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President Joe Biden, second from right, is greeted by alumni of Morehouse College including Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., from left, Marlon Kimpson, a member of the advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations in the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., upon arriving at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden delivering Morehouse commencement address during a time of tumult on US college campuses

President Joe Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically Black, male-only institution in Atlanta.
 
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the National Rifle Association Convention, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Trump receives NRA endorsement as he vows to protect gun rights

 
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to supporters during a campaign stop, Monday, May 13, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Here’s how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could make the first debate stage under stringent Biden-Trump rules

 
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

 
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

 

GOP advances Garland contempt charges after White House exerts executive privilege over Biden audio

Two House committees moved ahead with contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to turn over audio from Pres. Biden’s interview with a special counsel, after the White House’s decision to block release of the recording.
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Ships anchor off coast of Gaza Strip after US military says it has completed pier for delivering aid

White House says Pres. Joe Biden expresses alarm and deep concern over the shooting of Slovakia’s PM

Blinken lands in Poland en route to Ukraine to tout US support

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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

The two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week are good news for CNN and ABC News.
 
FILE - Claire Woodall executive director of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, teaches a class to poll workers Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in Milwaukee. On Friday, May 17, 2024 The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming the Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director was fired in recent days for her role in rigging the 2020 presidential election.(AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Milwaukee’s director of elections was not removed from her position for vote rigging in the 2020 presidential election.
 
Chinese migrants wait to be processed after crossing the border with Mexico Wednesday, May 8, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April, according to U.S. figures, the fifth region to hold that title in two years in a sign of how quickly migration routes are changing. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

New immigration court docket aims to speed up removals of newly arrived migrants

The Biden administration is creating a new process aimed at cutting the time it takes to decide the fates of newly arrived migrants in immigration courts from years to roughly six months.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies' 30th annual gala, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden marks Brown v. Board of Education anniversary amid signs of erosion in Black voter support

President Joe Biden has marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck down institutionalized racial segregation in public schools by welcoming plaintiffs and their family members in the landmark case to the White House.
 
FILE - A truck carrying 250 tons of coal hauls the fuel to the surface of the Spring Creek mine, April 4, 2013, near Decker, Mont. The Biden administration is proposing to end new coal leases from federal lands in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, which includes Spring Creek. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

US proposes ending new federal leases in nation’s biggest coal region

The Biden administration has proposed an end to new coal leasing from federal reserves in the most productive coal mining region of the U.S.
 
FILE - Cannabis clones are displayed for customers at Home Grown Apothecary, April 19, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The Justice Department has formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift to generations of drug policy in the United States. A proposed rule sent Thursday to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift

The Justice Department has formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy.
 
FILE - Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announces measures he is supporting to improve public safety during a news conference, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Annapolis, Md. Moore signed a bill into law on Thursday, May 167, 2024, to create a new statewide center to help prevent gun violence. The governor described it as the first of its kind since the White House urged states to form their own centers to better focus efforts to stop gun violence. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

Maryland governor signs bill to create statewide gun center

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed a bill into law to create a new statewide center to help prevent gun violence.
 
From left, GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., speak to reporters about President Joe Biden pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies

House Republicans are delivering a rebuke to President Joe Biden for putting a pause on a shipment of bombs to Israel that could be used in an assault on Rafah.
 
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks during the House Judiciary Committee markup hearing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, Thursday, May 16, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

GOP advances Garland contempt charges after White House exerts executive privilege over Biden audio

Two House committees have moved ahead with contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to turn over audio from President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel.
 
FILE - A cameraman is silhouetted against an an American flag during preparations for the presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Sept. 25, 2016. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has planned presidential faceoffs in every election since 1988, has an uncertain future after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump struck an agreement to meet on their own. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

The Commission on Presidential Debates faces an uncertain future after Biden and Trump bypassed it

Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s whirlwind agreement to meet for two presidential debates has upended the way the forums have been organized for nearly four decades.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in support of changing the Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, at Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College's commencement. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden’s upcoming graduation speech roils Morehouse College, a center of Black politics and culture

President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College’s commencement.
 

Judge says Delaware vanity plate rules allow viewpoint discrimination and are unconstitutional

A federal judge says Delaware’s vanity license plate program is unconstitutional because it allows for viewpoint discrimination by officials in deciding whether to approve applications.
 
FILE - A Federal Aviation Administration sign hangs in the tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, March 16, 2017. Congressional negotiators have agreed on a $105 billion bill designed to improve the safety of air travel after a series of close calls between planes at the nation’s airports. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

House signs off on FAA bill that addresses aircraft safety and the refund rights of passengers

Congress has passed a bill that is designed to add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories and to give air travelers automatic refunds for canceled or long-delayed flights.
 

Interior Dept staffer becomes first Jewish Biden appointee to publicly resign over war in Gaza

An Interior Department staffer has become the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
 
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)

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

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to participate in two general election debates: One in June and one in September.
 
President Joe Biden speaks during a memorial service to honor law enforcement officers who've lost their lives in the past year, during National Police Week ceremonies at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border. It's an interim step as President Joe Biden continues to mull a broader executive order to crack down on border crossings that may come later this year.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Biden administration is planning more changes to quicken asylum processing for new migrants

The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border.
 
