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FILE - This combination of two file photos shows Xochitl Galvez, left, arriving to register her name as a presidential candidate on July 4, 2023, in Mexico City, and Claudia Sheinbaum, right, at an event that presented her as her party's presidential nominee on Sept. 6, 2023, in Mexico City. The two women, considered the frontrunners in Mexico's presidential election, discussed social spending and climate change in the race's second debate Sunday, April 28, 2024, which also included Jorge Álvarez Máynez. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s presidential candidates discuss social spending, climate change in 2nd debate

Mexico’s leading presidential candidate repeatedly touted the social programs of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and walked a fine line between supporting the national oil company and promising a clean energy transition in the second debate ahead of the June 2 election.
 
President Joe Biden steps off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2024, as he returns from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go

 
David McCormick, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks at a campaign event at the Beerded Goat Brewing Co., April 25, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Debates to play a major role in Pennsylvania’s 2024 US Senate election

 
Brad Chambers speaks during a debate organized and hosted by the Indiana Debate Commission, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, Pool)

Indiana GOP candidates for governor make their pitch to voters at debate in Sen. Braun’s absence

 
Presidential candidate Jose Raul Mulino, center, campaigns in the San Miguelito neighborhood of Panama City, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The former foreign minister is one of eight candidates competing in the upcoming May 5th presidential election. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera)

Panama’s presidential frontrunner skips third and final debate ahead of May 5 election

 

Trump challenges Biden to debate ‘any time he wants’ as he leaves the NY courthouse for the week

As he left the courthouse for the week, Donald Trump declared again that his hush money case is politically motivated and challenged President Joe Biden to debate “any time he wants,” even Friday night or at the White House.
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FILE - Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, answers a question as President Donald Trump listens during the second and final presidential debate Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Twelve news organizations issued a joint statement calling on the presumptive presidential nominees President Biden and former President Trump to agree to debates during the 2024 campaign. ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, PBS, NBC, NPR and The Associated Press all signed on to the letter. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

News organizations urge Biden and Trump to commit to presidential debates during the 2024 campaign

Twelve news organizations have issued a joint statement calling on presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debates during the White House campaign.
 
FILES - This combination of two file photos shows Xochitl Galvez, at left, arriving to register her name as a presidential candidate on July 4, 2023 in Mexico City, and at right, Claudia Sheinbaum at an event that presented her as her party's presidential nominee on Sept. 6, 2023 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, Files)

Candidates spar in Mexico’s first presidential debate ahead of June 2 election

In Mexico’s first presidential debate ahead of June 2 elections, former Mexico City Mayor and frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum appeared comfortable with her lead, remaining calm amid ex-Senator Xóchitl Gálvez’s personal attacks.
 
FILES - This combination of two file photos shows Xochitl Galvez, at left, arriving to register her name as a presidential candidate on July 4, 2023 in Mexico City, and at right, Claudia Sheinbaum at an event that presented her as her party's presidential nominee on Sept. 6, 2023 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, Files)

As two women vie for Mexico’s presidency, why are there questions about their ability to govern?

As two women candidates lead the polls in the race toward Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, one question has been splashed across polls, debates, media and conversations across Mexico.
 
FILE - The Kentucky Capitol is seen, April 7, 2021, in Frankfort, Ky. Republican lawmakers in Kentucky wrapped up work Thursday, March 28, 2024, on a sweeping criminal justice bill that would deliver harsher sentences to combat crime. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

GOP-backed bill proposing harsher sentences to combat crime sent to Kentucky’s governor

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have wrapped up work on a sweeping criminal justice bill that would deliver harsher sentences to combat crime.
 

A Nebraska bill to subject librarians to charges for giving ‘obscene material’ to children fails

A bill that would have held school librarians and teachers criminally responsible for providing “obscene material” to Nebraska students in grades K-12 failed to advance Wednesday in the Legislature.
 
State Sen. Megan Hunt, right, looks on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature with her legislative aide, Hanna Murdoch, as lawmakers prepare for a veto override vote on her bill that would have allowed needle exchange programs in the state, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Lincoln, Neb. The bill failed to get the 30 votes in needed to override Gov. Jim Pillen's veto. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

Failure to override Nebraska governor’s veto is more about politics than policy, some lawmakers say

Nebraska lawmakers failed to garner the 30 votes needed Tuesday to override Gov. Jim Pillen’s veto of a bill that would have allowed needle exchange programs.
 
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a Republican campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Haley says she no longer feels bound by the GOP pledge requiring her to support the eventual nominee

The Republican National Committee made the pledge a prerequisite for all candidates, and nearly every major one signed, except for Donald Trump.
 
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at a press conference at the Capitol in Atlanta, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, announcing a plan to send National Guard troops to Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP)

Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp says he will aid Texas governor’s border standoff with Biden

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he will send more of his state’s National Guard soldiers to aid Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to control illegal crossings on the U.S.
 
FILE - Chris Wallace, of Fox News, center, moderates as President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, speak during the a presidential debate, Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland. Former President Trump is challenging President Joe Biden to debate, and Biden is laughing Trump off, at least publicly. There are real questions about whether any of the presidential candidates will confront each other on a debate stage in 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Will Biden and Trump face one another in presidential debates? There’s no commitment yet

Former President Donald Trump is challenging Joe Biden to debate. But he is also receiving calls to debate from his remaining primary opponent.
 
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber as they vote to begin work on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

As some call for his ouster, McConnell pushes back on GOP critics: ‘They’ve had their shot’

After months of negotiations and delays, the Senate has voted to move forward on legislation that would provide wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel.
 
