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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron during a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 21, 2024. European Union leaders are gathering to consider new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine. Leaders will also discuss in Thursday's summit the war in Gaza amid deep concern about Israeli plans to launch a ground offensive in the city of Rafah. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Hungary’s Orbán congratulates Putin on widely criticized Russian election win

Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his victory in an election whose outcome was never in doubt after systematic crackdowns on dissent.

FILE - Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong addresses the media during a joint press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after their meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. Vietnam’s president resigned in the latest episode of the ruling Communist Party's “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign, and Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan was named acting president. The appointment is Xuan's second stint as acting president after she stepped in when Vo Van Thuong's predecessor resigned in early 2023. (Richard A. Brooks/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Vietnam’s president resigns in latest twist of anti-graft campaign shaking its fast-growing economy

In this image taken from video provided by Menendez for Senate, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., announces that he will not run in the state's Democratic primary, Thursday, March 21 2024. Menendez, who faces federal corruption charges, left open the possibility that he would reenter the race as an independent later this year if he is exonerated at a trial. (Menendez for Senate via AP)

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez says he won’t run in Democratic primary

California Gov. Gavin Newsom comments on the passing of Proposition 1, a $6.4 billion bond ballot measure, during a news conference at the Ronald Reagan State Building Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Los Angeles. California voters have passed the measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state's homelessness crisis. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California homelessness measure’s razor-thin win signals growing voter fatigue

FILE - Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks at Cumberland Elementary School, Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Whitefish Bay, Wis. Evers on Thursday, March 21, 2024, has vetoed Republican proposals that would have allowed election observers to get closer to poll workers and required a new post-election audit. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Evers vetoes Republican election bills, signs sales tax exemption for precious metals

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez says he won’t run in Democratic primary

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said Thursday that he will not run in the Democratic primary as he faces federal corruption charges, but he left open the possibility that he would reenter the race as an independent later this year if he is exonerated at a trial.

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FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump's new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president's legal bills before the party gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)

Trump’s invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC

Donald Trump and his Republican allies are well behind President Joe Biden and Democrats on fundraising.

FILE - Algeria's President Abdelmajid Tebboune gives a press conference, in Algiers, Algeria, Sunday, 24, 2019. Algeria's presidential campaign is officially starting a week ago with five candidates vying to replace the longtime leader pushed out in April in an ongoing protest movement. Algeria has scheduled this year’s presidential elections for September 7, providing more than five months for first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune to campaign for a second term to lead the oil-rich north African nation, his office said in a statement on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum, File)

Algeria sets election for September. The military-backed president is expected to seek a 2nd term

Algeria will hold its next presidential election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign should he choose to seek a second term leading the oil-rich north African nation.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., rides an escalator at the Senate subway on Capitol Hill Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Democratic senators push bill focusing on local detainment of immigrants linked to violent crime

Republicans are dismissing an immigration-related bill pushed by Democratic senators and allied independents as an election year ploy.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. An attorney for Donald Trump says he’s optimistic an appellate review will lead to the Georgia 2020 election interference case against him being dismissed and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis being disqualified. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Trump’s latest 2024 campaign fundraising report shows him lagging behind Biden in cash

Former President Donald Trump’s fundraising picked up last month but his political operation is still struggling to catch up to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

FILE - Presidential candidate Anies Baswedan talks to media after Friday prayer at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Baswedan, a runner-up in Indonesia’s presidential election filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court on Thursday, March 21, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)

Indonesia presidential runner-up alleges widespread fraud as he contests official election results

A runner-up in Indonesia’s presidential election has filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls.

FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores flash victory signs as they arrive to the National Assembly for the annual presidential address, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 15, 2024. As the July 28 presidential election nears, Venezuelan government keeps arresting opponents allegedly tied to criminal plots. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

As election nears, Venezuelan government keeps arresting opponents allegedly tied to criminal plots

As Venezuela’s government would have it, President Nicolas Maduro and members of his inner circle have been the target of several conspiracies since last year that could have left them injured or worse.

Presidential candidate Anta Babacar Ngom greets supporters during her electoral campaign caravan in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decades long campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Senegal votes Sunday in a presidential election that has fired up political tensions

Senegal votes Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.

