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FILE - Jeffrey Clark, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, on Sept. 14, 2020. Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could face sanctions, including disbarment in Washington, D.C., if a three-person panel thinks he violated ethics rules in his role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

Trump ally Jeffrey Clark was adamant about fraud in 2020 election despite evidence, superior said

The second day of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark’s disciplinary system painted a picture of someone who, despite numerous attempts by his superiors to convince him otherwise, remained adamant that there were instances of irregularities and fraud in the 2020 election that required d

FILE - The Michigan Capitol is seen, May 24, 2023, in Lansing, Mich. New boundaries for Detroit-area seats in the Legislature were approved Wednesday, March 27, 2024, by a three-judge panel that had previously ordered them redrawn after finding the old map was illegally influenced by race. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Federal judges approve redraw of Detroit-area state House seats ahead of 2024 election

Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake urges support for Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, Monday, March 18, 2024, in Toledo, Ohio. (Jeremy Wadsworth/The Blade via AP)

Kari Lake declines to defend defamation lawsuit filed by Arizona election official

FILE - Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nehls is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the bipartisan panel announced Tuesday, March 27, 2024. It did not specify the focus of the investigation, but Nehls said it was related to his campaign’s finances. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Texas Rep. Troy Nehls target of investigation by House ethics committee

FILE - U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., listens during a hearing, March 14, 2022, in Manchester, N.H. Kuster said Wednesday, March 27, 2024 she will not seek reelection to Congress for a seventh term in November, leaving the state's sprawling 2nd District open to a possible GOP successor. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, file)

US Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire won’t seek reelection for a seventh term in November

Indonesia’s top court begins hearing appeals of two losing candidates alleging election fraud

Indonesia’s top court began hearing appeals Wednesday against the presidential election results lodged by two losing candidates who allege widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls, demanding a revote. (AP video by Fadlan Syam)

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picks Nicole Shanahan as his running mate for his independent White House bid

Ohio man sentenced to more than 2 years for election-related threats in Arizona

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FILE - President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and former President Bill Clinton, right, pose for a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team under the North Portico of the White House in Washington, May 27, 2010. President Joe Biden will share a stage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday in New York as he raises money for his reelection campaign. It's a one-of-a-kind political extravaganza that will showcase decades of Democratic leadership. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders

President Joe Biden will share a stage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in New York as he raises money for his reelection campaign.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a campaign event with Vice President Kamala Harris in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Voting ends Saturday in North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary, with President Joe Biden looking to add the state’s handful of delegates to his insurmountable lead for the party’s nomination. The party-run contest rounds out the busiest month of voting on the presidential primary calendar, with 30 states, plus the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories all holding primaries and caucuses in the last 30 days. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary

Voting ends Saturday in North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary, with President Joe Biden looking to add the state’s handful of delegates to his insurmountable lead for his party’s nomination.

Losing presidential candidate Anies Baswedan, center left, talks to journalist as his running mate Muhaimin Iskandar, second left, listens upon their arrival for hearing appeals against the presidential election results, which were lodged by losing candidates, at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia’s top court hears election appeals of candidates who lost and want a revote

Indonesia’s top court has heard appeals lodged by two losing presidential candidates who are demanding a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls.

Former President Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at 40 Wall Street after a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 25, 2024, in New York. A New York judge has scheduled an April 15 trial date in former President Donald Trump's hush money case. Judge Juan M. Merchan made the ruling Monday. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear ‘skeleton’ campaign

Donald Trump’s political operation was widely praised for its professionalism and effectiveness throughout the Republican nomination fight.

Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House

A Democrat who made reproductive rights a centerpiece of her campaign in deeply conservative Alabama has won a special election to the Alabama Legislature.

FILE - Jeffrey Clark, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, on Sept. 14, 2020. Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could face sanctions, including disbarment in Washington, D.C., if a three-person panel thinks he violated ethics rules in his role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

Trump ally Jeffrey Clark disciplinary hearing begins over role trying to overturn 2020 election

Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could face sanctions, including disbarment in Washington, D.C., if a three-person panel thinks he violated ethics rules in his role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Nicole Shanahan waves from the podium during a campaign event for Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. Shanahan has been picked as Kennedy Jr.'s running mate. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Who is Nicole Shanahan, the philanthropist picked by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked a California lawyer and philanthropist who’s never held elected office to be his running mate in his independent bid for president.

FILE - A Super Tuesday voter walks past a sign requiring a photo ID at a polling location, March 5, 2024, in Mount Holly, N.C. The North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously on Tuesday, March 26, to certify counts for scores of ballot items from March 5, including contested party races for president, governor and other Council of State members, the congressional delegation, seats in the legislature and judgeships. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

North Carolina elections board finalizes results from primary marked by new voter ID rules

North Carolina’s primary election results from earlier this month have been made official, with a handful of key incumbents losing and a few U.S.

