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FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018. An upside-down American flag was displayed outside of Alito's home Jan. 17, 2021, days after former President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, The New York Times reports. It's a symbol associated with Trump's false claims of election fraud. "It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs," Alito said in an emailed statement to the newspaper. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Upside-down flag at Justice Alito’s home another blow for Supreme Court under fire

When an upside-down U.S. flag flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, it was largely seen in connection with the false claim by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters that the 2020 election had been marred by fraud.

FILE - A voter drops off a vote-by-mail ballot on March 12, 2024, during the presidential primary election in Vancouver, Wash. At rallies and in social media posts, former President Donald Trump has been trying to assure Republican voters that casting ballots by mail and other forms of early voting are “all good options.” (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

After blaming his 2020 loss on mail balloting, Trump tries to make GOP voters believe it’s OK now

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, seated right with Melania Trump and her father, Viktor Knavs, attends a graduation ceremony for his son Barron at Oxbridge Academy Friday, May 17, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump accepts a VP debate but wants it on Fox News. Harris has already said yes to CBS

FILE - CNN anchors Jake Tapper, left, and Dana Bash, right, speaking to members of the audience before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. The two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week, Thursday, May 16, 2024, are good news for CNN and ABC News. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Taking presidential debates out of commission’s hands virtually guarantees fewer viewers

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Minnesota Republican Lincoln Reagan Dinner Friday, May 17, 2024, at the Saint Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Trump campaigns in Minnesota, predicting he will win the traditionally Democratic state in November

WATCH: Moment Marjorie Taylor Greene, AOC, Jasmine Crockett clash at House committee hearing

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene clashed with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday.

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Man convicted of attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer sentenced to 30 years

Donald Trump’s GOP allies show up in force in hush money trial

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during a news conference near Manhattan criminal court Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during a news conference near Manhattan criminal court Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

House Republicans ditch their day jobs to stand with Trump, while legislating languishes

Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have pushed this Congress into chaos showed up at Donald Trump’s hush money trial.

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Harris accepts debate invite to face off with Trump’s VP pick, which may come at convention

What we know, and don’t know, about the presidential debates

In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks May 2, 2024, in Wilmington, N.C., left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo)

Biden and Trump, trading barbs, agree to 2 presidential debates, in June and September

White House

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, left, greets President Joe Biden at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden says landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation was about more than education

Congress

FILE - A sign for Bakersfield, Calif., is displayed over Sillect Avenue at Buck Owens Boulevard on April 20, 2022. Voters in California's 20th Congressional District can be forgiven if they open their ballots for Tuesday's election with a sense of déjà vu. Since former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced in December he would step down from his Central Valley seat, voters have already had two opportunities to vote for candidates to complete McCarthy's term and serve the next full one. (AP Photo/Lisa Mascaro)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the California 20th District special election

Supreme Court

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, April 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court sides with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spurning a conservative attack

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FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to then-President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Conservative activist’s son sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for ‘relentless’ attack on Capitol

A Pennsylvania man whose father is a prominent conservative activist has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol.

US security alert warns Americans overseas of potential attacks on LGBTQ events

The State Department has renewed a global security warning for Americans overseas and added to it that LGBTQ people and events in particular face an “increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence.”

FILE -- In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo Amy Kremer, founder and chair of Women for America First, speaks in Washington, at a rally in support of President Donald Trump. Kremer, who helped organize the rally that preceded the violent storming of the Capitol building, is running for a seat on the Republican National Committee from Georgia in a party election on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Kremer say the national party hasn't done enough to support Trump and protect his supporters. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Amy Kremer helped organize the pro-Trump Jan. 6 rally. Now she is seeking a Georgia seat on the RNC

Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol.

Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing

Taiwan is reducing its reliance on the Chinese mainland as it seeks to insulate itself from pressure from Beijing and forge closer economic and trade ties with the United States.

A ship is seen off the coast of Gaza near a U.S.-built floating pier that will be used to facilitate aid deliveries, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What to know about how much the aid from a US pier project will help Gaza

A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians.

Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules

A Missouri judge has ruled that a longshot gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the Republican ticket.

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom answers a reporters question about his revised 2024-25 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, May 10, 2024. The California Teachers Association has criticized Newsom's budget proposal, saying it would wreak havoc on school funding. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Teachers criticize Newsom’s budget proposal, say it would ‘wreak havoc on funding for our schools’

California’s largest teachers union is turning up the pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom. The California Teachers Association on Friday said it will work to block one of Newsom’s proposals for balancing the budget.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

FILE - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, center, is sworn into office, Jan. 4, 2021, inside the state Capitol in Helena, Mont. Knudsen faces a campaign finance investigation after he told supporters he skirted the state’s “ridiculous” campaign finance laws by inviting another Republican to run against him as a token candidate in next month’s primary so he could raise more money for the general election, according to a recording of a May 11 fundraiser. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

Montana’s attorney general said he recruited token primary opponent to increase campaign fundraising

Montana’s attorney general told supporters he skirted the state’s campaign finance laws by inviting another Republican to run against him as a token candidate in next month’s primary so he could raise more money for the general election.

