WASHINGTON (AP) North Dakota voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 8...

WASHINGTON (AP) Nevada voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 10 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) New Jersey voters will elect leaders for congressional offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. ET. Whats on the ballot? The Associated Press...

WASHINGTON (AP) Montana voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. local time, which is 10 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) New Mexico voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 9...

WASHINGTON (AP) Louisiana voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. local time, which is 9 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Hawaii voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. Hawaii time, which is midnight ET....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) An Oberlin College professor and his wife are dead, and the educator’s 31-year-old child is being held on a $3 million bond and facing murder charges in their deaths. The bodies of Pipo Nguyen-Duy, 64, a studio art and photography professor and acclaimed fine art photographer, and his wife, Tran Thi...

El Paso Matters filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a state judge to lift a blanket of near-total secrecy on records in the 2019 Walmart mass shooting held by El Paso police and prosecutors. The petition seeks a writ of mandamus, an order from a judge to a government official to perform a mandatory legal duty...

A man serving a jail sentence in Virginia for several sexual assault and obscenity offenses tried to hire someone to kill the victim in his previous case.

WASHINGTON (AP) Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is being challenged by Democrat Scott Colom as she seeks a second full term. Voters on Tuesday will also decide contests for U.S. House and two state House special elections. Although no federal office has changed party hands in Mississippi since 2010, the Senate matchup been more...

WASHINGTON (AP) Massachusetts voters decide Tuesday whether to reelect a full slate of Democratic incumbents for statewide office, including U.S. senator and governor. Also on the ballot are races for U.S. House, state Legislature and other state and local offices. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the...

ROME (AP) Pope Leo XIV on Friday told a Vatican gathering of artificial intelligence researchers and experts that the “most urgent challenge was to identify international institutions that will put ethical principles guiding AI development into practice. The American pope, who has made AI a key priority, said the principles are already known but...

WASHINGTON (AP) Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore seeks a second term on Tuesday as he stakes his political capital on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow his party to enter the mid-decade redistricting fray ahead of the 2028 election. Voters are also deciding races for the U.S. House, the state Legislature and other...

WASHINGTON (AP) Washington, D.C., voters will elect leaders for federal and local offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. ET. Whats on the ballot? The...

WASHINGTON (AP) Indiana voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 6 p.m. local time, which is 6 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Kentucky voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 6 p.m. local time, which is 6 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Illinois voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 8 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Connecticut voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. ET. Whats on the ballot? The...

When Rep. Trey Lamar, a Republican from Senatobia, introduced House Bill 1284 in January to merge six community college districts, college leaders and students quickly launched a petition to shut it down. The bill died in committee, but the question behind it did not: Does Mississippi still need 23 public colleges and universities? I wanted...

WASHINGTON (AP) Colorado voters will elect leaders for federal, state and local offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 9 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Alabama voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied in Alabama. When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is...

WASHINGTON (AP) Idaho voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. local time, which is 10 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Arkansas voters are electing leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 7:30 p.m. local time, which is 8:30 p.m. ET. Whats...

HAVANA (AP) Cuba on Friday welcomed home a diplomat expelled by the United States after an unusually heated confrontation between the two countries representatives at the United Nations this week. Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Pealver posted a photo of Richard Tur de la Concepcin, first secretary of Cubas U.N. mission, alongside Foreign Ministry...