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FILE - In this Jan 15, 2019, file photo, Rodney Scott, then-U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego sector chief shakes hands through a section of newly-replaced border wall in San Diego. The chief of the Border Patrol said Wednesday, June 23, 2021, he was leaving his job after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing political debate. Rodney Scott wrote to agents that he will be reassigned. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Border Patrol chief who supported Trump's wall is forced out

By Elliot Spagat Jun. 23, 2021 07:33 PM EDT

Last debate for NYC mayoral candidates; early voting ongoing

Jun. 16, 2021 08:36 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — The candidates running in the Democratic primary to be New York City's next mayor made their pitches to voters in the final televised debate on...

Community members and police attend a vigil beside a makeshift memorial at the scene where 10-year old Justin Wallace was shot and killed the previous Saturday night in the Rockaway section of the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The Democratic primary race for New York City mayor is nearing the finish line with a surge in shootings pushing public safety to the top of some voters' concerns. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Crime leads voter concerns as NYC mayoral primary approaches

By Karen Matthews And Michael R. Sisak Jun. 11, 2021 01:00 AM EDT

With primary looming, mayoral candidates face off in debate

Jun. 02, 2021 08:54 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Eight Democratic candidates running to be New York City's next mayor sparred in a debate Wednesday night, each trying to position themselves as...

Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy answers a question during a debate held in Bristol, Va., on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (David Crigger/Bristol Herald Courier via AP)
Democrats seek contrast with GOP's Youngkin in 3rd debate

By Sarah Rankin May. 20, 2021 09:37 PM EDT

This undated photo provided by Melanie for New Mexico shows Melanie Stansbury. Stansbury's campaign points out that she co-sponsored a 2020 bill to roll back state taxes on Social Security benefits. The bill was sidelined without a House or Senate floor vote in the Democrat-led Legislature. (Melanie for New Mexico via AP)
Candidates clash in New Mexico congressional election debate

By Morgan Lee May. 04, 2021 04:05 PM EDT

FILE - In this a Clark County election department facility Oct. 31, 2020, file photo, County employees process mail-in ballots in Las Vegas. Nevada lawmakers are considering sending mail-in ballots to all active voters in future elections after passing a law last summer that directed election officials to do so to prevent the coronavirus from spreading at polling places. A legislative committee is scheduled on Thursday, April 1, 2021, to hear a proposal to make the policy permanent. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Nevada revisits mail-in ballot debate after 2020 spotlight

By Sam Metz Apr. 01, 2021 04:10 PM EDT

Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, left, speaks while Sens. Chuck Edwards, R-Henderson, center, and Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, stand at a news conference at the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Newton is a primary sponsor of an elections measure heard in a Senate committee later Wednesday that in part would adjust deadlines to request absentee ballots and to turn them in to county election offices (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)
Debate begins on N Carolina absentee voting deadline changes

By Gary D. Robertson Mar. 31, 2021 02:54 PM EDT

Wisconsin superintendent candidates spar over campaign ad

By Scott Bauer Mar. 17, 2021 03:24 PM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The conservative-backed candidate to become Wisconsin's top education official called on her Democratic-backed opponent to apologize for...

A ballot box is brought to a polling station inside the Van Gogh museum during a demonstration for the media in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Polling stations opened across the Netherlands early Monday and Tuesday in a general election that has been spread over three days to allow people to vote safely during the coronavirus pandemic. The Van Gogh museum is closed because of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Dutch parties make last push for votes in general election

By Mike Corder Mar. 16, 2021 05:01 AM EDT

A pharmacist fills a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines at a pop-up vaccination site at the God's Battalion of Prayer Church, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. SOMOS and Elderplan volunteer nurses are expected to vaccinate up to 500 older New Yorkers who attend the church or live in surrounding areas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Things to Know: State vaccination talks being held privately

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2021 04:03 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, elderly wait in wheel chairs as their paper work is checked before receiving a COVID-19 vaccine at a Dallas County mass vaccination site at Fair Park in Dallas. As the nation's COVID-19 vaccination campaign accelerates, governors, public health directors and committees advising them are holding key discussions behind closed doors, including debates about who should be eligible for the shots and how to best distribute them. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
States holding key vaccine discussions in closed meetings

By Ryan J. Foley Feb. 03, 2021 01:21 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, speaks during the New Hampshire state Democratic Party convention in Manchester, N.H. An open Senate seat in Ohio has set off a round of jockeying among ambitious Democrats and a spirited debate over who is best poised to lead a party comeback in a one-time battleground that has been trending Republican. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
In Ohio, open Senate seat sparks debate on gender, diversity

By Julie Carr Smyth, Thomas Beaumont And Dan Sewell Feb. 02, 2021 06:12 PM EST

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 A Romanian gendarme leaves after getting a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Across the Balkans and the rest of the nations in the southeastern corner of Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process. In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, skeptics have ranged from former presidents to top athletes and doctors. Nations that once routinely went through mass inoculations under Communist leaders are deeply split over whether to take the vaccines at all. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus efforts

By Dusan Stojanovic And Jovana Gec Jan. 17, 2021 02:45 AM EST

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, right, talks with Dr. Mona Moghareh, a pharmacist with Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson, La., as she sets up a station to administer the first vials of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Chris Granger/The Advocate via AP)
Analysis: New Louisiana political year, with repeat debates

By Melinda Deslatte Jan. 03, 2021 04:00 PM EST

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 file photo, a woman stands during the Martin Luther King, Jr. annual commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Branden Camp
Senate race thrusts 'Black America's church' into spotlight

By Aaron Morrison Jan. 03, 2021 07:55 AM EST

FILE - In this March 25, 2020, file photo, patients wear personal protective equipment while maintaining social distancing as they wait in line for a COVID-19 test at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd

By Lynn Elber And David Bauder Dec. 07, 2020 01:56 PM EST

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
GOP leader McDaniel to run for 3rd term with Trump's backing

By Zeke Miller Dec. 02, 2020 03:16 PM EST

FILE- In this Oct. 22, 2014, file photo, reporters take notes as Ebola coordinator Ron Klain listens to President Barack Obama speak to the media about the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. New federal Ebola response squads are being readied to rus to an U.S. city where a new Ebola case might be identified, officials said. Klain is preparing to serve as President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff, a job often referred to as the nation’s chief operating officer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Klain brings decades of DC experience to Biden White House

By Ashraf Khalil And Laurie Kellman Dec. 02, 2020 12:11 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2014, file photo Vice President Joe Biden, with Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain, left, and White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, meets with faith and humanitarian groups as part of the administration's response to Ebola in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House compound in Washington. Klain is preparing to serve as President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff, a job often referred to as the nation’s chief operating officer. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Klain brings decades of DC experience to Biden White House

By Ashraf Khalil And Laurie Kellman Dec. 02, 2020 12:10 AM EST