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Former President Donald Trump speaks with the media at the end of the day's proceedings in his trial at Manhattan criminal court , Friday, April 26, 2024, in New York. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP)

Prosecutors at Donald Trump’s hush money trial zero in on the details

Donald Trump’s hush money case resumes Tuesday with testimony from Gary Farro. He’s a banker who helped Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen open accounts.

Jayden D'Onofrio passes out Plan B, condoms and rolling papers to educate young voters at Florida Atlantic University on Thursday, April 11 in Boca Raton, Fla. Abortion and marijuana will be on Florida's November ballot, and these issues are critical issues for young voters. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Florida Democrats hope abortion and marijuana questions draw young voters despite low enthusiasm

This March 2024 photo provided by The Hechinger Report shows Derrika Richard as she walks her three youngest children to their child care classrooms at Clara's Little Lambs in New Orleans. (Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report via AP)

These cities raised taxes — for child care. Parents say the free day care ‘changed my life’

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second right, walk to a Joint Ministerial Meeting of the GCC-U.S. Strategic Partnership to discuss the humanitarian crises faced in Gaza, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday April 29, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

Blinken says Israel still must do more to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza

FILE - This combination of photos shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking on July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Va., left, and former President Donald Trump speaking in Bedminster, N.J., June 13, 2023. Trump met privately with DeSantis over the weekend, according to two people familiar with the discussion, marking a detente between the former rivals after a brutal primary contest marked by insults and bruised egos. (AP Photo, File)

Trump and DeSantis meet to make peace and discuss fundraising for the former president’s campaign

Abortion, marijuana are critical issues to bring out voters for the 2024 elections

Abortion and marijuana will be on Florida’s November ballot, and these issues are critical issues for young voters. (AP Video/Cody Jackson)

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Blinken on Chinese support for Russia, war in Ukraine

The last Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean War is given one of Congress’ highest honors

President Joe Biden attends the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

President Joe Biden attends the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Have you heard the one about Trump? Biden tries humor on the campaign trail

President Joe Biden is out to win votes by scoring laughs at the expense of Donald Trump. Biden uses mockery with the goal of getting under Trump’s skin and reminding the country of Trump’s blunders.

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This congresswoman was born and raised in Ukraine. She just voted against aid for her homeland

South Dakota governor, a potential Trump running mate, writes in new book about killing her dog

FILE - President Jimmy Carter, left, and Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., greet Biden supporters at a reception in Wilmington, Del., Feb. 20, 1978. Former President Donald Trump is running against President Biden, but Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, keeps bringing up former President Carter. Trump likes to cite the 99-year-old former president as a measuring stick to belittle Biden. (AP Photo)

Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden. But he keeps bringing up another Democrat: Jimmy Carter

White House

FILE - Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during a hearing on April 20, 2023, in Washington. Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party's approach to immigration. The son of Mexican immigrants and the first Latino to represent his state in the Senate, he has emerged as a persistent force at a time when Democrats are increasingly focused on border security and the country's posture toward immigrants is uncertain. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants

Congress

FILE - 155 mm M795 artillery projectiles are stacked during manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2023. The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days if Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That's because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already hold the ammunition and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs. The House approved $61 billion in funding for the war-torn country Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

A look at what’s in the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by Congress

Supreme Court

FILE - The Supreme Court of the United States is seen in Washington, March 26, 2024. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal and political consequences: whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

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President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, before departing on a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador discuss migration in latest call

President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke on Sunday about cooperating on migration policy.

Jean Pucket, seated in foreground center, wife of retired Army Col. Ralph Puckett Jr., the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient for acts performed during the Korean War, sits with her children, Martha Puckett, left, and Thomas Puckett, right, during a ceremony where Puckett Jr.'s remains lie in honor in the Rotunda at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 29, 2024. Puckett Jr. died on April 8 at his home in Columbus, Ga., at the age of 97. (Shawn Thew, Pool Photo via AP)

Congress honors deceased Korean War hero with lying in honor ceremony

Congress has given one of its highest final tributes, a lying in honor ceremony at the Capitol, to Medal of Honor Recipient Ralph Puckett Jr.

Riverton, Utah, Mayor Trent Staggs, a U.S. Senate candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, addresses delegates at the Utah Republican Party Convention, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Utah GOP picks Trump-backed mayor as nominee to replace Sen. Mitt Romney, but primary foes await

The Utah Republican Party has selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, hugs Michaelah Montgomery, a local conservative activist, as he visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them

Donald Trump has promised big plans for recruiting voters in Black, Latino and Asian communities. But five months before the first general election votes are cast, the former president’s campaign has little apparent organization to show for those ambitions.

