US Election 2024-The Daily Rundown

Here’s a rundown of the AP’s latest Election 2024 coverage plans, including live video and text plans, our explanatory journalism and highlights from previous cycles. Candidate schedules are included when available. All times are EDT.

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TRUMP-HUSH MONEY — Donald Trump’s hush money trial moved into a new phase, drawing closer to the moment when the jury will begin deciding his fate after testimony concluded without the former president taking the stand in his own defense. An AP reporter debrief. Newsroom Ready and Consumer Ready edits. Sent on May 21.

4 p.m. — Live US NETWORK POOL of President Joe Biden welcoming Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House is planned.

4 p.m. — Live AP camera as Nikki Haley holds her first speech since dropping out of the 2024 GOP presidential primary at the Hudson Institute in Washington is planned.

ELECTION 2024-TRUMP-CONTRACEPTION — Donald Trump says he is open to supporting regulations on contraception and says his campaign will release a policy on the issue “very shortly,” comments he later says were misinterpreted. SENT: 940 words, photo. With ELECTION 2024-TRUMP-LANGUAGE — A video posted to Trump’s account on his social media network included references to a “unified Reich”; ELECTION 2024-TRUMP-CRYPTOCURRENCY — Trump’s campaign will begin receiving donations in cryptocurrency.

CONGRESS-TRUMP-FOREIGN MONEY — Democrats introduce legislation that would prohibit U.S. officials from accepting money, payments or gifts from foreign governments without congressional consent, their response to a yearslong probe into Donald Trump’s overseas business dealings. SENT: 480 words, photo.

ELECTION 2024-RNC-LARA TRUMP — Since being elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee in March, Lara Trump has worked to reshape the party in Donald Trump’s image. Supporters say she is breathing new life into the party, but some Republicans say the RNC is being run in ways that could harm its mandate to help all its candidates up and down the ballot. SENT: 2,000 words, photos. With ELECTION 2024-RNC-LARA TRUMP-TAKEAWAYS — Lara Trump is embracing a very public role.

ELECTION-2024-NORTH-CAROLINA-ROBINSON -- In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that’s mired Black people in “dependency” and poverty. But the firebrand lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it. SENT: 1,700 words, photos. An abridged version of 740 words is also available.

ELECTION 2024-MOMS FOR LIBERTY — The conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a multi-state advertising blitz to increase its membership and engage voters before November. It specifically will target voters in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin, four battleground states. SENT: 1,080 words, photo.

TRUMP-CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS — Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against Donald Trump are due in court for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month. SENT: 480 words, photos. UPCOMING: 800 words after 10 a.m. hearing.

UNITED STATES-KENYA — President Joe Biden welcomes Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House. UPCOMING: 900 words, photo by 9 a.m. Meeting at 4 p.m.

TRUMP-HUSH MONEY — Donald Trump’s lawyers rest their defense without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money criminal trial. Closing arguments are expected May 28. SENT: 1,090 words, photos, video, audio. With TRUMP-HUSH MONEY-SHORT DEFENSE — Trump’s lawyers rested their case after calling just two witnesses. Experts say that’s not unusual.

ELECTION 2024 — The presidential primaries that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have already clinched are moving closer to their end. Biden and Trump won primaries in Kentucky and Oregon Tuesday. The symbolic decisions provide a few more delegates to the national conventions and a gut check on where the Democratic and Republican bases stand toward their standard-bearers as the presidential nominating season nears its end. SENT: 260 words, photos, audio. With ELECTION 2024-GEORGIA-ELECTION-INDICTMENT — Fani Willis and judge presiding over Georgia Trump election case defeat challengers.

BIDEN-GAS PRICES — The Biden administration is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer. SENT: 630 words, photos. With BIDEN — Biden promotes a law that helps veterans who suffered toxic exposure get key benefits.

TRADE-TRUMP AND BIDEN — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on essentially nothing, from taxes and climate change to immigration and regulation. Yet on trade policy, the two presumptive presidential nominees have embraced surprisingly similar approaches. SENT: 1,880 words, photos. With abridged.

May 23 — Idaho Democratic caucuses.

May 28 — Texas state primary runoff.

June 4 — District of Columbia, Democratic presidential and district primary, Iowa state primary, Montana presidential/state primary, New Jersey presidential/state primary, New Mexico presidential/state primary, South Dakota presidential/state primary.

June 11 — Maine state primary, Nevada state primary, North Dakota state primary, Ohio CD 6 Special General, South Carolina state primary.

June 18 — Georgia state primary runoff, Oklahoma state primary, Virginia state primary.

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Former President Donald Trump sits in a courtroom next to his lawyer Todd Blanche before the start of the day's proceedings in the Manhattan Criminal court, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in New York. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has again rejected South Africa’s demand that it move its representative office in the country from the capital, Pretoria, to the commercial center of Johannesburg.

Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jeff Liu said at a news conference on Tuesday that the demand to move or shut the office entirely violated a 1997 agreement between the sides on the location of their mutual representative offices following the severing of formal diplomatic relations.

“Facing this kind of unreasonable demand, our side cannot grant our acceptance,” Liu said.

South Africa maintains a liaison office in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, and the sides have a strong commercial relationship. Liu repeated Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung’s avowal at the legislature on Monday that Taiwan “was prepared for all eventualities” over the issue. The office is Taiwanese property and Taipei retains the right to determine its location and status, Lin and Liu said.

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory that must be annexed by force if necessary, relentlessly seeks to minimize Taiwan's international representation, although the self-governing island republic maintains robust unofficial relations with the U.S. and other major nations.

South Africa confirmed last week that it had asked Taiwan to move its liaison office, in a demand seen purely as a concession to China, which has used its influence to keep Taiwan out of the United Nations and affiliated branches such as the World Health Organization, and limit its formal diplomatic partners to just 11 countries and the Vatican.

In addition to diplomatic and economic pressure, China has stepped up its military threats against Taiwan, most recently holding large-scale live-fire drills just off the Chinese coastal province of Fujian, which faces Taiwan.

South Africa's demand that Taiwan move its office has also drawn attention in the U.S. Congress, with Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn posting on the social platform X that “the United States should not tolerate this behavior from South Africa.”

“I am calling on ... the Biden administration to make it clear that there will be consequences if South Africa works with the (Chinese Communist Party) to bully Taiwan,” including removing South Africa from a key trade program, Blackburn said.

“The United States must not provide trade benefits to countries that prioritize China’s influence over democratic partnerships,” she added.

FILE- A rainbow forms over the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)