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FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump enters at a campaign event, June 18, 2024, in Racine, Wis. Manhattan prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold a gag order that bars the Republican former president from criticizing jurors, court staff, or members of the prosecution that convicted him.

Trump, for now, is ceding the spotlight to Biden as the president’s campaign reels from bad debate

July 3, 2024, 1:00pm Politics

Donald Trump likes to be the one in the spotlight. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks, June 28, 2024, in New York. Biden is scheduled to receive an operational briefing at the D.C. Emergency Operations Center and deliver remarks on extreme weather on Tuesday, July 2.

Top White House aide urges staff to tune out ‘noise’ and focus on governing during debate fallout

July 3, 2024, 11:47am Politics

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients urged people during an all-staff meeting on Wednesday to tune out the “noise” and focus on the task of governing as senior aides scramble to contain the political fallout from President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance. Read story

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a post debate campaign rally, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Las Vegas.

Harris tries to hold the line for Biden as Democrats panic over election

July 3, 2024, 11:41am Politics

By the time Vice President Kamala Harris stepped into her third fundraiser since President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate last week, she had her routine down. Read story

FILE - Abortion-rights protesters cheer at a rally, June 24, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that put a temporary block on the state’s strict abortion law, Friday, June 28, 2024, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effect. The new law bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.

Biden officials tell doctors emergency abortions are legal duty

July 3, 2024, 8:51am Politics

The Biden administration told doctors and other health care providers on Tuesday that they are legally obligated to perform abortions for pregnant women experiencing medical emergencies. Read story

FILE - Protesters join thousands marching around the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022. Abortion rights advocates are set to deliver about 800,000 petition signatures Wednesday, July 3, 2024, in hopes of getting abortion rights on the November general election ballot. (AP Photo/Ross D.

Abortion-rights advocates set to turn in around 800,000 signatures for Arizona ballot measure

July 3, 2024, 8:49am Nation & World

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona are set to deliver petition signatures Wednesday in hopes of putting the issue on the November ballot in the key swing state. Read story

Biden will bestow Medal of Honor on Union soldiers who helped hijack train in Confederate territory

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the D.C. Emergency Operations Center, Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Washington.

President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Wednesday to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles (140 kilometers) as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines. Read story