faces an all-but-certain rematch with former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

President Joe Biden has won enough delegates to clinch the 2024 Democratic nomination

President Joe Biden has formally clinched a second straight Democratic nomination. Now his party’s presumptive nominee, he faces an all-but-certain rematch with former President Donald Trump.

A voter enters a polling site for the Presidential primary election on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Website warning of cyberattack in Georgia’s largest county removed after it confused some voters

Officials in Georgia’s most populous county have removed a banner from their website warning of an “unexpected IT outage” after it created confusion on the final day of voting for the presidential primary.

FILE - Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., walks out of the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2024. Buck announced Tuesday, March 12, that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republican Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress next week, narrowing GOP’s slim majority

Republican Rep. Ken Buck has announced that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat.

Special Counsel hearing turns into a proxy campaign battle

Special counsel Robert Hur says politics played no part in his investigation or report into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at a primary election night party in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

North Carolina judges block elections board changes pushed by Republicans that weaken governor

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature unlawfully tried to seize from the governor the power to choose elections board members in the battleground state, trial judges ruled while saying portions of a new election law must be permanently blocked.

Matthew Snorek, right, submits petitions to force a recall election targeting Wisconsin's top elected Republican, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Madison, Wis. Vos angered backers of former President Donald Trump when he refused to impeach the official who oversees the battleground state's elections. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin elections review shows recall targeting GOP leader falls short of signatures needed

Supporters of former President Donald Trump who organized an effort to recall Wisconsin’s top elected Republican did not gather enough signatures to trigger the recall election under one scenario reviewed by elections officials Tuesday.

FILE - Move Forward party's leader Chaithawat Tulathon, center right, with its former leader Pita Limjaroenrat, center left, talks to reporters during a news conference at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 31, 2024. Thailand’s Election Commission on Tuesday, March 12, said it will seek the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward party which won last year's general election after a court ruled that the party’s proposal to amend a royal anti-defamation law was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thai election body to seek dissolution of progressive party that won last year’s general election

Thailand’s Election Commission says it will seek the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward party, which won last year’s general election, after a court ruled that the party’s proposal to amend a royal anti-defamation law was unconstitutional.

Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Tuesday March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Congressional hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battle

Special counsel Robert Hur says politics played no part in his investigation or report into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

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)

Biden and Trump secure nominations, setting the stage for a grueling general election rematch

There is no longer any doubt that the fall election will feature a rematch between two flawed and unpopular presidents.

The shadow of a voter entering the precinct at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Gluckstadt, Miss., is cast on a privacy divider for people filling out ballots at Precinct 205 at during the primary election Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Barbara Gauntt/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

Mississippi Republican Sen. Wicker advances to general election. State also holds 4 House primaries

Mississippi U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker has defeated two Republican challengers and will face Democrat Ty Pinkins in the Nov. 5 general election. Mississippi also held U.S.

Lara Trump, the newly elected Republican National Committee co-chair, right, and newly elected Chairman Michael Whatley, greet attendees as they crowd the podium after the general session of the Republican National Committee Spring Meeting Friday, March 8, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Trump’s team is slashing Republican National Committee staff amid takeover, AP sources say

Donald Trump’s lieutenants are cutting dozens of staff across the Republican National Committee in a cost-cutting move that further cements the former president’s takeover of the GOP’s political and fundraising machinery.

Diane Butler, nominated to serve on the Maryland State Board of Elections, stands in front of the Maryland Senate Executive Nominations Committee before taking questions from state senators on Monday, March 11, 2024, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Nominee to Maryland elections board questioned after predecessor resigned amid Capitol riot charges

A Republican nominee to the state elections board has appeared before a panel of state senators that will be deciding whether to forward her nomination for a confirmation vote.