Gubernatorial candidate Moore Capito, left, speaks as Attorney General and candidate Patrick Morrisey listens during a GOP debate held at The Resort at Glade Springs on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Daniels, W.V. (Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald via AP)

4 Republican rivals for West Virginia governor spar on issues at debate

Four candidates running in the Republican primary for West Virginia governor staked their claims to being the best choice during a televised debate.
 
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., greets well-wishers before the first Republican primary debate for the 4th Congressional district seat being vacated by Ken Buck Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Fort Lupton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Lauren Boebert mounts defense to criticisms of ‘carpetbagging’ in packed first Republican debate

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has argued her case in the first Republican primary debate in the district where she is now running, facing local opponents who lobbed accusations of Boebert being a “carpetbagger.”
 
FILE - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Dolan talks with reporters after conceding to JD Vance at a watch party in Independence, Ohio, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The three Republicans vying to take on Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown this fall in Ohio's competitive U.S. Senate race, including Dolan, clashed bitterly in their first statewide debate Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

GOP Senate contenders in Ohio face off for their first statewide debate

The three Republicans vying to take on Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown this fall in Ohio’s competitive U.S.
 
Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Senate candidate Bill Conrad, standing, speaks during a debate at the Atlantis Casino Resort ballroom in Reno, Nev., on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The seven Republican Senate candidates often criticized former Army Capt. Sam Brown, the front-runner backed by National Senate Republicans, for not showing up. (AP Photo/Gabe Stern)

Nevada Republican Senate primary candidates take aim at absent front-runner in debate

Seven Republicans vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Nevada circled the familiar talking points of GOP politics at a debate, while also taking shots at the front-runner, who made an apparently strategic decision not to attend.
 
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, both speaking at the at the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Another Republican debate is canceled after Haley says she’ll only participate if Trump does, too

Another Republican presidential debate has been canceled after Nikki Haley’s refusal to participate in any forum that doesn’t include ex-President Donald Trump.
 
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley gestures to the audience as she concludes a speech at a caucus night party at the Marriott Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Next Republican debate canceled after Nikki Haley says she’ll only participate if Donald Trump does

ABC News has canceled the next Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire after Nikki Haley said she won’t participate unless former President Donald Trump takes part in it.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News Channel town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Fox town hall with Trump draws more TV viewers than debate between Haley and DeSantis

Former President Donald Trump reached an estimated 4.3 million viewers during his live town hall on Fox News Wednesday night.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News Channel town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump enjoys a relaxed Fox News town hall while top Republican rivals have fiery debate

While GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley met in a sharp CNN debate that brought out clear differences, Donald Trump provided clear counterprogramming.
 
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, right and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, pointing at each other during the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

DeSantis and Haley jockey for second without Trump and other takeaways from Iowa GOP debate

Only two Republicans were facing off at the GOP’s fifth presidential debate stage — former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
 
Members of the House of Representatives meet on the first day of the 2024 legislative session Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

New Tennessee House rules seek to discourage more uproar after highly publicized expulsions

The Republican-run Tennessee House has capped how long lawmakers can debate bills and is restricting members from speaking when deemed “out of order.”
 
Workers prepare for the Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

As DeSantis and Haley face off in Iowa GOP debate, urgency could spark fireworks

Just two Republican presidential candidates, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, will meet on the debate stage Wednesday night.
 
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, looks at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, at the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley and DeSantis tear into each other’s records in a hostile head-to-head Republican debate

DeSantis and Haley called each other liars and insulted each other’s records and character in the opening minutes of the debate.
 
FILE - This combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former South Carolina UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will also be its first head-to-head matchup. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are the only candidates taking part in Wednesday night’s debate in Iowa. (AP Photo, File)

How to watch the fifth Republican presidential debate

The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will also be its first head-to-head matchup. The debate kicks off Wednesday, 9 p.m.
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a New Year's Eve campaign event, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

DeSantis and Haley will appear at next week’s CNN debate at the same time as Trump’s Fox town hall

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are set to appear at next week’s Republican presidential debate on CNN.
 
FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden attend the second and final presidential debate Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Former President Donald Trump says he is eager to debate President Joe Biden, even if the debates are sponsored by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. And he says he is open to debating a single Republican rival if a serious challenger emerges after the New Hampshire primary. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump says he’s eager to debate Biden in 2024, even if controversial commission plans events

Former President Donald Trump says he is eager to debate President Joe Biden, even if the debates are sponsored by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, speaks during U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra's, R-Iowa, Faith and Family with the Feenstras event, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

GOP presidential candidates share stories of family and faith. Offstage, their sharp edges reemerged

A trio of Republican presidential candidates shared stories of family and faith before hundreds of voters in northwest Iowa.
 

Taiwan’s presidential candidates will hold a televised debate as the race heats up

The three candidates running in Taiwan’s presidential election will hold a televised debate on Dec. 30 as the race heats up under pressure from China.
 
Republican presidential candidate former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy participate in a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NewsNation on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, at the Moody Music Hall at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Two networks announce GOP presidential debates just days apart at same New Hampshire school

Two television networks have said they will hold separate Republican presidential debates at the same location in New Hampshire just ahead of that state’s GOP primary next month, but officials at Saint Anselm College said they were only aware of one of the events.
 
Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NewsNation on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, at the Moody Music Hall at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

GOP presidential hopefuls target Nikki Haley more than Trump, and other moments from the debate

With the Iowa caucuses rapidly approaching, a shrinking field of Republican White House hopefuls gathered Wednesday in Alabama for the fourth presidential debate.
 
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s campaign will not commit yet to participating in general election debates in 2024

President Joe Biden’s campaign is not yet committing to general election debates next year. The comment on Wednesday by one of his top campaign leaders was the latest sign that a staple of modern White House campaigns may not be in play in 2024.
 
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