FILE - Daniel Rodimer leaves court after his initial appearance on murder charges at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Rodimer, a retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas, has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man who suffered a head injury during a Halloween Party at a Las Vegas Strip hotel. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Retired pro wrestler, failed congressional candidate indicted in Vegas murder case

A retired professional wrestler who failed in bids for Congress from Nevada and Texas has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man during a Halloween Party last year at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.

Mississippi House Education Committee vice chairman Rep. Kent McCarty, R-Hattiesburg, right, reviews notes on his smartphone as he answers a question from Rep. Omeria Scott, D-Laurel, following the House passing the Mississippi Student Funding Formula, Friday, April 26, 2024, at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. The Mississippi Student Funding Formula is a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to educate. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi lawmakers consider new school funding formula

Mississippi is on track to change the way it pays for public schools with a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to educate.

FILE - U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., right, speaks during a House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 18, 2022. The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of former Illinois Congressman Davis and its treasurer $43,475 for failing to refund excess contributions in a timely manner. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

FEC fines ex-Congressman Rodney Davis $43,475 for campaign finance violations

The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of former Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis and its treasurer $43,475 for failing to refund excess contributions in a timely manner.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown San Francisco garage, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

They say don’t leave valuables in parked cars in San Francisco. Rep. Adam Schiff didn’t listen

San Francisco has an unwelcome reputation for car burglaries and visitors are warned not to leave valuables in their vehicles. U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff didn’t listen.

FILE - Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., speaks with the media late Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Meijer withdrew his name from the U.S. Senate race on Friday, April 26, 2024, ending a longshot bid to become the Republican nominee and return to Congress after being ousted by voters for supporting an effort to impeach then-President Donald Trump. (Katy Batdorff/Detroit News via AP, File)

Former Rep. Peter Meijer ends his longshot bid for the GOP nomination in Michigan’s Senate race

Former Rep. Peter Meijer has withdrawn his name from a U.S. Senate race in Michigan. Meijer was seen as a longshot to win the Republican Party’s nomination after voting to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2021.

Military veteran charged with attempting to make ricin to remain jailed

A judge has ordered a Marine Corps veteran and former militia member to remain jailed pending trial on charges he attempted to make ricin, a biological toxin ricin.

Mourners line up outside the historic Old Capitol building in Tallahassee, Fla., on Friday morning, April 26, 2024, for a memorial service for former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, who died April 16. Graham, a Democrat, also served as Florida governor before his election to the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)

Florida’s Bob Graham remembered as a governor, senator of the people

Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham has been remembered by Republicans and Democrats alike as a man whose love for the state and people transcended politics.

Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, right, discusses the cost of Medicaid expansion at a public legislative conference committee meeting held at the State Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi legislative leaders swap proposals on possible Medicaid expansion

Mississippi Senate leaders are saying for the first time that they are willing to expand Medicaid to the full level allowed under a federal law signed 14 years ago by then-President Barack Obama.

FILE - Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, June 20, 2023. A judge has recommended that conservative attorney Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Charges revealed against a former Trump aide and 4 lawyers in Arizona fake electors case

Authorities have revealed the conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges that were filed against an ex-aide of former President Donald Trump and four attorneys in Arizona’s fake elector case.

FILE – Republican Assemblymember Vince Fong speaks on the floor of the California Assembly on Thursday, April 11, 2024. A bill Fong wrote to ban the use of nondisclosure agreements when negotiating legislation failed to pass a legislative committee on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

A California bill aiming to ban confidentiality agreements when negotiating legislation fails

A bill to ban the use of confidentiality agreements when negotiating potential laws in California has failed to pass.

FILE- Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee presides over a hearing, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. DeKalb Superior Court Judge Stacey Hydrick on Thursday, APril 25, 2024, upheld the disqualification of Tiffani Johnson, a candidate who had had planned to run against McAfee. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)

Judge upholds disqualification of challenger to judge in Trump’s Georgia election interference case

A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case.

FILE — A sign welcomes motorists to New York, on the border with Connecticut, near Rye Brook, N.Y., March 29, 2020. A federal appeals court has ruled, Friday, April 26, 2024, that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York to require internet providers to charge low-income residents $15 for broadband

A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents.

Isaac Johnson, who just completed an internship with Topeka's public schools and is finishing work on a social work degree, talks to reporters during a news conference, Thursday, April 26, 2024, in front of a mural at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Johnson, who is transgender, worries about the effects of a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, which also would bar state employees from promoting social transitioning for youth. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

A ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care also would bar advocacy for kids’ social transitions

A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children’s social transitioning.

