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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Erie Insurance Arena, in Erie, Pa. President Donald Trump's campaign rallies once had the feel of angry, raucous grievance sessions. More than 350 rallies later, gone is the darkness, the crackling energy, the fear of potential violence as supporters and protesters face off. Perish the thought, have Donald Trump's rallies gone mainstream? (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump is convicted of a felony. Here’s how that affects the 2024 presidential race

Having been convicted of 34 felonies, Donald Trump cannot own a gun, hold public office or even vote in many states.
 
In this undated photo provided by the Etat Major des Armees on Thursday, May 30, 2024, a view of the Laax, a Greek-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier that came under attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels earlier this week, carrying cargo of grain bound for Iran, the group's main benefactor, authorities said Thursday. (Etat Major des Armees via AP)

US and Britain strike Houthi rebel targets in Yemen after surge in shipping attacks

 
FILE- Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly speaks during a rally, Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, in Hammond, Ind. The former U.S. Senator Donnelly is stepping down as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and returning to Indianathe U.S. Embassy confirmed Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Former US senator from Indiana Joe Donnelly to step down as US ambassador to the Vatican

 
FILE - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a commemoration for the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S drone attack in 2020 in Iraq, at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque, Jan. 3, 2024, in Tehran, Iran. The U.N. General Assembly’s tribute to Iran’s late President Raisi was snubbed by Western and East European nations on Thursday, May 30, amid protests against honoring a leader who was reviled for his crackdown on opponents. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

UN tribute to Iran’s late President Raisi marred by protests and European and US snubs

 
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, top of stairs from right, hosts a welcoming ceremony for Kenya's President William Ruto at the Pentagon in Washington, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kenyan president Ruto defends cost of private jet for US trip while calling for prudent spending

 

Cruise ship passengers disperse after arriving in Juneau, Alaska, and the downtown sea walk bustles

The timelapse shows cruise passengers getting off a ship after it has docked in downtown Juneau, Alaska, and dispersing along the sea walk on June 12, 2023.
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President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Girard College, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown

The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold.
 
Gen. Michael Langley, USMC, Commander, U.S. Africa Command, attends the 20th African Lion military exercise in Agadir, Morocco, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

US military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a drift toward Russia

The head of the United States military’s Africa Command is pushing back against Russia’s efforts to broaden its influence in Africa, blaming the country’s disinformation efforts for the spate of military coups that has swept the region in recent years.
 

China denounces US-UK engagement of Taiwan shortly after election of new president

China’s Defense Ministry has denounced U.S. and U.K. affirmations of support for Taiwan’s newly elected government shortly after the island that Beijing claims sovereignty over freely chose its new leaders.
 
President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden partially lifts ban on Ukraine using US arms in strikes on Russian territory, US officials say

President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv.
 
A demonstrator reacts to the guilty verdict announced against former President Donald Trump outside Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes

Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
 
These images released by Maxar Technologies show the newly completed pier in the Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024, top, and the remaining section of the temporary pier on May 29, 2024. A string of security, logistical and weather problems have battered the plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through a U.S. military-built pier. Broken apart by strong winds and heavy seas just over a week after it became operational, the project faces criticism that it hasn’t lived up to its initial billing or its $320 million price tag. (Satellite images ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

The US-built pier in Gaza broke apart. Here’s how we got here and what might be next

A string of security, logistical and weather problems has battered the plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through a U.S. military-built pier.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Another US MQ-9 Reaper drone goes down in Yemen, images purportedly show

Another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone has gone down in Yemen as the country’s Houthi rebels continued attacks on shipping around the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war.
 
United States Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo walks in the city center during an official visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US Treasury official visits Ukraine to discuss sanctions on Moscow and seizing Russian assets

A senior U.S. Treasury official has meet with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv to discuss U.S. financial support, enforcing sanctions on Russia and using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s benefit in the war with Moscow.
 
