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FILE – Dawn Stephens, right, and Duane Taylor prepare ballots to be mailed at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

Republican lawsuits challenge overseas voters as group swings Democratic

By Christina A. Cassidy, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during an ABC News presidential debate at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, Sept.10, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

10 key takeaways from the Harris-Trump debate, from tense clashes over inflation and abortion to a Taylor Swift endorsement

By Steve Peoples, Jonathan J. Cooper, and others

This combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during a presidential debate hosted by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Delivery outshines substance at presidential debate as Trump confident even when wrong, while Biden fumbles even with facts on his side

By Seung Min Kim, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

Donald Trump

Facing legal defeat, Trump claims judges would open ‘Pandora’s Box’ by denying him immunity for conduct in office

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

Donald Trump

The Supreme Court will rule on whether Donald Trump can be on the 2024 ballot

By Mark Sherman, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures at the end of a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. An appeals court in Colorado on December 19, 2023 ruled Donald Trump cannot appear on the state’s presidential primary ballot because of his involvement in the attack on the Capitol in January 2021. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

A second state just joined Colorado in barring Donald Trump from its ballot under the insurrection clause

By Nicholas Riccardi, David Sharp, and others

WATERLOO, IOWA – DECEMBER 19: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a campaign event on December 19, 2023 in Waterloo, Iowa. Iowa Republicans will be the first to select their party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential race, when they go to caucus on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is at war with the Constitution’s insurrection clause—just 2 sentences in an amendment added after the Civil War

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

RENO, NEVADA – DECEMBER 17: Republican Presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign rally at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center on December 17, 2023 in Reno, Nevada. Former U.S. President Trump held a campaign rally as he battles to become the Republican Presidential nominee for the 2024 Presidential election. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Colorado’s Supreme Court takes extraordinary step of banning Donald Trump from state’s primary ballot after ruling he ‘engaged in insurrection’

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy

Republican debate takeaways: Millennial tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy takes center stage as Ron DeSantis largely shrinks from the limelight

By Steve Peoples, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

Denver

America’s polarized political tribes are moving away from each other. Just look at a bluer Colorado and a redder Idaho

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

FILE – A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters in New York, April 12, 2023. Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have been rippling through the U.S. for nearly three years. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Dominion’s $787 million settlement is only the beginning as a group of lawsuits over election lies wait in the wings

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

FILE – Tucker Carlson, left, and former President Donald Trump, right, react during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., July 31, 2022. A defamation lawsuit against Fox News is revealing blunt behind-the-scenes opinions by its top figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message where he said “I hate him passionately.” Carlson’s private conversation was revealed in court papers at virtually the same time as the former president was hailing the Fox News host on social media for a “great job” for using U.S. Capitol security video to produce a false narrative of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Fox defamation lawsuit reveals how Murdoch worked with Republican leaders to set programming

By Nicholas Riccardi, David Bauder, and others

Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump

‘I hate him passionately’: Tucker Carlson’s true feelings about Donald Trump unmasked

By David Bauder, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

Horacio Gomez, Joshua Correa

Less immigrant labor in the U.S. contributing to higher prices

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

People enter the Foster Communications Coliseum to attend the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo, April 16, 2021 in San Angelo, Texas. – The first night of the rodeo saw a sold out crowd, the first rodeo event that took place with no restrictions in San Angelo since the beginning of the pandemic. (Photo by Sergio FLORES / AFP) (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)

The great American growth engine is slowing, U.S. census numbers reveal

By Nicholas Riccardi, Mike Schneider, and others