President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One Wednesday March 20, 2024, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden is using the ‘are you better off today’ question to contrast himself with Trump

President Joe Biden has opened a new line of attack against former President Donald Trump. At a campaign fundraiser in the Dallas area on Wednesday, Biden asked and answered the classic “are you better off today than you were four years ago” question to remind voters of what it was like when Trump w

FILE - Republican Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens speaks to reporters, May 9, 2023, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Foes of Stephens picked off four of his allies, including one of his leadership team, in the primaries on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, though were still one shy of the number needed to obliterate his majority in the next legislative session. But a bitter battle for control of the chamber still looms. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File)

Head of fractured Ohio House loses some GOP allies, but may yet keep leadership role amid infighting

Foes of Republican Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens picked off four of his allies, including one of his leadership team, in this week’s primaries.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado speaks at a press conference regarding the arrest order for her campaign manager and eight other opposition members for alleged involvement in a conspiracy plot to destabilize the government, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Machado has been disqualified from holding public office for 15 years but has continued to campaign for president ahead of the July 28 elections. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan authorities arrest campaign staffers of opposition candidate in alleged violent plot

Venezuela’s top prosecutor says arrest warrants have been issued for the manager and eight other staffers of the presidential campaign of opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado, accusing them of being part of a violent, anti-government conspiracy Attorney General Tarek William Saab says that Mac

Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks to supporters during his primary election night watch party in Westlake, Ohio, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Trump got the candidate he wanted in Ohio’s Senate primary. But can Bernie Moreno win in November?

Donald Trump got what he wanted when former car dealer Bernie Moreno won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio. So did Democrats.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump, left, and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry visit Café du Monde in New Orleans, July 25, 2023. Louisiana politics has been dominated so far this year by new Republican Gov. Jeff Landry's special legislative sessions to address crime and adopt new congressional maps, but the focus will shift briefly Saturday, March 23, 2024, to the state's presidential primaries. President Joe Biden and Trump both unofficially sewed up their parties' nominations last week and face little opposition on Louisiana's primary ballot. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Louisiana’s presidential primaries

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana politics have been dominated this year by new Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s special legislative sessions to address crime and adopt new congressional maps.

FILE - Poll workers sort out early and absentee ballots at the Kenosha Municipal Building on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. A prosecutor urged jurors Wednesday, March 20, 2024, to find a former Milwaukee elections official who requested fake absentee ballots guilty of misconduct and fraud, rejecting her arguments that she was stressed out and only trying to expose flaws in Wisconsin's election system. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Jury finds former Milwaukee election official guilty of obtaining fake absentee ballots

A jury has found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty of misconduct in office and fraud.

FILE - Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right party PVV, or Party for Freedom, talks to the media after a meeting with speaker of the House Vera Bergkamp, two days after Wilders won the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Nov. 24, 2023. Two days of behind-closed doors talks between four Dutch political leaders appear to have forced a breakthrough in negotiations to form a new ruling coalition nearly four months after a general election won by Wilders. While the exact contours of a new coalition Cabinet remain unclear, Kim Putters, who led the talks, believes that the parties are now ready to hammer out a deal. Putters was writing up a report Wednesday March 13, 2024 that he will present to lawmakers on Thursday. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Geert Wilders taps 2 new officials to lead the next round of coalition talks after his election win

The Dutch parliament has named two new go-betweens to lead negotiations to form the next ruling coalition. Lawmakers approved them Wednesday.

FILE - Presidential candidates, from left, Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan hold hands as they pose for photographers after the first presidential candidates' debate in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Indonesia’s electoral commission announced on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, that Defense Minister Subianto, a former general linked to past human rights abuses, was elected president. The results immediately drew allegations of fraud from Subianto’s political rivals.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)

Prabowo Subianto’s election as Indonesia’s next president is official. Why is it being challenged?

Indonesia’s electoral commission has confirmed Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former general linked to past human rights abuses, was elected president.

Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto raises his fist as he delivers a speech after being elected as the country's president in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Subianto was announced the winner of last month's presidential election Wednesday over two former governors who have vowed to contest the result in court over alleged irregularities. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia’s defense minister, accused of abuses under dictatorship, is declared election winner

Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has been declared the winner of the presidential election in the world’s third-largest democracy.

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, front, arrives for a statement in Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he will step down as leader of the country as soon as a successor is chosen. Varadkar announced Wednesday he is quitting immediately as head of the center-right Fine Gael party, part of Ireland’s coalition government. (Nick Bradshaw/PA via AP)

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he’s quitting for personal and political reasons

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who made history as his country’s first gay and first biracial leader, says he’ll step down within weeks once a successor is chosen.

