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President Donald Trump suggested to reporters that the FBI should be investigating his Democratic rival Joe Biden whom he called "guilty as can be".

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, social media platforms were vectors for misinformation as far-right activists, foreign influence campaigns and fake news sites worked to spread false information and sharpen divisions. Four years later, the 2020 election was overrun with conspiracy theories and baseless claims about voter fraud that were amplified to millions, fueling an anti-democratic movement to overturn the election. Collage of AI-generated image of the pope wearing Balenciaga, a voting ballot and a person operating a smart phone. ‘An evolution in propaganda’: a digital expert on AI influence in elections Read more Now, as the 2024 presidential election comes into view, experts warn that advances in AI have the potential to take the disinformation tactics of the past and breathe new life into them. AI-generated disinformation not only threatens to deceive audiences, but also erode an already embattled information ecosystem by flooding it with inaccuracies and deceptions, experts say.

The growing divide between Israel and Washington has been laid bare by the US allowing the United Nations Security Council to vote for a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The United Nations Security Council passed its first resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza on Monday. The United States abstained, in an astonishing and rare move.

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have both swept aside challengers and are all but certain to be the candidates in the US Presidential election in November. Mr Trump’s last Republican rival, Nikki Haley, has ended her campaign for the nomination after he won overwhelming support in the Super Tuesday primaries. President Biden also swept the board for the Democrat nomination. The results fire the starting gun for the 2024 campaign proper, a rematch of the last presidential election between the two men in 2020. It comes as opinion polls suggest that most Americans have reservations about both candidates. Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.

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The vast majority of Americans are fed up with money corrupting politics — but how do we fix it?

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The last election came down to roughly 44,000 votes in key swing states. 2024 may be even closer. Here’s what you can do to help save democracy between now and the election.

The United States has a president who received nearly 3 million fewer votes than his Democratic opponent. Currently, over half the country lives in just nine states, which means that less than half of the population controls 82 percent of the Senate. It also means that Republicans hold a majority in the Senate despite the fact that Democratic senators represent more than half of the American people. Intentional efforts to make it harder to vote, such as voter ID laws, are increasingly common throughout the states — and the Supreme Court frequently approaches such voter suppression with indifference. Gerrymandering renders many legislative elections irrelevant — in 2018, Republicans won nearly two-thirds of the seats in the Wisconsin state assembly, even though Democratic candidates received 54 percent of the popular vote. Wealthy donors flood elections with money, as lawmakers spend thousands of hours on “call time,” dialing the rich to fund the next campaign. And looming over all of this is the problem of race. In some states, Republican lawmakers write voter suppression laws that target voters of color with, in the word of one federal appeals court, “almost surgical precision,” knowing that a law that targets minority votes will primarily disenfranchise Democrats. Congressional Democrats are acutely aware of many of these problems. And they’ve devised some fairly aggressive plans to combat these attacks on the franchise.

In 2020, they will face a choice between incumbent President Donald Trump of the Republican party and his Democratic challenger, the former vice-president Joe Biden. But in addition to that vote, many states are also holding elections for positions in the United States Senate, House of Representatives and state-wide political roles. In the United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and some local authorities in England (such as Greater Manchester) have been given devolved powers - meaning they have responsibility for some key decision making in their area, while central government in Westminster takes control of other matters. It’s similar across the United States – although in the US, every state has its own powers and control over spending. State government is responsible for things like holding elections and providing for public safety, health and welfare.