CALVIN WOODWARD

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump made big promises and moved at frenetic speed. 100 days in, here’s what he’s done and not done
The weeks since President Donald Trump returned to office have been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises. As Trump hits his 100th day in office Tuesday, his imprint is everywhere.
 
President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House en route to Florida, Friday, March 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump roars down multiple paths of retribution as he vowed. Some targets yield while others fight
In the early part of his second term, President Donald Trump has taken action against individuals, law firms, private corporations, media companies and universities he regards as adversaries.
 
A visitor to the city wearing a mask of President Donald Trump poses for a photo in front of a Canadian flag being held by tourists from Toronto showing their support for Canada regarding trade tariffs, in front of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
With Trump’s zigzag actions on trade, March came in like a lion and won’t be going out like a lamb
On the U.S. trade front, March came in like a lion and won’t be going out like a lamb. President Donald Trump has set in motion a tariff spree that expands or changes by the hour.
 
Jarrett Borden, a Florida resident, speaks about President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, in Hollywood, Fla., Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)
Trump’s next first speech to Congress is bound to have little resemblance to his last first one
When President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his words are bound to be far different from when he addressed lawmakers at the beginning of his first term.
 
President Donald Trump arrivals at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Trump moves with light speed and brute force in shaking the core of what America has been
President Donald Trump is moving with light speed and brute force to reshape America at home and abroad.
 
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump offered a bountiful batch of campaign promises that come due on Day 1
Donald Trump has given voters a hefty list of promises, and many of them come due right away. On many major issues, Trump promises to deliver on Day 1.
 
FILE — From left, former President George H.W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Jan. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Jimmy Carter had little use for the presidents club but formed a friendship for the ages with Ford
As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do important work for his successors, whether Democrat or Republican.
 
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump has vowed to shake some of democracy’s pillars
During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump was loud and clear on what he wants to do in another term. Some of his promises go to the core of democracy as Americans know it.
 
A text is viewed on a mobile device Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Washington, as across the U.S., people's phones are pinging with text messages from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies in the presidential campaign's final days. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Ping! Harris and Trump are blowing up your phones with political texts in campaign’s last days
Across the U.S., people’s phones are pinging with text messages from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies. Both sides are working the texting pipeline aggressively in the presidential campaign’s last days.
 
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak during a campaign rally at Erie Insurance Arena, in Erie, Pa., Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Harris and Trump say America tanks if they lose. So why the exuberance at their rallies?
Tune into a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris rally and you’ll hear a lot of grim talk. Trump pronounces his rivals evil and says they’re destroying the country. Harris calls Trump an existential threat to democracy and the foundations of American life.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
A tale of crushing security lapses and missed chances to stop the man who shot Trump
Investigations into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in July have revealed striking security lapses. But the questions have only grown since then.
 
Police crime scene vehicles are seen at Trump International Golf Club after police closed off the area following the apparent assassination attempt of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
Trump was on the links taking a breather from the campaign. Then the Secret Service saw a rifle
Sunday was to be a day of relative rest for Donald Trump, rare this deep into a presidential campaign. Aside from sounding off on social media, golf was on his agenda.
 
Sheena Carey laughs as she watches the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
To pumped-up Democrats, Harris was everything Biden was not in confronting Trump in debate
Across the U.S., Democrats came away from watching the latest presidential debate more exuberant than Republicans. Many at watch parties, bars, churches and other debate-watching venues scored it a clean win for Vice President Kamala Harris.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden attends an event on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Washington, July 11, 2024. Insiders who were close to Joe Biden's struggles are describing a president who was dogged in his determination to keep his candidacy alive, but ultimately not in denial about the odds. A number of firsthand observers of Biden's crisis say he was privately contemplative during his days of decision, before announcing Sunday, July 21, that he was quitting the presidential race. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden passed that torch slowly, hanging on until the wheels finally came off
Insiders who were close to Joe Biden’s struggles are describing a president who was dogged in his determination to keep his candidacy alive — but ultimately not in denial about the odds.
 
FILE - This combo image shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, March 9, 2024 and President Joe Biden, right, Jan. 27, 2024. It hasn’t happened in almost anyone’s lifetime: two presidents squaring off in one election. Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, have track records in office that voters will judge alongside their promises. (AP Photo, File)
Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues in 2024’s rare contest between two presidents
It hasn’t happened in almost anyone’s lifetime: two presidents squaring off in one election. Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, have track records in office that voters will judge alongside their promises.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally in Raleigh, N.C., June. 28, 2024. It's been two weeks since Biden's debate with Donald Trump and there's rampant gloom in the party about Biden's chances in the fall if he stays in the race. On Thursday, July 11, the 11th lawmaker joined the list of Democrats calling on Biden to end his candidacy. After days of reckoning, many more are known to be harboring that wish. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)
Two weeks that imperiled Biden’s presidency left him on probation in the court of Democratic opinion
It’s been two weeks since President Joe Biden’s debate with Donald Trump and Democrats are torn over what to do about their predicament. There’s rampant gloom in the party about Biden’s chances in the fall if he stays in the race.
 
Jocardo Ralston, 47, from Pennsylvania, looks up to a television to watch the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at Tillie's Lounge on Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Despair in the air: For many voters, the Biden-Trump debate means a tough choice just got tougher
For many voters in the United States, there’s despair in the air after the presidential debate this past week.
 
Lori Lahrmann left, and Tonya Morris, second from left, both from Cincinnati, watch the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at Tillie's Lounge on Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Cincinnati. Both plan to vote for President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Debate-watchers in the Biden and Trump camps seem to agree on something: Biden had a bad night
Americans have gathered in watch parties, bars, a bowling alley and other venues to watch Joe Biden and Donald Trump go head-to-head in their debate.
 