FILE- Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, left, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao in Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 13, 2024. The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of the island’s democratically elected president. The move is certain to upset China but unlikely to draw excessive responses from Beijing as the two countries try to stabilize relations. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)

US will send an unofficial delegation as Taiwan’s president is sworn in. It’ll test ties with China

The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of the island’s democratically elected president.
 

CNX plans $1.5B hydrogen fuels plant at Pittsburgh airport, but wants federal tax credit to build it

Natural gas producer CNX Resources says it plans to build a $1.5 billion facility at Pittsburgh’s airport to make hydrogen-based fuels.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies' 30th annual gala, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden administration is moving ahead on new $1 billion arms sale to Israel, congressional aides say

It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer on hold earlier in the month.
 
President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, announcing plans to impose major new tariffs on electric vehicles, semiconductors, solar equipment and medical supplies imported from China. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

New US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries and solar cells could raise consumer prices

New tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and batteries, solar cells, medical equipment and other goods are intended to protect U.S. jobs and manufacturers.
 
FILE - In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) and sailors attached to the MV Roy P. Benavidez assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea on April 26, 2024. The pier is part of the Army's Joint Logistics Over The Shore (JLOTS) system which provides critical bridging and water access capabilities. (U.S. Army via AP, file)

The US is wrapping up a pier to bring aid to Gaza by sea. But danger and uncertainty lie ahead

In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock into a beach in northern Gaza.
 
President Joe Biden sits down to sign a document in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, imposing major new tariffs on electric vehicles, semiconductors, solar equipment and medical supplies imported from China. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden is slapping a 102% tariff on Chinese EVs

President Joe Biden says in defending his new tariffs on Chinese products that China’s government subsidies ensure its companies don’t have to turn a profit, giving them an unfair advantage in global trade.
 
FILE - The entrance to F.E. Warren Air Force Base is pictured May 24, 2018, in Cheyenne, Wyo. President Joe Biden on Monday, May 13, 2024, issued an order blocking a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining firm from owning land near the Wyoming nuclear missile base. The order forces the divestment of property operated as a crypto mining facility near the base. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

Biden blocks Chinese-backed crypto mining firm from land ownership near Wyoming missile base

President Joe Biden on Monday issued an order blocking a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining firm from owning land near a Wyoming nuclear missile base, calling its proximity to the base a “national security risk.”
 
FILE - Wind turbines work in Livermore, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022. Federal energy regulators on Monday, May 13, 2024, approved a long-awaited rule to expand the amount of renewable energy such as wind and solar power that is transmitted to the electric grid, a key part of President Joe Biden’s goal to decarbonize the economy by 2050. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

US energy panel approves rule to expand transmission of renewable power

Federal energy regulators have approved a rule to expand the amount of renewable energy such as wind and solar power that is transmitted to the electric grid.
 
FILE - President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in Rochester, Minn. Former President Donald Trump’s planned campaign visit to Minnesota will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state he has long argued he could carry. Trump will take a break from his hush money trial in New York to speak at a Minnesota GOP fundraiser Friday. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn, File)

Trump will stump in Minnesota, traditionally blue state he insists he can win. Is it really in play?

Former President Donald Trump’s planned campaign visit to Minnesota will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state he has long argued he could carry.
 
FILE - Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, in foreground, speaks as West Virginia gubernatorial candidates, from left, Mac Warner, Chris Miller, moderator and MetroNews Radio host Hoppy Kercheval and Moore Capito participate in a GOP debate held at The Resort at Glade Springs, Feb. 6, 2024, in Daniels, W.Va. When West Virginia Republicans vote in the primary on Tuesday, May 14, they will have a hard time finding a major candidate on the ballot in any statewide race who openly acknowledges that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. (Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald via AP, File)

Election deniers: West Virginia voters must pick from GOP candidates who still dispute 2020 outcome

West Virginia Republican primary voters will have a hard time finding a major candidate on the ballot in any statewide race who openly acknowledges President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks, May 2, 2024, in Wilmington, N.C. In recent appearances around the country, Biden has been betting that reminding voters about Donald Trump's presidency and highlighting his Republican opponent's latest campaign statements will work to the Democratic president's advantage. He wants the 2024 election to be a referendum on Trump's record and plans, but he also wants voters to look favorably on his own policies and actions. (AP Photo/David Yeazell, File)

Joe Biden wants to remind 2024 voters of a record and an agenda. Often it’s Donald Trump’s

President Joe Biden is running for reelection on a record and an agenda, and it’s often Donald Trump’s that he’s citing.
 
FILE - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to supporters during a campaign event, April 13, 2024, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Former President Donald Trump is known for leveling constant and often personal attacks on top rivals such as Joe Biden. Lately, he's increasingly turned that same caustic approach toward Kennedy Jr. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Trump is increasingly directing personal attacks against independent rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Donald Trump is known for leveling constant and often personal attacks on top rivals such as Joe Biden.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during his campaign rally in Wildwood, N.J., Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump tells Jersey Shore crowd he’s being forced to endure ‘Biden show trial’ in hush money case

Blasting the Democratic president “a total moron,” Trump before a crowd of tens of thousands repeatedly characterized the cases against him as politically motivated and timed to harm his ability to campaign.
 

Federal judge temporarily halts Biden plan to lower credit card late fees to $8

A federal judge in Texas temporarily halted a plan by the Biden administration to lower late fees on credit cards to $8 that was slated to go into effect next week.
 
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