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FILE - President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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The Latest: America’s allies and partners approach China to hedge their bets

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As President Donald Trump’s trade war locks the world’s two largest economies on a collision course, nations are being forced to choose between China and the United States.

President Donald Trump waves outside the Oval Office as he arrives at the White House, Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In first 100 days, Trump struggles to make good on promises to quickly end Ukraine and Gaza wars

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Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace in the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump made big promises and moved at frenetic speed. 100 days in, here's what he's done and not done

Read full article: Trump made big promises and moved at frenetic speed. 100 days in, here's what he's done and not done

The weeks since President Donald Trump returned to office have been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises.

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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With China and the US at intense economic odds, other nations are being forced to choose sides

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As President Donald Trump’s trade war locks the world’s two largest economies on a collision course, America’s unnerved allies and partners are cozying up with China to hedge their bets.

FILE - Scott Pelley, anchor of "CBS Evening News," at the CBS Upfront in New York, May 15, 2013. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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On air, '60 Minutes' reporter says 'none of us is happy' about changes that led top producer to quit

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Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” explained the departure of the show's executive producer to viewers and said “none of us is happy” about the conditions that led to Bill Owens' departure.

FILE - U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., speaks during a campaign event in front of employees at an insurance marketing firm, Oct. 17, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, file)
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Republicans in the toughest swing districts become hard to find for people angry about Trump

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Republican members of Congress have gone to great lengths to avoid public meetings with their constituents over their two-week Easter recess.

President Donald Trump points as he arrives at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Saturday, April 26, 2025, upon returning from a trip to attend the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Trump's first 100 days: Steamrolling government, strong-arming allies and igniting trade wars

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In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has exerted his power on a scale with no easy historical comparison.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with coal miner Jeff Crowe during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Things to know about the US coal industry and proposed changes under the Trump administration

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The U.S. coal industry has been in a steep decline for decades, and President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect it.

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve near Fayetteville, W.Va., Thursday, April 17, 2025, (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
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Trump's push to save the fading coal industry gets a warm embrace in West Virginia

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President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at boosting coal are getting a warm embrace in West Virginia.

FILE - President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk, joined by his son X A-Xii, speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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As Musk gained power in Washington, his popularity has fallen, an AP-NORC poll finds

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An AP-NORC poll finds that only about one-third of U.S. adults have a favorable opinion of Elon Musk after his brief foray into the federal government.

Ellis Monk, professor of Sociology at Harvard University and developer of the Monk Skin Tone Scale, poses at his office, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Tech industry tried reducing AI's pervasive bias. Now Trump wants to end its 'woke AI' efforts

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Artificial intelligence technology that works well for the world’s billions of people of color was a business imperative for Google when the company asked sociologist Ellis Monk to help make its AI products more inclusive.

Trina Martin, left, and Toi Cliatt sit for a portrait inside the home the FBI mistakenly raided in 2017, in Atlanta on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Sudhin Thanawala)
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The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit

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The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a yearslong legal battle over an FBI raid on the wrong Atlanta house.

FILE - Students and parents rally at the Ohio Statehouse in support of possible changes that would increase eligibility for taxpayer-funded school vouchers to K-12 students statewide, May 17, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson, file)
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Republican-led states keep adding school voucher programs even as critics worry about cost

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U.S. states are adopting and expanding programs that use taxpayer money to pay for private schools even as their costs rise and budget pictures become more uncertain.

FILEPeople take pictures of Lake Mead near Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, in Arizona. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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Campgrounds and visitor centers at federal lakes are closing amid Trump's budget cuts

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Campgrounds, boat ramps and other facilities in at least 30 locations at federal lakes and reservoirs in six states will be closed or have their hours curtailed as of mid-May.

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Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested in Key West over expired visa after housing security check

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U.S. officials say the wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a security check.

FILE - Venezuelan migrants board a plane heading back to their home country from Harlingen, Texas, on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez, File)
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US judge temporarily stops west Texas immigrant deportations under Alien Enemies Act

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A federal judge in west Texas has joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act.

FILE - A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office conducts a brief before an early morning operation, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
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ICE deports immigrant mother of an infant and 3 children who are US citizens, lawyers say

Read full article: ICE deports immigrant mother of an infant and 3 children who are US citizens, lawyers say

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have in recent days deported a Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., speaks from the stage of the Haw River Ball Room during a town hall in Saxapahaw, N.C., Thursday, April 24, 2025, as Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., left, listens. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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Sen. Chris Murphy's 'emergency' message about Trump is connecting with Democratic voters

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Chris Murphy has been touring the country talking to voters, and some people are starting to view the Democratic senator from Connecticut as worthy of the national spotlight.

A digital billboard flashes an a message reading "Traitors, to immigrants, to Miami-Dade, to the American dream," alongside pictures of Florida politicians with roots in Cuba, including from left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez, and Mario Diaz-Balart, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Medley, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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South Florida’s Cuban-American House Republicans carefully navigate Trump’s immigration policies

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Three House Republicans from Florida with Cuban roots are carefully navigating President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and President Donald Trump, talk as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
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Trump expresses doubts Putin is willing to end the Ukraine war, a day after saying a deal was close

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President Donald Trump says he doubts Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he and first lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Washington. The President and first lady will be traveling to Rome and the Vatican to attend the funeral for Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Only about half of Republicans say Trump has focused on the right priorities, AP-NORC poll finds

Read full article: Only about half of Republicans say Trump has focused on the right priorities, AP-NORC poll finds

An AP-NORC poll finds many Americans don't agree with President Trump’s aggressive efforts to quickly enact his agenda, and even Republicans aren't overwhelmingly convinced his attention has been in the right place.