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FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal prosecutors say Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol and arrested last week near the home of former President Barack Obama, told followers on his YouTube live stream that he was looking to get a "good angle on a shot" and that he was trying to locate the "tunnels underneath their houses" shortly before he was taken into custody by the Secret Service.

Trump posted what he said was Obama’s address, prosecutors say. An armed Tri-Cities man was soon arrested there

FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal prosecutors say Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol and arrested last week near the home of former President Barack Obama, told followers on his YouTube live stream that he was looking to get a "good angle on a shot" and that he was trying to locate the "tunnels underneath their houses" shortly before he was taken into custody by the Secret Service.

July 5, 2023, 1:02pm Latest News

Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama on the same day that a man with guns in his van was arrested near the property, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in revealing new details about the case. Read story

Meade Street is seen after multiple people were shot in Washington, DC early Wednesday, July 5, 2023.

9 people, including 2 kids, are shot and wounded in the nation’s capital as violence mars July 4

Meade Street is seen after multiple people were shot in Washington, DC early Wednesday, July 5, 2023.

July 5, 2023, 12:50pm Nation & World

Nine people outside enjoying the Independence Day festivities in the nation’s capital were shot and wounded early Wednesday, police said, as a spate of violence marred the holiday. Read story

Biden is hosting Sweden’s prime minister at the White House in a show of support for its NATO bid

July 5, 2023, 9:09am Politics

President Joe Biden plans to host Sweden’s prime minister at the White House on Wednesday in a show of solidarity as the United States presses for the Nordic nation’s entry into NATO, a week before the alliance’s summit. Read story

Suspicious powder found at the White House when Biden was gone was cocaine, AP sources say

July 4, 2023, 11:22am Politics

The White House was briefly evacuated Sunday evening while President Joe Biden was at Camp David after the Secret Service discovered suspicious powder in a common area of the West Wing, and a preliminary test showed the substance was cocaine, two law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Read story

FILE - Demonstrators hold a Ukrainian flag as they march outside of the White House in support of Ukraine during a rally in Washington, Feb. 25, 2023. One of the architects of the covert U.S. strategy against the Soviets in Afghanistan has published a new memoir. In "By All Means Available," Michael Vickers calls on President Joe Biden's administration to increase its support for Ukraine's resistance against Russia.

He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine

FILE - Demonstrators hold a Ukrainian flag as they march outside of the White House in support of Ukraine during a rally in Washington, Feb. 25, 2023. One of the architects of the covert U.S. strategy against the Soviets in Afghanistan has published a new memoir. In "By All Means Available," Michael Vickers calls on President Joe Biden's administration to increase its support for Ukraine's resistance against Russia.

July 4, 2023, 9:33am Entertainment

After the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989, defeated by an insurgency equipped and guided by the U.S., a two-word cable arrived at CIA headquarters: “WE WON.” Read story

FILE - President Bill Clinton, right, watches as a young American Bald Eagle named Freedom is released into the wild along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist Craig Koppe during an Independence Day ceremony at Patuxent Naval Air Station, Md., July 4, 1996.

July Fourth for presidents has been a day for golf, fishing, speeches and one very upset stomach

FILE - President Bill Clinton, right, watches as a young American Bald Eagle named Freedom is released into the wild along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist Craig Koppe during an Independence Day ceremony at Patuxent Naval Air Station, Md., July 4, 1996.

July 4, 2023, 9:32am Latest News

Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve bailed to the beach, the mountains, the golf course, the farm, the ranch. In the middle of the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sailing to Hawaii on a fishing… Read story

FILE - People on both sides of the debate rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Friday, June 30, 2023, Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.

In 370 days, Supreme Court conservatives dash decades of abortion and affirmative action precedents

FILE - People on both sides of the debate rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Friday, June 30, 2023, Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.

July 3, 2023, 5:09pm Politics

Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades. Read story

FILE - A vote here sign is seen outside a polling place during the South Carolina primary, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. Months after the Democratic Party approved President Joe Biden's plan to overhaul its primary order to better reflect a deeply diverse voter base, implementing the revamped order has proven anything but simple. Party officials now expect the process to continue through the end of the year -- even as the 2024 presidential race heats up all around it.

The Democratic Party promised to overhaul its primaries. Doing that has been anything but simple

FILE - A vote here sign is seen outside a polling place during the South Carolina primary, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. Months after the Democratic Party approved President Joe Biden's plan to overhaul its primary order to better reflect a deeply diverse voter base, implementing the revamped order has proven anything but simple. Party officials now expect the process to continue through the end of the year -- even as the 2024 presidential race heats up all around it.

July 3, 2023, 1:07pm Politics

New Hampshire is in open rebellion. Georgia is all but out. Read story

FILE - Students walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni. At Harvard, which released years of records as part of the lawsuit that ended up before the Supreme Court, legacy students were eight times more likely to be admitted, and nearly 70% were white, researchers found.

Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling sue Harvard over legacy admissions

FILE - Students walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni. At Harvard, which released years of records as part of the lawsuit that ended up before the Supreme Court, legacy students were eight times more likely to be admitted, and nearly 70% were white, researchers found.

July 3, 2023, 10:50am Nation & World

A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni. Read story

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., listens to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testify before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Pat Toomey’s post-Senate jobs are renewing calls to close Washington’s revolving door

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., listens to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testify before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

July 3, 2023, 8:03am Politics

A few weeks before he left the U.S. Senate in January, Pat Toomey helped block the Enablers Act, a bipartisan proposal designed to curtail corruption and money laundering. Read story