BRIAN SLODYSKO

Slodysko is a national political reporter in Washington.

FILE - Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno speaks during a forum, Feb. 19, 2024, in the TLB Auditorium at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. (Jeremy Wadsworth/The Blade via AP, File)

How the AP reported that someone with access to Bernie Moreno’s email created adult website profile

The Associated Press reported Thursday that someone with access to a work email account for Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno created a profile in late 2008 on an adult website, seeking casual sexual encounters with men.

FILE - Bernie Moreno is acknowledged at a rally with former President Donald Trump at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, on April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

Trump-backed Senate candidate faces GOP worries that he could be linked to adult website profile

For Republicans eager to regain the Senate majority this year, Ohio offers a prime opportunity to pick up a critical seat.

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Nikki Haley says she’s suspending her presidential campaign. What does that mean?

Nikki Haley says she’s suspending her presidential campaign. Not ending, not concluding, not terminating — suspending. There are reasons candidates use that term.

Ron Worley, candidate for Gaston county commissioner, displays an I Voted Today sticker on Super Tuesday at the entrance to a polling location Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Belmont, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Super Tuesday takeaways: Biden and Trump momentum can’t be slowed as Haley suspends her campaign

Super Tuesday didn’t quite live up to its name. President Joe Biden won the states he needed to win, and so did Donald Trump.

FILE - Alexander Smirnov, second from right, leaves the courthouse on Feb. 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

How clean is the dirt on Hunter Biden? A key Republican source is charged with lying to the FBI

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Smirnov was cast by Republicans as one of the FBI’s most trusted informants, offering a “highly credible” account of brazen public corruption by Joe Biden that formed a pillar of the House impeachment investigation of the Democratic president.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump greets people after a Fox News Channel town hall Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Trump faces warning signs that his fundraising prowess may have limits in 2024 campaign

Donald Trump’s mythic ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision course with a new reality.

FILE - North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley speaks at the state party's convention on June 9, 2023, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Trump’s pick to lead the RNC is facing skepticism from some Republicans

Michael Whatley, the chairman of North Carolina’s Republican Party, has been named by Donald Trump as his pick to lead the Republican National Committee.

FILE - Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel holds a gavel while speaking at the committee's winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., Jan. 27, 2023. McDaniel has discussed leaving her role with former President Donald Trump. But both have agreed to delay a decision until after South Carolina’s Feb. 24 primary. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed stepping down, AP sources say. But no decision has been made

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed the possibility of stepping down during a private meeting with former President Donald Trump.

FILE - Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel speaks before a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. Facing a cash crunch and harsh criticism from a faction of far-right conservatives, McDaniel, on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, called for the party to unite behind the goal of defeating President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

The RNC chairwoman calls for unity as the party faces attacks by some Trump allies

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is calling for the party to unite behind the goal of defeating President Joe Biden.

FILE - No Labels leadership and guests from left, Dan Webb, National Co-Chair Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, and founding Chairman and former Senator Joe Lieberman, speak about the 2024 election at National Press Club, in Washington, Jan. 18, 2024. Two Democratic-aligned groups this week have filed campaign finance complaints against No Labels. They are hoping to crimp the centrist group's pipeline of campaign cash and force it to follow the same rules as formal political parties. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Who are No Labels’ donors? Democratic groups file complaints in an attempt to find out

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, the centrist group No Labels has stockpiled cash and diligently worked to secure ballot access for a potential third-party presidential bid, striking fear among allies of President Joe Biden that the effort could siphon away votes and hand the White House to Donald Trum

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump stands in a back stage area after speaking at a caucus site at Horizon Events Center, in Clive, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Key takeaways from Iowa caucuses: It’s not the economy

Donald Trump has run his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination as a de facto incumbent.

FILE - House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., emerges from the committee room, followed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to speak to reporters after Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, defied a congressional subpoena to appear privately for a deposition before Republican investigators who have been digging into his business dealings, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends

The Kentucky congressman who’s leading House Republicans’ impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden has focused on the Biden family’s use of shell companies. Rep.

President Joe Biden meets with Angola's President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco in the Oval office of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden is heading to Hollywood for a major fundraiser featuring Steven Spielberg and Shonda Rhimes

President Joe Biden will head to Los Angeles next week for a big-dollar event that will be his first since strikes by writers and actors effectively ground his fundraising to a halt in the heart of the entertainment industry.

FILE - Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee markup of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill, Dec. 12, 2019, in Washington. Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress. He was once chosen to be the dean of a small Baptist law school. But the school ultimately collapsed without enrolling students or opening its doors. The episode is a reminder of how little is know about Johnson, who quickly rose from relative obscurity to House speaker. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors

Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress. He was once chosen to be the dean of a small Baptist law school.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Oct. 16, 2023, in Adel, Iowa. Trump is crushing his Republican presidential rivals in the contest to raise campaign cash, putting the other White House hopefuls in an unenviable position before the first votes are cast in January. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump’s campaign cash overwhelms his GOP rivals. Here are key third-quarter fundraising takeaways

Donald Trump is crushing his Republican presidential rivals in the contest to raise campaign cash, putting the other White House hopefuls in an unenviable position before the first votes are cast in January.

