Elections

FILE - Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate, Nov. 8, 2023, in Miami. Scott, a 2024 vice presidential contender for GOP frontrunner former President Donald Trump's ticket, is treading carefully on questions about whether he would have certified the 2020 election if he had been vice president at the time. Scott in a pair of Sunday, Feb. 18, television interviews, would not say if he would have acted differently than Vice President Mike Pence. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Trump VP contender Tim Scott doesn’t want to talk about vice president’s role in certifying election

Sen. Tim Scott is treading carefully on questions about whether he would have certified the 2020 election had he been vice president at that time.

Trump unveils $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con’

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump holds gold Trump sneakers at Sneaker Con Philadelphia, an event popular among sneaker collectors, in Philadelphia, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con,’ a day after a $355 million ruling against him

Supporters of the Aar Sunu Senegal opposition collective demonstrate on a street, in Dakar, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Senegal's government says it will hold a presidential election as soon as possible given that the country's top election authority has overturned a decree by President Macky Sall to postpone the vote. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Protestors keep pressure on Senegal’s president to hold elections as soon as possible

Opposition Democratic Alliance party leader john Steenhuisen waves at supporters in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, for their national manifesto launch in anticipation of the 2024 general elections. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa’s main opposition party lays out plans to unseat the African National Congress

FILE - A group of Ohio democratic leaders greet President Truman when his train stopped briefly at Crestline, Ohio, June 4, 1948. Standing with Truman is Former Gov. Frank J. Lausche, right, and Albert A. Horstman, former democratic chairman. (AP Photo, File)

New book on ‘whistle-stop’ campaign trains describes politics and adventure throughout history

Just in time for the 2024 presidential election, a new book chronicles the storied history of whistle-stop campaign trains, from the earliest days of rail travel through to today.

FILE - Senegal President Macky Sall poses before an interview with The Associated Press at the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal, Feb. 9 , 2024. Senegal will hold elections as soon as possible given that the country's top election authority has overturned a decree by President Sall to postpone the vote, the government said Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui, File)

Senegal’s president says election will be as soon as possible, after court overturns delay

Senegal’s government says it will hold a presidential election as soon as possible given that the country’s top election authority has overturned a decree by President Macky Sall to postpone the vote.

FILE - Meta's president of global affairs Nick Clegg speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024. Adobe, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok and other companies are gathering at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce a new voluntary framework for how they will respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from disrupting democratic elections worldwide.

FILE - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during the Politics and Eggs event, Jan. 12, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. Manchin announced Friday, Feb. 16, that he is not running for president, according to his spokesman Jon Kott. Manchin is not running for reelection in 2024. His Senate seat in a heavily Republican state is expected to be a prime pickup opportunity for the GOP. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won’t run for president in 2024

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says he is not running for president. Manchin announced his decision in a speech Friday at West Virginia University, saying he didn’t want to be a “spoiler.”

A protester shouts slogans during a rally against alleged fraud in the Feb. 14 presidential election outside the General Election Commission's office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Tens of people staged the rally demanding the election authority to stop presidential frontrunner Prabowo Subianto, a former general who has claimed victory after unofficial tallies put him in the lead, from taking office as the next president, claiming widespread electoral fraud. Writings on the posters read "Refuse fraudulent election". (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Indonesian activists protest ex-general’s win in presidential election and allege massive fraud

Protesters have marched in Indonesia’s capital demanding the election authority stop Prabowo Subianto from taking office as the next president, claiming widespread electoral fraud.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks on during a media visit to Harlow Police Station in Essex, England, Friday Feb. 16, 2024. (Dan Kitwood/Pool Photo via AP)

UK voters deliver double blow to Rishi Sunak, electing Labour lawmakers in two special elections

Voters in two districts in England have delivered new blows to beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

FILE - Montana Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale files paperwork to run for U.S. Senate, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, at the state Capitol in Helena, Mont. Rosendale announced Thursday, Feb. 15, that he was ending his campaign after former President Donald Trump endorsed his Republican opponent, former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Montana Rep. Rosendale drops US Senate bid after 6 days, citing Trump endorsement of opponent

Montana Congressman Matt Rosendale is dropping his bid for the U.S. Senate less than a week after announcing he was running.

