Election 2020

FILE - Democrat candidate for Philadelphia District Attorney Joe Khan participates in a debate sponsored by WHYY and the NAACP on April 26, 2017, in Philadelphia. The former federal prosecutor who led sweeping corruption investigations in Allentown and Reading said Wednesday, June 7, 2023, that he will run for Pennsylvania attorney general, becoming the second Democrat to seek an office that will become vacant after next year's election. (Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)

Ex-federal prosecutor to run for Pennsylvania attorney general

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who led sweeping corruption investigations in Allentown and Reading said Wednesday that he is running for Pennsylvania attorney general, becoming the second Democrat to seek the office that will become vacant after next year’s election.
June 7, 2023
President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the budget deal that lifts the federal debt limit and averts a U.S. government default, from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, June 2, 2023. Biden kept his eye on the long game when negotiating a deal with House Republicans to avert a U.S. government default. The bipartisan agreement is emblematic of his approach to deal-making as he looks to prime himself for a reelection campaign. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Biden’s 2024 pitch highlights pragmatism over Trump’s pugilism

June 4, 2023
FILE - Members of the Oath Keepers extremist group stand on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. David Moerschel, a 45,-year-old neurophysiologist from Punta Gorda, Fla., and Joseph Hackett, a 52-year-old chiropractor from Sarasota, Fla., who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group, were sentenced Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges, the latest in a historic string of sentences in the Jan. 6. 2021 attack. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Oath Keepers convicted in Jan. 6 Capitol riot get prison in latest extremist sentencings

June 3, 2023
FILE - Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale speaks during a Pennsylvania Democratic Party fundraiser on Nov. 1, 2019, in Philadelphia. DePasquale, Pennsylvania's former two-term auditor general, said Thursday, June 1, 2023, that he will run for state attorney general in the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

DePasquale to run for Pennsylvania attorney general in 2024

June 1, 2023
FILE - Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott is pictured, Feb. 10, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, appointed Scott to temporarily serve as Texas' attorney general after the House of Representatives voted to impeach Ken Paxton, a Republican, over allegations of misconduct and crimes. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas governor appoints John Scott as interim attorney general after Paxton impeached

May 31, 2023

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FILE - Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering during a town hall style meeting at New England College, April 20, 2023, in Henniker, N.H. Allies of former Christie have launched a new super PAC to support his expected candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Christie allies launch super PAC ahead of expected 2024 campaign for the GOP presidential nomination

May 30, 2023
FILE - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, talks with White House director of legislative affairs Louisa Terrell, right, before the start of an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, July 26, 2021. President Joe Biden and McCarthy are turning to a select group of negotiators to help broker a deal to increase the nation’s borrowing authority. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Who’s who in the debt limit fight: Meet the five negotiators working to save the US from default

May 24, 2023
President Joe Biden pauses during a meeting with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y., to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden showcases Dem coalition with campaign advisory board

May 10, 2023
FILE - West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Mac Warner speaks to supporters at a campaign event at the Charleston Women's Club in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, May 4, 2023. Secretary of State Mac Warner and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey say they remain concerned U.S. President Joe Biden's victory was not legitimate. That's despite repeated investigations, audits and court cases concluding there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud or improper counting that could have changed the results. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)

W.Va. politicos keep fighting over 2020; voters, not so much

May 6, 2023

Michigan legal watchdog pursues Trump-allied attorneys

May 5, 2023
FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday, April 25, 2023, to four years and two months in federal prison for attacking police officers during the insurrection and storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Florida man charged with throwing explosive at Capitol riot

May 2, 2023
FILE - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks before signing multiple bills meant to prevent gun violence, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. On Monday, May 1, 2023, Inslee announced he does not plan to seek a fourth term. He was most recently re-elected in 2020, making him only the second Washington state governor to serve three consecutive terms. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee won’t seek 4th term

May 1, 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden greets people after speaking about health care and prescription drug costs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Biden’s diverse coalition of support risks fraying in 2024

May 1, 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden greets people after speaking about health care and prescription drug costs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Biden’s diverse coalition of support risks fraying in 2024

May 1, 2023

Democratic election commissioner resigns in Wisconsin

April 30, 2023
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump, in New Hampshire speech, turns focus to Biden rematch

April 28, 2023
FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday, April 25, 2023, to four years and two months in federal prison for attacking police officers during the insurrection and storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Florida man gets prison term for role in attack on Capitol

April 26, 2023
FILE - Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., responds to another Senator's remarks during testimony by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, March 29, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sanders, has decided to forgo another presidential bid of his own and instead endorse President Joe Biden's reelection. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Bernie Sanders endorses Biden, rules out 2024 bid of his own