FILE - Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, greets 8th-grade students and parents from Bath Middle School of Lima, Ohio, as rain begins to fall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Jim Jordan’s rapid rise has been cheered by Trump and the far right. Could it soon make him speaker?

Rep. Jim Jordan becoming House speaker would help cement the far right’s takeover of the Republican Party and trigger conflict with Democrats over the size and scope of government.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Turning Point CEO Charlie Kirk before speaking during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. The nonprofit rocketed to prominence by latching on to Trump’s 2016 campaign and has raised roughly a quarter-billion dollars since, much of it spent cultivating conservative influencers and hosting glitzy events. The organization also enriched Kirk and his allies, according to an Associated Press review of public records. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

How Trump’s MAGA movement helped a 29-year-old activist become a millionaire

An Arizona-based nonprofit that rocketed to prominence by latching on to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign has raised roughly a quarter-billion dollars but has struggled to help Republicans win general elections.

FILE - Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to reporters hours after he was ousted as Speaker of the House, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. McCarthy spent years tirelessly raising mountains of Republican campaign cash as he worked his way toward becoming Speaker of the House. Now that he’s been ousted from the post, some in McCarthy’s party are wondering if all that fundraising will evaporate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House speaker could cost the GOP its best fundraiser heading into 2024

Some members of the GOP are wondering if anyone can take Kevin McCarthy’s place as a fundraising dynamo and party builder.

A marquee promoting a fundraiser with President Joe Biden is on display outside the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden tells a Broadway theater packed for fundraiser that Trump is determined to destroy the nation

President Joe Biden has told a packed Broadway theater full of big-name stars hosting a fundraiser in his honor that he is running for reelection because Donald Trump was determined to destroy the nation.

FILE - Dave McCormick, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, meets with attendees during a campaign event in Coplay, Pa., Jan. 25, 2022. As Republicans aim to gain the one seat they need to retake the Senate in next year's elections, McCormick is a top recruit. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

David McCormick is gearing up for a Senate run in Pennsylvania. But he lives in Connecticut

Former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick often touts his deep connection to Pennsylvania as he lays the groundwork for another likely Senate run.

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Takeaways from the Trump indictment that alleges a campaign of ‘fraud and deceit’

The indictment of Donald Trump on Tuesday marks the first time that the former president has been formally held accountable for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves a campaign rally Saturday, July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pa. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts

Donald Trump’s political operation enters the second half of the year in a strained financial position.

Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the Celebrate Freedom Foundation Hangar in West Columbia, S.C. July 18, 2023. For DeSantis, Tuesday was supposed to mark a major moment to help reset his stagnant Republican presidential campaign. But yet again, the moment was overshadowed by Donald Trump. The former president was the overwhelming focus for much of the day as DeSantis spoke out at a press conference and sat for a highly anticipated interview designed to reassure anxious donors and primary voters that he's still well-positioned to defeat Trump.(AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

DeSantis fights to reset his stagnant campaign as Trump dominates the 2024 conversation

For Ron DeSantis, Tuesday was supposed to be an important opportunity to help reset his stagnant Republican presidential campaign.

FILE - Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a hearing June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Durbin says it's time for Supreme Court justices to bring their conduct in line with the standards of other branches of government. Durbin was responding Tuesday, July 11, to Associated Press investigative stories. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code like other branches of government

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says it’s time for Supreme Court justices to bring their conduct in line with the standards of other branches of government.

An email from Kim Patterson, the executive director of the McLennan Community College Foundation, about who to invite to a private dinner with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his visit to McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, in 2017, is photographed on June 27, 2023. An Associated Press examination of the ethics practices of the U.S. Supreme Court relied on documents obtained from more than 100 public records requests to public colleges, universities and other institutions that have hosted the justices over the past decade.(AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Inside the AP’s investigation into the ethics practices of the Supreme Court justices

An Associated Press examination of the ethics practices of the U.S. Supreme Court relied on documents obtained from more than 100 public records requests to public colleges, universities and other institutions that have hosted the justices over the past decade.

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Supreme Court justices have attended publicly funded events at colleges and universities that allowed the schools to put the justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justices teach when the Supreme Court isn’t in session. It can double as an all-expenses-paid trip

Teaching is encouraged as a way to demystify the Supreme Court while exposing the justices to a cross-section of the public.

FILE. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses attendees of an event promoting her new children's book "Just Ask!" in Decatur, Ga., Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

For colleges and libraries seeking a big name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court.

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Supreme Court justices have attended publicly funded events at colleges and universities that allowed the schools to put the justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Supreme Court justices and donors mingle at campus visits. These documents show the ethical dilemmas

Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Supreme Court justices have attended publicly funded events at colleges and universities that allowed the schools to put the justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court.

Equal pay bill passed by House but faces long odds in Senate

House Democrats has approved legislation that they say would help close the gap between what men and women are paid in the workplace, though the measure faces little chance of overcoming Republican opposition in the Senate.

7 Republicans vote to convict Trump in impeachment trial

Seven Republicans have voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his Senate trial. That is easily the largest number of lawmakers to ever vote to find a president of their own party guilty at impeachment proceedings.