FILE - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a news conference, Dec. 29, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. DeWine parted ways with Donald Trump on Monday, March 11, 2024, and endorsed state Sen. Matt Dolan over Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno in the state's three-way GOP primary for a U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine bypasses Trump-backed Bernie Moreno for Matt Dolan with US Senate race nod

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has parted ways with Donald Trump to endorse state Sen. Matt Dolan over Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno in the three-way GOP primary for U.S.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, centre left, is greeted by African National Congress supporters as he arrives at the Mose Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, for the ANC national manifesto launch in anticipation of the 2024 general elections. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa’s ruling party fields election candidates who have faced graft allegations

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress says that it has disqualified some of its senior officials from being candidates in this year’s election because of long-running corruption allegations, but others also facing accusations were cleared to stand.

This cover image released by Hogarth shows "Great Expectations" by Vinson Cunningham. (Hogarth via AP)

Book Review: A coming-of-age story of a young Black man who works for an Obama-adjacent candidate

Vinson Cunningham’s day job is writing theater reviews for the New Yorker magazine. Now he has published his first novel, “Great Expectations.”

Matthew Snorek, right, submits petitions to force a recall election targeting Wisconsin's top elected Republican, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Madison, Wis. Vos angered backers of former President Donald Trump when he refused to impeach the official who oversees the battleground state's elections. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Trump backers submit signatures to force recall election of Wisconsin GOP Assembly leader

Supporters of former President Donald Trump have submitted petitions seeking to force a recall election targeting Wisconsin’s top elected Republican, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.

FILE - Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., from left, speaks alongside, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., during a vigil with state legislators and faith leaders currently on hunger strike outside the White House to demand that President Joe Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

More than 20 progressive groups form a coalition to counter pro-Israel groups before the election

More than 20 progressive groups are coming together to forcefully reject pro-Israel groups’ efforts to primary challenge liberal members who’ve been critics of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

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)

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Georgia leads a slate of four states hosting primary elections Tuesday in the first major round of voting since Super Tuesday’s results transformed the political landscape.

Andre Ventura, leader of populist right wing party Chega, gestures to supporters before addressing them following the announcement of results for Portugal's general election in Lisbon, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Joao Henriques)

Portugal’s election leaves the country uncertain of its future but heartens Europe’s radical right

Portugal’s inconclusive general election results mean weeks of political uncertainty ahead. They also give fresh energy to Europe’s shift toward the radical right.

Vladimir Putin, center, attends a Christmas service in Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Jan. 8, 2000. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)

On Russian TV ahead of the election, there’s only one program: Putin’s

Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power almost 25 years ago and since then he’s eliminated nearly all independent media — a process he ramped up after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

A protester interrupts President Joe Biden during an event in Manassas, Va., Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Democratic protest vote movement over the Israel-Hamas war spreads from Michigan to other states

An “uncommitted” campaign protesting President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war is seeing success in other states.

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FILE - President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, March 7, 2024, in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, File)

Biden’s big speech showed his uneasy approach to abortion, an issue bound to be key in the campaign

President Joe Biden made abortion and reproductive rights a central theme of his State of the Union speech, but he never mentioned the word “abortion.”

FILE - Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., asks questions during a hearing, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. Porter built a social media reputation by wielding a white board at congressional hearings, and that helped propelled her campaign for the Senate. But on Super Tuesday, the numbers didn't add up for her in the primary and she'll be out of a job in Washington come January. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Katie Porter’s star dims in failed US Senate bid, leaving the Californian facing an uncertain future

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter faces an uncertain future after being trounced in California’s U.S. Senate race. Porter finished far behind fellow Democratic Rep.

Moldova's Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi arrives for joint statements with Romanian counterpart Luminita Odobescu in Bucharest, Romania, Feb. 6, 2024. Moldova's foreign minister says the past two years for his country have been the hardest and most tumultuous for European Union candidate Moldova in more than three decades as it faces threats from Russia in multiple spheres of public life. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre)

Moldova faces multiple threats from Russia as it turns toward EU membership, foreign minister says

Moldova’s foreign minister says the past two years for his country have been the hardest and most tumultuous for European Union candidate Moldova in more than three decades as it faces threats from Russia in multiple spheres of public life.

Turkish police detain 33 people accused of plotting attacks ahead of local elections, official says

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says police have detained 33 people suspected of ties to the Islamic State group who were allegedly preparing attacks ahead of the country’s local elections.