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FILE - Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The U.S.-Mexico border and immigration are creating political and security challenges for President Joe Biden. Even some of his top allies worry about those issues' effects on his reelection chances. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Biden faces more criticism about the US-Mexico border, one of his biggest problems heading into 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border and immigration are creating political and security challenges for President Joe Biden. Even some of his top allies worry about those issues’ effects on his reelection chances.
 
FILE - A pedestrian walks past a sign for the Iowa Caucuses on a downtown skywalk, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Feb. 4, 2020. Iowa’s Democratic Party says it will hold a caucus on Jan. 15 but won’t release the results until early March. It's an attempt to retain their state’s leadoff spot on the presidential nominating calendar without violating a new national party lineup endorsed by President Joe Biden that has South Carolina going first for 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Iowa Democrats plan January caucus with delayed results to comply with new party primary calendar
Iowa’s Democratic Party says it will hold a caucus on Jan. 15 but won’t release the results until early March.
 
FILE - Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to reporters hours after he was ousted as Speaker of the House, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. McCarthy spent years tirelessly raising mountains of Republican campaign cash as he worked his way toward becoming Speaker of the House. Now that he’s been ousted from the post, some in McCarthy’s party are wondering if all that fundraising will evaporate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House speaker could cost the GOP its best fundraiser heading into 2024
Some members of the GOP are wondering if anyone can take Kevin McCarthy’s place as a fundraising dynamo and party builder.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to lower prescription drug costs and protect Social Security and Medicare, Nov. 5, 2022, in Joliet, Ill. The Biden administration says the manufacturers of all of the first 10 prescription drugs it selected for Medicare’s first price negotiations have agreed to participate. Tuesday's announcement clears the way for talks that could lower their costs in coming years and gives the White House a potential political win heading into next year’s presidential election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Biden says that all 10 drugs targeted for the first Medicare price negotiations will participate
President Joe Biden has announced that the manufacturers of all of the first 10 prescription drugs selected for Medicare’s first price negotiations have agreed to participate.
 
FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, right, listens as President Joe Biden speaks about the Interstate 95 highway collapse after an aerial tour of the site at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Democratic rising stars rally around Biden’s reelection. They’re also eyeing 2028 bids of their own
A new generation of Democratic presidential prospects is taking steps to strengthen their national profiles as they fan out across the country to help President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.
 
President Joe Biden speaks about democracy and the legacy of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain at the Tempe Center for the Arts, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Biden offers dire warnings about Trump, accuses mainstream GOP of ‘deafening’ silence
President Joe Biden has issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy.
 
Republican presidential candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, right, both speaking during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark Terrill)
Donald Trump skipped the GOP debate again. This time, his rivals took him on directly
Several of Donald Trump’s rivals stepped up their attacks against him in the second Republican presidential debate.
 
President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with Pacific Islands Forum leaders during the U.S.-Pacific Islands Forum Summit in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden tells Pacific islands leaders that he hears their warnings about climate change and will act
President Joe Biden has informed leaders from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum that he has heard their warnings about the impact of climate change on their region. Pacific islands leaders gathered on Monday for a White House summit.
 
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud attends Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment event on the day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)
Saudi crown prince says in rare interview ‘every day we get closer’ to normalization with Israel
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says in an interview with Fox News that aired Wednesday that ongoing negotiations over Israel means the prospects of normalized relations between both countries “get closer” every day but that treatment of Palestinians is “very important.”
 
FILE - COVID-19 antigen home tests indicating a positive result are photographed in New York, April 5, 2023. The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
Biden administration announces $600M to produce COVID tests and will reopen website to order them
The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.
 
Former Vice President and current 2024 Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence receives safety instructions before his turn to shoot during the 10th annual Jasper County GOP trap shoot on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, at Jasper County Gun Club in Newton, Iowa. Four Republican presidential hopefuls, made a campaign stop at the event to speak with constituents and shoot a few rounds. (Geoff Stellfox/The Gazette via AP)
Donald Trump’s GOP rivals try to attract social conservatives in Iowa at an event he skipped
Some of Donald Trump’s top Republican rivals addressed a large, influential gathering of Iowa evangelical Christians on Saturday night.
 
