The cat-crazed 2024 election reached a fever pitch Tuesday night when, during his first debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump repeated a baseless and racist claim that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets, including their cats.

Alabama begins mailing first general election ballots to absentee voters with the Nov. 5 contest less than two months away

The first Black woman elected to the Senate, Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1992, served a single term. Harris was the second. And a third Black woman, Sen. Laphonza Butler, was appointed to fill out the term of long-serving California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died in 2023.

The first general election ballots for the presidential race are going out as Alabama officials begin mailing them to absentee voters with the Nov. 5 contest less than two months away.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has designated the congressional certification of the election as a "national special security event," the Secret Service said in a statement on Wednesday. Republican presidential candidate Trump faces Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in what polls show to be a tight election race.

Arizona election officials are warning there could be delays at polling places and vote-counting machines could jam as voters fill out a multipage ballot, an unusual occurrence in the presidential battleground state.

Washington — State and local elections officials from nearly half of the states warned the U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday that ongoing issues with election mail delivery could risk disenfranchising voters and urged the service to act quickly to address deficiencies ahead of the presidential election.

Democratic and Republican secretaries of state highlighted incidents of voters being disenfranchised by ballots not being delivered on time.

A new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts has found that a majority of Americans don't trust generative AI models to give them accurate answers

Top election officials from two presidential swing states are pleading for more federal money even as they say they're confident in their preparations for November's vote