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FILE - Former first lady Melania Trump arrives for GOP fundraiser, April 6, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. Melania Trump is making a political comeback during the presidential campaign of her husband, former President Donald Trump. In a closed-press event, Melania Trump will appear at the Log Cabin Republicans event Saturday in Mar-a-Lago, the home she lives in with her husband in Palm Beach.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Melania Trump is set to make a return to her husband’s campaign with a rare political appearance

Former first lady Melania Trump is making a return to her husband’s presidential campaign with a rare political appearance after months of being absent from Donald Trump’s latest run for the White House.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s South Carolina win adds to early state sweep

 
Former President Donald Trump, center right, stands with his wife Melania, second left, their son Barron, center left, and father-in-law Viktor Knavs, as the coffin carrying the remains of Amalija Knavs, the former first lady's mother, is carried into the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea for her funeral, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Melania Trump remembers her mother as ‘a ray of light in the darkest days’

 
FILE - Amalija Knavs, mother of first lady Melania Trump, walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, June 18, 2017. Knavs has died, according to an announcement by Trump late Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Former first lady Melania Trump’s mother, Amalija Knavs, has died

 
From left, Judge Elizabeth Gunn, and former first lady Melania Trump welcome newly-sworn American citizens as the National Archives holds a naturalization ceremony with 25 people from 25 nations, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. A naturalized citizen herself, Melania Trump, wife of former President Donald Trump, was originally from Slovenia. The event is part of the Archives' annual celebration of Bill of Rights Day. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In a rare appearance, Melania Trump welcomes new citizens at a National Archives ceremony

 

Barron Trump graduates from private school in Florida with parents in attendance

Baron Trump, the son of former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, graduated from an exclusive private high school in Florida on Friday.
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Trump wishes Melania a happy birthday, blasts ‘rigged’ hush money trial and ‘freezing courthouse’

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Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at New York Supreme Court, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, in New York. Trump is making a rare, voluntary trip to court in New York for the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that already has resulted in a judge ruling that he committed fraud in his business dealings. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Here’s where all the cases against Trump stand as he campaigns for a return to the White House

The civil trial against Donald Trump that kicked off this week in New York is just one of many legal problems facing the former president as he campaigns for a return to the White House.
 
In this image released in the final report by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump talks on the phone to Vice President Mike Pence from the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. (House Select Committee via AP)

Trump has surrendered for a fourth time this year. Here’s where all the cases against him stand

Donald Trump has surrendered in Georgia in his fourth criminal case of the year. The former president was charged earlier this month in the state over his efforts to overturn his 2020 general election defeat there.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks as he announces a third run for President, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. Trump and his aides are bracing for a potential indictment in the classified documents investigation as prosecutors handling the probe were spotted at a Miami courthouse where a grand jury has been hearing from witnesses. Trump's lawyers have been told that he is a target of the investigation, the clearest indication yet that criminal charges could be coming soon, according to one person familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Here are the other investigations Trump has to worry about

Donald Trump’s legal problems appear to have escalated significantly with federal charges over the retention of top secret documents, but investigators aren’t done yet.
 
Slovenia's President elect Natasa Pirc Musar talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar has won a runoff vote to become Slovenia's next president and the small European Union country's first female head of state. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Slovenian president eager to work, gets Melania’s congrats

Natasa Pirc Musar has been a human rights lawyer, a TV presenter and ran Slovenia’s top data protection agency and its Red Cross.
 
Former President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, Pool)

Audiobook features talks between Trump and Bob Woodward

More than eight hours of conversations between Donald Trump and Bob Woodward will be released next week as an audiobook.
 
Former President Donald Trump, left, and his wife Melania Trump, stand outside St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church after the funeral of Ivana Trump, Wednesday July 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Funeral held for Ivana Trump; ex-president pays tribute

Former President Donald Trump, all his children and an array of relatives and friends have paid respects to Ivana Trump at her funeral Mass.
 
FILE - First Lady Melania Trump listens as President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. The former first lady launched a venture this week selling non-fungible tokens that must be paid for with Solan cryptocurrency, currently valued around $180 each. Trump said she will release NFTs “in regular intervals” on her website, with a portion of the proceeds going to foster children. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Melania Trump announces NFT venture

NEW YORK (AP) — In exchange for a cryptocurrency token, you can own a digital watercolor painting of Melania Trump’s eyes.
 