This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

UN envoy says Libya will slide into `disintegration’ if politicians don’t move toward elections

The U.N. special envoy for Libya has sent a warning to the country’s feuding political actors: If they don’t urgently form a unified government and move toward elections the oil-rich North African nation will slide into “disintegration.”

Plaintiff John Rust speaks with reporters following oral arguments before the Indiana Supreme Court at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. GOP Senate candidate, John Rust, who is suing to appear on the primary ballot. A trial judge ruled in December that a state law that stipulates candidates must vote in two primary elections with their party is unconstitutional. The state appealed the ruling. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Indiana Supreme Court issues ruling in John Rust Senate bid

The Indiana Supreme Court has stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed a man to run for one of the state’s U.S.

FILE - Demonstrators protest President Macky Sall 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. Senegal’s top election authority has voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling in December, saying the moves were unconstitutional. A judgement approved by seven members of Senegal’s Constitutional Council cancelled the decree signed by President Macky Sall that postponed the election. (AP Photo/Stefan Kleinowitz, File)

Delay of Senegal’s Feb. 25 presidential election is ruled illegal, leaving date uncertain

Senegal’s top election authority has voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling in December, saying the moves were unconstitutional.

Former President Donald Trump speaks before entering the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. A New York judge says former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Delay tactics and quick trips: Takeaways from two Trump case hearings in New York and Georgia

Donald Trump’s unprecedented tangle of overlapping cases was on full display Thursday with simultaneous court hearings in New York and Georgia.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein gives a campaign speech outside the student union at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Stein spoke at a kickoff of his gubernatorial campaign's "Students for Stein" movement. With a large fundraising advantage and support from outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper, Stein appears to be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, which will be decided in the March 5 primary. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Steady ascent or sudden splash? North Carolina governor’s race features men who took different paths

ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) — One candidate is an Ivy League-educated attorney who over 25 years amassed allies as he climbed North Carolina’s Democratic ladder.

People arrive at St Peter's Church Hall as voting gets underway in the Wellingborough by-election, which was triggered by the recall of MP Peter Bone, in Rushden, England, Thursday Feb. 15, 2024. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)

Voters in two UK special elections deliver their verdict as gloom mounts for Sunak’s government

People in two districts of England are voting in special elections that could spell bad news for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election, center, enters the Russia's Supreme Court for a hearing which is considering his complaint against the signature collection procedure, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Liberal Russian politician loses appeal against officials’ ruling to bar him from presidential race

A liberal Russian politician has lost an appeal contesting the decision by election official barring him from running in next month’s vote that President Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testifies during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. The hearing is to determine whether Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP)

In fiery testimony, Fani Willis hits back at misconduct claims that threaten future of Trump case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has forcefully pushed back against what she described as “lies” about her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor.

Donald Trump awaits the start of a hearing in New York City Criminal Court, Thursday, February 15, 2024. A New York judge says former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25. (Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Trump’s New York hush-money case will start March 25. It’s the first of his criminal trials

A New York judge says former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks to scientists on the sidelines of the Future Technologies Forum at the World Trade Centre in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says Russia prefers Biden to Trump but criticizes current US policy

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would prefer to see U.S. President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced and predictable than Donald Trump.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 photo, Cobb County Election officials prepare for a recount, in Marietta, Ga. A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot trafficking scheme in Georgia has told a judge it has no evidence to back up its allegations. Texas-based group True the Vote in complaint filed with Georgia's secretary of state said it had spoken to several people with knowledge of coordinated efforts to collect and deposit ballots in drop boxes during 2020 and 2021 elections. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing

A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot stuffing scheme in Georgia has told a judge it has no evidence to back up its allegations.

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, Democratic candidate for New York's 3rd congressional district, speaks at his election night party Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, in Woodbury, N.Y. Suozzi won a special election for the House seat formerly held by George Santos. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Democrats cheer New York win as good omen for November. But is it enough to calm anxiety over Biden?

Former Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi winning back his Long Island seat could provide a blueprint for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign heading into November.

FILE - Kentucky Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel listens to the proceedings during the Senate session in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. McDaniel resumed his push Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, to limit a Kentucky governor's pardon powers, a fallout from the flurry of pardons granted by the state's last GOP governor that still spark outrage. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Too many pardons? Kentucky lawmaker wants a limit after former governor gave over 600 on his way out

A lawmaker has resumed his push to limit a Kentucky governor’s pardon powers. It’s a fallout from the pardons granted by the state’s last GOP governor.

