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FILE - Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta.

Trump trial set for March 4, 2024, in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election

FILE - Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta.

August 28, 2023, 10:30am Latest News

A judge on Monday set a March 4, 2024, trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting a defense request to push back the case by years. Read story

FILE - The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledges the crowd outside the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.

AP Was There: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 draws hundreds of thousands

FILE - The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledges the crowd outside the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.

August 28, 2023, 7:56am Latest News

In a great, dramatic demonstration, more than 200,000 Negroes and white sympathizers massed before the Abraham Lincoln Memorial today and demanded across-the-board abolition of race discrimination. Read story

Billion-dollar drugs’ makers set to face their first US price negotiations

August 28, 2023, 7:46am Health

Some of the most widely used drugs in the U.S. may be heading for lower prices under Medicare, a move that could save taxpayers billions of dollars and squeeze profits for big pharmaceutical companies. Read story

FILE - People walk past the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Unflattering portraits of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump emerge clearly in a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which asked an open-ended question about what comes to mind when people think of them.

Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds. Trump’s got other problems

FILE - People walk past the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Unflattering portraits of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump emerge clearly in a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which asked an open-ended question about what comes to mind when people think of them.

August 28, 2023, 7:45am Politics

Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term. Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age. Read story

FILE - People watch from their vehicle as President Donald Trump, on left of video screen, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speak during a Presidential Debate Watch Party at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Unflattering portraits of both Biden and Trump emerge clearly in a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which asked an open-ended question about what comes to mind when people think of them.

Biden is ‘old,’ Trump is ‘corrupt’: AP-NORC poll has ominous signs for both in possible 2024 rematch

FILE - People watch from their vehicle as President Donald Trump, on left of video screen, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speak during a Presidential Debate Watch Party at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Unflattering portraits of both Biden and Trump emerge clearly in a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which asked an open-ended question about what comes to mind when people think of them.

August 28, 2023, 7:40am Latest News

President Joe Biden is “old” and “confused,” and former President Donald Trump is “corrupt” and “dishonest.” Those are among the top terms Americans use when they’re asked to describe the Democrat in the White House and the Republican best positioned to face him in next year’s election. Read story

Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King Jr., left, and his wife Arndrea Waters King, second from right, look on as their daughter Yolanda King speaks during the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023.

Thousands converge on National Mall to mark the March on Washington’s 60th anniversary

Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King Jr., left, and his wife Arndrea Waters King, second from right, look on as their daughter Yolanda King speaks during the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023.

August 27, 2023, 12:12pm Nation & World

Thousands converged Saturday on the National Mall for the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, saying a country that remains riven by racial inequality has yet to fulfill his dream. Read story

Sequoias in Grants Grove on Dec. 19, 2021, in California's King Canyon National Park.

Kevin McCarthy has a bill to save the sequoias, but some environmental groups aren’t into it

Sequoias in Grants Grove on Dec. 19, 2021, in California's King Canyon National Park.

August 27, 2023, 6:02am Politics

In November 2021, during a plane ride from Qatar to Washington, D.C., Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., approached Rep. Scott Peters, D-Cailf., to talk about sequoias. Read story

NORAD scrambles F-16s to intercept civilian aircraft that strayed near Biden vacation spot at Tahoe

August 25, 2023, 1:03pm Politics

U.S. air defense scrambled fighter jets Friday to wave off a civilian aircraft that had entered temporarily restricted air space near Lake Tahoe, where President Joe Biden and Jill Biden are vacationing. Read story

FILE - The Rev. Al Sharpton, foreground third from right, holds a banner with Martin Luther King, III, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, second from right, and Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, right, and others, during the march to call for sweeping protections against a further erosion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, in Washington.

Visitors to Lincoln Memorial say America has its flaws but see gains made since March on Washington

FILE - The Rev. Al Sharpton, foreground third from right, holds a banner with Martin Luther King, III, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, second from right, and Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, right, and others, during the march to call for sweeping protections against a further erosion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, in Washington.

August 25, 2023, 8:25am Latest News

Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling that — for the moment — the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress. Read story

FILE - U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over the Osan U.S. Air Base during a combined air force exercise with the United States and South Korea in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Dec. 4, 2017. The U.S. has once again buckled under pressure from European allies and Ukraine's leaders and agreed to provide more sophisticated weapons to the war effort. This time it's all about F-16 fighter jets.

Biden’s shift on F-16s for Ukraine came after months of internal debate

FILE - U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over the Osan U.S. Air Base during a combined air force exercise with the United States and South Korea in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Dec. 4, 2017. The U.S. has once again buckled under pressure from European allies and Ukraine's leaders and agreed to provide more sophisticated weapons to the war effort. This time it's all about F-16 fighter jets.

August 25, 2023, 8:25am Politics

President Joe Biden’s decision to allow allies to train Ukrainian forces on how to operate F-16 fighter jets — and eventually to provide the aircraft themselves — seemed like an abrupt change in position but was in fact one that came after months of internal debate and quiet talks with… Read story