FILE- This still frame from Metropolitan Police Department body worn camera video shows Thomas Webster, in red jacket, at a barricade line at on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. A federal appeals court has upheld a retired New York Police Department officer’s conviction and 10-year prison sentence for assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday rejected Thomas Webster’s claims that he was convicted by a biased jury. (Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

Appeals court upholds retired NYPD officer’s 10-year prison sentence for Capitol riot attack

A federal appeals court has upheld a retired New York Police Department officer’s conviction and 10-year prison sentence for assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S.
 
St. Vincent de Paul allows a first look at the nearly-completed, longer-term, 100-bed shelter for older adults, military veterans and people with disabilities who will be able to keep their companion animals at a nearby center designed for them, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

After a deadly heat wave last summer, metro Phoenix is changing tactics

Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring.
 
Sophia Armen, center passes a dish to Dr. Armond Aghakhanian and joined for lunch with other members of the Armenian-American Census Coalition, Suzie Abajian and former California Assembly Member Adrian Nazarian at the Carousel, a Lebanese-Armenian restaurant in Glendale, Calif. on Friday, May 17, 2024. For some race and ethnic groups, how the U.S. government categorizes them for crucial surveys and the once-a-decade census is still falling short. Hmong as well as Armenian, Arab American and Brazilian communities say they feel excluded or diminished when it comes to how they are counted in their own country. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Armenians, Hmong and other groups feel US race and ethnicity categories don’t represent them

The federal government recently reclassified race and ethnicity groups in an effort to better capture the diversity of the United States, but some groups feel the changes are still missing the mark.
 
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, right, puts on a cowboy hat given by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, May 27, 2024. A U.S. congressional delegation met Taiwan's new leader on Monday in a show of support shortly after China held drills around the self-governing island in response to his inauguration speech. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

US lawmakers pledge support for Taiwan and its new president after China’s military drills

A U.S. congressional delegation has met Taiwan’s new leader in a show of support shortly after China held drills around the self-governing island in response to his inauguration speech.
 
FILE - Lithuanian and European Union flags fly outside the Lithuanian Embassy in Beijing, Dec. 16, 2021. The U.S. State Department has set up an eight-person team known as the "firm" to provide help to countries cut off from Chinese trade. The team emerged after Washington stepped in to help Lithuania when the northern European country found its cargo shipments to and from China stranded two years ago during a feud over Taiwan. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China has threatened trade with some countries after feuds. They’re calling ‘the firm’ for help

The U.S. State Department has set up an eight-person team known as “the firm” to provide help to countries cut off from Chinese trade.
 
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at the North Carolina GOP Convention in Greensboro, N.C., on Saturday, May 25, 2024. (Woody Marshall/News & Record via AP)

At North Carolina’s GOP convention, governor candidate Robinson energizes Republicans for election

North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor Mark Robinson delivered a speech focused on the economy and education at the NCGOP Convention’s Old North State Dinner in Greensboro Saturday.
 
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Kennedy blasts Biden, Trump over pandemic measures in pitch at Libertarian convention

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump of trampling on personal liberties in response to the pandemic.
 
A bus passes by a police officer on patrol near the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Young missionary couple from US among 3 killed by gunmen in Haiti’s capital, family says

A family member says a U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who worked with them were shot and killed by gang members in Haiti’s capital who attacked them as they left a youth group activity held at a local church.
 
A Palestinian boy carries an aid box after storming trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new U.S.-built pier, at the beach road of Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Saher Alghorra)

More aid getting from US pier to people in Gaza, officials say, after troubled launch

U.S. officials say a six--day-old U.S. pier project in Gaza is starting to get more aid to Palestinians in need but conditions are challenging.
 
