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FILE - A marquee promoting a fundraiser with President Joe Biden is on display outside the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. With an election year around the corner, Biden is accelerating his fundraising to prepare for an astronomically expensive campaign. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Peek inside Joe Biden’s campaign fundraisers, where big money mingles with old jokes in swanky homes
President Joe Biden is stepping up his fundraising as he prepares for an astronomically expensive reelection campaign. So what’s it like inside these intimate gatherings where money equals access to the world’s most powerful man?
 
President Joe Biden arrives at Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, Calif., Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., third from left, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, right, look on. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden is launching a Hollywood fundraising blitz to tap into star power with strikes over TEST
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are in California for six fundraising events and meetings this weekend, as they hope to rake in record-breaking campaign contributions.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at the Carpenters International Training Center with union workers Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Lucas Peltier)
Biden dings Trump on infrastructure, while he showcases $8.2B for 10 major rail projects
President Joe Biden has used a visit to Las Vegas to say he’s “putting high-speed rail on the fast track.” He also has used the moment to blast former President Donald Trump — his likely 2024 challenger — as a do-nothing politician.
 
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Harris dashed to Dubai to tackle climate change and war. Each carries high political risks at home
Vice President Kamala Harris flew to the Middle East to tackle climate change and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two challenges that have flummoxed White Houses for decades.
 
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Harris focuses on shaping a post-conflict Gaza during a diplomatic blitz in Dubai with Arab leaders
Vice President Kamala Harris has engaged in a quick round of diplomacy with Arab leaders while attending the U.N. climate summit in the United Arab Emirates.
 
FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the White House, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. Harris will face two delicate tasks when she attends a climate summit this weekend in Dubai. She'll be trying to demonstrate U.S. environmental leadership despite President Joe Biden's absence from the annual gathering on climate change. And she'll meet with regional leaders to work to nudge forward fragile efforts to shape the next phase of the war between Israel and Hamas.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Harris heads to Dubai to tackle delicate tasks of talking climate and Israel-Hamas war
Vice President Kamala Harris will face two delicate tasks when she attends a climate summit this weekend in Dubai.
 
President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade towards the Oval Office after pardoning the national Thanksgiving turkeys, Liberty and Bell, during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Biden celebrated his 81st birthday on Monday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age. At the same time, the White House is strongly defending his stamina and playing down polling, suggesting that the issue could cost him votes during next year’s election. Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden celebrates his 81st birthday with jokes as the White House stresses his experience and stamina
President Joe Biden is celebrating his 81st birthday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age. At the same time, the White House is strongly defending his stamina and playing down polling suggesting that the issue could cost him votes during next year’s election.
 
FILE - Clear protective panels stand onstage between lecterns as preparations take place for the second Presidential debate at Belmont University, Oct. 21, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Three debates for next year's presidential general election are set to be held in college towns in Texas, Virginia and Utah between Sept. 16 and Oct. 9, with the lone vice presidential debate happening in-between in Pennsylvania — though whether the Republican nominee will participate remains to be seen. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that presidential candidates will first be scheduled to meet Sept. 16. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Three general election debates are scheduled for 2024. Neither party has committed to attending
Three debates for next year’s presidential general election are set to be held in college towns in Texas, Virginia and Utah between Sept. 16 and Oct. 9. Whether either party’s candidate will participate, however, remains to be seen.
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Family Leader's Thanksgiving Family Forum, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
DeSantis won’t condemn Musk for endorsing an antisemitic post. ‘I did not see the comment,’ he says
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk’s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
 
President Joe Biden speaks with service members and their relatives at the Norfolk Naval Station on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, in Norfolk, Va. President Biden is visiting naval installations in Virginia for an early kickoff to the Thanksgiving holiday week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The Bidens start Thanksgiving early by serving dinner and showing ‘Wonka’ to service members
President Joe Biden is visiting naval installations in Virginia for an early kickoff to the Thanksgiving holiday week.
 
