New Zealand PM votes early in general election

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has voted in the nation’s general election, two weeks before polls officially close. Ardern cast her vote in her Auckland district Oct. 3 after visiting a market in the heavily Polynesian south-Auckland suburb of Otara, where she was thronged by supporters. Recent polls show a more comfortable result this year, with the Labour Party leading the National Party, led by 61-year-old conservative Judith Collins, by a