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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that women will choose between “chaos” and “a stable democracy” in the 2024 presidential election.

Anna Coren speaks to CNN European Affairs Commentator Dominic Thomas about how antisemitism in France could affect the upcoming Parliamentary elections.

Former US President Donald Trump told a group of evangelicals they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point, “You got to get out and vote." Trump also endorsed displaying the Ten Commandments in schools and elsewhere while speaking to a group of politically influential evangelical Christians in Washington on Saturday.

STORY: A Spanish-language billboard in Miami, Florida featuring Donald Trump and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has generated significant debate in the lead up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election… The ad, which translates in English to “No to dictators, no to Trump" was installed by Mad Dog PAC, and is part of a campaign targeting battleground states to raise concerns about a potential dictatorship. “I thought, what better place to try to provoke a little conversation than Miami?” Claude Taylor, the chair of Mad Dog PAC, says the aim of the billboard is to alert the Cuban-American community to the risks of authoritarianism, drawing comparisons to 1959 Cuba. “I firmly believe that Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. And so if I'm speaking to a Cuban-American audience, it seems pretty obvious to me to make the comparison. I think it's an apt comparison. [FLASH] I'm opposed to dictatorships. I don't like them, I like democracy. And one of the tenants of democracy is free expression.” Local Trump supporters have criticized the billboard and rejected the comparison. JOHN: “You know, whatever you do to Trump backfires. Now he's getting free publicity and it's going to the Cuban community...” MAURICIO ECHEVERRY: "Oh, no, that, that. You can't compare Fidel Castro to Trump because it's not the same thing. Trump is not a communist. Well, I voted for Trump. I'm going to vote for him again." The billboard highlights the intense discussion expected in the upcoming CNN debate in Atlanta, as Trump and current President Joe Biden are neck and neck in national opinion polls, with a considerable slice of the electorate still undecided five months before the Nov. 5 vote.

On Thursday, President Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in person for the first time since 2020. Yahoo News presents a guide to the first presidential debate of the 2024 election — and the unusual way it came about.

Rep. Bob Good (R) declared Thursday that he will pursue a recount and a “full investigation” in his Virginia House election. Good, the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, is facing a close election against his primary challenger, state Sen. John McGuire. McGuire declared victory Tuesday night, though the race had not been called. Virginia observes Juneteenth, and the remaining ballots were not counted Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.

White House officials are aggressively pushing back against a wave of “cheap fake” videos that purportedly show President Biden being confused or meandering and question his mental and physical fitness ahead of the election.

The Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone means the drug’s future is now firmly tied to the 2024 presidential election. The Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision Thursday upheld a provision in then-President Trump’s sweeping 2017 tax bill while sidestepping a far-reaching question about Congress’s broader taxing authority. Justice Neil Gorsuch chastised the Supreme Court majority for ruling against a drug trafficking defendant Thursday, arguing the decision gives the government too much prosecutorial power.

STORY: The Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged on Thursday (June 19). It stays at a 16-year high of 5.25% ahead of an election on July 4. But some policymakers said their decision not to cut was now "finely balanced." The central bank's main committee voted 7-2 to keep rates on hold. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said it was "good news" the latest data had shown inflation was back at its 2% target. But he reiterated it was too soon to cut rates as the bank needed to make sure inflation will stay low. The Bank said indicators of inflation persistence - mainly wage growth and services inflation - had moderated since its May meeting, but remained high. Big services price inflation and rapid wage growth also meant it was too soon to cut rates for some on the Bank's voting Committee. Markets have heavily priced in a first quarter-point cut by September's meeting. Any cut is likely to be too late for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Hit Conservative Party is around 20 points behind the opposition Labour Party in the pre-election polls. Sunak has sought credit for the fall in inflation since he took office in October two years ago, when inflation was at a 41-year high of 11.1%. But Labour blames high mortgage rates on economic mismanagement by the Conservatives' previous leader, Liz Truss. The central bank said the upcoming election had no impact on its decision.

CNN’s Rosemary Church talks to AAPI Data executive director Karthick Ramakrishnan about why the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) vote could play a critical role in November’s election.

