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  • FILE – Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., walks to the chamber as senators arrive for votes and policy meetings, at the Capitol in Washington, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    Republican Sen. Thom Tillis won’t run in 2026 after opposing Trump’s bill and being threatened with a primary challenge

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • United States Military Academy graduating cadets line up during commencement ceremonies in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)Leadership

    Trump tells West Point graduates ‘we do not need an officer corps of careerists and yes men’

    By Seung Min Kim, Ali Swenson, and others
  • US President Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump plan to require proof-of-citizenship to vote shot down by judge

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • Supervisor of the Checklist for the State of New Hampshire Leslie Dombroski, left, registers Elise Collins, 18, to vote in Derry, N.H., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)Politics

    Trump signs order to make voters show proof of citizenship in elections, with swift pushback expected from states which set their own voting rules

    By Ali Swenson, Christina A. Cassidy, and others
  • Dan Bongino in 2019Politics

    Right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino will join Kash Patel as deputy FBI director; says he wants agents who investigated Trump fired

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The seal on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Politics

    Racist post-election text messages telling Black Americans to report to plantations prompt FBI investigation

    By Ayanna Alexander, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Voters line up to vote as a early voting location opened in Carmel, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)Politics

    Election Day 2024 is here but 82 million ballots have already been cast—more than half the 2020 vote

    By Christina A. Cassidy, Ali Swenson, and others
  • FILE – Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)Retail

    Almost half of U.S. voters are worried about violent attempts to overturn November election results

    By Gary Fields, Ali Swenson, and others
  • mail-in ballotPolitics

    Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

    By Melissa Goldin, Mike Catalini, and others
  • Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly speaks to The Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Politics

    U.S. cybersecurity head says there’s no chance a foreign adversary can change Harris-Trump election results

    By Christina A. Cassidy, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Kamala Harris and Donald TrumpPolitics

    Many political AI deepfakes are totally cartoonish, but the technology is still shaping the election

    By Dan Merica, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Kamala Harris is seen behind a Vice President podium as a blurred crowd of supporters in the background hold supportive signs.Politics

    Microsoft traces fake Kamala Harris hit-and-run video back to Russian troll farm

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A spool of stickers rests on a table at a polling station during Massachusetts state primary voting, Sept. 3, 2024, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Politics

    Most Americans don’t trust AI, chatbots or search results to give them accurate election information

    By Ali Swenson, Linley Sanders, and others
  • Attorney General Merrick Garland, center, speaks before a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force, at the Department of Justice, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Washington, with from left, Deputy Attorney General, Criminal Division, Nicole Argentieri, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Matthew Olsen. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Politics

    Right-wing social media influencers were duped to work for a Russian influence operation, U.S. prosecutors say

    By Alan Suderman, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. holds microphonePolitics

    RFK Jr. endorses Trump, who once called him ‘the most radical left candidate’

    By Jonathan J. Cooper, Ali Swenson, and others