President Joe Biden walks out of Jos A. Bank in Greenville, Del., Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden says ‘revitalized Palestinian Authority’ should eventually govern Gaza and the West Bank
President Joe Biden says that achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is not peace” and that an important key to lasting stability is a reunited Gaza Strip and West Bank that can be governed under “a revitalized Palestinian Authority.”
 
The Democratic National Committee headquarters is seen in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, the morning after U.S. Capitol Police and protesters clashed outside during a demonstration for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Scores of Democratic representatives and candidates, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, were inside at the time. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The protests outside DNC headquarters signal the divides in Biden’s base over Israel-Hamas war
National Democrats this year have insisted the party is united and ready to rally around President Joe Biden heading into next year’s election.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden meets with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo in the Oval Office of the White House, Nov. 13, 2023, in Washington. Biden has announced five nominees to federal judgeships, including the first Muslim-American on any circuit court. The Democratic president is looking to add to more than 150 of his judicial selections that have already been confirmed to the bench. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Biden announces 5 federal judicial nominees and stresses their varied professional backgrounds
President Joe Biden has announced five nominees to federal judgeships, including the first Muslim-American on any circuit court. The Democratic president wants to add to more than 150 of his judicial selections who’ve already been confirmed.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Nov. 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia. As President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping prepare to meet at the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, basic information has remained guarded. That could ratchet up the pressure on how each side negotiates, down to the smallest detail. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Biden and Xi are set to meet next week at the APEC summit. No detail is too small to sweat
President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are preparing to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this coming week in San Francisco. So far, basic information about Wednesday’s planned get-together has remained guarded.
 
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters after filing President Joe Biden's paperwork to appear on South Carolina's 2024 Democratic presidential primary, on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Harris files paperwork putting Biden on South Carolina’s ballot to kick off 2024 Democratic primary
Vice President Kamala Harris has flown to South Carolina to file paperwork putting President Joe Biden on the 2024 presidential ballot of the state that will lead off the Democratic presidential primary.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during an event about high speed internet infrastructure, in the East Room of the White House, June 26, 2023, in Washington. The White House is releasing a strategy to potentially expand the availability of radio spectrum needed for cellphones, satellites, navigation, space travel and other emerging technologies. The increasingly digitized and mobile economy has put pressure on the available range of frequencies used for wireless communication. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Biden’s team says progress on big public works projects may hinge on the outcome of the 2024 vote
The Biden administration says it’s started 40,000 construction projects since the passage of major infrastructure legislation two years ago.
 
President Joe Biden listens as he meets with Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A year from 2024 election, Biden strategy memo says he’ll revive 2020 themes, draw contrast to Trump
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is taking stock one year out from Election Day and thinks it can hold the White House by framing the 2024 race around many of the same themes it used in 2020.
 
President Joe Biden salutes as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, en route to Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jess Rapfogel)
Voters are skeptical of Biden’s age. But Trump’s notable flubs risk drawing unwelcome attention, too
President Joe Biden is 80 and Donald Trump is 77, and they are prone to making gaffes. But polls show that voters view age as more of a liability for Biden than they do for Trump.
 
President Joe Biden delivers remarks about government regulations on artificial intelligence systems during an event in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden touts investment in rural areas in Minnesota, the home state of his primary challenger
President Joe Biden has visited a family-run farm in Minnesota and held a fundraiser featuring many of the state’s top Democrats.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden greets people after speaking at the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minn., Monday, April 3, 2023. iden is headed to a family farm in Minnesota on Wednesday, Nov. 1, as part of two weeks of visits to rural areas across the country by top members of his administration meant to highlight how steep increases in government spending can help improve peoples' lives. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Biden will visit a Minnesota family farm this week as top officials kick off stops in rural America
President Joe Biden will visit a family farm in Minnesota on Wednesday as part of two weeks of stops in rural America by top administration officials.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden talks to reporters aboard Air Force One during a refueling stop in at Ramstein Air Base in Germany Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, as he travels back from Israel to Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Mission impossible? Biden says Mideast leaders must consider a two-state solution after the war ends
As the Israel-Hamas war enters a new phase, President Joe Biden is pressing Israeli and Arab leaders to think hard about their eventual postwar reality.
 
