Protesters at an anti-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C., were re-energized following significant Democratic victories in elections this week.

Democrats are hopeful again.

Virginia voters have made history by electing candidates who broke race and gender barriers in this week's elections.

Mikie Sherrill says she believes she has a mandate as New Jersey's governor-elect to fulfill campaign promises of making the state more affordable.

Economic worries were the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections, according to preliminary findings from the AP Voter Poll.

Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden says he will not seek reelection.

Not every voter in Northern Virginia has felt the impact of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal government.

California Republicans have filed a lawsuit to block a new U.S. House map that voters just approved.

Zohran Mamdani's historic New York City's mayoral race victory has sparked excitement and hope among many American Muslims.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has won a third term, defeating challenger Omar Fateh in the city's ranked-choice voting election.

Indians have lit up social media to celebrate Zohran Mamdani’s election victory as New York City mayor.

Zohran Mamdani has announced a team including former city and federal officials — all women — to steer his transition to New York City Hall.

There were signs in the AP Voter Poll that there’s plenty of room for Democrats to make up ground among groups that moved toward President Donald Trump in last year’s election.

After New York City elected Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as its next mayor, Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood invited New Yorkers to move to the Sunshine State.

Voters have sent a message to President Donald Trump that the economy doesn't feel as though its booming — despite what he says.

Most California voters didn’t like redrawing their congressional districts to favor Democrats, according to the AP Voter Poll.

A day after Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the president is in Miami to speak at a forum of business leaders and global athletes about what he sees as his economic achievements.

Florida lawmakers are busy preparing for the next Legislative session, with hundreds of new bills already being filed.

The new congressional map approved by California voters marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York City and is already challenging President Donald Trump.

Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York mayoral race inspires many in Uganda, though it feels distant.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s victory in California’s election fight over U.S. House control will help raise his national profile as a Democrat willing to confront President Donald Trump.

A Houston official and a former City Council member are headed to a runoff for the vacant U.S. House seat in a heavily Democratic district.

President Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot in Tuesday’s elections, but many voters in key races made their choice in opposition to him or considered him to be irrelevant, according to the AP Voter Poll.

Zohran Mamdani has stormed onto the national political scene by winning New York City's mayoral election.

President Donald Trump celebrated his economic achievements on the anniversary of his election victory.

City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city.

Dick Cheney leaves behind a mixed legacy in his home state of Wyoming.

The Kansas House's top Republican has given up for now on forcing a special session of the Legislature to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts to give the GOP an additional seat.

Economic worries were the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections, according to preliminary findings from the AP Voter Poll.

The FBI has continued its personnel purge, forcing out additional agents and supervisors tied to the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election despite efforts by Washington’s top federal prosecutor to try to stop at least some of the terminations.

The flags at the White House are lowered to half-staff in honor of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Tuesday.

Florida and Georgia will have major races for governor and U.S. Senate coming up in 2026, but voters in southeast Georgia, as well as Florida voters in Alachua County, cast ballots today in a variety of races, with polling places open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Florida and Georgia will have major races for governor and U.S. Senate coming up in 2026, but voters in southeast Georgia cast ballots today in a variety of races, with polling places open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Florida and Georgia will have major races for governor and U.S. Senate coming up in 2026, but some voters in Alachua County cast ballots today in a variety of races, with polling places open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Voters in races across the country have backed Democrats, including in New York’s mayoral race and contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.

Bomb threats to New Jersey polling stations, a voter roll mishap in Pennsylvania potentially affecting thousands of voters and warnings by President Donald Trump against California’s mail balloting system are marking the final day of voting in an off-year election with several nationally prominent races.

Tanzanian authorities are facing growing concern over killings during crackdowns on protests surrounding last week's election.

California voters have approved a plan to overhaul the state’s congressional district boundaries, giving Democrats a boost in their bid to win the U.S. House majority next year.

Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, capping a stunning ascent from little-known state lawmaker just a year ago to one of the most talked-about politicians in the country.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill has been elected governor of New Jersey.

Voters in Maine and Texas have considered Republican-backed proposals that proponents say would safeguard elections, but opponents believe are intended to make voting more difficult.

Former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger has won Virginia’s election for governor.

Two years after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, Maine voters decided to make it easier for family members to petition a court to restrict a potentially dangerous person’s access to guns.

All three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state’s highest court.

Democrats are dominating the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

New York City’s Jewish community — the largest in the United States — is abounding with anxiety and friction a day ahead of an election that could give the city its first Muslim mayor.

New Jersey Republicans are trying to ride the coattails of President Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral momentum.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has filed papers to run for Florida governor.

Recent elections in several African countries have ended with sidelined opposition candidates and disputed results.