FILE- Mayor Patrick Rosenello stands next to a destroyed section of sand dune in North Wildwood N.J., Jan. 22, 2024.. on April 25, 2024, North Wildwood and the state of New Jersey announced an agreement for an emergency beach replenishment project there to protect the city until a full-blown beach fill can be done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that may still be two years away. Winter storms punched a hole through what is left of the city's eroded dune system, leaving it more vulnerable than ever to destructive flooding. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Help is coming for a Jersey Shore town that’s losing the man-vs-nature battle on its eroded beaches

Help is finally on the way for the most critically eroded part of the Jersey Shore. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas while waiting — in vain — for the same sort of replenishment proj

FILE - The Internal Revenue Service 1040 tax form for 2022 is seen on April 17, 2023. The IRS said Friday, April 26, 2024, more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program. It says the program's users claimed more than $90 million in refunds, saving roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have spent with commercial tax preparation companies. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

140,000 people did their taxes with the free IRS direct file pilot. But program’s future is unclear

The IRS says more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program.

FILE - R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case May 8, 2019, in Chicago. A federal appeals court on Friday, April 26, 2024, upheld R&B singer R. Kelly’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in his Chicago case. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly ‘s challenge of 20-year sentence

A federal appeals court says singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago.

FILE - Gov. Janet Mills attends an event, March 11, 2022, in Augusta, Maine. On Friday, April 26, 2024, Mills signed into law a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding background checks for private sales of weapons, bolstering the state's “yellow flag” law, criminalizing the transfer of guns to prohibited people and expanding mental health crisis care. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine governor signs off on new gun laws, mental health supports in wake of Lewiston shootings

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed off on a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding background checks for private sales of weapons, bolstering the state’s “yellow flag” law, criminalizing the transfer of guns to pr

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Business, Government and Society Forum at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Tech CEOs Altman, Nadella, Pichai and others join government AI safety board led by DHS’ Mayorkas

The CEOs of leading U.S. technology companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation’s critical services from “AI-related disruptions.”

A clearance sign is displayed at a retail clothing store in Downers Grove, Ill., Monday, April 1, 2024. On Friday, April 26, 2024, the Commerce Department issues its March report on consumer spending. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month

A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed’s reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid.

FILE - Pages from the Shein website, left, and from the Temu site, right, are shown in this photo, in New York, Friday, June 23, 2023. Online fast-fashion retailer Shein must face the European Union's strictest level of digital regulations, the bloc said on Friday, April 26, 2024 as it added the company to its list of big platforms that need extra scrutiny. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Online retailer Shein is latest to face strict European Union digital regulations

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein must face the European Union’s strictest level of digital regulations.

FILE - Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., speaks during a House Committee on Oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 8, 2022. House Republicans' majority could tighten by another vote after Tuesday's special congressional election in Buffalo – at least, temporarily. Voters are choosing a replacement for Higgins, a longtime House member who cited the "slow and frustrating" pace of Congress before resigning in February. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York’s special congressional election

New York voters are choosing a replacement for Democrat Brian Higgins in a congressional district where Democrats have a long record of success.

FILE - Republican Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson walks on to the stage before announcing that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney, during a rally on Sept. 27, 2023, in Draper, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah Republicans to select nominee for Mitt Romney’s open US Senate seat

The Utah Republican Party is set to select a nominee in the race to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate at its annual convention.

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions

Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur investors who have collectively made tens of millions over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business – Truth Social – will keep dropping despite wild swings tha

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with construction workers at the construction site of the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in midtown Manhattan, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Trading Trump: Truth Social’s first month of trading has sent investors on a ride

With Donald Trump facing dozens of federal criminal charges and hundreds of millions in legal expenses, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. went public on the Nasdaq exchange March 26.

This image released in the final report by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Dec. 22, 2022, shows a graphic that illustrates the difference between real and fake Presidential Elector Ballots from Arizona. An Arizona grand jury's indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors claiming Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election. (House Select Committee via AP)

Charges against Trump’s 2020 ‘fake electors’ are expected to deter a repeat this year

An Arizona grand jury’s indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors falsely claiming former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Manhattan criminal court during the continuation of his trial on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s first witness in hush money trial

Donald Trump’s defense team in his hush money case is seeking to undermine the testimony of the prosecution’s first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.

House approves bill to criminalize organ retention without permission

Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill making it a crime for medical examiners to retain a deceased person’s organs without family permission.