FILE - Daniel Perry enters the courtroom at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, May 10, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday, May 16, 2024, recommended a full pardon for Perry, a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool, File)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave few pardons before rushing to clear Army officer who killed a protester

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a former Army sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of a Black Lives Matter protestor was a case of the Republican pushing a limited executive power to its absolute limit to get a desired outcome in a politically charged case.

FILE - The Indiana Statehouse appears on May 5, 2017, in Indianapolis. Mothers of two children with disabilities are suing an Indiana agency in federal court over changes to Medicaid attendant care services they say violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Parents of disabled children sue Indiana over Medicaid changes addressing $1 billion shortfall

Mothers of two children with disabilities are suing an Indiana agency in federal court over changes to Medicaid attendant care services they say violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

FILE - The Michigan Capitol is seen, May 24, 2023, in Lansing, Mich. Michigan officials are projecting that the state's tax revenue will see a slight decrease from the previous year but then rebound in the next two years. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Michigan lawmakers get final revenue estimates as they push to finalize the state budget

State economists in Michigan provided their final fiscal forecast of the year as lawmakers work to finalize a budget ahead of a self-imposed July 1 deadline.

FILE - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice speaks at an election night watch party at the governor's mansion in Charleston, W.Va., Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Justice is calling state lawmakers back to the Capitol to consider an $80 million allocation to the state's colleges and universities to help students pay for school, among other proposals. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, File)

West Virginia governor calls special session for school funding amid FAFSA issues, other proposals

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is calling state lawmakers back to the Capitol to consider an $80 million allocation to the state’s colleges, among other proposals.

Georgia's Republican Party chairman Joshua McKoon speaks at the Georgia GOP Convention at the Columbus Convention & Trade Center in Columbus, Ga., on Friday, May 17, 2024. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Conservative media personality appointed to seat on Georgia State Election Board

A media personality who co-founded a conservative political action committee has been appointed to a seat on the Georgia State Election Board.

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., leaves federal court Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Witness at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial says meat-export monopoly made costs soar

A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial says the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt follows Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say Menendez arranged.

FILE - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, speaks from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, April 11, 2022. Since its creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits, political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government’s aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all. Now cleared of any legal ambiguity, Chopra told reporters Friday, May 17, 2024, that the bureau plans to increase the size of its enforcement bureau, hiring additional investigators, and has already filed legal motions on roughly a dozen cases pending against companies accused of wrongdoing that have been held up due to the pending Supreme Court case. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Vindicated by Supreme Court, CFPB director says bureau will add staff, consider new rules on banks

Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits, political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government’s aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all.

Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher holds a press conference encouraging the Senate to take action on a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder for voters to approve future amendments, Friday, May 17, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. The Senate, shortly afterward, adjourned without voting on the measure. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

GOP fighting, 50-hour Democratic filibuster kill push to make amending Missouri Constitution harder

Missouri Republican lawmakers have failed to pass a proposal to make it harder to amend the state constitution.

FILE- Michigan State Sen. Adam Hollier, D-Detroit, sits at his desk as the Michigan Senate considers bills in Lansing, Mich, Dec. 12, 2018. Fraudulent signatures could upend Michigan's Congressional races this year as all the declared GOP candidates for U.S. Senate face new calls to investigate their attempts to get on the August primary ballot and a Democratic U.S. House candidate appears likely to fall short. (Dale G.Young/Detroit News via AP, File)

Potential signature fraud in Michigan threatens to disrupt congressional races

Democratic groups are asking Michigan officials to investigate the nominating petitions of the GOP candidates in the U.S. Senate race.

FILE - Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell ends his news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Powell has tested positive for Covid-19 late Thursday, May 16, 2024, and is experiencing symptoms, according to a statement from a Fed spokesperson. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell working from home after testing positive for COVID-19

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing symptoms. Powell tested positive late Thursday.

FILE - Then-Maryland State Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby speaks during a news conference on Oct. 11, 2022, in Baltimore. Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury and mortgage fraud convictions, according to The Baltimore Sun. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Former top Baltimore prosecutor applies for presidential pardon

Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury and mortgage fraud convictions.

New Hampshire Senate tables bill inspired by state hospital shooting

A bipartisan bill drafted in the response to the fatal shooting of a New Hampshire Hospital security guard has hit a roadblock in the state Senate.

