WASHINGTON (AP) — As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for even some of the most powerful positions in U.S. government.

2. Biden's White House invitation to Trump continues a tradition Trump shunned in 2020 - Friday, November 8, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of Democratic President Joe Biden, who had hoped to defeat his Republican predecessor a second time and reside there for four more years.

3. Trump and Harris will both visit the Milwaukee area in a final push to win Wisconsin - Friday, November 1, 2024

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will host dueling rallies within seven miles of one another on Friday night in the Milwaukee area as part of a final push for votes in swing-state Wisconsin's largest county.

4. A century after Native Americans got the right to vote, they could put Trump or Harris over the top - Friday, October 25, 2024

RED SPRINGS, N.C. (AP) — Native American communities were decisive voting blocs in key states in 2020, and with the 2024 race remaining stubbornly close both campaigns have tried to mobilize Native voters in the final weeks of the presidential election.

5. A decade of racial justice activism transformed politics but landmark reforms remain elusive - Friday, October 25, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One picture is of Michael Brown.

6. Obama, Springsteen boost Harris as she warns of 'brutally serious' consequences if Trump wins - Friday, October 25, 2024

CLARKSTON, Ga. (AP) — Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama lent their star power to Kamala Harris' quest for the presidency on Thursday, as the vice president implored Georgia voters to consider the "brutally serious" consequences if Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House.

7. Biden heads to Indian Country as Harris steps up appeal to Native American voters - Friday, October 25, 2024

PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden is at last making his way to Indian Country, paying a long-promised visit to a reservation in Arizona that Democrats hope could provide a boost to Vice President Kamala Harris' turnout effort in a key battleground state.

8. Harris leaning on some of the biggest names in Democratic politics to close out campaign - Friday, October 25, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is enlisting some of her most high-profile surrogates in the closing days of the campaign, hoping those names will help energize her supporters to vote early in the 2024 election.

9. Dread replaces joy in deeply divided political climate - Friday, October 25, 2024

Remember when presidential elections used to be relatively civil affairs? When you felt like the country was still going to be in responsible, adult hands, no matter who won?

Not lately. Not in a while.

10. Trump makes more debunked claims about FEMA as he surveys storm damage in North Carolina - Friday, October 18, 2024

SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has been stymied by armed harassment and a deluge of misinformation, but he said he was not concerned that the aftermath of Hurricane Helene would affect election results in the battleground state.

11. Trump delivers a pointed and at times bitter speech at Al Smith charity dinner - Friday, October 18, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump laced into Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats on Thursday in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York.

12. Trump to headline Al Smith charity dinner. Harris will appear in a recorded video. - Friday, October 18, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will trade the rally stage for comedy Thursday night as he headlines the annual Al Smith charity dinner, where he was jeered while delivering an especially pointed speech eight years ago.

13. Biden eulogizes Ethel Kennedy as 'hero' who put her own stamp on country - Friday, October 18, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden eulogized the late Ethel Kennedy in deeply personal terms at a memorial service Wednesday, hailing the wife of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as "a hero in her own right, full of character, full of integrity and empathy" who helped him through one of the darkest periods of his life.

14. Hundreds of troops kicked out under 'don't ask, don't tell' get upgraded to honorable discharges - Friday, October 11, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced Tuesday that more than 800 military personnel have seen their service records upgraded to honorable discharges after previously being kicked out of the military under its former "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

15. Former President Bill Clinton travels to Georgia to rally rural Black voters to the polls - Friday, October 11, 2024

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton urged churchgoers in Albany, Georgia, on Sunday to rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign for the office he once held.

16. Harris faces new urgency to explain how her potential presidency would be different from Biden's - Friday, October 11, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — With less than four weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is facing new urgency to define how her potential presidency would be different from that of President Joe Biden.

17. Trump-Putin ties are back in the spotlight after new book describes calls - Friday, October 11, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new book's assertion that former President Donald Trump may have had as many as seven private phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House has refocused attention on their politically fraught relationship and on Trump's sustained dialogue with world leaders as he seeks a return to power.

18. Trump's small-dollar donor fundraising is beset by confusion and fatigue - Friday, October 11, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's contributions from small-dollar donors have plummeted since his last White House campaign, presenting the former president with a financial challenge as he tries to keep pace with the Democrats' fundraising machine.

