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North Dakota voters will decide whether 81 is too old to serve in Congress

Mar. 15, 2024 16:56 PM EDT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters will decide this June whether to prevent people from running for Congress if they're old enough to turn 81 during their House or Senate term. A signature drive has succeeded in adding the question to the ballot, Secretary of State Michael...

Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Hovde promises to donate salary to charity

Mar. 15, 2024 10:09 AM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde pledged in a new campaign ad Friday to donate his salary to charity if elected, a move that comes as Democrats try to paint the California bank owner and real estate mogul as an out-of-touch multimillionaire. ...

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

Mar. 15, 2024 08:55 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting in the races for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations happens again Tuesday, a week after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump secured enough delegate support to become their parties’ presumptive nominees. Three states also will hold...

Top Democrat Schumer calls for new elections in Israel, saying Netanyahu is an obstacle to peace

Mar. 14, 2024 19:36 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. ...

Achsah Nesmith, who wrote speeches for President Jimmy Carter, has died at age 84

Mar. 14, 2024 18:15 PM EDT

When Achsah Nesmith got the phone call offering her a job writing presidential speeches for Jimmy Carter, she turned it down. As the mother of two young children, she explained to Carter's chief of staff, she just didn't have time. Nesmith quickly changed her mind, however, and...

Middle East conflicts revive clash between the president and Congress over war powers

Mar. 14, 2024 16:34 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A major deadline under the half-century-old War Powers Resolution came this week for President Joe Biden to obtain Congress' approval to keep waging his military campaign against Yemen's Houthis, in line with its sole authority under the U.S. Constitution to declare war and...

Roger Wicker wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Mississippi primary election

Mar. 12, 2024 21:00 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Wicker wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Mississippi primary election.

West Virginia governor vies for Manchin's US Senate seat, while moonlighting as girls hoops coach

Mar. 12, 2024 19:58 PM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — When West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice recently returned to the spotlight, it wasn’t as the state's top executive. Or a wealthy businessman. Or even as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The term-limited Republican was instead back on the court, guiding a high...

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego begins TV ads as the Arizona US Senate race takes shape without Sinema

Mar. 12, 2024 07:04 AM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego began airing the first television ads of his U.S. Senate campaign on Tuesday as the crucial Arizona race takes shape as a one-on-one contest after incumbent Kyrsten Sinema declined to run for a second term. Gallego's ad introduces him to...

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

Mar. 11, 2024 18:35 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio parted ways with Donald Trump on Monday 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. In breaking ranks with the former president,...