Dean Phillips stepped off of his campaign bus at the New Hampshite Statehouse where he filed a declaration of candidacy to run for the New Hampshire presidential primary Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 Concord, Minn. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)
Rep. Dean Phillips announces primary challenge to Biden. He says Democrats need to focus on future
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips has announced a primary challenge of President Joe Biden. He formally entered the race Friday in New Hampshire, after months of unsuccessfully urging other top Democrats to mount their own runs.
 
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks during a campaign event at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee )
Man arrested after trespassing twice in one day at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s home in Los Angeles
Police say they have arrested a man who trespassed twice in one day at the California home of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
 
President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday Oct. 24, 2023 in Washington, where he will award the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Biden won’t appear on New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot. But write-ins are still an option
President Joe Biden won’t file to have his name appear on the 2024 New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot. He is opting to skip a contest that the state plans to hold in defiance of a revamped primary order that the White House has championed.
 
Jenna Ellis speaks with her attorney Franklin Hogue after Ellis plead guilty to a felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings, inside Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee's Fulton County Courtroom, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. Ellis, an attorney and prominent conservative media figure, reached a deal with prosecutors Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia.(AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool)
Jenna Ellis becomes latest Trump lawyer to plead guilty over efforts to overturn Georgia’s election
Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis has pleaded guilty to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.
 
FILE - Palestinians wait to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 16, 2023. Former President Donald Trump and other top Republicans are issuing increasingly urgent calls for the U.S. to seal its borders against a potential mass exodus of Palestinians fleeing war in the Gaza Strip, suggesting that a surge in civilian refugees could allow potential extremists into the country. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
Republicans warn many Gaza refugees could be headed for the U.S. Here’s why that’s unlikely
Former President Donald Trump and other top Republicans are issuing increasingly urgent calls for the U.S. to seal its borders against a potential mass exodus of Palestinians fleeing war in the Gaza Strip.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's economic agenda during an event at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md., Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $71 million for his reelection in the three months ending Sept. 30, a strong indication that party donors remain united behind him going into a 2024 race that may feature a rematch with Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden and Democrats report raising $71 million-plus for his 2024 race from July through September
President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $71 million for his reelection in the three months ending Sept. 30, a strong indication that party donors remain united behind him going into a 2024 race that may feature a rematch with Donald Trump.
 
President Joe Biden arrives to speak at Tioga Marine Terminal, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden is talking about green energy and jobs in Pennsylvania again. Will his message break through?
President Joe Biden is in Pennsylvania again. On Friday, he’s championing steep increases in federal public works spending and detailing how promoting green energy can bolster U.S. manufacturing.
 
In this undated photo released by the Philadelphia Police Department Office of Public Affairs shows Officer Richard Mendez. Mendez was shot and killed and a second officer was wounded when they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, police said. (Police Department Office of Public Affairs via AP)
Police officer killed in shooting after break-in at Philadelphia airport garage, authorities say
A Philadelphia police officer has been shot and killed and a second officer has been wounded after they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd speaks at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's banquet, Sept. 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Hurd has suspended his Republican presidential bid, abandoning a brief campaign built on criticizing Donald Trump at a time when his party seems even more determined to embrace the former president. (AP Photo/Bryon Houlgrave, File)
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd suspends long-shot GOP 2024 presidential bid, endorses Nikki Haley
Former Texas congressman Will Hurd has suspended his Republican presidential bid, abandoning a brief campaign built on criticizing Donald Trump at a time when his party seems even more determined to embrace the former president.
 
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