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Trump is eyeing Paul Manafort for 2024 campaign role

Former president Donald Trump is expected to enlist Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year, according to four people familiar with the talks.

Russian voters, answering Navalny’s call, protest Putin’s forever rule

On the final day of a presidential election with only one possible result, Russians protested Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian hold on power by forming lines to vote against him Sunday - answering the call of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who had urged the midday action before dying suddenly in prison last month.

For Putin’s election in occupied Ukraine, voting is forced at gunpoint

Ukrainians in territories occupied by the Russian military are being forced to vote in the Russian presidential election under the watch of heavily armed, masked soldiers who are accompanying election officials going from house to house, knocking on doors as they seek to compel participation.

Trump trial delays cast doubt on verdicts before November election

A likely delay in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is the latest complication of prosecutors’ efforts to try his other criminal cases before Nov. 5, raising the prospect that he could be elected president — and perhaps take office — before being tried on the most serious charges against him.

Biden easily wins Washington’s primary despite ‘uncommitted’ push

The campaign to vote “uncommitted” in the Democratic presidential primary picked up statewide and national momentum in the new year as the death toll in Gaza continued to climb and surpassed 30,000 people late last month, with thousands more missing, the associated press reported.

Republicans vying for McMorris Rodgers’ seat make early pitches to their base

Republicans hoping to win a coveted seat representing Eastern Washington in Congress have begun making early pitches to their base, trying to distinguish themselves through the force of their personalities, their records in office or their claim to be political outsiders, and in some cases their support for former President Donald Trump.

Trump wants united GOP after Haley bows out

On a night that brought a near sweep of delegate-rich states and took him to the cusp of the Republican nomination, Donald Trump walked into a ballroom full of adoring fans, meeting their enthusiastic triumphalism with a dark and subdued speech that barely touched on the night’s results.

Key results from congressional primaries on Super Tuesday

Voters in five states picked nominees for congressional seats on Tuesday. California and Texas voted in Senate primaries, and more than one-quarter of the seats in the House were up in primaries in those states plus Alabama, Arkansas and North Carolina.

Senate Majority Leader Andy Billig says he won’t run for re-election

In the last week of the 2024 legislative session, the announcement that one of the Spokane delegation's most influential lawmakers will not run for re-election left in question how much influence Eastern Washington will have in the state's capitol moving forward.