FILE - Comedian Dave Chappelle performs at Madison Square Garden during his 50th birthday celebration week on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, in New York. American comedian Dave Chappelle called the Israeli war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip a "genocide" Thursday, May 23, 2024, to cheers while performing in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, while urging Americans to fight antisemitism so Jews don't feel like they need to be protected by Israel. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Dave Chappelle says there’s a ‘genocide’ in the Gaza Strip as Israel-Hamas war rages on there

American comedian Dave Chappelle has said a “genocide” is striking the Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war to cheers during his performance in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
 

US government to give $75 million to South Korean company for Georgia computer chip part factory

.The federal government will spend $75 million to help build a factory making glass parts for computer chips. The U.S.
 
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters following a Democratic strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Schumer is planning to take another vote Thursday on border security and immigration legislation that Republicans blocked in February. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Border bill fails Senate test vote as Democrats seek to underscore Republican resistance

Senate Republicans are blocking for a second time a bill to clamp down the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill failed 43-50.
 

Putin signs decree allowing seizure of Americans’ assets if US confiscates Russian holdings

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Russia to confiscate U.S. assets to compensate for any Russian assets confiscated in the United States.
 

Takeaways: How intelligence agencies’ are cautiously embracing generative AI

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet.
 
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US intelligence agencies’ embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll otherwise be smothered by an avalanche of data as surveillance tech further blankets the planet.
 
President Joe Biden and Kenya's President William Ruto hold a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden thanks Kenya’s Ruto for sending police to Haiti and defends keeping US forces from the mission

President Joe Biden has offered his deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti.
 
FILE - House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair Rep. James Comer R-Ky., speaks, Jan. 10, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would require presidents and vice presidents to publicly disclose tax returns before, during and after their time in the White House. The proposal — led by the unusual pairing of Republican Rep. James Comer and progressive Democratic Rep. Katie Porter — is the latest effort to deliver congressional oversight over presidential ethics as both parties grapple with ongoing congressional probes into their leading candidates for president. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Congress aims to overhaul presidential ethics rules with a plan led by an unlikely pair of lawmakers

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would require presidents and vice presidents to publicly disclose tax returns before, during and after their time in the White House.
 
President Joe Biden welcomes Kenya's President William Ruto to the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden is honoring Kenya with state visit as the East African nation prepares to send police to Haiti

President Joe Biden has welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House to kick off a three-day state visit.
 
FILE - Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., asks questions as the House Rules Committee prepares the Presidential Tax Filing and Audit Transparency Act of 2022 for a floor vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022. Democrats have introduced legislation that would prohibit U.S. officials from accepting money, payments or gifts from foreign governments without congressional consent. It is their response to a yearslong probe into former President Donald Trump's overseas business dealings. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats propose ban on officials receiving payments from foreign governments after Trump probe

Democrats have introduced legislation that would prohibit U.S. officials from accepting money, payments or gifts from foreign governments without congressional consent.
 
FILE - Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., speaks during a hearing at the Capitol in Washington on July 18, 2023. China on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, sanctioned Mike Gallagher, a former Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin who has shown support for Taiwan. Gallagher will be banned from entering China, any assets he holds in the country will be frozen and he will be barred from various exchanges with Chinese organizations and individuals, the country's Foreign Ministry announced. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

China sanctions former US lawmaker who supported Taiwan

China has sanctioned Mike Gallagher, a former Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin who has shown support for Taiwan.
 
FILE - Supporters of Niger's ruling junta gather for a protest called to fight for the country's freedom and push back against foreign interference, in Niamey, Niger, Aug. 3, 2023. Russia has moved some troops onto an airbase in Niger where a small number of U.S. forces remain after most American troops left the base in Niamey, the nation's capital, a U.S. official said Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

US troops, equipment will depart from Niger by mid-September, the Pentagon says

American and Nigerien defense officials say U.S. troops ordered out of Niger by its ruling junta will complete their withdrawal from the West African country by the middle of September.
 
FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London, Wednesday May 1, 2019. Assange faces what could be his final court hearing in England over whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces what could be his final court hearing in England over whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges.
 
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