FILE - President Joe Biden meets with UAW members during a campaign stop at a phone bank in the UAW Region 1 Union Hall, Feb. 1, 2024, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden casts the election as prom night for the voters who ‘brung me to the dance’

When President Joe Biden talks to his supporters, he can make the presidential election sound like a high school prom.

Election misinformation is a problem in any language. But some gets more attention than others

Election misinformation will pose a formidable challenge this year as billions of people in dozens of countries head to the polls.

Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks to supporters during his primary election night watch party in Westlake, Ohio, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Why AP called Ohio’s Republican US Senate primary for Bernie Moreno: Race call explained

A strong performance among voters who cast their ballots the day of the election in Ohio has powered Bernie Moreno to a win in the state’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate.

FILE - People walk along the main drag in the county seat of Nye county, Monday, July 18, 2022, in Tonopah, Nev. A new clerk was chosen Tuesday, March 19, 2024, to oversee elections in the deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud since 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Rural Nevada county roiled by voting conspiracies picks new top elections official

A new clerk was chosen Tuesday to oversee elections in a deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud since 2020.

Delaware calls off Republican presidential primary after Haley removes name from ballot

Delaware’s Republican presidential primary is over before it even began. State lawmakers passed legislation amending Delaware election law to allow the scheduled April 2 primary to be called off, and Democratic Gov.

North Carolina county boards dismiss election protests from legislator. Recounts are next

Elections boards in three northeastern North Carolina counties have dismissed formal protests filed by a veteran state House member who is narrowly trailing in his Democratic primary.

Kimberly Zapata, the former deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, enters court before her jury trial in a Milwaukee County Courthouse in Milwaukee on Monday, March 18, 2024. Zapata is accused of fraudulently requesting absentee ballots reserved for members of the military and sending them to GOP state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, who is known for embracing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

Stress over threats drove former Milwaukee elections official to request fake ballots, attorney says

A former Milwaukee elections official charged with fraudulently ordering three military absentee ballots under fake names and sending them to a Republican lawmaker who embraced election conspiracy theories told investigators she wanted to draw attention to real shortcomings in the elections system.

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at El Portal restaurant Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden tells Latino voters they’re the reason he defeated Trump in 2020 and says, ‘I need you back’

President Joe Biden is appealing to Latino voters, telling them they’re the reason he defeated Donald Trump in 2020 and urging them to help him do it again in November.

Current state Assemblyman Vince Fong watches election returns March 9, 2024, at 1933 Speakeasy Pavilion in Bakersfield, Calif. While on the ballot for the 32nd District Assembly seat, he has his eyes on the 20th District seat, for which he also was on the ballot. Fong a California legislator backed by former President Donald Trump and a sheriff who promises to harden the nation's porous borders are facing off in a special U.S. House election to complete the remaining term of deposed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which runs through January. (John Donegan/The Bakersfield Californian via AP)

Republican Vince Fong advances to runoff election to complete term of ex-House Speaker McCarthy

California state Legislator Vince Fong has advanced to a May election to decide who will complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S.

FILE - Shane Wilkin, Ohio Senate Republican from the 17th District, listens to debate at the Ohio State House Senate Chambers in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Wilkin is one of 11 candidates vying for the Republican nomination for a seat in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District, which extends from suburban Cincinnati to the West Virginia border. The winner of the primary will face Democrat Samantha Meadows in the November general election. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

In Ohio’s GOP congressional primaries, Taylor wins 2nd Congressional District, Rulli wins 6th

Businessman Dave Taylor has defeated 10 of his fellow Republicans in a crowded primary for southern Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District seat, and State Sen.

Lisa Forbes, the Democratic candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court, smiles as she talks with attendees at the Woman's Empowerment Luncheon in Richmond Heights, Ohio, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Forbes is currently an Ohio Court of Appeals Judge. The Ohio Supreme Court’s 4-3 Republican majority could flip to Democrats’ favor in the fall if the party sweeps the three seats up for election this year. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

Democrats hope to flip Ohio’s supreme court this fall. Tuesday’s primary settled the contests

Tuesday’s primaries for three contested seats on the Ohio Supreme Court kicked off a high-stakes battle for partisan control of the court this fall.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump salutes at a campaign rally March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House

Having previously vowed to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, Trump promised to help them “the first day we get into office” at an Ohio rally.

A voter casts a ballot at Chicago Loop Super Site in Chicago, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Illinois residents will vote Tuesday to narrow Democratic and GOP candidate fields in key U.S. House races. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Competitive primary matchup for Chicago-area prosecutor remains too early to call

An open race to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office remains too early to call after a heated primary campaign in the Chicago area.