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AP News - Politics

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the April 2 presidential and state primaries

13 minutes ago

U.S. citizens jailed in Russia include a Wall Street Journal reporter, a vacationing corporate security executive and a dual national visiting her family in Tatarstan.

13 minutes ago

Voters in three Arkansas state House districts are returning to the polls to complete some unfinished business from the March 5 primaries.

13 minutes ago

Many Americans say immigrants contribute to economy but there's worry over risks, AP-NORC poll finds

7 hours ago

Joe Lieberman's death leaves a hole at No Labels as it tries to recruit a 2024 third-party candidate

18 hours ago

Georgia lawmakers approve new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest

6 hours ago

Federal EV charging stations are key to Biden's climate agenda, yet only 4 states have them

20 hours ago

Maryland seeks $60M in federal help to start recovery plan for collapsed Baltimore bridge

11 hours ago

Trump sells Bibles for $59.99 amid mounting legal bills

11 hours ago

Russia vetoes UN resolution, abolishing monitoring of UN sanctions against North Korea by UN experts

11 hours ago

Outpaced by Biden, Trump hopes to rake in $33 million during Florida fundraiser

12 hours ago

South Carolina to hold 2024 congressional elections with map previously ruled unconstitutional

17 hours ago

Trump's team cites First Amendment in contesting charges in Georgia election interference case

17 hours ago

Republican panel's selection to be Rep. Buck's likely replacement is a saving grace for Boebert

4 hours ago

Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for 'law and order,' to show contrast with Biden

16 hours ago

Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden raise a record $26 million for his reelection

7 hours ago

House Republicans invite President Biden to testify at public hearing as impeachment inquiry stalls

14 hours ago

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

18 hours ago

Biden is announcing a new rule to protect consumers who purchase short-term health insurance plans

1 day ago

Venezuelans are increasingly stuck in Mexico, explaining drop in illegal crossings to US

1 day ago

House Speaker Mike Johnson will send Mayorkas impeachment to the Senate next month

17 hours ago

House Speaker Mike Johnson is committed to advancing Ukraine aid. But it will be a difficult task

1 day ago

Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate's early-morning passage ended shutdown threat

5 days ago

What's next now that Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a motion to vacate from Marjorie Taylor Greene

6 days ago

Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone

2 days ago

NBC News' messy hiring and firing of former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel puts a spotlight on television's practice of paying on-air political contributors.

6 hours ago

Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents' explicit permission to create social media accounts.

5 hours ago

A Georgia bill that aims to require local jailers to work with immigration authorities is headed to the governor's desk for his signature.

5 hours ago

Political dignitaries, friends and family were expected to gather to honor the late, former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.

6 hours ago

Chicago plans to close five shelters for migrants in the coming weeks. The city's first step is moving 800 people into other shelters starting Saturday, clearing the park district fieldhouses to resume normal operations for summer.

7 hours ago

Georgia lawmakers have given final approval to a package of legislation they hope will limit property tax increases.

7 hours ago

Georgia lawmakers are agreeing on pay raises for public school teachers and state employees, although they still have differences to work out in the upcoming budget.

7 hours ago

A Nebraska state lawmaker is imploring the Legislature's Executive Board to hold accountable another lawmaker that she has accused of sexual harassment.

9 hours ago

A decade after two firefighters died when they became trapped in a brownstone in Boston's historic Back Bay neighborhood by a fire caused by sparks from welders working next door, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at toughening oversight of so-called "hot work."

11 hours ago

A federal judge in Texas has accused the major banking industry groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of forum shopping in their lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

11 hours ago

Mississippi lawmakers will try to negotiate on expanding Medicaid in one of the poorest states in the U.S. after the Senate voted Thursday for a vastly different plan than one proposed by the House.

12 hours ago

Kentucky's legislature has delivered on a two-year state budget that would increase funding for K-12 schools. The spending plan won final passage Thursday in the House.

12 hours ago

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on the repeal of Memphis police traffic stop reforms set in place after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers just over a year ago.

12 hours ago

Tennessee's governor has named a whole new board of trustees to the state's only publicly funded historically Black university. Republican Gov.

12 hours ago

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities. He announced vetoes Thursday to bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase.

12 hours ago

Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry dies after medical emergency amid cancer battle

8 hours ago

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's second-term Cabinet secretary for military and veterans affairs is retiring, and a former state legislator who has been working at the Pentagon is taking his place.

14 hours ago

Mónica Torres has been named interim president of New Mexico State University. Torres currently is the chancellor of the NMSU system of community colleges and previously served as president of Doña Ana Community College.

14 hours ago

An Orlando city commissioner has been arrested on charges of elderly exploitation, identity fraud and mortgage fraud following accusations that she had spent a constituent's money on herself after getting power of attorney over the 96-year-old woman.

14 hours ago

Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics.

14 hours ago

The New Hampshire House is taking on the issue of artificial intelligence in political advertising. Sophisticated artificial intelligence tools, such as voice-cloning software and image generators, already are in use in elections in the U.S. and around the world, leading to concerns about the rapid

14 hours ago

A federal appeals court has declined to order North Carolina legislators to redraw some state Senate districts because of alleged racial bias.

14 hours ago

Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh say an FBI agent conducting a polygraph test the agency says the convicted killer flunked had asked odd questions, throwing the test's results off.

11 hours ago

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has decided not to appeal a judge's ruling on Constitutional grounds that would have delayed his May trial.

15 hours ago

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have wrapped up work on a sweeping criminal justice bill that would deliver harsher sentences to combat crime.

15 hours ago

Thousands of emails of North Dakota's late attorney general, Wayne Stenehjem, have been released by his successor.

15 hours ago

Backers of former President Donald Trump are launching a second effort to recall Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office after the first one appears to have failed.

16 hours ago

Green Day will headline United Nations-backed global climate concert in San Francisco

16 hours ago

Maine lawmakers racing toward adjournment are going to consider a so-called "red flag" law allowing family members to petition a judge for removal of guns thanks to an 11th-hour bill introduced by the House speaker.

14 hours ago

A Denver truck driver has been convicted of five counts of vehicular homicide for crashing a semi tractor-trailer into a vehicle carrying a Wyoming family, killing all five of them.

17 hours ago

The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill that will recognize civil rights icon Malcolm X every May 19, the day he was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925.

17 hours ago