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AP EXPLAINS: What happens if a candidate for president dies?

WASHINGTON — It’s a month before Election Day and President Donald Trump is in the hospital, infected with a virus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans. What happens in the election — already well underway — should his condition take a turn for the worse? If the […]

AP Explains: Can Trump declare emergency to build his wall?

WASHINGTON  :  — The Trump administration is weighing using a national emergency declaration to circumvent Congress and the budget stalemate and force construction of the president’s long-promised southern border wall. “We’re looking at a national emergency because we have a national emergency,” President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday […]

AP Explains: The latest in Sri Lanka’s political crisis

NEW DELHI — Sri Lanka is in the midst of a political crisis set off by the president’s decisions to remove the South Asian island nation’s prime minister, dissolve Parliament and call snap elections. The moves have triggered public protests and international criticism, including from some of the […]

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