19. The Clintons pitch philanthropic commitments as pro-democracy work at their 2024 foundation meeting - Friday, September 20, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — With the backdrop of elections worldwide that highlight strains on democracy, former President Bill Clinton urged attendees of his foundation's annual meeting to meet their communities' needs through collective action.

20. Prince Harry says harms of social media have created an 'epidemic' for today's youth - Friday, September 20, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry said today's youth is in the midst of an "epidemic" of anxiety, depression and social isolation due to negative experiences online, as he brought his campaign to help children and their parents navigate cyberspace to this week's Clinton Global Initiative.

21. Jill Biden reveals $500 million plan that focuses on women's health at Clinton Global Initiative - Friday, September 20, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Jill Biden on Monday unveiled a new set of actions to address health inequities faced by women in the United States, plans that include spending at least $500 million annually on women's health research.

22. Threats, assassination attempts come with the office Trump once held, is seeking again - Friday, September 20, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, following an apparent assassination attempt on him on Sunday, claimed that overheated rhetoric from Democrats was responsible for him being under threat.

23. Biden calls the landmark Violence Against Women Act his proudest legislative achievement - Friday, September 13, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday joined scores of advocates and survivors of domestic abuse to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, a law he wrote and championed as a U.S. senator because he wanted to "change the culture of America" around this touchy issue.

24. Debate opened voters' eyes in suburban Philadelphia with Harris getting a closer look - Friday, September 13, 2024

BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — The presidential debate this week was the final affront to Rosie Torres' lifelong Republicanism. She said her allegiance to Donald Trump, already strained by his stand on abortion, snapped in the former president's "eye opener" encounter with Kamala Harris.

25. Tennessee senator and ambassador to China Jim Sasser has died - Friday, September 6, 2024

NASHVILLE (AP) — Jim Sasser, who served 18 years in the U.S. Senate and six years as ambassador to China, has died. He was 87.

Gray Sasser, his son, said his father died Tuesday evening at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., of an apparent heart attack.

26. FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made during Trump and Harris' debate - Friday, September 6, 2024

In their first and perhaps only debate, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris described the state of the country in distinctly different ways. As the two traded jabs, some old false and misleading claims emerged along with some new ones.

27. Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly - Friday, September 6, 2024

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — One month after a judge declared Google's search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.

28. What the Trump-Clinton debate might tell us about Tuesday's match with Harris - Friday, September 6, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — He claimed she would raise taxes and accused her of supporting open border policies that allowed an influx of migrants into the country. He blamed her for a litany of the current administration's failures and cast her potential presidency as four more years of the same.

29. Former 2016 Trump campaign adviser is charged over his work for sanctioned Russian TV - Friday, September 6, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds.

30. Trump says he'd create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk - Friday, September 6, 2024

PHOENIX (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he would create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government, an idea suggested by billionaire Elon Musk, who would lead it.

31. Can Harris prosecute the political case against Trump? Key questions ahead of their debate - Friday, September 6, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first — and perhaps, last — time on Tuesday night as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics.

32. Kamala Harris' election would defy history. Just 1 sitting VP has been elected president since 1836 - Friday, August 23, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others in her position who have tried the same.

Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House. Among those who tried and failed were Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Al Gore in 2000. All three lost in narrow elections shaped by issues ranging from war and scandal to crime and the subtleties of televised debates. But two other factors proved crucial for each vice president: whether the incumbent president was well-liked and whether the president and vice president enjoyed a productive relationship.

33. Supreme Court rejects GOP push to block 41K Arizona voters, but partly OKs proof of citizenship law - Friday, August 23, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Republican push that could have blocked more than 41,000 Arizona voters from casting ballots for president in the state that Democratic President Joe Biden won by less than 11,000 votes four years ago.

34. Harris' running mate Tim Walz talks of 'bringing the joy' in his national introduction at DNC - Friday, August 23, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted his party's nomination for vice president Wednesday night, using his Democratic National Convention address to thank the packed arena for "bringing the joy" to an election transformed by the elevation of his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

35. Walz's night, Bill Clinton's dig at Trump, influencers flexing clout. DNC Day 3 takeaways - Friday, August 23, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention's third night showcased a familiar former president, Bill Clinton, and introduced more Americans to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, little known outside his state until Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate.

36. What to watch on the Democratic National Convention's third day in Chicago - Friday, August 16, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention heads into its third day on Wednesday.

After receiving the blessing of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, the focus on the second to last day of the DNC shifts to Kamala Harris' vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The former school teacher and football coach is expected to accept the Democratic nomination as the party makes the case that Americans' fundamental freedoms are at risk if Donald Trump returns to the White House.

37. Tim Walz and Bill Clinton will speak at the Democratic National Convention's third day - Friday, August 16, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton are headlining the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party's choreographed rollout of a new candidate, Kamala Harris, and her pitch to voters.

38. What do marijuana, the death penalty and fracking have in common? Harris shifted positions on them - Friday, August 16, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — As California's attorney general, Kamala Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite her past crusade against it.

As a new senator, she proposed to abolish cash bail — a reversal from when she chided San Francisco judges for making it "cheaper" to commit crimes by setting bail amounts too low.

39. Senior economics aide Gene Sperling is leaving the White House to work on the Harris campaign - Friday, August 2, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House senior adviser Gene Sperling is leaving his administration position to work with Vice President Kamala Harris' election campaign as the Democrats step up efforts to challenge Donald Trump on policy issues in November's election.

40. A speaking invitation to Trump splits the most prominent American group for Black journalists - Friday, July 26, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's invitation to address the National Association of Black Journalists has sparked an intense debate within the organization and a flurry of arguments online.

Journalism organizations for people of color traditionally invite presidential candidates to address their summer gatherings during election years. But Trump's acceptance of NABJ's invitation has led at least one high-profile group member to step down as a convention co-chair and others to argue their convention may become a platform for Trump to make false claims or be seen as winning NABJ's endorsement.

41. Democratic convention planners are working to pull off a dramatic Biden-Harris role reversal - Friday, July 26, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — After nearly a near year of careful planning, organizers of the Democratic National Convention are in a mad dash to accommodate a new nominee, a re-crafted program and a highly compressed deadline to pull everything off as though this was the plan all along.

42. Biden will make a case for his legacy - and for Harris to continue it - in his Oval Office address - Friday, July 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even though President Joe Biden won't be on the ballot i n November, voters still will be weighing his legacy.

As Vice President Kamala Harris moves to take his place as the Democratic standard-bearer, Biden's accomplishments remain very much at risk should Republican Donald Trump prevail.

43. Kamala Harris faces a major test as she looks for a running mate for her White House run - Friday, July 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on four potential candidates as she races to choose a running mate for her fledgling campaign, fast-tracking a process that usually takes months but must be finalized in only a few weeks.

44. Biden's legacy: Far-reaching accomplishments that didn't translate into political support - Friday, July 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting in the Oval Office behind the iconic Resolute desk in 2022, an animated President Joe Biden described the challenge of leading a psychologically traumatized nation.

The United States had endured a life-altering pandemic. There was a jarring burst of inflation and now global conflict with Russia invading Ukraine, as well as the persistent threat to democracy he felt Donald Trump posed.

45. Obama's dilemma: Balancing Democrats' worry about Biden and maintaining influence with president - Friday, July 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has a delicate balance to strike: how to weigh the mounting opposition to President Joe Biden continuing his campaign with his loyalty to his former running mate.

46. A look at claims made at the Republican National Convention as Trump accepts nomination - Friday, July 19, 2024

As former President Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday he laid out his vision for running the country. He painted a dire picture of the state of the U.S. and outlined a range of actions he planned to take. But his comments were marked with a myriad of false and misleading information that distorted the facts around immigration, the U.S. economy and his previous accomplishments.

47. Judge's order dismissing Trump classified docs case won't be final word as long court fight awaits - Friday, July 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge's stunning decision to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump brought an abrupt halt to what experts have considered the strongest and most straightforward of the prosecutions of the former president. But it's hardly the final word.

48. House Democrats want to stop early DNC effort to nominate Biden before party convention in August - Friday, July 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A contingent of House Democrats is wary of swiftly nominating President Joe Biden as the party's pick for reelection, circulating a letter Tuesday raising "serious concerns" about plans for a virtual roll call as soon as July 21, ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August.

49. Fight with Kash: Trump loyalist mythologizes former president while building his own brand - Friday, July 5, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kash Patel was recruiting foot soldiers. It was a Friday morning in February at one of America's biggest conservative conventions, and Donald Trump's trusted lieutenant was on center stage, pleading with the former president's supporters to help the now presumptive Republican nominee reclaim the White House.

50. The Republicans who want to be Trump's VP were once harsh critics with key policy differences - Friday, June 28, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's hard to refer to someone as "Hitler" and end up in their good graces, let alone potentially become the person they choose to help lead the country.

But Ohio Sen. JD Vance's shifting position on Donald Trump over the years from onetime critic of the former president to staunch ally is a metamorphosis shared by many of Trump's potential running mates.

51. FACT FOCUS: Here's a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump's first debate - Friday, June 28, 2024

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election.

Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people who were ushered in by police and misstated the strength of the economy during his administration.

52. Laugh (or cringe) at these history-making moments from presidential debates - Friday, June 21, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be a well-rehearsed zinger or an offhand, too-loud sigh.

Notable moments from past presidential debates demonstrate how the candidates' words and body language can make them look especially relatable or hopelessly out-of-touch. They also can showcase candidates at the top of their policy game or suggest they're out to sea.

53. How memorable debate moments are made: On the fly, rehearsed — and sometimes without a word uttered - Friday, June 21, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be a well-rehearsed zinger or an offhand, too-loud sigh.

Notable moments from past presidential debates demonstrate how the candidates' words and body language can make them look especially relatable or hopelessly out-of-touch. They also can showcase candidates at the top of their policy game or suggest they're out to sea.

54. The Supreme Court upholds a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business interests - Friday, June 21, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests, declining their invitation to weigh in on a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth.

55. Biden's reelection campaign raises $40M in five days including $8M with Bill Clinton - Friday, June 14, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is again joining forces with former President Bill Clinton to rake in campaign cash, with a joint fundraiser with the two men Tuesday set to raise $8 million — part of a roughly $40 million total that Biden's reelection campaign has pulled in the last five days.

56. Ozy Media went from buzzy to belly-up. Its founder, Carlos Watson, is now on trial - Friday, June 14, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly a decade, Ozy Media projected an image of new-media success.

The company boasted big-name interviews, an Emmy-winning TV show, a buzzy music and ideas festival and impressive numbers to show prospective investors — until it imploded in 2021 amid doubts about its audience size, viability and basic integrity.

57. A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge - Friday, June 7, 2024

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute unconstitutional.

58. Donald Trump tells a group that calls for banning all abortions to stand up for 'innocent life' - Friday, June 7, 2024

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Donald Trump on Monday urged a staunchly anti-abortion Christian group to stand up for "innocent life," ambiguously revisiting an issue that Democrats want to make a focus of this year's presidential election.

59. VU poll: Most TN voters now pro-choice, gender gap findings on key issues - Friday, May 17, 2024

Slightly more than half of the state’s voters support a woman’s right to an abortion, the semiannual, statewide Vanderbilt Poll showed in its most recent survey.

Significant findings include:

60. Trump or Biden? Either way, US seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on imports - Friday, May 17, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — As president, Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign steel, which hurt Clips & Clamps Industries, a Michigan auto supplier — raising its materials prices, making it harder to compete with overseas rivals and costing it several contracts.

61. Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness - Friday, May 17, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's lawyers accused the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial of lying to jurors, portraying Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen on Thursday as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars.

62. Trump-affiliated group releases new national security book outlining possible second-term approach - Friday, May 10, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Making future military aid to Ukraine contingent on the country participating in peace talks with Russia. Banning Chinese nationals from buying property within a 50-mile radius of U.S. government buildings. Filling the national security sector with acolytes of Donald Trump.

63. National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Trump helped change that - Friday, April 26, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Friends helping friends.

Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America's best-known tabloid and may one day be seen as the moment it effectively died.

64. Biden just signed a bill that could ban TikTok. His campaign plans to stay on the app anyway - Friday, April 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden showed off his putting during a campaign stop at a public golf course in Michigan last month, the moment was captured on TikTok.

Forced inside by a rainstorm, he competed with 13-year-old Hurley "HJ" Coleman IV to make putts on a practice mat. The Coleman family posted video of the proceedings on the app — complete with Biden holing out a putt and the teen knocking his own shot home in response, over the caption, "I had to sink the rebuttal."