Bassirou Diomaye Faye holds a press conference after winning the presidential elections in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Senegal’s president-elect pledges to fight corruption after a stunning victory for the 44-year-old

Senegal woke up to a new president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector and political novice.

FILE - Former South African President Jacob Zuma speaks during a press conference in Soweto, South Africa, on Dec. 16, 2023, where Zuma gave his backing to a new party, uMkhonto weSizwe, (MK) for this year's national elections. South Africa's ruling African National Congress party has failed in its legal bid to have MK deregistered and disallowed from participating in the country's upcoming elections. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

South Africa’s ANC fails in bid to ban former leader Zuma’s party from polls

A South African court has dismissed the ruling party’s case demanding a rival opposition party be deregistered and banned from participating in the upcoming election.

Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gives a speech during a campaign rally ahead of nationwide municipality elections, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 24, 2024. On Sunday, millions of voters in Turkey head to the polls to elect mayors and administrators in local elections which will gauge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity as his ruling party tries to win back key cities it lost five years ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Things to know about the Turkish local elections that will gauge Erdogan’s popularity

On Sunday, millions of voters in Turkey head to the polls to elect mayors and administrators in local elections which will gauge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity as his ruling party tries to win back key cities it lost five years ago.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event, Jan. 14, 2024, in Adel, Iowa. Haley's base of voters and donors was never big enough to seriously challenge Donald Trump. But her supporters are still splintered weeks after she dropped out of the GOP primary. If that holds, it could hurt Trump's general election chances. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)

Some Republicans who supported Nikki Haley are still refusing to back Donald Trump

Nikki Haley’s base of voters and donors was never big enough to seriously challenge Donald Trump. But her supporters are still splintered weeks after she dropped out of the GOP primary.

Veteran North Carolina Rep. Wray drops further appeals in primary, losing to challenger

The final outstanding North Carolina General Assembly primary election from earlier this month is resolved. Ten-term Democratic state Rep.

FILE - Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delivers her state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 9, 2023. Joshua Russell, of Bucyrus, Ohio, was sentenced Monday, March 25, 2024, in federal court in Phoenix, to two and a half years in prison for his conviction for making an interstate threat against then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 campaign season. Russell Had acknowledged making death threats in three voicemails left for Hobbs, who at the time was Arizona's chief election officer and now serves as Arizona's governor. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona’s top election official

An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters as he arrives with his wife Cilia Flores in an open vehicle to the National Election Commission (CNE) to formalize his candidacy to run again for president in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 25, 2024. Elections are set for July 28. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela’s Maduro makes his candidacy official while a would-be rival struggles to register

Throng of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have rallied at an electoral council headquarters where he made official his candidacy for a third term.

Bassirou Diomaye Faye holds a press conference after winning the presidential elections in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Senegal’s little-known opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is named the next president

Senegal’s little-known, 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is named the country’s next president after preliminary results showed that he won the first round outright.

FILE - This combo image shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, March 9, 2024 and President Joe Biden, right, Jan. 27, 2024. Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020 presidential election. But presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump appears to stoke more fear and anger among voters from his opposing party than President Joe Biden does from his. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo, File)

As Biden tours the country and visits swing states, Trump is fundraising and playing golf

As President Joe Biden campaigns for reelection at a furious pace, his 2024 rival, Donald Trump, is behind closed doors.

FILE - New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy speaks to delegates in Paramus, N.J., Monday, March 4, 2024. Murphy has suspended her U.S. Senate campaign to replace Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., as he faces federal corruption charges. Murphy announced her decision in a video posted to her social media on Sunday, March. Her decision to drop out likely clears the way for U.S. Rep. Andy Kim in the Democratic primary on June 4. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy suspends her Senate campaign to replace indicted Sen. Menendez

New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy has suspended her U.S. Senate campaign to replace Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez as he faces federal corruption charges.

Dakota Adams poses for a photograph during an interview, Feb. 21, 2024, in Kalispell, Montana. Adams, the estranged son of Oath Keepers founder and imprisoned seditionist Stewart Rhodes, is running for the legislature in Montana as a Democrat. (AP Photo/Hunter D'Antuono)

Oath Keepers’ son emerges from traumatic childhood to tell his own story in a long shot election bid

The eldest son of one of America’s most infamous seditionists is building a new life since breaking from his father’s control.

Todung Mulya Lubis, left, a prominent Indonesian lawyer representing losing presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo registers a legal challenge alleging widespread irregularities and fraud in Feb. 14 presidential election, at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. The election winner, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, received more than 96 million votes, or 58.6%. He was accused of human rights abuses under a past dictatorship and chose the son of the popular outgoing president as his running mate. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

A losing candidate in Indonesia’s presidential election demands a revote, alleging fraud

The camp of Indonesia’s losing presidential candidate has filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court alleging widespread fraud at the polls and demanded a revote.

