George H.W. Bush

El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump habla con reporteros en el exterior de la Casa Blanca, el jueves 8 de mayo de 2025, en Washington. (AP Foto/Alex Brandon)

Trump revives, then discards, then revives again the idea of taxing the rich in big GOP bill

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in front of the West Wing of the White House, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Trump floats cutting China tariffs to 80% ahead of weekend meeting

 
Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs speaks to protesters at a rally in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

Judges temporarily prevent North Carolina officials from contacting voters in close election

 
President Donald Trump listens to Jeff Crowe speak during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Trump administration offers no details on mistakenly deported man after court ruling

 
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 28, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president

 

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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Appeals court won’t lift order that barred Trump administration from deportations under wartime law

 
President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Putin gifted a portrait of Trump to the US president

 
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in case over deportations under wartime law

 
Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican Governor of New Jersey, speaks, March 6, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Trump environmental rollbacks would boost pollution and endanger lives, former EPA heads say

 
Sun shines through Douglas fir trees in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman, File)

Trump wants to use the ‘God Squad’ to increase logging, but it must follow strict rules

 
President Donald Trump gestures towards Democrats while addressing a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Why Trump’s joint remarks to Congress won’t be a ‘State of the Union’ address

 
Eric Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Housing, testifies at a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Scott Turner confirmed as Trump’s HUD secretary after pledging to address housing shortages

 
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, listens to Lee Greenwood at a campaign rally, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Q&A: ‘God Bless the USA’ singer Lee Greenwood on Donald Trump’s inauguration and Bibles

 
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, responds to reporters during a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Hegseth could lead troops who’d face getting fired for actions he’s done in the past

 
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

 
A general view outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., during President John F. Kennedy's funeral, with flag-draped coffin in the foreground, Nov. 25, 1963. The president's brothers can be seen behind the casket. At left is Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), and at right entering limousine is Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo, File)

How American presidents have planned their own funerals

 
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden stand on stage with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff during the first day of Democratic National Convention, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kamala Harris’ election would defy history. Just 1 sitting VP has been elected president since 1836

 
This artist sketch depicts former President Donald Trump, seated right, listening as his attorney D. John Sauer, standing, speaks before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024 in Washington. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

With Trump present in court, judges express skepticism of claims that he’s immune from prosecution

 
FILE - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. A federal appeals court will hear arguments Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, over whether the election interference charges filed against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be moved from a state court to federal court. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Judges express skepticism that Mark Meadows’ Georgia election case should be moved to federal court

 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at Auburn Manufacturing Inc., Friday, July 28, 2023, in Auburn, Maine. Capital punishment could emerge as a major campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race for the first time in 30 years, with top GOP rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis already one-upping each other by touting tougher, more far-reaching death penalty laws. Meanwhile, death penalty foes are poised to draw attention to what Biden hasn’t done as president: He has taken no action on or even spoken about his 2020 campaign pledge to strike capital punishment from U.S. statutes. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden’s inaction on death penalty may be a top campaign issue as Trump and DeSantis laud executions

 
Former President George W. Bush, with former first lady Laura Bush, listens to eulogies for his father, President George H.W. Bush, as he lies in state at the Capitol Rotunda where in Washington, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

PHOTOS: Bush’s life and public service are celebrated

 
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2007, file photo provided by the U.S. Army Golden Knights, former President George H.W. Bush free falls with Golden Knights parachute team member Sgt. 1st Class Mike Elliott, as he makes a dramatic entrance to his presidential museum during a rededication ceremony in College Station, Texas. Bush died at the age of 94 on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. (Sgt. 1st Class Kevin McDaniel/U.S. Army via AP, File)

PHOTOS: Former President George H. W. Bush: A life in photos

 
FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Former President Bush has been hospitalized for about a week in Houston for treatment of a lingering cough. Bush’s chief of staff, Jean Becker, says the 88-year-old former president is being treated for bronchitis at Houston’s Methodist Hospital and is expected to be released by the weekend. He was admitted Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush in photos

 
Rhea Brown Lawson, director of the Houston Public Library, takes a photo in front of a memorial for former first lady Barbara Bush, Thursday, April 19, 2018, in Houston. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP PHOTOS: Former first lady Barbara Bush mourned in Houston