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Carmen Sandoval holds her dog Peluche as she votes in the California primary election at City Hall on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Photos of primary races across the US as candidates compete to get on the ballots for the midterms

2:47 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Inmates stand in a courtyard at El Milagro Prison in Trujillo, Peru, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd

PHOTO ESSAY: Fear grips Peru as crime surges ahead of presidential runoff on Sunday

2:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2

FILE - The New York state Capitol is seen from the steps of the State Education Building in Albany, N.Y., June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York Democrats take first steps toward an aggressive 2028 redistricting plan

1:05 PM on Tuesday, June 2

New York Democrats are wading into the national redistricting wars — just don’t expect a victory before this year’s hotly contested midterm elections

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an address at the Canadian Association of Defense and Security Industries annual defense industry trade show CANSEC, in Ottawa, on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada calls for US and Mexico free trade agreement to be renewed for another 16 years

1:01 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Canada is calling on the United States and Mexico to renew the free trade agreement between the countries for another 16 years just as U.S. President Donald Trump revives talk of making Canada the 51st state

President Donald Trump, left, and Kevin Warsh arrive at a swearing-in ceremony for Warsh as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the East Room of the White House, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for national security risks

1:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology

The top photos of the day by AP photojournalists

12:42 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, greets supporters after speaking at an event hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders in Orono, Maine, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Paxton and Platner visit Washington to shore up support for their controversial Senate candidacies

12:29 PM on Tuesday, June 2

U.S. Senate hopefuls Ken Paxton and Graham Platner are in Washington, D.C., to rally party support

A person walks from a polling place for the New Jersey primary election in Oaklyn, N.J., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The Latest: Polls open for races across the US as a busy primary election day gets underway

10:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

For a state that’s home to Hollywood, there isn’t much star power in California’s gubernatorial race

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mullin faces Senate grilling on DHS budget, immigration crackdown and World Cup worries

9:27 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is appearing in the Senate to discuss the agency's budget

FILE - Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte walks outside the White House, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trump taps housing regulator Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence

9:18 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Democrats and Republicans say President Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence seems unqualified

Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to Review the FY27 State Department Budget Request on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Latest: Rubio testifies in back-to-back Capitol Hill hearings

8:17 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face more questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began

People gather on paddleboards in shallow water as cargo and service vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, June 1, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)

Iran stops talking to mediators, Iranian reports say, but Trump says talks continue

7:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Iran stopped communicating with mediators after Israel threatened to bomb Beirut as it fights the Lebanese militia Hezbollah

A nurse looks through a shattered window of the Jabal Amel Hospital into a destroyed building that was hit Monday in an Israeli airstrike, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israel kills 11 in Lebanon, a day after Trump said Israel and Hezbollah will de-escalate

5:55 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon have killed 11 people, including a man along with his son and daughter

Kavugho Hortense, a cook, delivers meals to the medical staff and Ebola patients at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Volunteers serve comfort food in a worrying Ebola outbreak

5:32 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Volunteers for the U.N. food agency are providing crucial support In the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo by cooking

A nurse gives painkillers to patient Amna Adam Hessen, whose baby was delivered stillborn the previous day, at the Birao District Hospital in the Central African Republic, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

Africa is the deadliest place in the world to have a baby, while its population booms

1:03 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Women are 40 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth in Central African Republic than in the United States, according to the United Nations

FILE - Rioters storm the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Republican senators want more answers on $1.8 billion settlement fund as Trump considers its future

12:08 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Senate Republicans are meeting to discuss next steps in a standoff with the White House

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to Review the FY27 State Department Budget Request on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio is optimistic on eventual Iran nuclear talks despite congressional skepticism

12:02 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's optimistic about the potential for a resumption in nuclear talks with Iran despite a shaky ceasefire in the war that's looking increasingly in doubt

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, New Jersey Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr., R-Westfield, addresses reporters in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

New Jersey Democrats pick opponent in House district with absent Republican incumbent

12:01 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Democrats testing their chances in a right-leaning New Jersey battleground district are picking their nominee in a House primary to take on Republican incumbent Tom Kean Jr., who’s been absent for months from Congress as he deals with an unspecified medical issue

Traders Edward McCarthy, left, and Robert Charmak work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Wall Street hangs around its records as the AI boom keeps growing

11:38 PM on Monday, June 1

The U.S. stock market is ticking toward more records as winners of the artificial-intelligence boom keep driving higher

This doorbell camera video shows former North Carolina police officer Karson Hyder interaction with Cherrie Moore during an incident on May 29, 2026, in Shelby, N.C. (AP Photo)

Former North Carolina officer charged in beating caught on doorbell camera video

3:41 PM on Monday, June 1

A former North Carolina police officer has been charged with assault for a beating caught on a doorbell camera

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