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)

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — The upcoming holiday of Eid al-Adha should have been a joyful occasion for millions of Muslims in Senegal. But skyrocketing prices, record unemployment and growing inequalities have turned Tabaski — as the holiday is locally known — into a source of anguish for many in this West African nation.

Those working in big cities or abroad traditionally return home to celebrate Tabaski. Extended families, dressed in boubous, West African flowy tunics, sewn especially for the occasion from imported fabrics, get together to celebrate. People feast on mutton, sacrificed to commemorate Prophet’s Ibrahim’s obedience to God.

Ibrahima Diouf, a 48-year-old fisherman from Thiaroye-sur-Mer, a village on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital, said he could not eat or sleep properly because he was so worried about the financial burden of the holiday.

“All I think about is Tabaski," he said. “I can't even sleep. I can’t do anything.”

Diouf, a father of four and the sole breadwinner in his extended family, has failed to gather enough money to buy a sheep, the prices of which start at around $250. There would be no new clothes either, he said.

“It's been a week that I haven't found anything in the sea,” said Diouf, sitting in a house he shares with multiple family members and some animals. “I do everything in my power, but life is very difficult for us."

That has not always been the case. When he was younger, his family bought three or four sheep for every Tabaski, he recalled, and shared a meal of mutton, potatoes and onions with neighbors in need.

Fishing villages such as Thiaroye-sur-Mer, scattered around Senegal’s picturesque coastline, have been an important economic engine for the country. Fishing makes up three percent of the national GDP, and provides around 50,000 direct and 500,000 indirect jobs, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Fishermen have been hit in recent years by climate change and uneven battle with industrial trawlers from China, Russia and Europe who are now operating in Senegalese waters.

Omar Mbeye, a fisherman in his fifties, said that he started fishing when he was 11 years old and lived through the changes.

“It was good then,” he said, sitting at Thiaroye's beachfront, surrounded by empty pirogues and fishnets. "But right now the sea is ruined. You lose more than you gain. You put your money into it, you go to sea and come back with nothing.”

As the fish stocks have depleted, living costs — including water, fuel and electricity prices — have hit the roof. For 90% of Senegalese in informal jobs, this has made it difficult to get by.

These days, fishing communities struggle to make ends meet, with many choosing to use pirogues, their wooden fishing boats, to try to reach Europe through a route so dangerous that it's been dubbed “Barcelona or die."

In Thiaroye-sur-Mer, everyone knows someone who lost a loved one to the sea. Diouf said that just two months ago, he dragged his oldest daughter out of a pirogue while she was about to embark on a journey to Europe in the middle of the night. But he would go himself if he could afford it, Diouf added.

For Senegalese households, Tabaski usually means a tenfold increase in expenses, Momar Ndao, the president of Senegal's Association of Consumers, told The Associated Press.

But this year, Ndao said, “the number of people that can afford to celebrate Tabaski in the traditional way is lower.” The prices are high, he said, and “with the change of regime, there is a wait-and-see attitude at the economic level."

Senegal's new government, led by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was sworn in earlier this year on a pledge to improve the living standards of ordinary Senegalese. Diouf and his fellow fishermen overwhelmingly voted for Faye, whose name is printed on election posters and hand-painted on the streets of Thiaroye-sur-Mer.

On Thursday, three days before Tabaski, the authorities announced they would lower the prices of basic goods. However, it remained unclear when these changes would be implemented.

Among other electoral promises, the ruling party also committed to reviewing fishing permits for foreign companies to help local fishermen. But so far, nothing has changed, the fishermen said.

“These big fishing boats come and take all the fish, they vacuum them up," said Ababacar Diop, 33, another fisherman. “Others come with big nets that take away all the rocks where the fish live.”

Yet, residents of Thiaroye-sur-Mer are prepared to give the new government some time.

“We have hope," said Diouf. “We have to let them get settled. We were all behind them, so now we will let them work.”

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Associated Press writers Ndeye Sene Mbengue, Mark Banchereau and Babacar Dione contributed from Dakar, Senegal.

Ibrahima Diouf poses for a photo with two sheep in Thiaroye Sur Mer, Senegal, Friday, June 14, 2024 on the beach next to his home. The upcoming holiday of Eid al-Adha should have been a joyful occasion for millions of Muslims in Senegal. But skyrocketing prices, record unemployment and growing inequalities have turned Tabaski — as the holiday is locally known — into a source of anguish for many in this West African nation. Diouf, a 48-year-old fisherman, said he could not eat or sleep properly because he was so worried about the financial burden of the holiday. (AP Photo/Stefan Kleinowitz)