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By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The two-term mayor of Minneapolis who led the city during the murder of George Floyd is seeking reelection Tuesday against more than a dozen challengers, including a democratic socialist advocating for a change to the “status quo.” Beyond the mayoral race, voters will fill two vacancies in

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Texans will vote on a large menu of constitutional amendments Tuesday while some Houston voters will choose among 16 candidates from across the ideological spectrum in a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat. Voters will check off whether they are “for” or “against” 17 state

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia will elect its first woman as governor Tuesday as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Voters will also decide races for lieutenant governor, attorney general and the state House of Delegates. The commonwealth

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey voters will decide a competitive race for governor in a contest Tuesday that will be viewed through the prism of national politics regardless of who wins. Also on the ballot are an open seat race for Jersey City mayor that features a former governor and

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — After months of extraordinary steps to ensure his party maintains control of the U.S. House of Representatives in next year’s midterms, President Donald Trump is turning his sights toward the voting process in Tuesday’s elections. That pivot is raising alarm among Democrats and others who warn that

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Vice President JD Vance advocated a slowdown in legal immigration Wednesday, saying, “We have to get the overall numbers way, way down.” Vance took questions from students at the University of Mississippi at an event organized by Turning Point USA, stepping into the role of debater that was so

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press CHICO, Calif. (AP) — California Rep. Doug LaMalfa made a last-ditch plea Wednesday for Republicans to vote ‘no’ on a ballot measure aimed at pushing him out of office. “It’s really a blatant power grab,” he said at a news conference in Chico, a city at the southern end of

By MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the way the country’s history is told. The statue of

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A South Texas city has removed a mural protesting the border wall along the southern border with Mexico following a threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold up to $1.6 billion in road funding. The mural, which was painted on a street in front of the

By DAVID A. LIEB, SARA CLINE, BRIAN WITTE and OLIVA DIAZ Associated Press Republican lawmakers in Louisiana and Democrats in Virginia pressed ahead Wednesday with plans that could allow mid-decade redistricting as part of a growing national battle for partisan advantage in next year’s congressional elections. Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation pushing back the state’s 2026

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn’t curtailing travel. He’s not avoiding golf or making do with a skeleton staff in the West Wing. Even hamburgers served at the White House aren’t from McDonalds, this time. In shutdowns past — including during Trump’s first term — presidents normally scaled back

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada, just as President Donald Trump is engaged in trade talks in Asia as well as an increasingly bitter trade spat with U.S.’s northern neighbor that is one of its largest economic partners. The 50-46 tally

By KEVIN FREKING and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders in Congress said it’s all or nothing on Wednesday as they rejected a Democratic push to carve out food aid funding for more than 40 million Americans who stand to lose it as part of the government shutdown. Democrats have repeatedly