Key questions asked during Trump’s impeachment trial
WASHINGTON — The questions from senators at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial continued by the dozens on Thursday, with lawmakers inquiring a...
Election officials get training before 2020 voting begins
WASHINGTON — When state election officials gathered ahead of the last presidential election, major topics were voter registration, identity theft and ...
Experts on Dershowitz’s impeachment defense: Quid pro whoa
WASHINGTON — Alan Dershowitz delivered a stunning defense of President Donald Trump in the Senate that would essentially make it impossible to impeach...
Biden under pressure to prove he can thwart new GOP attacks
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son's business overseas an...
Asked and answered? Senators have their say in Trump trial
WASHINGTON — At last during the impeachment trial, they got to do what comes naturally in their native habitat: speak on the Senate floor.
Trial highlights: Trump defense urges end to impeachment
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal team on Tuesday concluded its three-day presentation as they started it — arguing that the Democrats’ case...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump defense wrong about FBI investigation
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's defense team falsely claimed the Justice Department was already investigating him even before the 2016 election ...
Trump hosts Israeli leaders who call his peace plan historic
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted Israel’s prime minister and his chief rival Monday at the White House on the eve of unveiling a long-awaite...
At Sundance, Clinton warns of voter suppression in election
PARK CITY, Utah — Since losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has released a memoir about that defeat, launched a political action...
Burundi’s ruling party picks general as presidential hopeful
NAIROBI, Kenya — Burundi's ruling party has chosen an army general to be its candidate in the presidential election set for May, signaling that the co...
Lessons learned from 2016, but US faces new election threats
It’s been more than three years since Russia's sweeping and systematic effort to interfere in U.S. elections through disinformation on social media, s...
Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyers plunged into their impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the ...
California OKs highly questioned LA County voting system
California’s secretary of state on Friday approved Los Angeles County’s new publicly owned computerized voting system — a first of its kind for the na...
Study links impeachment beliefs to regular news diets
NEW YORK — For many Americans, how they feel about issues raised during President Donald Trump's impeachment has much to do with where they get their ...
Democrats argue ‘right matters’ in Trump impeachment trial
WASHINGTON — Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case Thursday at Donald Trump's impeachment trial that he abused power like no other presi...
Trump: Mideast peace plan likely rolled out in days
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he'll likely release the long-awaited White House Mideast peace plan before his meeting early ne...
Democrats not alone in soliciting votes in Iowa; GOP is, too
WASHINGTON — With all eyes on Democrats as they prepare to cast their ballots in Iowa's highly anticipated kickoff caucuses, President Donald Trump's ...
Guaidó seeks EU sanctions for Venezuela, meeting with Trump
BRUSSELS — Venezuela’s opposition leader said Wednesday that he wants the European Union to broaden sanctions against members of the Venezuelan govern...
Watchdog files FEC complaint against pro-Sanders nonprofit
WASHINGTON — The watchdog group Common Cause filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, alleging that Our Revolution, a poli...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump defense misrepresents Mueller findings
WASHINGTON — In opening arguments of the impeachment trial, President Donald Trump's defense misrepresented the findings of a special counsel's report...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Faith, politics mix on holiday
ATLANTA — Against the backdrop of a presidential election year, Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday found leaders still wrestling over how to best...
Major doctors’ group calls for US to assure coverage for all
WASHINGTON — With health care an election-year priority, a major doctors’ organization on Monday called for sweeping government action to guarantee co...
2020 Watch: Will impeachment change the primary?
DES MOINES, Iowa — Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
In Texas and other states, voters face a variety of barriers
Democrats believe they have a shot at making gains this year in Republican-dominated Texas, including winning control of one house of the Legislature ...
Trump team, House managers trade sharp views on impeachment
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's legal team issued a fiery response ahead of opening arguments in his impeachment trial Saturday while House Demo...
2020′s first big test? Not Iowa, but a tiny Texas House race
KATY, Texas — Beto O'Rourke is livestreaming again. Joe Biden and Julián Castro are making their presence felt. Mike Bloomberg has knocked on doors an...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s compulsive claims of ‘biggest’ ever
WASHINGTON — Size matters to President Donald Trump. So much that he exaggerates continually, sometimes spectacularly, the size of what he does.
Billionaire Bloomberg is granted financial disclosure delay
WASHINGTON — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won't have to publicly disclose his finances until late March, well after voters in more than a dozen state...
Sen. Gardner’s reelection campaign refunds $33K in donations
DENVER — Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner's reelection campaign said Friday that it was refunding $33,000 in excess contributions.