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FILE - President Donald Trump speaks at a reception celebrating Women's History Month in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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Trump is set to announce 'reciprocal' tariffs in a risky move that could reshape the economy

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President Donald Trump is set to launch a barrage of so-called reciprocal tariffs on friend and foe alike.

In this image provided by Senate Television, Sen, Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks on the Senate floor, Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025. (Senate Television via AP)
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With a nod to America's civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own

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Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Elon Musk presents a check for $1 million dollars during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
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Lawsuit claims Musk failed to make promised payments over 2024 petition signatures

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A federal lawsuit accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the political action committee he started of failing to pay a suburban Philadelphia man more than $20,000 for getting people to sign a petition in favor of free speech and gun rights.

FILE - An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth's office

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U.S. officials say the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office to review and get rid of books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

FILE - The Rev. W. J. Mark Knutson, right, walks with an El Salvadoran immigrant at the Augustana Lutheran Church on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report finds

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As many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from the United States are Christian, according to a new report that calls on their fellow believers to consider the impact of aggressive deportation policies pursued under the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump waves to the media as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Major international law firm reaches deal with White House, becoming the latest to do so

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Another major international law firm has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to dedicate at least $100 million in free legal services to causes such as supporting veterans and combating antisemitism.

A no trespassing sign is posted on a door at the headquarters of the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein).
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Institute of Peace headquarters transfer is a done deal even as lawsuit continues to unfold

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There is no answer yet on the lawsuit filed by Institute of Peace board members who were fired amid a remaking of the independent think tank.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, left, joined by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, testifies as the House Intelligence Committee holds a hearing on worldwide threats, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Judge blocks firing of intelligence agency employees who worked on DEI programs

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A federal judge in Virginia has blocked the Trump administration's move to fire more than a dozen intelligence agency employees who worked on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., walks with reporters on the way to a closed-door Republican Conference strategy session, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Trump's 'Liberation Day' is unlikely to free businesses from uncertainty surrounding trade policy

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President Donald Trump says his tariff announcements slated for Wednesday will amount to a “Liberation Day” for the United States.

Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
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Social Security Administration probes origin of website portal outage

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The Social Security Administration says it is investigating the root cause of website outages that have affected the “my Social Security” portal where recipients access their benefits.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions on tariffs while meeting with reporters at a news conference, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Speaker Johnson suffers a defeat in his push to block parents in the U.S. House from proxy voting

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House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a decisive defeat after he tried and failed to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.

This combination of images shows from left, Army Pfc. Dante D. Tatiana, 21, of Dededo, Guam, Sgt. Edwin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, Calif., and Sgt. Jose Duenez, 25, of Joliet, Ill., three of the four soldiers who were killed in a training accident near Pabrad, Lithuania, in March 2025. (Department of Defense via AP)
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Last US soldier found dead after Lithuania training accident. 3 others identified

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The U.S. military says the final U.S. soldier who went missing in Lithuania has been found dead, ending a massive weeklong search for the four service members whose armored vehicle was pulled from a swampy training area.

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
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An ‘administrative error’ sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, ICE says

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President Donald Trump's administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison.

FILE - Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Who is Cory Booker, the Democrat from New Jersey holding the Senate floor?

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The lawmaker who's been holding the Senate floor with a lengthy speech railing against President Donald Trump's Republican agenda is a New Jersey Democrat who once found common ground with the president during his first term.

FILE - The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington, April 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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The Latest: Sen. Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech at over 24 hours

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New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes, setting the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s history.

FILE - Rescuers work on site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)
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More Republicans want the US to focus on ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll finds

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A new AP-NORC poll finds that while most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not weighing as heavily on his public perception as it did on President Joe Biden.

FE - Delivering a brief inaugural address from the portico of the White House, President Franklin D. Roosevelt calls for "a durable peace," Jan. 20, 1945, as from left, Edwin Halsey, Secretary of State, three unidentified Secret Service agents, Marine Corps Col. James Roosevelt, Maj. Gen. Edwin Watson, partially obscured, and Vice President Harry S. Truman, listen. (AP Photo)
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Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning

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Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.