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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters at the White House, Jan. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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The youngest person to serve as White House press secretary is about to make her debut in the briefing room. Karoline Leavitt’s first briefing is scheduled Tuesday afternoon. It’s unclear how often the 27-year-old Leavitt plans to hold briefings.

President Barack Obama, right, listens as Beyonce sings the National Anthem at the ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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President-elect Ronald Reagan applauds as outgoing President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd at Reagan's inaugural ceremony, in Washington, Jan. 20, 1981. (AP Photo, File)

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Vice President Kamala Harris reads the results as House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., listens during a joint session of Congress to confirm the Electoral College votes, affirming President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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The flag flies at half-staff for the late President Jimmy Carter at the White House, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Carter, who was 100 years old, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Then Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter speaks to reporters on his arrival at Hobby International Airport in Houston on Sept. 24, 1976. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)

Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ’76

FILE - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger briefs reporters, Oct. 12, 1973, at the State Department in Washington. Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. He was 100. (AP Photo, File)

Five things to know about Henry Kissinger, a dominant figure in global affairs in the 1970s

FILE - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is seen during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, June 6, 2006. Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. He was 100. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)

Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100

FILE - President Joe Biden listens as he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden didn’t make Israeli-Palestinian talks a priority. Arab leaders say region now paying the price

Kevin Phillips, strategist who forecast rising Republican power, dies at 82

Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji eats bamboo in his enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pandas could be gone from America’s zoos by the end of next year

FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter sits on the Atlanta Falcons bench before the first half of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the San Diego Chargers, Oct. 23, 2016, in Atlanta. Former President Carter, on Saturday Sept. 23 2023 made a surprise appearance at the Plains Peanut Festival in their Georgia hometown, the Carter Center wrote in a social media post on X, formerly known as Twitter. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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Nevada man gets life in prison for killing his pregnant girlfriend on tribal land in 2020

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. McCarthy says he's directing a House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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FILE - Luci Baines Johnson looks at the desk on May 16, 2023, on display at the LBJ Presidential Library, that President Lyndon B. Johnson sat at in the President's Room at the U.S. Capitol to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965, on Aug. 6, 1965. Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting a diversity of beliefs. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman, File)

Presidential centers from Hoover to Bush and Obama unite to warn of fragile state of US democracy

FILE - Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, left, and former New York Sen. James Buckley chat at a fundraising cocktail party sponsored by the friends of the conservative party, in New York, Jan. 15, 1980. Buckley, an early agitator for Richard Nixon's resignation and winner of a landmark lawsuit challenging campaign spending limits, died Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, at age 100. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez, File)

James Buckley, conservative ex-senator and brother of late writer William F. Buckley, dies at 100

FILE - A bald eagle flies over a partially frozen Des Moines River, Dec. 21, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. Fifty years after the Endangered Species Act took effect, environmental advocates and scientists say the law is as essential as ever. Habitat loss, pollution, climate change and disease are putting an estimated 1 million species worldwide at risk. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, talks to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, July 20, 2023. Xi told Kissinger on Thursday that relations between the two countries are at a crossroads and both sides need to "make new decisions" that could result in stable ties and "joint success and prosperity." (Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi tells Kissinger that China-US ties are at a crossroads and stability is still possible

FILE - Charlotte Observer editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers, right, gets a hug from a co-worker as the newsroom as they celebrate Siers winning the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning at the newspaper in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, April 14, 2014. Siers was among three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists who were laid off last week. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Editorial cartoonists’ firings point to steady decline of opinion pages in newspapers

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FILE - Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., tells a Senate subcommittee on April 8, 1974, in Washington, DC, that a secret task force to compile intelligence reports on President Nixon's political enemies was set up inside the Internal Revenue Service within months of Nixon becoming president. Weicker, a Republican U.S. senator who tussled with his own party during the Watergate hearings, championed legislation to protect people with disabilities and later was elected Connecticut governor as an independent, died Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at a hospital in Middletown, Conn., after a short illness. He was 92. (AP Photo/File)

Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., maverick senator during Watergate, dies at 92

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 1977, file photo, Billy Carter, younger brother of President-elect Jimmy Carter, talks on the phone on Jan. 18, 1977, in Plains,. Ga. (AP Photo/File)

Booze, drugs, a pet snake and foreign dealings: Families can cause headaches for a White House

FILE - Daniel Ellsberg speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Dec. 16, 2010. Ellsberg, the government analyst and whistleblower who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” in 1971, has died. He was 92. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers, dies at 92