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Chester County, Pa., election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

States sue to block Trump’s election order, saying it violates the Constitution

Democratic officials in 19 states are suing over President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections.

This image released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense shows China’s Shandong aircraft carrier sailing near Taiwan on Monday, March 31, 2025. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

US and Chinese military officials hold talks on maritime security in bid to lower risks

A worker loads boxes of goods from a truck outside a wholesale clothing mall in Beijing on June 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

No more cheap skirts: Trump ends tax exemption for low-value Chinese imports

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Miami International Airport, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

FACT FOCUS: Democratic leaders’ challenge to Trump’s election executive order misrepresented online

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP, File)

Judge says US government may have ‘acted in bad faith’ as he weighs contempt over deportation order

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Senators react to Trump’s sweeping new tariffs shocking the global economy

Republican and Democratic U.S. Senators react to the impacts of President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs which are causing financial markets to nosedive. (AP Video: Nathan Ellgren)

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will match US auto tariffs

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio comments ahead of NATO meeting

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Greek F-16 fighter jets fly in front of the ancient Acropolis hill, during a military parade to commemorate the start of Greece's 1821 war of independence against the 400-year Ottoman rule, in Athens, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece vows to spend $27B on armed forces overhaul centered on high-tech warfare technology

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Law firms fear Trump orders could affect security clearances of lawyers who are military reservists

A leaked draft letter from Somalia to Trump offers US exclusive access to bases and ports

This undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)

Outrage grows over Maryland man’s mistaken deportation to El Salvador prison

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, is joined from left by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., as they speak to reporters about President Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign countries, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs as some Republicans vote to halt taxes on Canadian imports

This wanted poster posted on X by Ecuador's Ministry of Interior on Jan. 9, 2024, shows José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, the leader of Los Choneros gang. (Ecuador's Ministry of Interior via AP, File)

Fugitive leader of violent Ecuadorian drug gang is indicted in New York City

Stacks of lumber are set up on shelves at a local Lowes store Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

The Latest: Business leaders warn Trump tariffs will raise prices for US consumers

Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Counting the potential toll of Trump’s tariffs on major Asian economies

Back row from left, Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend a court verdict in Congo, Kinshasa, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt in May 2024. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi, File)

Congo’s leader commutes death sentences of 3 Americans convicted in failed coup plot

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen walks with Greenland's acting Prime Minister, Múte B. Egede, during a three-day visit in the streets of Nuuk, Greenland, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Danish prime minister visits Greenland as Trump seeks control of the Arctic territory

Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards his plane at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, April 2, 2025, en route to NATO in Belgium. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

A wary Europe awaits Rubio with NATO’s future on the line

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump gives GOP senators his support as they charge ahead on tax package and spending cuts

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

Wall Street signs are displayed outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A jittery Wall Street rides the tariff roller coaster and appears headed for big losses on Thursday

Former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Senate confirms Matt Whitaker as Trump’s ambassador to NATO

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., walks with reporters on the way to a closed-door Republican Conference strategy session, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is unlikely to free businesses from uncertainty surrounding trade policy

This combination of images shows from left, Army Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of Dededo, Guam, Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, Calif., and Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25, of Joliet, Ill., three of the four soldiers who were killed in a training accident near Pabradė, Lithuania, in March 2025. (Department of Defense via AP)

Last US soldier found dead after Lithuania training accident. 3 others identified

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)

An ‘administrative error’ sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, ICE says

Barricade tape set up by authorities cordons off parts of Izaguirre Ranch during a tour for the press, days after skeletal remains were discovered on the premises, in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, Mexico, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfredo Moya, File)

Jalisco cartel lures recruits with fake jobs through social platforms and kills those who resist

The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington, April 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Latest: Sen. Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech at over 24 hours

Rescuers work on site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)

More Republicans want the US to focus on ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll finds

FE - Delivering a brief inaugural address from the portico of the White House, President Franklin D. Roosevelt calls for "a durable peace," Jan. 20, 1945, as from left, Edwin Halsey, Secretary of State, three unidentified Secret Service agents, Marine Corps Col. James Roosevelt, Maj. Gen. Edwin Watson, partially obscured, and Vice President Harry S. Truman, listen. (AP Photo)

Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning

As fans enter the Boston Garden, a man holds a sign on the sidewalk prior to the 4 Nations Face-Off championship hockey game between the United States and Canada,Feb. 20, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

US-Canada-Mexico joint World Cup goes from unity to acrimony thanks to tariffs and ‘51st state’ talk

Tokyo Gas purchases Chevron’s Texas gas assets for $525 million

Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s Ishiba says he will push for US auto tariffs exemption

Stock market today: More swerves hit Wall Street as Trump’s “Liberation Day” nears

A container ship is loaded and unloaded at a container terminal at a port of Kawasaki near Tokyo on March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Bank of Japan survey says big manufacturers are gloomier as Trump tariffs loom

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country

FIEL - Raymond Siu Chak-yee, commissioner of police speaks during a press conference to "review the law and order situation of Hong Kong and the work of the police in 2021", at the police headquarters in Hong Kong, on Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

US sanctions 6 Chinese and Hong Kong officials over rights abuses. Beijing threatens to retaliate

Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States peer through windows of an Eastern Airlines plane upon arriving at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans