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Migrants wait to climb over concertina wire after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas immigration ruling puts spotlight on nation’s most conservative federal appeals court

The federal appeals court that heard arguments over a Texas law that would allow the state to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally is a favorite for Republicans.

FILE - Tom Duffy of Clairton raises his fist as hundreds of United Steelworkers rally and march on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Clairton, Pa. The United Steelworkers Union has endorsed President Joe Biden Wednesday, March 20, 2024, giving him support from another large labor union. (Steph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, File)

United Steelworkers union endorses Biden, giving him more labor support in presidential race

FILE - A woman votes in the presidential primary election in Kansas City, Mo., on March 10, 2020. Missouri Democrats and unaffiliated voters will participate Saturday, March 23, 2024, in the state's first party-run presidential primary since Republican lawmakers canceled the state-run presidential primary in 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Missouri’s Democratic presidential primary

FILE - President Joe Biden drives a Cadillac Lyriq through the show room during a tour at the Detroit Auto Show, Sept. 14, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EPA issues new auto rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, boosting electric vehicles and hybrids

President Joe Biden poses for a photo with Hurley "HJ" Coleman IV and his father Hurley Coleman III, left, as he arrives for a campaign event at Pleasant View Golf Club in Saginaw, Mich., Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden skipped visiting a Black church on his recent Michigan trip, angering some community leaders

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Biden touts ‘landmark agreement’ with Intel in battleground state of Arizona

House leadership criticizes other party’s presidential presumptive nominees as election looms

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President Joe Biden listens to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, left, as Intel factory manager Hugh Green listens, during a tour of the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Ariz., Wednesday March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden touts Arizona as America’s ‘future’ as government invests $8.5 billion in chipmaker Intel

President Joe Biden is celebrating an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants around the country.

FILE - Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speaks to the media in Greeneville, Tenn., Feb. 13, 2024. A Biden administration plan to promote diversity and equity in workplace apprenticeship programs is facing pushback from Republican attorneys general in two-dozen states who assert it amounts to race-based discrimination. Skrmetti released a statement on behalf of 24 states that submitted comments in opposition to the proposal by a Monday, March 18, 2024, deadline. (Brianna Paciorka/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP, File)

GOP state attorneys push back on Biden’s proposed diversity rules for apprenticeship programs

Republican attorneys general in two dozen states are pushing back against a proposed Biden administration rule that seeks to expand diversity in apprenticeship programs.

FILE - President Joe Biden meets with UAW members during a campaign stop at a phone bank in the UAW Region 1 Union Hall, Feb. 1, 2024, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden casts the election as prom night for the voters who ‘brung me to the dance’

When President Joe Biden talks to his supporters, he can make the presidential election sound like a high school prom.

Tony Bobulinski left, and Lev Parnas are sworn in before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. An empty chair center, reserved for Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, who did not show for the hearing. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Republicans make last-ditch request for Biden to testify as impeachment inquiry winds down

The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is winding down as Republicans have yet to find hard evidence of presidential wrongdoing. But Rep.

Retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, center, speaks with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, left, as the panel holds a hearing on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top former US generals say failures of Biden administration in planning drove chaotic fall of Kabul

The former top military chief Gen. Mark Milley and former head of U.S. Central Command testified before Congress Tuesday on policy failures by the Biden administration to adequately plan for or direct an evacuation in time to avoid the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant, Nov. 17, 2021, in Detroit. The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed limits in the next few years but reach the same strict standards outlined by the Environmental Protection Agency last year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

As electric vehicle sales slow, US relaxes plans for stricter auto emissions standards for a while

The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed tailpipe limits for three years but eventually reach the same strict standards set out by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden and congressional leaders announce a deal on government funding as a partial shutdown looms

President Joe Biden and congressional leaders have reached an agreement on this fiscal year’s final set of spending bills.

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at El Portal restaurant Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden tells Latino voters they’re the reason he defeated Trump in 2020 and says, ‘I need you back’

President Joe Biden is appealing to Latino voters, telling them they’re the reason he defeated Donald Trump in 2020 and urging them to help him do it again in November.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump pauses to speak after voting in the Florida primary election in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Biden and Trump notch more wins Tuesday as primary voters urge them to keep up the fight

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are moving closer to a November rematch, as primary voters around the country urge their favored candidate to keep up the fight and worry about what might happen if their side loses this fall.

Japan's Prime Minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party Fumio Kishida delivers a speech during the party's convention in Tokyo Sunday, March 17, 2024. (Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden to host Japan PM Kishida, Philippines President Marcos for White House summit

President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month.

FILE - Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan leaves the Fulton County Courthouse, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. Duncan said Monday, March 18, 2024, that he would not run as a third-party candidate affiliated with No Labels, a political group that's considering launching an independent campaign for the White House. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File)

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan will not run with No Labels as it seeks a 2024 candidate

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan has ruled out a 2024 No Labels presidential bid. The Republican had been in communication with No Labels in recent weeks about running for the White House under the centrist group’s banner and was a leading contender in its push to recruit a presidential nominee.

FILE - People vote at the Milwaukee County Sports Complex, Nov. 3, 2020, in Franklin, Wis. Early voting begins Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Wisconsin for a host of local races, two proposed constitutional amendments that could alter how future elections are run and the-now anticlimactic presidential primary. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Early voting to start in Wisconsin for president and constitutional amendments

Early voting will begin in Wisconsin for a host of local races, two proposed constitutional amendments that could alter how future elections are run and the now anticlimactic presidential primary.

FILE - Asbestos Removal Technologies Inc., job superintendent Ryan Laitila, right, sprays amended water as job forman Megan Eberhart holds a light during asbestos abatement in Howell, Mich., Oct. 18, 2017. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products.