New York City’s mayoral candidates are making a final push to get voters to the polls as the race to lead America’s biggest city nears its finale.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is blaming foreigners for last week’s deadly protests following a disputed election in which two main opposition candidates were barred.

Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House.

The Associated Press will compile votes and declare winners in elections across the U.S. on Tuesday, just as the news organization has done for nearly 180 years.

North Macedonia's ruling conservatives cemented victory in a local election runoff on Sunday, winning just over two-thirds of the mayoral contests in both rounds, leaving opposition Social Democrats far behind and dashing their hopes of an early general election.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a disputed election with over 97% of the vote, according to official results announced on Saturday.

Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to use Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey to rebuke President Donald Trump and candidates loyal to him.

The final stretch of New York City's mayoral race has candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo painting two very different pictures.

President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced.

The campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida is suing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration in the state’s Supreme Court.

A Wisconsin judge has put on hold his order that requires elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered voters in the battleground state before the next statewide election in February.

Climbing monthly electricity bills, a growing stressor on U.S. families as demand surges for energy, have emerged as a significant issue in the nation’s only two elections for governor this year and as a test on the political parties’ messages for next year’s midterms.

Two decades after resigning as New Jersey’s governor in scandal and stunning the political world as he declared “I am a gay American,” Jim McGreevey is back on the campaign trail for the first time.

A Republican-led panel in Ohio has adopted new U.S. House districts, potentially boosting the GOP's chances of gaining two seats in next year's elections.

Ohio's Republican-led redistricting commission has unveiled a new U.S. House map that could give Republicans a chance to win two more seats in next year's elections.

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster.

Democrats and their allied groups are pouring in more money and sending in the national party chairman in the final week of campaigning for a Pennsylvania Supreme Court election.

President Donald Trump seemed to love his whirlwind Asia trip.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is focusing on economic concerns rather than bold promises and anti-Donald Trump rhetoric in her race for Virginia governor.

The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for a man arrested with guns and ammunition near former President Barack Obama's home.

Thousands of mainly young protesters in Serbia have embarked on a two-day march from the capital Belgrade.

Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom and the centrist D66 have tied in the Dutch general election with 98% of votes counted.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey faces more than a dozen challengers as the Democrat seeks a third term.

Texans will vote on a large menu of constitutional amendments Tuesday.

Virginia will elect its first woman as governor as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

New Jersey voters will decide a competitive race for governor Tuesday in a contest that will be viewed through the prism of national politics regardless of who wins.

President Donald Trump is turning his attention to the voting process for Tuesday's elections.

A national battle over redistricting is advancing in more states.

There may be no rank-and-file Democratic senator with more at stake from the federal government shutdown than Georgia’s Jon Ossoff.

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait is facing rejection by the Republican-controlled Senate.

As New York City's mayor's race enters its final stretch, there are echoes and contrasts to another famously bitter city election in 1977.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has sought to rally his committee as a center of Democratic messaging and response to the Trump administration's agenda.

An exit poll published immediately after voting ended Wednesday in the Netherlands’ general election suggested the result is too close to call, with the center-left D66 narrowly ahead of the far-right party of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is running for reelection against three lesser-known candidates, arguing that the city has seen major improvements during his first term in office.

Detroit voters will choose a new mayor Tuesday in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

Tanzania’s presidential election is teetering toward chaos after protests erupted and the military has been deployed.

The nation’s biggest city will pick its next mayor on Tuesday in an election that has sparked debate over the future of the Democratic Party.

California voters head to the polls on Tuesday with just one yes-or-no question on the ballot.

Dutch political leaders are wrapping up their campaigns before the general election.

Maine and Texas are the latest states where Republicans are pushing ballot initiatives targeting noncitizen voting, which is rare.

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November.

South Korea’s new president is hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, bringing together leaders from 20 countries, including the United States and China, whose leaders are set to hold a high-stakes meeting on the sidelines.

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, says that she doesn't oppose a push by the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw congressional districts ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Washington state voters will decide whether to amend their constitution to allow funds from a long-term care insurance program to be invested in the stock market.

The Democratic National Committee has started planning for the next presidential primary elections, potentially changing the early-voting calendar again.

Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hangs in the balance in statewide elections next week, when voters will cast ballots on judges for the state’s three highest courts.

Maine voters will decide a pair of high-profile ballot measures addressing elections and gun violence in a statewide referendum election next week.

Cincinnati’s mayor seeks a second term against a challenger with notable family ties in a municipal election next week.

A lawsuit is seeking to redraw the lines of a Republican-controlled congressional district in New York state.

President Donald Trump has called for Republican states to redraw their U.S. House districts ahead of next year's elections.