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Kelvin G. Mayner asks a question during the Voters Education 2024 Community Forum, addressing the Florida Legislature&rsquo;s voter suppression tactics, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Laws passed in several Republican-controlled states are making it challenging for advocates to adapt as they try to register and educate potential voters with just months to go before the presidential election.  (AP Photo/Phelan M.

Voter outreach groups targeted by new laws in several GOP-led states are struggling to do their work

Kelvin G. Mayner asks a question during the Voters Education 2024 Community Forum, addressing the Florida Legislature&rsquo;s voter suppression tactics, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Laws passed in several Republican-controlled states are making it challenging for advocates to adapt as they try to register and educate potential voters with just months to go before the presidential election.  (AP Photo/Phelan M.

May 28, 2024, 1:43pm Politics

During the presidential election four years ago, the Equal Ground Education Fund hired over 100 people to go door-to-door and attend festivals, college homecomings and other events to help register voters across Florida. Their efforts for this year’s elections look much different. Read story

FILE - The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024.  A U.S. built temporary pier that had been used to deliver additional humanitarian aid into Gaza was damaged by rough seas and has temporarily suspended operations. That&rsquo;s according to three U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday. (U.S.

US-built pier will be removed from Gaza coast and repaired after damage from rough seas

FILE - The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024.  A U.S. built temporary pier that had been used to deliver additional humanitarian aid into Gaza was damaged by rough seas and has temporarily suspended operations. That&rsquo;s according to three U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday. (U.S.

May 28, 2024, 12:52pm Politics

The U.S.-built temporary pier that has been taking humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians for less than two weeks will be removed from the coast of Gaza to be repaired after getting damaged in rough seas and weather, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Read story

This image from video obtained by the Justice Department and included as part of an exhibit in a motion filed by the defense team to suppress boxes of records seized at Mar-a-Lago, shows Walt Nauta, personal aide to former President Donald Trump, carrying boxes at the Palm Beach, Fla., estate.

Judge nixes bid to restrict Trump statements that could endanger officers in classified records case

This image from video obtained by the Justice Department and included as part of an exhibit in a motion filed by the defense team to suppress boxes of records seized at Mar-a-Lago, shows Walt Nauta, personal aide to former President Donald Trump, carrying boxes at the Palm Beach, Fla., estate.

May 28, 2024, 10:40am Politics

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday denied prosecutors' request to bar the former president from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents participating in the prosecution. Read story

President Joe Biden delivers the Memorial Day Address at the 156th National Memorial Day Observance in the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 27, 2024.

Biden says each generation has to ‘earn’ freedom, in solemn Memorial Day remarks

President Joe Biden delivers the Memorial Day Address at the 156th National Memorial Day Observance in the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 27, 2024.

May 27, 2024, 12:37pm Latest News

President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with a pledge that the country would continue the work of the nation's fallen toward creating a more perfect union, "for which they lived, and for which they died." Read story

Trump, accustomed to friendly crowds, confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech

May 26, 2024, 5:05pm Nation & World

Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing the Libertarian Party National Convention on Saturday night, with many in the crowd shouting insults and decrying him for things like his COVID-19 policies, running up towering federal deficits and lying about his political record. Read story

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) (right), accompanied by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) (left) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Republicans look to reverse rule based on gun law they backed

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) (right), accompanied by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) (left) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

May 26, 2024, 6:00am Politics

Republican backers of a once-in-a-generation gun violence bill now lead the charge against one part of the Biden administration’s implementation of the law, a falling out that illustrates the delicacy of trust required to pass legislation on hot-button issues. Read story

FILE - The NASA moon rocket rolls back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center Sept. 27, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. In Washington, a city that revolves around the federal government, the annual Best Places to Work survey is a closely-watched annual event worthy of bragging rights, provided you&rsquo;re one of the agencies like NASA or the Government Accountability Office who topped the survey. The survey, released Monday, May 20, 2024, uses information from the Office of Personnel Management&rsquo;s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

What a blast to work at NASA. Space agency is sky-high again in latest survey of federal employees

FILE - The NASA moon rocket rolls back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center Sept. 27, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. In Washington, a city that revolves around the federal government, the annual Best Places to Work survey is a closely-watched annual event worthy of bragging rights, provided you&rsquo;re one of the agencies like NASA or the Government Accountability Office who topped the survey. The survey, released Monday, May 20, 2024, uses information from the Office of Personnel Management&rsquo;s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

May 26, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone else, and an agency that has struggled with low morale is showing improvement. Read story

Members of the National Iranian American Council gather at the base of the &ldquo;Mountains and Clouds&rdquo; sculpture in the Hart Senate Office Building before delivering a petition to members of Congress on Capitol Hill Oct. 18, 2017, in Washington, D.C. With more than 43,000 signatures, the petition calls on Congress to pass legislation to rescind the latest version of the Trump Administration&rsquo;s travel ban.

‘We have half a piece of art’: Chris Murphy continues quest to reinstall Calder clouds

Members of the National Iranian American Council gather at the base of the &ldquo;Mountains and Clouds&rdquo; sculpture in the Hart Senate Office Building before delivering a petition to members of Congress on Capitol Hill Oct. 18, 2017, in Washington, D.C. With more than 43,000 signatures, the petition calls on Congress to pass legislation to rescind the latest version of the Trump Administration&rsquo;s travel ban.

May 26, 2024, 5:05am Life

On gun control, health care and immigration, Christopher S. Murphy has gained ground by building coalitions. On the project to refabricate and rehang a portion of Alexander Calder’s “Mountains and Clouds” sculpture in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, he’s tilting at windmills on his own. Read story

FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, April 4, 2024. Blinken will travel to eastern Europe next week as concerns mount about Russia&#039;s advances in Ukraine, potential Russian interference in neighboring Moldova and pro-Moscow legislation being promoted in Georgia. The State Department said Friday, May 24, that Blinken would visit the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on Wednesday before attending a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Prague on Thursday and Friday.

Blinken will head to eastern Europe as concerns mount about Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, April 4, 2024. Blinken will travel to eastern Europe next week as concerns mount about Russia&#039;s advances in Ukraine, potential Russian interference in neighboring Moldova and pro-Moscow legislation being promoted in Georgia. The State Department said Friday, May 24, that Blinken would visit the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on Wednesday before attending a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Prague on Thursday and Friday.

May 24, 2024, 11:54am Politics

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to eastern Europe next week as concerns mount about Russia’s advances in Ukraine, potential Russian interference in neighboring Moldova and pro-Moscow legislation being promoted in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the State Department said Friday. Read story

FILE - Bob Givehchi, right, and his son Daniel, 8, Toronto residents visiting Miami for the first time, walk past debris and palm trees blowing in gusty winds, at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., Dec. 15, 2023. Nearly all the experts think 2024 will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record.

Dangerous brew: Ocean heat and La Nina combo likely mean more Atlantic hurricanes this summer

FILE - Bob Givehchi, right, and his son Daniel, 8, Toronto residents visiting Miami for the first time, walk past debris and palm trees blowing in gusty winds, at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., Dec. 15, 2023. Nearly all the experts think 2024 will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record.

May 23, 2024, 2:58pm Latest News

Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina. Read story