Supporter of former President Donald Trump, Mark Harvey, demonstrates near Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Trump carries the stain of conviction like a crown. Will the verdict matter to voters?
Back in 2016, Donald Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters because of it. Time has shown that his supporters are indeed loyal to the core.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden talks with the U.S. Border Patrol and local officials, as he looks over the southern border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues in 2024’s rare contest between two presidents
It hasn’t happened in almost anyone’s lifetime: two presidents squaring off in one election. Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, have track records in office that voters will judge alongside their promises.
 
Mike Feinsilber poses for a portrait on Oct. 10, 2007. Feinsilber, whose masterful way with words and mischievous wit enlivened American journalism for five decades, the bulk of them at The Associated Press, died Monday, April 1, 2024. He was 89, a month short of his wish to make it to 90. (AP Photo)
Mike Feinsilber fought the epic AP-UPI rivalry from both camps with wit and grace
A veteran of the epic wire service rivalry between The Associated Press and United Press International has died. Mike Feinsilber was 89.
 
FILE - Archivist of the U.S John Carlin stands behind a 1947 Harry Truman presidential diary, July 10, 2003, at the National Archives in Washington. Presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden have kept presidential diaries. In them, they confide in themselves, express raw opinions, trace even the humdrum habits of their day and offer insight-on-the-fly on monumental decisions of their time. It's where they may also spill secrets they shouldn't. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw — even the naked — and may have secrets to tell
Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, America’s president stripped naked on a rock by the river, plunged in and saw a dead man float to the surface. We know this about John Quincy Adams because he kept a diary.
 
FILE - This is an undated photo of Associated Press Washington reporter Larry Knutson. Knutson, a longtime Associated Press writer whose deep knowledge of the presidency, Congress and American history made him an institution in his own right, has died Saturday, Dec. 16. 2023. He was 87. (AP Photo, File)
AP’s Lawrence Knutson, who covered Washington’s transcendent events for nearly 4 decades, has died
A longtime Associated Press writer, whose deep knowledge of the presidency, Congress and American history made him an institution in his own right, has died. Lawrence L. Knutson was 87.
 
FILE - Del. Danica Roem, D-Prince William, speaks during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., April 3, 2019. Roem is accustomed to opponents using her transgender identity as a cudgel in Virginia legislative races. After two comfortable reelection wins in Virginia's House of Delegates, Roem won a seat in the state Senate. That helped Democrats get a legislative lock in Virginia, complicating Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s social conservative agenda. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Danica Roem breaks through in Virginia Senate by focusing on road rage and not only anti-trans hate
Danica Roem is accustomed to opponents using her transgender identity as a cudgel in Virginia legislative races.
 
Dale Swanson, chair of the Spotsylvania County GOP, displays an official GOP sample ballot she was handing out at an early voting location in Fredericksburg, Va., on Oct. 17, 2023, while lamenting a campaign that is seeing "dirty tricks being played all over the place." She and Democrats alike were upset that a candidate for Spotsylvania County clerk of court was distributing sample ballots that resembled those of the parties, until a judge barred him from doing so. Swanson said civility is lacking in many races for local offices, including school boards, and "we need a better, kinder America." (AP Photo/Cal Woodward)
Virginia school board elections face a pivotal moment as a cozy corner of democracy turns toxic
Over the past three years, local school board elections have become the place where America’s deep political divisions are on full display.
 
Noah Burden, 28, poses for a portrait outside his apartment complex, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Alexandria, Va. Burden, a communications consultant in Alexandria, thinks Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both too old to be president. He says leaders in their 70s or 80s stand for "a sense of values and sense of the country and the world that just isn’t accurate anymore.” In a new AP-NORC poll, 77% say Biden is too old to be effective in a second term. Fewer worry about Trump’s age but voters have other problems with him. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds. Trump has problems of his own
A new poll finds rare agreement across partisan lines and in this case President Joe Biden is the unifying figure, though not the way he would prefer to be. A hefty 77% in the AP-NORC poll say Biden is too old to be effective in a second term.
 
Members of the Daniels drag family pose for a photograph during their "Daniels Family Values" drag show at the Heritage Restaurant in Shamokin, Pa., Saturday, April 16, 2022. They are, from left, Xander Valentine, aka Gwen Bobbie; Harpy Daniels, aka Joshua Kelley; Alexus Daniels, Tequila Daniels, aka Tony Nahodil, and Trixy Valentine, aka Jacob Kelley. Lawmakers in many red states are pushing to restrict drag, yet deep in Pennsylvania coal country, performers in the Daniels drag family are firmly woven in the fabric of the larger community. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Drag queens are out, proud and loud in a string of coal towns, from a bingo hall to blue-collar bars
In red communities across America, lawmakers are pushing to restrict drag performances or LGBTQ+ rights.
 
FILE - President Bill Clinton, right, watches as a young American Bald Eagle named Freedom is released into the wild along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist Craig Koppe during an Independence Day ceremony at Patuxent Naval Air Station, Md., July 4, 1996. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)
July Fourth for presidents has been a day for golf, fishing, speeches and one perilous stomachache
Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve bailed to the beach, the mountains, the golf course, the farm, the ranch.
 
World races to contain new COVID threat, the omicron variant
The world is racing to contain a new coronavirus variant that is potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled waves of infection on nearly every continent.
 
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s virus revisionism; Biden on the hoax
President Donald Trump is claiming that coronavirus deaths in the U.S. are running lower than projections. An AP Fact Check finds that’s wrong.
 
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