65. Judge finds last 4 of 11 anti-abortion activists guilty in a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade - Friday, April 5, 2024

NASHVILLE (AP) — The final four of 11 anti-abortion activists charged with blocking access to a Tennessee clinic in 2021 have been convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

66. VU poll: Nashville ‘back on the right track,’ residents largely unified - Friday, April 5, 2024

A majority (53%) of Nashvillians say the city is on the right track, which represents a nine-point increase from last year, the 2024 Vanderbilt Poll–Nashville poll has found. It is the first time in four years the measure has increased.

67. Trump, Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6 million in March - Friday, April 5, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and the Republican Party said Wednesday that they raised more than $65.6 million in March as the former president became the presumptive nominee and installed new party leadership.

68. Trump's events aren't drawing big protests this year. Instead, Biden is facing public ire - Friday, April 5, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump first ran for the White House eight years ago, protesters filled the streets.

His inflammatory rhetoric and often dehumanizing descriptions of immigrants spurred thousands to demonstrate outside his rallies. By this time in 2016, protesters regularly interrupted his speeches, sparking clashes and foreshadowing Trump's habit of encouraging violence against those he casts as his enemies.

69. Biden fundraiser in NYC with Obama and Clinton nets a whopping $25M, campaign says. It's a record - Friday, March 29, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said.

70. Trump will attend the wake of a slain New York police officer as he goes after Biden over crime - Friday, March 29, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will attend Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has made crime a focus of his third White House campaign and accused President Joe Biden of lacking toughness.

71. Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats' VP pick in 2000, dead at 82 - Friday, March 22, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by his family.

72. Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders - Friday, March 22, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden needs advice, there are two people he can turn to who know what it's like to sit in his chair. Sometimes he will invite Barack Obama over to the White House for a meal or he will get on the phone with Bill Clinton.

73. Opt out of gun ‘education?’ Not in Tennessee schools - Friday, March 29, 2024

In 2008, Barack Obama, running for the Democratic nomination for president, stepped in a bit of political cow plop when talking about disaffected working-class voters in faded industrial towns.

“[T]hey cling to guns or religion,” he said in comments that provided an easy opening for his chief opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton. She quickly jumped on the remarks as “elitist and out of touch.”

74. As Biden tours the country, visits swing states, Trump is fundraising, playing golf - Friday, March 22, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden visited five cities in a multiday trip last week, former President Donald Trump was hardly seen in public, spending most of his time in South Florida.

75. Biden campaign has amassed $155M in cash on hand for 2024 campaign, raised $53M last month - Friday, March 15, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's campaign has amassed $155 million in cash on hand for the 2024 election, far exceeding the in-hand total for his Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

The president raised $53 million alone last month, which was the strongest grassroots fundraising month since the campaign launched, according to campaign officials. Among those efforts was a contest for supporters to attend a fundraiser on March 28 in New York with Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton that raised $4 million last month.

76. Trump is ordered to pay legal fees after failed lawsuit over the Steele dossier - Friday, March 8, 2024

LONDON (AP) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay a six-figure legal bill to a company founded by a former British spy that he unsuccessfully sued for making what his lawyer called "shocking and scandalous" false claims that harmed his reputation.

77. Biden allies, rivals both want transcript of his special counsel interview released. It could happen - Friday, February 16, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden avoided criminal charges around his handling of classified documents in part because of his answers during a lengthy interview with the special counsel investigating him. But the sit-down also opened Biden up to fresh scrutiny over his age and memory, and now the public release of a transcript of that discussion is being sought by both Biden allies and critics seeking political advantage.

78. The Titans and coach Brian Callahan are closer to filling out his first staff - Friday, February 9, 2024

NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee Titans and coach Brian Callahan are closer to filling out his first staff — a group featuring his father, Bill, that also brings back three former assistants to this franchise.

79. 6 activists convicted of illegally blocking abortion clinic in Tennessee - Friday, January 26, 2024

NASHVILLE (AP) — A Tennessee jury has convicted six anti-abortion protesters of violating federal laws after they blocked the entrance of a reproductive clinic outside Nashville nearly three years ago.

80. Democrats believe abortion will motivate voters in 2024. Will it be enough? - Friday, January 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said recently that he was "proud" to have a hand in overturning the abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake took it as a political gift, thinking to herself, "Oh my God, we just won the election."

81. Columnist accusing Trump of sex assault faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom - Friday, January 19, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — With former President Donald Trump no longer in the courtroom Thursday, a columnist who accused him of sexually attacking her concluded her testimony with an emphatic denial that she had benefited from the publicity that followed the allegations.

