Democrat Julián Castro drops out of 2020 presidential race
AUSTIN, Texas — Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro on Thursday ended his run for president that pushed the 2020 field on immigration and swu...
Iowa congresswoman endorsing Joe Biden’s presidential bid
Joe Biden has landed a high-profile endorsement for his presidential bid as Rep. Abby Finkenauer becomes the first member of the Iowa congressional de...
Pete Buttigieg raises $24.7 million during 4th quarter
DES MOINES, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg's campaign says he raised more than $24.7 million in the last three months and now has a campaign staff of 500 peopl...
Ex-Trump campaign manager Lewandowski won’t run for Senate
MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Tuesday that he is forgoing a run for U.S. Senate in New Ha...
Prompt care was key to Sanders’ recovery from heart attack
Bernie Sanders suffered “modest heart muscle damage" during his recent heart attack but has since recovered well and is fit enough for the rigors of t...
Buttigieg: I would not have wanted my son on Ukraine board
FORT MADISON, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg said Monday that he “would not have wanted to see” his son serving on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company...
3 years in, no sign of Trump’s replacement for Obamacare
WASHINGTON — As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health ...
2020 Watch: Messy primary finally meets election year
ATLANTA — The presidential politics calendar turned to 2020 nearly a year ago. This week, the actual date catches up. What we’re watching as the prese...
Buttigieg critiques Biden’s ‘judgment’ on Iraq War vote
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday called former Vice President Joe Biden’s vote to authorize the Iraq War p...
Klobuchar’s Iowa tour: Bragging point and caucus strategy
HUMBOLDT, Iowa — To Amy Klobuchar, her just-completed tour of all 99 Iowa counties proves a point: As president, she would go everywhere and represent...
Iowa swung fiercely to Trump. Will it swing back in 2020?
DES MOINES, Iowa — Few states have changed politically with the head-snapping speed of Iowa. Heading into 2020, the question is whether it's going to ...
Klobuchar to complete tour of all 99 Iowa counties
Democrat Amy Klobuchar — running for president as a person who can win even in conservative, rural areas — says she will become the first major 2020 c...
Giuliani pals leveraged GOP access to seek Ukraine gas deal
KYIV, Ukraine — In a back corner of the swank H Bar in Houston, near a huge photo of Brigitte Bardot with a dangling cigarette and a deck of cards, tw...
Buzz over Venezuela’s Guaido fades as Maduro holds firm
CARACAS, Venezuela — Tour operator Alejandro Palacios joined hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protesting in the streets early this year, wanting t...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s flawed impeachment letter to Pelosi
WASHINGTON — The closing passage in President Donald Trump's impeachment-eve letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the ring of truth to it. He was ...
Warren, back in Oklahoma, sees tribal leaders in private
OKLAHOMA CITY — Returning to the state where she was born, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren met privately with Native American triba...
Us vs. them: Trump aiming to use impeachment to rev up base
NEW YORK — Using stark “us vs. them” language, President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign have begun framing his impeachment not as a judgment...
Warren’s souvenir wine bottle pops up in big-donor debate
WASHINGTON — On a Saturday evening in June 2018, with temperatures in the 70s and the Red Sox playing at Fenway Park, supporters of Massachusetts Sen....
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s distorted letter to Dems and history
WASHINGTON — The closing passage in President Donald Trump's impeachment-eve letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the ring of truth to it. He was ...
Buttigieg leads 2020 rivals in Wall Street contributions
WASHINGTON — The financial sector, blamed by progressives for spawning the 2008 economic collapse, is lining up behind Pete Buttigieg’s presidential c...
Buttigieg playing catchup in reaching Nevada voters of color
LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is working to make inroads with Latino, black and Asian American voters in Las Vegas this...
House vote locks in impeachment as issue in ’20 Hill races
WASHINGTON — The day after nearly every House Democrat voted to impeach President Donald Trump, the chief of the House Republican campaign committee s...
Buttigieg backers defend ‘wine cave’ fundraiser
RUTHERFORD, Calif. — The California winemakers who hosted a dinner at a “wine cave” for Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg are defending t...
Klobuchar steps up hits on Buttigieg with Iowa vote looming
CENTERVILLE, Iowa — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has argued for weeks that Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of a small Indiana city, doesn't have enough expe...
Warren’s origin story, her mother and THE dress, comes home
OKLAHOMA CITY — Elizabeth Warren lets the dramatic tension build as she begins the foundational story of her biography, the one about her mother and t...
Key takeaways from Democratic presidential debate in L.A.
LOS ANGELES — Democratic presidential candidates offered two very different debates during their final forum of 2019. In the first half, they spent mu...
The Latest: Democratic debaters tackle China, Israel policy
LOS ANGELES — The Latest on the Democratic presidential debate (all times local):
Some in GOP want Trump apology for denigrating late Dingell
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's impeachment night crack that the late Michigan Rep. John Dingell might be “looking up” from hell drew wide scorn...
Late-starting candidate Deval Patrick lays out policy vision
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick on Thursday outlined a broad policy agenda Thursday while jabbing at his progressive riva...
The Latest: Trump holds record-long rally on impeachment day
WASHINGTON — A sample of the sights and sounds across Washington and beyond on a momentous day in Washington on Wednesday as the House passed two arti...