FILE - Adrian Fontes speaks at a news conference in Phoenix, Nov. 14, 2022. Arizona's top election officials are taking an aggressive approach to combating disinformation and responding to threats against election workers in a state that has been an epicenter of both. Fontes, the Arizona Secretary of State, says election meddlers have attempted to hack the state's electronic systems. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona expects to be back at the center of election attacks. Its top officials are going on offense

Preparing for the worst has become the leading strategy for Arizona election officials since 2020. That’s when the state’s razor-thin presidential race made Arizona a national epicenter for misinformation about voter fraud, machine problems and phony results.

Presidential candidate Ivan Korcok, a pro-Western career diplomat, speaks about the preliminary results of the first round of the presidential election in Bratislava, Slovakia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

A pro-West diplomat and an ally of populist premier to meet in runoff for Slovakia’s presidency

A pro-western career diplomat has defeated a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the first round of the presidential election to set up a runoff vote between the two.

FILE - This combo image shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, March 9, 2024 and President Joe Biden, right, Jan. 27, 2024. Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020 presidential election. But presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump appears to stoke more fear and anger among voters from his opposing party than President Joe Biden does from his. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo, File)

Biden and Trump win Louisiana’s presidential primary having already clinched nominations

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won Louisiana’s primary on Saturday, collecting more delegates after they already clinched their party nominations.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., smiles while speaking during an event at AFSCME Council 13 offices, March 14, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. For Democrats trying to defend the White House and Senate majority, Casey is emerging as the tip of the spear in trying to reframe the election-year narrative around inflation, a key soft spot in 2024 for Democrats on the all-important voter issue of the economy. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Casey, McCormick to appear alone on Senate ballots in Pennsylvania after courts boot off challengers

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick will be the only names on ballots for the office in Pennsylvania’s April primary after a ruling by the state’s highest court.

FILE - Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux speaks during a news conference in Visalia, Calif., Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, Boudreaux, a sheriff who promises to harden the nation’s porous borders, and a California legislator backed by former President Donald Trump, are facing off in a special U.S. House election. (Ron Holman/The Times-Delta via AP, File)

Republican Mike Boudreaux advances to special election to complete term of ousted Speaker McCarthy

County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is advancing to a May election in California to decide who will complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S.

FILE - Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., faces reporters at the Capitol, Nov. 30, 2023, in Washington. Santos said Friday, March 22, 2024, that he will leave the Republican Party and run as an independent in a bid to return to Congress after having been expelled while facing fraud charges. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

George Santos says he’ll ditch GOP, run as independent, in bid to return to Congress after expulsion

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos of New York says he is leaving the Republican Party and will run as an independent in a bid to return to Congress, after having been expelled while facing federal fraud charges.

FILE - The five Republican members of the Georgia Public Service Commission discuss a rate increase for Georgia Power Co. to pay costs at the utility's Vogtle nuclear power plant, Dec. 19, 2023, in Atlanta. A bill passed Thursday, March 21, 2024, by Georgia lawmakers would add an extra two years to the terms of commissioners in response to a court case. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Georgia bill would give utility regulators extra years in office without facing voters

Georgia’s Public Service Commission is an elected body that’s gone years without having elections because of a redistricting lawsuit.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado embraces Corina Yoris during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 22, 2024. Machado on Friday named Yoris as a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a government ban on her running for office. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate María Machado names substitute while she fights ban

Venezuelan opposition powerhouse María Corina Machado has named a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a government ban on her running for office.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, joins former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during a news conference for the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California campaign for Keep The Law (SB 1137) in Inglewood, Calif., on Friday, March. 22, 2024. The law, if upheld, would require all oil or gas production facilities or wells within a health protection zone to comply with new regulations. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California governor, celebrities and activists launch campaign to protect law limiting oil wells

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jane Fonda are calling on voters to keep a law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and hospitals as the oil industry fights to overturn it.

North Dakota Sen. Merrill Piepkorn, D-Fargo, holds a Non-Partisan League political cartoon drawn by his uncle, John Hoaas, who farmed near Tioga, March 12, 2019, in Bismarck, N.D. The Democratic state senator in North Dakota has filed paperwork for a campaign to run for governor. He did not confirm his candidacy, however, he said he is planning a press conference soon. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

Democratic state senator files paperwork for North Dakota gubernatorial bid

A Democratic state senator in North Dakota has filed paperwork for a campaign to run for governor. Merrill Piepkorn, of Fargo, did not confirm his candidacy.