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Some of the nation’s top cybersecurity leaders are warning state and local election officials of ongoing foreign and domestic national security threats to election systems, urging them to upgrade their defenses ahead of next year’s presidential election.

Montana Sen. Jon Tester Wednesday announced he will seek reelection in 2024, a big boost for Democrats as they seek to hold onto their narrow majority.

Rep. Barbara Lee, a longtime favorite of liberal Democrats, confirmed Tuesday that she will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein. 

Ted Cruz has seemingly taken himself out of the 2024 presidential sweepstakes, saying last week that he’s focused on being reelected to a third term in the Senate.

In the weeks after the 2020 election, Fox News faced an existential crisis. The top-rated cable news network had alienated its Donald Trump-loving viewers with an accurate election night prediction for Joe Biden and was facing a terrifying ratings slide, not to mention the ire of a once-loyal president.

Launching her 2024 campaign, Nikki Haley took a potshot at both the 80-year-old incumbent, Joe Biden, and her former boss, 76-year-old Donald Trump – insinuating they’re mentally impaired, and demanding they and the rest of their generation prove they don’t have dementia before holding office.

Voters on Tuesday approved Spokane Valley Fire Department and Spokane County Fire District 8 levies that will allow each department to fund day-to-day operations, upgrade facilities and buy new equipment.

Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, announced she was challenging the former president for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, claiming the mantle of younger leadership.

The Department of Commerce did not give a reason for why Brown was stepping down. Brown has been a top possible choice to run for mayor of Spokane this year, though she has not said officially yet whether she is running.

The main cause, Johns Hopkins' Lilliana Mason said, is that political divisions have melded with other, more basic differences that define who we are. What religion we believe in, the area of the country where we live and our cultural norms have become more intertwined with our politics over the past 50 or 60 years, driven by political rhetoric and partisan media outlets. 

The Democratic National Committee last week approved changes to the 2024 Democratic presidential primary calendar, switching up which states get the first few primary dates. Under the new plan, South Carolina will hold the first primary on Feb. 3, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on Feb. 6. Georgia would hold theirs next on Feb. 13, followed by Michigan on Feb. 27. 

Donald Trump is going on the attack against potential rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination over Social Security and Medicare, seizing on the same GOP divisions over federal spending that President Biden is seeking to exploit.

Key Republicans are trying to choke off any momentum that Donald Trump can build for a third White House campaign to make room for a fresh GOP standard-bearer.

President Joe Biden will get to test drive his 2024 campaign message in front of the nation on Tuesday when he delivers his State of the Union address.

WASHINGTON — Democrats are unfazed, even giddy about a possible 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. 

National Democrats voted Saturday to overhaul the presidential primary process and put Georgia near the start of the schedule. But the party’s plan to elevate Georgia won’t mean anything without support from state Republicans so far unwilling to endorse the change.

The field for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is expanding. Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is expected to announce her campaign in mid-February, and more contenders will likely follow. Although Donald Trump was the first to kick off the race by announcing his run just after last year’s midterm elections, he’s not dissuading ambitious Republicans.  

Donald Trump may be the favorite to become the Republican nominee in 2024, but in venturing out this weekend to New Hampshire and South Carolina, he was confronted with some of the obstacles that lie in his path.

Advisers to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are actively preparing for a possible presidential run, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the conversations who described meetings and preliminary staffing moves - the latest indication that DeSantis is laying a foundation for a national campaign.