Actress-singer Bette Midler waves to the crowd upon arriving at the 44th Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. The 2021 Kennedy Center honorees include Midler, Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, "Saturday Night Live" mastermind Lorne Michaels, opera singer Justino Diaz and folk music legend Joni Mitchell. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kennedy Center Honors back once more, Biden attends

The Kennedy Center Honors has returned to tradition this year with a real-life gala and the presence of the president for the first time since 2016.
 
FILE- In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham listens as President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Grisham, the former White House press secretary and chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump, is out with a new book next week that paints a deeply unflattering picture of the former president. She describes him as a man with a “terrifying” temper who ogled a young aide and tried to impress dictators. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Takeaways from Trump aide’s account of chaotic White House

A White House press secretary and chief of staff to then-first lady Melania Trump paints a deeply unflattering picture of Donald Trump in a book out next week.
 
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks to an audience at the 30th anniversary of the University of Louisville McConnell Center in Louisville, Ky., Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Supreme Court sets Barrett ceremonial swearing-in for Oct. 1

The Supreme Court says it will hold a ceremonial swearing-in for Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Oct. 1, delayed by nearly a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
 
FILE - IN this Nov. 5, 2020 file photo, Donald Trump Jr., right, smiles along with his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle prior to a news conference at Georgia Republican Party headquarters in Atlanta. The couple spent nearly $10 million this week, Thursday, April 1, 2021, to buy a 11,000-square-foot, six-bedroom, 11-bath mansion in the town of Jupiter, Fla. That's about 20 miles from the Mar-a-Lago compound where former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump are living. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Donald Trump Jr. buys mansion 20 miles from Mar-a-Lago

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle are now Florida home owners.
 
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, file photo, is Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Former President Donald Trump has been living at his Mar-a-Lago club since leaving office last week — a possible violation of a 1993 agreement he made with the Town of Palm Beach that limits stays to seven consecutive days. Town Manager Kirk Blouin said in a brief email Thursday, Jan. 28, that Palm Beach is examining its options and the matter might be discussed at the town council's February meeting. (Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post via AP, File)

Palm Beach considers options as Trump remains at Mar-a-Lago

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been living at his Mar-a-Lago club since leaving office more than a week ago — a possible violation of a 1993 agreement he made with the Town of Palm Beach that limits stays to seven consecutive days.
 
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gestures toward a reporter while speaking at the State Department in Washington. Pompeo plans to deliver a speech extolling the Trump administration's foreign policy this week in Georgia ahead of key Senate run-off elections that will determine control of the upper chamber of Congress. The accusation of genocide by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against China touches on a hot-button human rights issue between China and the West. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

The Latest: Fireworks light up sky to celebrate inauguration

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration (all times local):

10:15 p.m.

Fireworks lit up the sky behind the Washington Monument to mark the end of Inauguration Day for President Joe Biden.
 
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2020, file photo, Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez arrives for the swearing-in ceremony for Guatemala's new President Alejandro Giammattei at the National Theater in Guatemala City. The Honduras president announced in June that he had tested positive, along with two other people who worked closely with him. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Macron is the latest world leader to catch COVID-19

French President Emmanuel Macron is the latest world leader to test positive for COVID-19, joining a growing list of others just as inoculation drives against the illness are beginning in a number of countries.
 
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2020 photo, first lady Melania Trump introduces President Donald Trump to speak at a campaign rally for Senate Republican candidates, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Ga. Weeks before her family turns the White House over to President-elect Joe Biden, Melania Trump announced Monday that a tennis pavilion on the south grounds is ready. The project included sprucing up an existing tennis court and children's garden, in addition to replacing a smaller structure with the pavilion. The White House says the project was paid for with private funds and did not disclose the cost. Completion of the tennis pavilion follows the first lady’s redesign of the White House Rose Garden earlier this year.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

First lady announces new White House tennis pavilion

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tennis anyone?

Weeks before her family turns the White House over to President-elect Joe Biden, Melania Trump announced that a new tennis pavilion on the south grounds is ready for action.
 
First lady Melania Trump stands next to the 2020 Official White House Christmas tree as it is presented on the North Portico of the White House, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House still planning holiday parties, despite warnings

WASHINGTON (AP) — All those warnings from public health officials begging Americans to limit gatherings this holiday season amid a surge in coronavirus cases aren’t stopping the White House from planning a host of festivities and holiday parties in the midst of a pandemic.
 