White House officials are aggressively pushing back against a wave of “cheap fake” videos that purportedly show President Biden being confused or meandering, and which question his mental and physical fitness ahead of the election.

STORY: OFF-CAMERA VOICE: “Can you tell them apart? Which one’s which?” ENDACOTT: “The better-looking one is AI!” Businessman Steve Endacott is on a mission to give the world its first AI lawmaker. :: Brighton, England This is “AI Steve,” an AI-generated avatar of Endacott. When voters head to the polls in Britain’s national election, Endacott’s name will be on the ballot… Though it’s AI Steve that’s the face of his campaign. Endacott says AI Steve would be an improvement from the current political climate. :: Steve Endacott, Candidate “I think Britain will be a better place. Having politicians controlled and influence and in direct contact with all their voters would mean we have better policies and policies for the people, by the people. That is exactly our aim.” But are Brits ready to vote for AI Steve? On Brighton Pier, Endacott is AI Steve's best canvasser. ENDACOTT: "Have you ever spoken to an AI MP before?" His company Neural Voice powers his AI alter ego. Holding a mobile phone out, he’s encouraging residents to give the technology a try. ENDACOTT: “What we’re doing is creating an MP who can be talked to 24/7, 365 days a year…” The avatar engages in real-time with locals on topics ranging from LGBTQ rights and housing to bin collection and immigration. It then puts forth policy ideas before asking them for their suggestions. AI STEVE: “My policies are shaped by the views of constituents like you.” ENDACOTT: “It discusses policies with you, and then it feeds back to me, a human being, to say this is what policies people want, and when I go to parliament, I have to vote – every single time – what my constituents say.” On the security front, Endacott said the policies formulated by AI Steve would be put forward to a group of 500 validators for vetting. “So if we had some rogue voices in there, one rogue voice, hopefully 99 real voice will weigh it out. And even when a policy is created, it's got to get past the validators. Nobody can hack the validators.” When asked about AI Steve, the Electoral Commission stated that the MP would be the elected candidate, not "any AI-generated application they choose to use." In the run-up to, and since Brexit, public trust and confidence in the government have been at record lows in Britain. The governing Conservatives are potentially facing an “electoral extinction." It was the frustration with so-called “standard politics” that Endacott said led him to run as an independent. ENDACOTT: “We want democracy reformed, we want people connected to their MPs because the current system is broken and not working." But despite his legwork - voters might not be convinced yet. :: Andy Clawson, Brighton resident “I think as a concept it's really interesting. It's incorporating AI, which is apparently the future, but, also AI and politicians I guess have the one thing in common, is they can't be trusted either one of them. ”

President Joe Biden has ordered an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. (AP video by Jae Hong and Melissa Perez Winder)

STORY: “Folks, I'm not interested in playing politics at the border or immigration. I'm interested in fixing it.” President Joe Biden announced one of the biggest efforts in recent history to legalize undocumented immigrants on Tuesday, offering a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. illegally who are married to U.S. citizens. It’s an election-year move that contrasts sharply with Biden’s Republican rival Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations. “The steps I'm taking today are overwhelmingly supported by the American people, no matter what the other team says. In fact, polls show over 70% of Americans support this effort to keep families together. [FLASH] And the reason is simple, it embraces the American principle that we should keep families together.” According to the White House and Department of Homeland Security, the program will open to an estimated 500,000 spouses who have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years. Also eligible will be some 50,000 children under the age of 21 with a U.S.-citizen parent. Those who are considered public security threats or who have disqualifying criminal history would not be eligible. “I refuse to believe that to secure our border, we have to walk away from being in America.” Biden, a Democrat seeking a second term in November's presidential election, took office vowing to reverse Trump's restrictive immigration policies. But faced with record levels of migrant arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border, Biden has toughened his approach in recent months, barring most migrants crossing the border from requesting asylum. Biden's planned legalization program for spouses of U.S. citizens could reinforce his campaign message that he supports a more humane immigration system. The program will allow the spouses and children to apply for permanent residence without leaving the U.S., removing a potentially lengthy process and family separation. Senior Biden administration officials said that the implementation will roll out in the coming months.