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FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump&#039;s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president&#039;s legal bills before the party gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press.

Some of Trump’s allies in Congress already support his 2025 ideas on deportations and Jan. 6 pardons

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump&#039;s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president&#039;s legal bills before the party gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press.

March 31, 2024, 3:13pm Politics

As Donald Trump campaigns on promises of mass deportations and pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, his ideas are being met with little pushback and some enthusiasm by a new era of Republicans in Congress. Read story

The Trump camp and the White House clash over Biden’s recognition of ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’

March 31, 2024, 12:18pm Latest News

President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump's campaign and religious conservatives for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.” Read story

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Supreme Court is adopting its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The policy was issued by the court Monday.  (AP Photo/J.

News Analysis: Supreme Court has right- and far-right wings. Their justices might not be those you’d guess

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Supreme Court is adopting its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The policy was issued by the court Monday.  (AP Photo/J.

March 31, 2024, 6:05am Latest News

At the U.S. Supreme Court these days, judicial liberals don’t have much clout. The real fights mostly take place between the court’s far-right and its more traditional conservatives. Read story

Los Angeles couple’s Supreme Court case sheds light on immigrant visa rejections

March 31, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next month in the case of a Los Angeles man who was denied a green card after marrying a U.S. citizen, in part because of his tattoos. Read story

Washington, D.C. Council member Charles Allen testifies during the House Oversight and Accountability Committee's hearing about Congressional oversight of D.C., on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 29, 2023.

Imperfect recall: How a city council fight is roiling Congress

Washington, D.C. Council member Charles Allen testifies during the House Oversight and Accountability Committee's hearing about Congressional oversight of D.C., on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 29, 2023.

March 30, 2024, 6:00am Politics

Several hours had passed on a recent Saturday before a Charles Allen supporter walked by a table of Ward 6 residents hoping to recall the D.C. councilmember and called them “stupid racists.” Read story

U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) speaks during a news conference June 12, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and McDermott held a news conference to announce that they are introducing a bill to block congressional pay if lawmakers fail to raise the debt ceiling.

Living abroad, Jim McDermott finds his liberal utopia

U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) speaks during a news conference June 12, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and McDermott held a news conference to announce that they are introducing a bill to block congressional pay if lawmakers fail to raise the debt ceiling.

March 30, 2024, 5:31am Politics

Former Rep. Jim McDermott is the rare lawmaker who has been able to live out all the policies he worked for during his decades in Washington. Read story

Minh Ha, assistive technology manager at the Perkins School for the Blind tries a LightSound device for the first time at the school&rsquo;s library in Watertown, Mass., on March 2, 2024. As eclipse watchers look to the skies in April 2024, new technology will allow people who are blind or visually impaired to hear and feel the celestial event.

Blind people can hear and feel April’s total solar eclipse with new technology

Minh Ha, assistive technology manager at the Perkins School for the Blind tries a LightSound device for the first time at the school&rsquo;s library in Watertown, Mass., on March 2, 2024. As eclipse watchers look to the skies in April 2024, new technology will allow people who are blind or visually impaired to hear and feel the celestial event.

March 29, 2024, 9:19am Clark County Health

While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event. Read story

GOP asks Biden to testify in probe

March 28, 2024, 4:52pm Nation & World

House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses. Read story

House Speaker Mike Johnson will send Mayorkas impeachment to the Senate next month

March 28, 2024, 1:05pm Latest News

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday indicated he will send articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate shortly after Congress returns to Washington next month. Read story

FILE - President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and former President Bill Clinton attend at a memorial service for Sen. Robert Byrd, July 2, 2010, at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are teaming up with President Joe Biden for a glitzy reelection fundraiser Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The event brings together more than three decades of Democratic leadership.

Biden fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record high $25 million, the campaign says

FILE - President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and former President Bill Clinton attend at a memorial service for Sen. Robert Byrd, July 2, 2010, at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are teaming up with President Joe Biden for a glitzy reelection fundraiser Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The event brings together more than three decades of Democratic leadership.

March 28, 2024, 10:07am Politics

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. Read story