FILE - A man casts his ballot for the presidential elections at a polling station in Skopje, North Macedonia, Sunday, April 21, 2019. North Macedonia’s parliament speaker has signed the formal act for the country to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in the spring. Following opposition pressure, North Macedonia’s main political parties agreed in December to organize general elections on May 8, two months early. A caretaker government was appointed last month. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski, File)

Spring date formally set for North Macedonia parliamentary, presidential elections amid EU bid

North Macedonia’s parliament speaker has formally set early parliamentary and presidential elections in the spring.

FILE - Cornelius Whiting fills out his ballot at an early voting location in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 26, 2022. The Associated Press is making some of its U.S. elections data available for free to more than 400 nonprofit news organizations in a program funded by the Google News Initiative, the company said on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Hundreds of nonprofit newsrooms will get free US election results and graphics from the AP

The Associated Press says it will be making some of its U.S. election data available for free this year to more than 400 nonprofit news organizations for the first time.

President Joe Biden takes a photograph with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, left, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, right, during a reception in recognition of Black History Month in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats and Republicans hold Black History Month celebrations with an eye on November’s election

Black History Month was celebrated in the nation’s capital with dueling events on Tuesday highlighting the divide between Democrats’ and Republicans’ approaches to courting Black voters in the 2024 presidential election.

FILE - A protester waves a Trump flag during rally organized by a group called Election Integrity Fund and Force at the Michigan State Capitol, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in Lansing, Mich. A fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election, an official testified Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and other charges for allegedly serving as false electors. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)

Republican Michigan elector testifies he never intended to make false public record

A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election has testified that he did not know how the electoral process worked and never intended to make a false public record.

Farmers react after police fired tear gas at protesting farmers near Shambhu border that divides northern Punjab and Haryana states, almost 200 km (125 miles) from New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb.14, 2024. Protesting Indian farmers Wednesday clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands of them tried to march to the capital New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices for their produce. (AP Photo/Rajesh Sachar)

Protesting Indian farmers clash with police for a second day as they march toward the capital

Protesting Indian farmers have clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands tried to march to the capital to demand guaranteed prices for their produce.

FILE - People walk under a banner advertising the European elections outside the European Parliament in Brussels, on Jan. 24, 2024. TikTok is taking measures to combat misinformation about the upcoming European Union elections including setting up fact-checking hubs inside the app, the video-sharing platform said Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

TikTok prepares to combat misinfo, AI fakes and influence ops ahead of European Union election

TikTok is taking measures to combat misinformation about the upcoming European Union elections including setting up fact-checking hubs inside the app.

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi speaks during a campaign canvass kick off event, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Plainview N.Y. The race to replace disgraced former Rep. George Santos pits Democrat congressional candidate Suozzi against Republican Mazi Pilip in New York's 3rd district. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Why AP declared Tom Suozzi the winner of the George Santos seat: Race call explained

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi will return to Congress to replace scandal-plagued Republican George Santos.

FILE - James Craig, a former Detroit police chief, announces he is a Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, on Sept. 14, 2021, in Detroit. Craig is ending his Republican bid for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan just over four months after launching his campaign, Craig told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Ex-Detroit police chief James Craig drops Republican bid for open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan

Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig is ending his Republican campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat representing Michigan.

FILE - North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley speaks at the state party's convention on June 9, 2023, in Greensboro, N.C. Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists at the top of the GOP's political machine even before he formally secures the party's next presidential nomination. Trump is calling for Ronna McDaniel to be replaced by Whatley. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Trump’s pick to lead the RNC is facing skepticism from some Republicans

Michael Whatley, the chairman of North Carolina’s Republican Party, has been named by Donald Trump as his pick to lead the Republican National Committee.

FILE - Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes speaks after taking the oath of office at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 5, 2023. On Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, a conservative group filed a lawsuit against Fontes challenging parts of Arizona’s election procedures manual, which was released in late 2023 by Fontes' office. It's the third lawsuit that seeks to throw out provisions in the state’s guide for conducting elections. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Group challenges restrictions in Arizona election manual on ballot drop-off locations

A conservative group is challenging parts of Arizona’s election procedures manual. It’s the third lawsuit filed within the last two weeks that seeks to throw out provisions in the state’s guide for conducting elections.