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What James Madison can teach Americans about religious freedom today

8:55 AM on Monday, March 9

FILE - Democrat Evan Turnage, who is challenging Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., in the March primary, poses for a portrait in Jackson, Miss., Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Mississippi's state primaries

8:11 AM on Monday, March 9

Mississippi voters will choose nominees for Congress in a state primary Tuesday

American flags are on display outside the Office of the 14th Congressional District of Georgia in the Rayburn House Office Building, Thursday, March 5, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The office most recently was occupied for former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who resigned in January. (AP Photo/Robert Yoon)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Georgia's special congressional election

7:40 AM on Monday, March 9

Voters in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District will elect a replacement for former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in a special election on Tuesday

At least 14 migrants drown off Turkey after a chase ends in a deadly collision

6:45 AM on Monday, March 9

At least 14 migrants have drowned after a migrant boat crashed into a coast guard boat during a chase off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, officials said

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a news conference after a board meeting of the Christian Democratic Union party at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Merz's party stumbles into a year of German state elections with a narrow defeat

5:38 AM on Monday, March 9

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party has made a disappointing start to a year packed with German state elections, suffering a narrow defeat in an important industrial region after a prominent candidate powered the environmentalist Greens to a come-from-behind victory

FILE - Istanbul Mayor and Republican People's Party, or CHP, candidate Ekrem Imamoglu addresses supporters outside the City Hall in Istanbul, Turkey, early Monday, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Jailed Istanbul mayor goes on trial in huge corruption case slammed by supporters as political

4:11 AM on Monday, March 9

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is facing a major corruption trial that critics say targets Turkey’s opposition and threatens democracy

US military kills 6 in strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific

9:27 PM on Sunday, March 8

The U.S. military says it has killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

Chinese President Xi Jinping reacts during the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

What China's latest economic plans say about its tech ambitions and rivalry with the US

9:04 PM on Sunday, March 8

Two major economic plans unveiled at the annual meeting of China’s legislature outline top priorities

President Donald Trump salutes as an Army carry team moves the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, who was killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the U.S. and Israel launched its military campaign against Iran, during a casualty return Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Fox News apologizes for showing old video of a hatless Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony

7:12 PM on Sunday, March 8

Fox News has apologized for airing old video of a hatless President Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony as part of its coverage

A thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility hit by a U.S.-Israeli strike late Saturday in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Crude oil prices surpass $100 a barrel as the Iran war impedes production and shipping

6:19 PM on Sunday, March 8

Oil prices have jumped past $100 a barrel as the Iran war disrupts oil production and shipping in the Middle East

A thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility hit by a U.S.-Israeli strike late Saturday in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump’s ‘roaring’ economy meets a rough start to 2026: What the latest numbers show

7:30 AM on Sunday, March 8

President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth

Plumes of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil facility late Saturday linger and merge with the cloudy sky over Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

The Latest: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's supreme leader, named his successor, Iran state TV says

1:12 AM on Sunday, March 8

Iranian state TV says Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor

Balendra Shah, foreground, former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and prime ministerial candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, receives his victory certificate after defeating former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli of the Communist Party of Nepal–Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) in Jhapa, about 267 miles (430 kilometers) southeast of Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Umesh Karki)

A new Nepali party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide win in parliamentary election

12:37 AM on Sunday, March 8

Nepal’s new Rastriya Swatantra party is heading for a landslide win in the country’s first parliamentary election since youth protests toppled the old leadership last year

People march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 61st Bloody Sunday Anniversary, Sunday, March 8, 2026, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

On 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, worries about the future of voting rights and calls to action

12:19 AM on Sunday, March 8

Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma

Sen. Paloma Valencia of the Democratic Center party celebrates after winning the nomination of an opposition coalition for the upcoming presidential election in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombians are electing a new Congress and choosing presidential candidates

12:07 AM on Sunday, March 8

Colombians are electing a new Congress and narrowing the presidential field in a major test of political power

FILE - Karter Hardeman, 7, left, and Janayla Ralsey, 8, center, read with volunteer Joshua Banks, right, during an after-school literacy program through the Pure Hope Project in Atlanta on Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File) null

A new poll finds young volunteers embrace informal, everyday acts of service. So do some nonprofits

5:16 PM on Friday, March 6

A new survey by The Allstate Foundation and Gallup suggests that young people do give back, even if their charitable works happen less formally and more sporadically

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