President Joe Biden speaks during a St. Patrick's Day reception in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Biden signs executive order on advancing study of women’s health while chiding ‘backward’ GOP ideas

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at advancing the study of women’s health by strengthening data collection and providing better funding opportunities for biomedical research.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks at the third Summit for Democracy, in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 18, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken tells democracy summit that technology must sustain democratic values

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has underscored the need to ensure that technologies sustain democratic values.

A person waves an Irish flag while watching the St. Patrick's Day parade, Sunday, March 17, 2024, in Boston's South Boston neighborhood. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston celebrates St. Patrick’s Day; Biden holds White House brunch with Irish leader

While some American cities celebrated St. Patrick’s Day a day early, others, including Boston, one of the most Irish cities in the country, kicked off parades and festivities on Sunday.

From left, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, President Joe Biden, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walk down the steps following the annual St. Patrick's Day gathering at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden campaign has amassed $155M in cash on hand for 2024 campaign and raised $53M last month

President Joe Biden’s campaign has amassed $155 million in cash on hand for the 2024 election, far exceeding the in-hand total for his Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden meets with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says at DC dinner that of 2 presidential candidates, 1 was mentally unfit. ‘The other’s me’

President Joe Biden attended the annual Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner this weekend, the first time during his presidency.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Trump ramps up dark rhetoric in Ohio stump speech for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno

Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.

FILE - In this image provided by The White House, President Joe Biden speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone from his private residence in Wilmington, Del., Dec. 30, 2021. Biden's sprawling home outside downtown Wilmington, has a special place in his heart. When he met special prosecutor Robert Hur to talk about the sensitive documents he’d improperly kept after his vice presidency, Biden told Hur three times he is a “frustrated architect.” (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP, File)

The Hur interview transcript offers a window into the life of ‘frustrated architect’ Joe Biden

President Joe Biden’s sprawling home outside downtown Wilmington, Delaware, has a special place in his heart. Some might call it an obsession.

FILE - Fat Joe arrives at a premiere, Feb. 13, 2024, in Los Angeles. Vice President Kamala Harris says it's “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States. Harris commented at the White House on Friday, March 15, as she and Grammy-nominated rapper Fat Joe led a roundtable discussion on easing marijuana penalties. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Vice President Harris and rapper Fat Joe team up for discussion on easing marijuana penalties

Vice President Kamala Harris says it’s “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States.

FILE - Retire Congress North Dakota Chairman Jared Hendrix, left, and U.S. Term Limits National Field Director Scott Tillman look over petitions they submitted for a North Dakota congressional age limit ballot initiative on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe's office on Friday, March 15, announced the initiated measure will appear on the June 11 election ballot for voters to decide. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)

North Dakota voters will decide whether 81 is too old to serve in Congress

North Dakota voters will decide in June whether to prevent people from running for Congress if they’re old enough to turn 81 during their House or Senate term.

FILE - Construction continues at the Thacker Pass lithium mine on April 24, 2023, near Orovada, Nev. The Biden administration has agreed to provide a $2.26 billion conditional loan to Lithium Americas, Thursday, March 14, 2024, to help cover construction costs of a processing facility at its giant lithium mine in the works in northern Nevada near the Oregon line. (AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer, File)

Energy Department conditionally approves $2.26 billion loan for huge lithium mine in Nevada

President Joe Biden’s administration has agreed to provide a $2.26 billion conditional loan for a huge lithium mine in Nevada.

President Joe Biden meets with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Hosting Ireland’s prime minister, Biden celebrates his Irish roots (as he likes to do)

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up this weekend, President Joe Biden is dwelling on one of his favorite subjects: Ireland.

President Joe Biden meets with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden backs Schumer after senator calls for new elections in Israel

President Joe Biden is expressing support for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel.

FILE - This combo image shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, March 9, 2024 and President Joe Biden, right, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the Tuesday presidential and state primaries

Voting in the races for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations happens again Tuesday.

President Joe Biden arrives at the White House from a campaign trip to Michigan, Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

White House encourages House Republicans to ‘move on’ from their Biden impeachment effort

President Joe Biden’s top White House lawyer is encouraging Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to end his chamber’s efforts to impeach the Democratic president over unproven claims he benefited from the business dealings of his son and brother.

FILE - A home under construction marked as "SOLD" at a development in Eagleville, Pa., is shown on Friday, April 28, 2023. The United States is slogging through a housing affordability crisis that was decades in the making. The shortage pours cold water on President Joe Biden's assurances that the U.S. economy is strong and underscores the degree to which Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, has largely overlooked the issue. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Why are so many voters frustrated by the US economy? It’s home prices

Going into this election year, the United States is slogging through a housing affordability crisis.

This combination photo shows Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Jan. 18, 2024, from left, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Dec. 13, 2023, and Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears on Sept. 1, 2021. Many GOP leaders in battleground states are offering former President Donald Trump only tepid support, or not endorsing him at all, in the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo)

These Republicans won states that Trump lost in 2020. Their endorsements are lukewarm (or withheld)

Former President Donald Trump dominated the Republican presidential primaries on his way to a third consecutive nomination.

FILE - Demonstrators shut down the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge in conjunction with the APEC Summit taking place Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. Seventy-eight protesters were ordered Thursday, March 14, 2024, do five hours of community service and pay restitution to avoid criminal proceedings for allegedly blocking traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for hours in November to demand a cease-fire in Gaza, prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

San Francisco protesters who blocked bridge to demand cease-fire will avoid criminal proceedings

Seventy-eight protesters have been ordered to do five hours of community service and pay restitution to avoid criminal proceedings for allegedly blocking traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for hours in November to demand a cease-fire in Gaza.