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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made Juneteenth “very famous.”

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Beachgoers leave during a missile alert from Iran, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

US starts evacuating some diplomats from its embassy in Israel as Iran conflict intensifies

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The headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is seen with the American flag in the foreground, in Prague, Jan. 15, 2010. (Michal Kamaryt/CTK via AP, file)

Voice of America and Radio Farda’s Persian services cover the Israel-Iran conflict despite cutbacks

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger addresses a crowd at a rally at her alma mater, J.R. Tucker High School, in Henrico, Va., Monday, June 16, 2025. (Mike Kropf /Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Party like it’s 2018: Democrats look to 1st Trump midterms for 2025 races and 2026 momentum

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Chinese students wait outside the U.S. Embassy for their visa application interviews, in Beijing on May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)

US resumes visas for foreign students but demands access to social media accounts

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Steve Kramer is seated June 5, 2024, at Superior Court, in Laconia, N.H., during his arraignment in connection with charges of voter suppression and impersonating a candidate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)

Steve Kramer is seated June 5, 2024, at Superior Court, in Laconia, N.H., during his arraignment in connection with charges of voter suppression and impersonating a candidate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)

New Hampshire jury acquits consultant behind AI robocalls mimicking Biden on all charges

A political consultant who sent robocalls that used artificial intelligence to mimic former President Joe Biden has been acquitted of 22 criminal charges in New Hampshire.

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Consultant on trial for AI-generated robocalls mimicking Biden says he has no regrets

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Consultant behind AI-generated robocalls mimicking Biden goes on trial in New Hampshire

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Allison Riggs swears in for her seat on the state Supreme Court as her husband Bryan Everly stands beside her and Associate Justice Anita Earls reads Riggs' oath in the old Capitol building's House chamber in Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

North Carolina justice sworn in after long battle over result

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Russian defense ministry confirms release of Russian servicemen as part of prisoner exchange deal with Ukraine

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Robert Reid holds a flag during a Juneteenth celebration at the African Burying Ground Memorial Park Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Portsmouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Juneteenth celebrations across the US commemorate the end of slavery

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President Donald Trump gestures during a business roundtable, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s big tax bill has passed the House. Here’s what’s inside it

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Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Roberts speaks during a lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating class of 2025, in Washington, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights

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Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time, without clear legal basis

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FILE -The United Nations headquarters building is seen from inside the General Assembly hall, Sept. 21, 2021, during the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP, File)

These are 5 things the UN does that you may not have known

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Staff search visitors entering the Wisconsin Senate gallery in the state Capitol just days after the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

Lawmakers on edge as statehouse security tightens after Minnesota shootings

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Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, speaks with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., right, during a Senate hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data

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Security ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

NATO summit brings tight security and disrupts life in The Hague

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People watch as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stage outside Gate E of Dodger Stadium on Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via AP)

Federal immigration agents asked to leave Dodger Stadium parking lot, team says

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Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a press conference while President of the King's Privy Council for Canada Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Industry Melanie Joly, and Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne listen, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminum could rise depending on trade talks, says Carney

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The Shearon Harris nuclear plant is seen in Holly Springs, N.C., on June 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

North Carolina lawmakers finalize bill that would scrap 2030 carbon reduction goal

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Tourists carry their luggage in downtown Madrid, Spain, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Spanish court rejects Airbnb appeal and keeps order to block nearly 66,000 listings

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A server tends to customers in an outdoor dining area on The Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif., June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Some US restaurants and servers oppose Republicans’ ‘no tax on tips’ budget proposal

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Israelis go through security checks at the departures terminal at Cyprus' main port in Limassol where they'll board the Israeli cruise ship Crown Iris to take them back to their homeland, on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Foreigners evacuated by air, land and sea as Israel-Iran conflict worsens

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a press conference at the Spanish Embassy in Beijing, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Spain rejects NATO’s anticipated 5% defense spending proposal as ‘unreasonable’

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to journalists on June 3, 2025, in Beirut. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Europe and Iran will try diplomacy as US weighs joining fight with Israel

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Rescue workers transport a person in a body bag after floods swept through the area in Mthatha, South Africa, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

South Africa declares national disaster as flooding death toll rises to 92

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A notice warning about land mines is attached to a tree as a Ukrainian specialized team searches for mines in a field in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Finland’s lawmakers vote to leave land mine treaty as Nordic country boosts defenses against Russia

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A farm worker checks the land as workers plow a strawberry field in Oxnard, Calif., on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses

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Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives to talk to reporters at Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai prime minister’s leaked phone call with Cambodia’s Hun Sen sparks outrage and political turmoil

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife Gwen Walz attend a candlelight vigil for former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were fatally shot, at the state Capitol, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Nikolas Liepins)

Hundreds gather to remember prominent Minnesota lawmaker and husband slain in their home

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Smokes rises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Trump says he’ll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within 2 weeks

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Supporters of Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez hold flares as they protest in her defense after she began serving a six-year prison sentence under house arrest for corruption in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Large crowds protest in support of Argentine ex-President Fernández as she starts house arrest

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Cook Islands Prime Minister, and outgoing Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Mark Brown, speaks at the opening of the annual Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay, File)

New Zealand has suspended millions in funding to the Cook Islands over its growing China ties

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro shows his cell phone during his Supreme Court trial as he and others face charges for an alleged coup plot to keep him in office after his 2022 election defeat, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro used intelligence agency to spy on judges, lawmakers and journalists, police say

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An aerial image of Consumer Energy's J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in Ottawa County, Mich., Sept. 21, 2024. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)

Michigan, environmental groups challenge federal order to keep power plant open

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President Donald Trump speaks as a flag pole is installed on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump remakes the White House with new flagpoles

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A man uses a cell phone in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Trump administration removing 988 hotline service tailored to LGBTQ+ youth in July

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures as he and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, answer questions after a roundtable discussion at the Roberto Alonso Community Center, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in Miami Lakes, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, file)

Three more DeSantis allies to take the helm of public universities in Florida

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Eli Givens walks in a park Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Franklin, Tenn., after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Families of trans kids worry about what’s next after Supreme Court rules on gender-affirming care

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Montana governor vetoes community solar bill

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Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster holds up a ceremonial copy of a bill he signed changing South Carolina's energy laws on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Under a hot summer sun, South Carolina’s governor says energy law will keep air conditioners humming

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Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis waits in front of his residency in Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Czech coalition government survives no-confidence vote over bitcoin scandal

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A U.S. Marine stands guard outside the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Wally Skalij)

Photos of downtown Los Angeles after mayor lifts curfew imposed during protests

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Zambian President Edgar Lungu attends the Southern African Development Community's leaders' conference in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, file)

Funeral standoff halts repatriation of former Zambian president’s body

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Wind turbines stretch across the horizon at dusk at the Spearville Wind Farm, Sept. 29, 2024, near Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Federal judge to deny Trump administration’s motion to dismiss lawsuit over block on wind projects

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Justice Department challenges Kentucky reg allowing in-state tuition for undocumented students

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Congo’s justice minister resigns following allegations of embezzling $19 million

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