Former President Donald Trump stands on stage before speaking at a Concerned Women for America Summit at the Capitol Hilton, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Donald Trump isn’t backing a national abortion ban. That’s not hurting him in the GOP primary
Donald Trump is dominating the early stages of the Republican presidential primary even as he’s refused to endorse a federal ban on abortion.
 
President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, after returning from a trip to India and Vietnam. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden brushes off House impeachment inquiry and says Republicans want to shut down the government
President Joe Biden is brushing off the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry. Biden says the way he sees it, they opened the probe against him because they want to shut down the federal government.
 
A vehicle enters General Motor’s Lansing Grand River Assembly plant, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Lansing, Mich., just days before auto workers could potentially strike due failed contract negotiations. (AP Photo/Joey Cappelletti)
Autoworkers strike would test Biden’s claim that he’s the most pro-union president in US history
The prospect of an autoworkers strike could test Joe Biden’s treasured assertion he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history.
 
Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan speaks after first lady Jill Biden at her swearing-In ceremony at the National Archives Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Jill Biden calls swearing in of the 1st woman national archivist ‘momentous’
First Lady Jill Biden saluted Colleen Shogan, the first woman to be sworn in as national archivist, saying that democracy’s power is “made real with access to history, unfiltered and uncensored.”
 
President Joe Biden speaks during a Labor Day event in Philadelphia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. A new book about Biden portrays the president as someone whose middle-class upbringing helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and sometimes caused strain with his onetime boss, Harvard-educated Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
New book details Biden-Obama frictions and says Harris sought roles ‘away from the spotlight’
A new book about Joe Biden portrays the president as someone whose middle-class upbringing helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and sometimes caused strain with his onetime boss, Harvard-educated Barack Obama.
 
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden answers a question as President Donald Trump listens during the second and final presidential debate Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. The two front-runners for their party's nominations, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, are barely campaigning in crucial early voting states as the primary season enters the fall rush. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
Biden and Trump are keeping relatively light campaign schedules as their rivals rack up the stops
The front-runners for their party’s presidential nomination, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, are barely campaigning in crucial early-voting states as the primary season enters the fall rush.
 
President Joe Biden speaks in front of a home damaged by fallen trees and debris following a survey of damage caused by Hurricane Idalia, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, in Live Oak, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Biden tells Idalia’s Florida victims ‘your nation has your back.’ DeSantis rejects meeting with him
President Joe Biden saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia’s impact across a swath of Florida before setting out on a walking tour of the city of Live Oak, which is recovering from the storm. Notably absent was any interaction with Gov.
 
FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, shakes hands with members of the storm-damaged First Baptist Church, as he visits Horseshoe Beach, Fla., one day after the passage of Hurricane Idalia, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
DeSantis won’t meet with Biden during president’s trip to survey Idalia damage
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office says he has no plans to meet with President Joe Biden when the Democrat flies to Florida this weekend to survey damage from Hurricane Idalia, suggesting that doing so could hinder disaster response because of the logistics involved.
 
President Joe Biden meets with Costa Rica President Rodrigo Chaves in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden talks immigration and trade with Costa Rican President Chaves at the White House
President Joe Biden has hosted his Costa Rican counterpart, Rodrigo Chaves, at the White House. They discussed strengthening an agreement between the two countries on possible legal pathways for the increasing numbers of Central American migrants arriving to the U.S. southern border.
 
FILE - People watch from their vehicle as President Donald Trump, on left of video screen, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speak during a Presidential Debate Watch Party at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Unflattering portraits of both Biden and Trump emerge clearly in a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which asked an open-ended question about what comes to mind when people think of them. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Biden is ‘old,’ Trump is ‘corrupt': AP-NORC poll has ominous signs for both in possible 2024 rematch
Americans asked to describe the Democrat in the White House and the Republican best positioned to face him in next year’s election say President Joe Biden is “old” and “confused” and say former President Donald Trump is “corrupt” and “dishonest.”
 
FILE - Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo speaks during an event about high-speed internet infrastructure, in the East Room of the White House on June 26, 2023, in Washington. Raimondo is the latest member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet to visit China as his administration tries to mend the deteriorating ties between the world's two largest economies. She promises to be “practical” without compromising the U.S. push to “responsibly” manage that economic relationship. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Biden’s commerce secretary is the latest Cabinet member to visit China in a bid for improved ties
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the latest member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet to visit China as his administration tries to mend the deteriorating ties between the world’s two largest economies.
 
FILE - Republican National Convention, Aug. 24, 2020, in Charlotte, N.C. The Republican National Committee said Friday that it will hold its 2028 convention in Houston. Republicans have chosen Houston to host their 2028 national convention. (Travis Dove/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
Republicans pick Houston to host their 2028 national convention
Republicans have chosen Houston to host their 2028 national convention. The GOP hopes to cement support in Texas even as Democrats bet that a booming Hispanic population and other key demographic shifts could eventually turn the United States’ largest reliably red state blue.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, June 15, 2023, to highlight his administration's push to end so-called junk fees that surprise customers. Lael Brainard, Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council, listens at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden and House Democrats hope to make curbing ‘junk fees’ a winning issue in 2024
The White House is taking on “junk fees,” those extra charges tacked on to plane tickets, hotel rooms, hospital bills and more.
 
President Joe Biden shakes hands with supporters after speaking about the economy at Arcosa Wind Towers factory Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Biden reelection campaign offering joint meeting with Obama as ex-president enters 2024 fray early
President Joe Biden is raising money for his reelection campaign by offering donors the chance to meet himself and Barack Obama, meaning the former president will be entering the 2024 political fray earlier than he did during last year’s midterms or the last presidential election.
 
FILE - This combination of photos shows Vice President Kamala Harris speaking during the Pennsylvania Democratic Party's 3rd Annual Independence Dinner in Philadelphia, Oct. 28, 2022, and Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking during the Family Leadership Summit, July 14, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Charlie Neibergall, Files)
It’s Kamala Harris vs. Ron DeSantis in the fight over Florida’s new teachings on slavery
Vice President Kamala Harris is now taking a leading role in the Biden administration’s response to prospective Republican challengers, and her top target as of late has been Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden poses for a photo with the Students Demand Action group after speaking at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn., June 16, 2023. The oldest president in American history, Joe Biden would be 86 by the end of his second term, should he win one. He’ll nonetheless need young voters to back him next year as solidly as those under 30 did in 2020, when they supported Biden over his predecessor, Donald Trump, by a 61% to 36% margin, according to AP VoteCast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Joe Biden, America’s oldest sitting president, needs young voters to win again. Will his age matter?
Joe Biden is already the oldest sitting president in American history at age 80. If he were to win reelection, he’d be 86 by the end of his second term. To win in 2024, he’ll need young voters to back him as solidly as those under 30 did in 2020.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa's 2023 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Trump and his top 2024 primary rivals mostly ignore the case against him during key Iowa GOP event
Donald Trump and his top rivals for the GOP presidential nomination took the stage one by one to address an influential gathering of Iowa Republicans.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at a shipyard in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 20, 2023. Biden is visiting the shipyard to push for a strong role for unions in tech and clean energy jobs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden is building his 2024 reelection bid around an organization Obama shunned
President Joe Biden is staking his reelection bid on the political and financial muscle of the Democratic National Committee. As it prepares for a bruising 2024 contest, his campaign plans to raise and spend around $2 billion.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about the economy to union members at the IBEW Local Union 26, Feb. 15, 2023, in Lanham, Md. As he runs for a second term, President Joe Biden has made progress wooing his party’s left wing. Many progressives have cheered steep federal spending increases on major social programs and green energy, and the president's new attempts to offer student debt relief after the Supreme Court struck down his original efforts to do so. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Top progressives are backing Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign. But some activists have reservations
President Joe Biden has made some progress wooing his party’s left wing since taking office. Many progressives have cheered steep federal spending increases on major social programs and green energy during Biden’s term.
 
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