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Trump makes a victor's return to Washington to meet with Biden and GOP lawmakers

Nov. 13, 2024 00:12 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is making a victor's return to Washington. President Joe Biden will welcome him to the White House on Wednesday for an Oval Office visit that is a traditional part of the peaceful handoff of power — a ritual that Trump himself...

Trump spends first week as president-elect behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago

Nov. 12, 2024 20:17 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a man who loves the spotlight, Donald Trump has been conspicuously out of view since his triumph in last week's presidential election. There have been no rallies, no press conferences, no speeches. Instead, Trump has spent most of his first week as...

Trump names Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, as 'border czar'

Nov. 11, 2024 16:31 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says Tom Homan, his former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “border czar” in his incoming administration, a position that is likely to play a key role in Trump's campaign pledges to secure the U.S.-Mexico...

Biden's White House invitation to Trump continues a tradition Trump shunned in 2020

Nov. 11, 2024 15:57 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of Democratic President Joe Biden, who had hoped to defeat his Republican predecessor a second time and reside there for four more years. That...

Trump’s gains with Latinos could reshape American politics. Democrats are struggling to respond

Nov. 09, 2024 10:48 AM EST

MIAMI (AP) — From Pennsylvania to Florida to Texas, areas with high numbers of Hispanics often had little in common on Election Day other than backing Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Trump, the president-elect, made inroads in heavily Puerto Rican...

Biden administration to restrict drilling, renewables in the US West to help struggling bird

Nov. 08, 2024 17:39 PM EST

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration on Friday proposed tighter restrictions on oil, solar and wind energy development across more than 6,500 square miles (17,000 square kilometers) of federal land in the U.S. West to protect a declining bird species. ...

Trump's election may usher in leadership change at FBI

Nov. 08, 2024 15:34 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an “impeccably qualified individual” and a “model of integrity.” So much has changed in the seven years since. With Trump poised to...

Democrats enter a Trump presidency without a plan or a clear leader

Nov. 06, 2024 20:00 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats spent billions of dollars warning American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy, that his economic policies would benefit only his wealthy friends, that he was literally a fascist. In the end, voters didn't care — or if they...

Trump's election could assure a conservative Supreme Court majority for decades

Nov. 06, 2024 17:34 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has already appointed three Supreme Court justices. In his second term, he could well have a chance to name two more, creating a high court with a Trump-appointed majority that could serve for decades. The decisive outcome spares the court from having...

Donald Trump's transition starts now. Here's how it will work

Nov. 06, 2024 10:41 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump 's impending return to the White House means he'll want to stand up an entirely new administration from the one that served under President Joe Biden. His team is also pledging that the second won't look much like the first one Trump established after his 2016...