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 photo, Ralph Frasier speaks about being one of the first black undergraduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the 1950's, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Frasier, the final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina's flagship public university in the 1950s, died May 8, 2024, at age 85 at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., according to son Ralph Frasier Jr. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds, File)

Last student who helped integrate the University of North Carolina’s undergraduate body has died

The final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university has died.

Attorney John Eastman appears during his arraignment in Maricopa County Superior, Friday, May 17, 2024, in Phoenix. Eastman pleaded not guilty on Friday to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. (Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic via AP, Pool)

Attorney John Eastman pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona’s fake elector case

Attorney John Eastman has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

South Carolina Circuit Judge Daniel Coble listens to arguments on how do define "heartbeat" under the state's 2023 abortion law on Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Judge says South Carolina can enforce 6-week abortion ban amid dispute over when a heartbeat begins

A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law.

FILE - Oregon Representatives are sworn-in in Salem, Ore., on Jan. 12, 2015. Idaho voters are heading to the polls to decide primaries for the U.S. House and state legislature. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Oregon’s primaries

Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries upcoming, as well as some that will set the stage for high-profile races in November.

FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Georgia’s state primaries

Voters are heading back to the polls in Georgia, two months after helping Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump secure their parties’ nominations for president.

FILE - The exterior of the Kentucky Capitol is viewed April 7, 2021, in Frankfort, Ky. All of Donald Trump's top opponents for the Republican nomination for president dropped out of the race weeks ago, but the whole gang will be back together on Kentucky's primary ballot on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Kentucky’s primaries

All of Donald Trump’s top opponents for the Republican presidential nomination dropped out of the race weeks ago but will be back together on Kentucky’s primary ballot.

FILE - The Idaho state flag hangs in the State Capitol in Boise, Idaho, Jan. 9, 2023. Idaho voters are heading to the polls to decide primaries for the U.S. House and state legislature. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Idaho’s state primary and Democratic presidential caucus

Idaho voters are heading to the polls to decide primaries for the U.S. House and the state legislature.

Business owner Vianney Castro poses with a sign from the Hazleton mayoral race he lost last year at his tire store in Hazleton, Pa., on Thursday, May 16, 2024. About two-thirds of district students are Latino, and a federal lawsuit argues that the way representatives are elected to the Hazleton Area School Board is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)

Latinos found jobs and cheap housing in a Pennsylvania city but political power has proven elusive

A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania’s coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power.

FILE - National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre speaks during the Leadership Forum at the NRA-ILA Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center Friday, May 27, 2022, in Houston. The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting Friday, May 17, 2024, in downtown Dallas, gathering for the first time in decades without Wayne LaPierre at the helm, as board members prepare to elect his replacement. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, file)

NRA kicks off annual meeting as board considers successor to longtime leader Wayne LaPierre

The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting in downtown Dallas, gathering for the first time in decades without Wayne LaPierre at the helm as board members prepare to elect his replacement.

Earl Meyer wears his freshly awarded Purple Heart medal for combat injuries he received while serving in the Korean War, Friday, May 17, 2024 in St. Peter, Minn. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Army presents Purple Heart to Minnesota veteran 73 years after he was wounded in Korean War

After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart. The U.S.

FILE - In this image taken from San Francisco Police Department body-camera video, the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, right, fights for control of a hammer with his assailant David DePape during a brutal attack in the couple's San Francisco home, on Oct. 28, 2022. DePape convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer is set to be sentenced in federal court Friday, May 17, 2024. (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File)

Man gets 30 years in prison for attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer

A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer.

FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018. An upside-down American flag was displayed outside of Alito's home Jan. 17, 2021, days after former President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, The New York Times reports. It's a symbol associated with Trump's false claims of election fraud. "It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs," Alito said in an emailed statement to the newspaper. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Justice Alito’s home flew a US flag upside down after Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ claims, a report says

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin says Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election and the 2021 Capitol insurrection after a report about an upside-down American flag outside his home.

California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, a Democrat and chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, speaks to reporters on Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Sacramento, California. The committee decided the fate of hundreds of bills on Thursday. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)

Psychedelic therapy and workers’ rights bills fail to advance in California’s tough budget year

California lawmakers on Thursday voted to keep hundreds of bills from advancing for a floor vote during a tough budget year.

FILE - Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, walks from his office to the House chamber to vote on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Washington. During a court hearing, prosecutors and defence attorneys discussed whether classified documents might play a role in the trial of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Lawyers discuss role classified documents may play in bribery case against US Rep Cuellar of Texas

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have discussed in court whether classified documents might play a role in the trial of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas.