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▶ Follow the AP’s live coverage and analysis as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet for their first debate. “She can meet the moment,” said Marc Short, who led Republican Vice President Mike Pence’s debate preparation against Harris in the fall of 2020. “She’s found a very good balance.” FILE - Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, and …

2 presidential candidates tossed off SC ballots sue — and one wants Trump off too

COLUMBIA — Two long-shot candidates excluded from South Carolina’s presidential primaries have filed separate lawsuits in federal court — one trying to get on the Democratic ballot, the other trying to kick former President Donald Trump off the Republican ballot. Cenk Uygur, who sued the South Carolina Democratic Party and a host of state officials, says he’s willing to take …

A woman walks past a billboard in Buenos Aires promoting Argentinian presidential candidate Santiago Cuneo alongside an image of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele. “If Bukele was able to subdue crime in El Salvador, why are security policies less effective in other countries?” asked the Colombian magazine Semana, which recently devoted its cover to the Salvadoran leader with the headline: …

This Republican presidential candidate has a $20 million plan to screw with Donald Trump

First, the bad news for Republican presidential candidate John Anthony Castro. But here’s what Castro does have: A track record of using the courts and federal regulatory agencies to persistently agitate and attack former President Donald Trump, currently the race’s hands-down leader despite his legal troubles. “Nobody's really attacking him,” Castro said of the Republican field’s approach to Trump. Castro’s …

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Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — Trump’s top challenger for the Republican presidential nomination — promised to deploy the U.S. military against transnational cartels in Mexico and advocated for executing people crossing the border who are carrying drugs. Trump has called for “battle plans” targeting drug traffickers “just like we took down ISIS.” Opinion Columnist Jean Guerrero Jean …

DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrats are poised to strip Iowa of its traditional lead-off spot in the presidential nominating calendar in 2024, part of a broader effort to better reflect the party’s deeply diverse electorate by allowing less overwhelmingly white states to vote first. “And that the primary calendar will be reordered to better reflect the diversity of the Democratic …

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — An anti-corruption team from Honduras’ Attorney General’s Office visited presidential offices a week after President Juan Orlando Hernández stepped down and found paper shredders and none of the financial documents they were looking for, the chief of the investigators said Thursday. “A week after the swearing in of new President Xiomara Castro we went to and they …

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Presidential candidate Xiomara Castro of the Libre party acknowledges her supporters after general elections in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in November 2021. Presidential candidate Xiomara Castro of the Libre party acknowledges supporters at a closing campaign rally in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in November 2021. But on Friday, nearly two dozen deputies from Castro’s left-wing Libre party rebelled, electing one of their …

Honduras’ ruling party candidate concedes presidential election

Victory for Xiomara Castro would make her Honduras’s first female president and first from the left since 2009. Initial results from the presidential election in Honduras show opposition candidate Xiomara Castro with a clear lead over conservative ruling party contender Nasry Asfura after both sides claimed victory after polls closed on Sunday. The electoral council earlier said more than 2.7 …

Washington CNN — Two top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee have asked the State Department to turn over records related to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent domestic speeches ahead of the presidential election. “The nexus of speeches about the Secretary’s personal religious beliefs, to a swing-state legislature accompanied by a former senior Republican party official, and at …