President Joe Biden boards Air Force One, March 11, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

When it comes to government planes and political trips, who pays for a president's campaign travel?

It's no simple matter to move the commander in chief from point A to B, and it's even more complicated when the president is seeking a second term.

Puerto Rico Republicans award Trump all 23 of their delegates

April 21
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks April 2 at a rally in Green Bay, Wis.
Puerto Rico's Republican Party held a district assembly on Sunday and awarded former President Donald Trump all 23 of their national delegates.

The House passes billions in aid for Ukraine and Israel after months of struggle. Next is the Senate

April 21
FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 2024.
The House has approved $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies in a rare weekend session as Democrats and Republicans banded together after months of hard-right resistance over renewed American support for repelling Russia's invasion.
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The Latest | 'Catch-and-kill' strategy to be a focus as testimony resumes in Trump hush money case

A veteran tabloid publisher was expected to return to the witness stand Tuesday in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial.
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Trump will meet with a senior Japanese official after court session in his hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he's in New York for his criminal hush money trial.
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Biden will assail Florida's 6-week abortion ban as he tries to boost his reelection odds

President Joe Biden is wading deeper into the fight over abortion rights that has energized Democrats since the fall of Roe v. Wade, traveling to Florida to assail the state's upcoming ban and similar restrictions that have imperiled access to care for pregnant women nationwide.
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Richmond Mayor Stoney drops Virginia governor bid, he will run for lieutenant governor instead

Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Tuesday that he is dropping his bid for Virginia governor in 2025 and will instead run for lieutenant governor.
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8:00am

What to know in the Supreme Court case about immunity for former President Trump

The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
Nation
7:45am

Trump could avoid trial this year on 2020 election charges. Is the hush money case a worthy proxy?

Former President Donald Trump faces serious charges in two cases over whether he attempted to subvert the Constitution by overturning the results of a fair election and illegally remain in power.
Nation
6:30am
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, right, appears in court with his attorney Todd Blanche for opening statements in his trial for allegedly covering

'Catch and kill' will be described to jurors in Donald Trump's hush money trial as testimony resumes

A longtime tabloid publisher was expected Tuesday to tell jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign as testimony resumes in the historic hush money trial of the former president.
Nation
6:28am

As Blinken heads to China, these are the major divides he will try to bridge

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is starting three days of talks with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing this week with U.S.-China ties at a critical point over numerous global disputes.
Politics
April 22

Pennsylvania's primary will cement Casey, McCormick as nominees in battleground US Senate race

Tuesday's Pennsylvania primaries will cement the lineup for a high-stakes U.S. Senate race between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick, a contest that is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and could help decide control of the Senate next year.
Nation
April 22

Mississippi lawmakers move toward restoring voting rights to 32 felons as broader suffrage bill dies

Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies, weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records.
Nation
April 22

Republican candidates vying for Indiana governor to take debate stage

Candidates seeking the Republican nomination for Indiana's next governor will take to the debate stage Tuesday night, two weeks ahead of the state's May 7 primary election.
Variety
April 22

Minnesota and other Democratic-led states lead pushback on censorship. They're banning the book ban

As a queer and out youth, Shae Ross was alarmed when she heard that conservative groups were organizing in her community to ban books dealing with sexuality, gender and race. So she and her friends got organized themselves, and helped persuade their school board to make it much harder to remove books and other materials from their libraries and classrooms.
Business
April 22

Trump called this visa 'very bad' for Americans. Truth Social applied for one

The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict during his administration and which many of his allies want him to curtail in a potential second term.
Business
April 22

California reject bill to crackdown on how utilities spend customers' money

California lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal aimed at cracking down on how some of the nation's largest utilities spend customers' money.
Nation
April 22

Seattle hospital won't turn over gender-affirming care records in lawsuit settlement with Texas

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday.
Nation
April 22
Former President Donald Trump sits in court on the first day of opening arguments in his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Monday, April

Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway

Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial.
Nation
April 22

Key takeaways from the opening statements in Donald Trump's hush money trial

Monday's opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts.
Business
April 22

Biden marks Earth Day by going after GOP, announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants

President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities — while criticizing Republicans who want to gut his policies to address climate change.
Nation
April 22

Prosecutors cancel warrant for lawmaker on primary eve, saying protective order hadn't been in place

A warrant for charges that a Democratic state representative from Philadelphia violated a protective order was withdrawn Monday — a day before he faces a contested primary — because police and prosecutors said they determined no such active protective order had been in place.
Business
April 22

Without cameras to go live, the Trump trial is proving the potency of live blogs as news tools

They watched from the courtroom or via closed-circuit television in an overflow room — roughly 140 reporters, most with laptops or other silenced electronic devices, serving up news at its most elemental and in rapid-fire fashion.

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