April 25, 2023
FILE - Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt speaksto supporters during an election night campaign event on Nov. 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt will help lead a political action committee that is encouraging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Longtime Trump ally Laxalt joins PAC supporting DeSantis

April 22, 2023

Florida man sentenced for role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

April 13, 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks from the Treaty Room in the White House on April 14, 2021, about the withdrawal of the remainder of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

Biden and his 2024 campaign: Waiting for some big decisions

April 2, 2023
FILE - President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. The indictment against former President Donald Trump involving a payoff to suppress claims of an extramarital affair is raising concerns that it could undermine public confidence in what many see as far more important investigations into whether he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Worries grow that Trump indictment will eclipse other probes

March 31, 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2023, celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok over its Chinese ownership and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of young voters, a group that’s been largely in his corner. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden’s moves on Alaska drilling, TikTok test young voters

March 27, 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden arrives to speak in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Dec. 8, 2022. Biden likes to say he's the most pro-union president in U.S. history. When he announces his expected reelection campaign in the coming weeks, he'll get the chance to prove it to his own staffers. Workers on his 2024 campaign will be unionized, political allies say, making Biden the first president to run a reelection campaign with staff represented by a union. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Pro-labor? Biden aims to prove it with unionized 2024 staff

March 23, 2023
FILE - Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio wears a hat that says The War Boys during a rally in Portland, Ore., Sept. 26, 2020. Federal prosecutors have rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with plotting to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. Jurors will hear testimony by defense witnesses before they begin deliberating. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)

Prosecutors rest in sedition case against Proud Boys leaders

March 20, 2023

Florida man sentenced for role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

March 17, 2023

2 Florida men guilty of participating in Capitol riot

March 15, 2023
FILE - A headline about President Donald Trump is displayed outside Fox News studios in New York on Nov. 28, 2018. Documents in defamation lawsuit illustrate pressures faced by Fox News journalists in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election. The network was on a collision course between giving its conservative audience what it wanted and reporting uncomfortable truths about then-President Donald Trump and his false fraud claims. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Records in Fox defamation case show pressures on reporters

March 11, 2023
FILE - Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. A former top editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City was arrested Thursday on charges that he interfered with police officers who were trying to protect the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Elliot Resnick, was chief editor of The Jewish Press when he joined the crowd of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an FBI agent's affidavit. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Tucker Carlson amplifies Jan. 6 lies with GOP-provided video

March 8, 2023
FILE - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, left, applauds as Sen. Edward Kennedy waves to cheering delegates at the Democratic National Convention in New York's Madison Square Garden, Aug. 14, 1980. As Carter receives home hospice care at the age of 98, misconceptions about his life are coming into focus. Most are rooted in some truth but need more context. (AP Photo, File)

The Carters: What you know may be wrong (or not quite right)

March 2, 2023
FILE - Lillian Carter is flanked by her sons Jimmy, right, and Billy as she met them down at Billy's gas station, where the Carters and neighbors cleaned fish prior to a town cookout, June 26, 1976. When Jimmy Carter stepped onto the national stage, he brought those closest to him along, introducing Americans to a colorful Georgia family that helped shape the 39th president’s public life and now, generations later, is rallying around him for the private final chapter of his 98 years. (AP Photo/Mark Foley, File)

Jimmy Carter: Family affair to the White House and beyond

February 28, 2023
FILE - Cochise County Recorder David Stevens poses for a portrait inside his office in Bisbee, Ariz., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. A rural Arizona county board that was embroiled in 2022 over voting machine conspiracies voted 2-1 along party lines Tuesday, Feb. 28, to give responsibility for elections through 2024 to Stevens, the county's elected Republican recorder, a move the state Attorney General's office suggested may be illegal. (AP Photo/Alberto Mariani, File)

Arizona county board votes to give recorder election duties

February 28, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks at an event to celebrate Black History Month, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden to visit Selma, Ala. for voting rights anniversary

February 28, 2023
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson speaks at the Faith, Politics and the Common Good Forum at Franklin Jr. High School, Jan. 9, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Williamson becomes Democratic primary’s 1st Biden challenger

February 27, 2023
U.S. First lady Jill Biden, right, greets students while on a visit to the University of Science and Technology in Windhoek, Namibia Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. Biden told the young people that the democracy their parents and grandparents fought for is now theirs to defend and protect. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich)

Jill Biden voices kinship with Africans’ fight for democracy

February 24, 2023
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