President Donald Trump walks with first lady Melania Trump after speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a day of campaign rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nebraska, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The first lady will be campaigning in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Melania Trump slams Biden, Dems in first solo campaign stop

ATGLEN, Pa. (AP) — Melania Trump lined up squarely with her husband Tuesday on her first solo trip of the 2020 campaign, slamming Joe Biden, Democrats and the media as she pushed the president’s reeelection message in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
 
From left, first lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, Amy Coney Barrett and Jesse Barrett, stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Barrett swearing-in differs markedly from ‘superspreader’

WASHINGTON (AP) — This time they mostly wore masks.

It’s been only a month since President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden event to announce he was nominating Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the Supreme Court.
 
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pose for a photo with White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, holding her 11-month-old daughter, as they greet trick-or-treaters on the South Lawn during a Halloween celebration at the White House, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Halloween goes on at the White House with a few twists

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a bit of rejiggering, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump played host Sunday to hundreds of superheroes, unicorns, skeletons and even a miniature version of themselves as part of a Halloween celebration at the White House.
 
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold hands on stage after the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

First lady unseen as Trump restarts campaign after COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his wife received their positive COVID-19 tests on the same day.
 
FILE - In this July 8, 2019 file photo, Vice President Mike Pence, left, greets Pastor John Hagee, founder and chairman of Christians United for Israel in Washington. Prominent Texas megachurch pastor and conservative activist John Hagee has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Hagee's son, Matt Hagee, announced the illness during Sunday, OCT. 4, 2020, morning services at Cornerstone Church, which his father founded. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky File)

John Hagee, prominent megachurch pastor, ill with COVID-19

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Prominent megachurch pastor and conservative activist John Hagee has been diagnosed with COVID-19, his son announced during services at the Texas church his father founded.
 

John Hagee, prominent megachurch pastor, ill with COVID-19

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Prominent megachurch pastor and conservative activist John Hagee has been diagnosed with COVID-19, his son announced during services at the church his father founded.
 
Signs left by supporters of President Donald Trump at the entrance to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Trump was admitted to the hospital after contracting the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

2020 Watch: How long will Trump be quarantined?

Days to general election: 29
 
People watch a large screen showing President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump during a news report from Chinese state television about Trump testing positive for the coronavirus in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Trump said early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning announcement that plunges the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China’s Xi sends sympathy message to Trump over infection

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message of sympathy Saturday to U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump following their coronavirus diagnosis, state TV reported.
 
President Donald Trump speaks at Duluth International Airport on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, during a campaign stop in Duluth, Minn. (AP Photo/Jack Rendulich)

Timeline of Trump’s activities in week coronavirus hit home

WASHINGTON (AP) — With just a month to go until the election, President Donald Trump had a busy schedule in the week before the coronavirus hit home with him.
 
People watch a large screen showing President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump during a news report from Chinese state television about Trump testing positive for the coronavirus in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Trump said early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning announcement that plunges the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump COVID infection thrusts world in uncharted territory

PARIS (AP) — News that the world’s most powerful man was infected with the world’s most notorious disease dominated screens large and small, drawing shock, sympathy and some barbs for President Donald Trump.
 
The White House is shown Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis

CHICAGO (AP) — News Friday that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 sparked an explosion of rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories that in a matter of hours littered the social media feeds of many Americans.
 
FILE - in this Sept. 24, 2020 file photo, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., appears on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lankford says he is quarantining after meeting with a Utah senator who tested positive for COVID-19. Lankford tweeted on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, that he had met several times this week with fellow Republican Mike Lee, who announced earlier in the day that he had contracted the disease caused by the coronavirus. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)

Lankford quarantining after colleague contracts COVID-19

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said Friday that he was quarantining after meeting with a Utah senator who tested positive for COVID-19.
 
President Donald Trump arrives at Morristown Municipal Airport to attend a fundraiser at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in Morristown, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP PHOTOS: A busy week for Trump before positive virus test

With just a month to go until the election, President Donald Trump had a busy schedule the days before he tested positive for the coronavirus, attending rallies, private fundraisers, a presidential debate and hosting events at the White House.
 
A man wearing a face mask walks by the window of a shop with TV screens showing an image of U.S. President Donald Trump during a news program, in Milan, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Trump said early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning announcement that plunges the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Election 2020 Today: Trump contracts COVID-19, globe reacts

Here’s what’s happening Friday in Election 2020, 32 days until Election Day:

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