82. Columnist accusing Trump of sex assault faces cross-examination in New York courtroom - Friday, January 19, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — With former President Donald Trump no longer in the courtroom Thursday, a columnist who accused him of sexually attacking her concluded her testimony with an emphatic denial that she had benefited from the publicity that followed the allegations.

83. Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies - Friday, January 19, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse.

84. Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies - Friday, January 12, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse.

85. Trump warns of 'Pandora's box' of perpetual presidential prosecutions if charges against him stand - Friday, January 5, 2024

Former President Donald Trump has long vowed to prosecute President Joe Biden if Trump wins November's election and the two trade places. He upped the stakes dramatically Tuesday, contending that if criminal charges against him aren't dropped, any current and future ex-presidents also could be prosecuted.

86. ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on 'fair use' of copyrighted works - Friday, January 5, 2024

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn't be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works.

87. Love it or hate it, self-checkout is here to stay. But it's going through a reckoning - Friday, December 15, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — The promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of doing those monotonous tasks themselves and retailers could save on labor costs.

88. Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93 - Friday, December 1, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court, died Friday. She was 93.

89. GOP considers holding formal vote to authorize Biden impeachment as White House questions legitimacy - Friday, November 24, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are considering holding a formal vote next month to authorize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden as the party looks to legitimize a process that has yet to yield any direct evidence of wrongdoing by the president.

90. Argentina's right-wing president-elect to meet with a top Biden adviser - Friday, November 24, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentina's right-wing President-elect Javier Milei will meet with President Joe Biden's national security adviser on Tuesday in Washington, according to the White House.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that Milei will meet with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and other administration officials. Biden, who will be traveling on Tuesday to Georgia for a memorial service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter and then to Colorado, will not meet with Milei.

91. The APEC summit is happening this week in San Francisco. What is APEC, anyway? - Friday, November 10, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is hosting the annual APEC summit of world leaders this week for the first time since 2011. Leaders from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group will gather in San Francisco to talk about how to better spur trade and economic growth across the Pacific region.

92. Jacob Lew, former treasury secretary to Obama, confirmed as US ambassador to Israel - Friday, October 27, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed Jacob Lew as ambassador to Israel, filling the key diplomatic post as the country is fighting a war with Hamas.

Lew, a treasury secretary under President Barack Obama, was confirmed 53-43.

93. Biden's pick to be ambassador to Israel tells senators he'll ensure the US ally 'has what it needs' - Friday, October 13, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's nominee to be ambassador to Israel told senators Wednesday that he would "ensure Israel has what it needs to defend itself" and would work with the U.S. ally to end the attacks by Hamas if he were confirmed.

94. Ex-Treasury Secretary Lew, Biden's pick to be US envoy to Israel, faces Senate confirmation hearing - Friday, October 13, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is moving quickly to confirm Jacob Lew as ambassador to Israel, holding a hearing on his nomination Wednesday as President Joe Biden visits the region to reinforce U.S. support for Israel and try to ease tensions in its new war with Hamas.

95. Biden interview in special counsel documents investigation suggests sprawling probe near conclusion - Friday, October 6, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's interview with prosecutors over his handling of classified documents signals that a sprawling investigation that has included questioning of some of his closest aides and at least one cabinet member is nearing a conclusion.

96. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, an advocate for liberal priorities, dies at age 90 - Friday, September 29, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat and champion of liberal causes who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90.

97. Shutdown's shadow, Biden's speech and arguing the case: Takeaways from the House impeachment hearing - Friday, September 29, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday are holding the first hearing of their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and their effort to tie the him to the business dealings to his son Hunter.

98. A government shutdown is nearing this weekend. What does it mean, who's hit and what's next? - Friday, September 29, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is just days away from a shutdown that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics as Republicans in the House, fueled by hard-right demands, force a confrontation over federal spending.

99. The Republicans most at risk in next year's election are falling in line behind impeachment inquiry - Friday, September 15, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans whose elections in swing districts next year will determine which party gains control of the House are overwhelmingly voicing their support for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. It's a stance, Democrats say, that could come back to haunt them.

100. Presidential centers from Hoover to Bush and Obama unite to warn of fragile state of US democracy - Friday, September 8, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting a diversity of beliefs.