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FILE – People attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial marking MLK Day in Washington, Jan. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call to action as Trump takes office

January 19, 2025 at 9:27 a.m.

When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Defense secretary, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Pete Hegseth confronts allegations of misconduct as senators grill Trump’s choice for Pentagon chief

January 14, 2025 at 3:20 p.m.

President-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, vowed Tuesday to foster a “warrior culture” at the Pentagon, portraying himself as a “change agent” during a testy Senate confirmation hearing that drew protesters but also...

Vice President Kamala Harris reads the results as House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., listens during a joint session of Congress to confirm the Electoral College votes, affirming President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Donald Trump is certified as the 2024 election winner without challenge, in stark contrast to 2021 violence

January 6, 2025 at 3:06 p.m.

Congress convened Monday under heavy security and a snowstorm to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s election, the legacy of Jan. 6 leaving an extraordinary fact: The candidate who tried to overturn the previous election won this time...

The Capitol is pictured in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Biden signs bill that averts government shutdown, bringing to a close days of Washington upheaval

December 21, 2024 at 11:27 a.m.

President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law that averts a government shutdown.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks briefly to reporters just before a vote on an interim spending bill to prevent a government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. The vote failed to pass. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Government funding bill clears Congress and heads to President Biden, averting a shutdown

December 21, 2024 at 8:12 a.m.

The Senate has rushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown.

El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, el republicano Mike Johnson, habla brevemente con la prensa antes de una votación sobre un proyecto de ley provisional para impedir un cierre gubernamental, el jueves 19 de diciembre de 2024, en el Capitolio en Washington. (AP Foto/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cámara baja de EEUU aprueba ley de financiación y la envía al Senado

December 20, 2024 at 5:25 p.m.

Pocas horas antes de que venza a medianoche el plazo para evitar un cierre gubernamental, la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos aprobó un nuevo plan de su presidente Mike...

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump wants debt ceiling in the budget deal. If not, he says let the government shutdown start now

December 20, 2024 at 11:35 a.m.

Hours before the start of a federal government shutdown, President-elect Donald Trump doubled-down Friday on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal — and if...

FILE – Supporters watch as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Nov. 5, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Young men swung to the right for Donald Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals

November 30, 2024 at 5:17 p.m.

Although much of the electorate shifted right to varying degrees in 2024, young men were one of the groups that swung sharply toward Trump.

FILE – Supporters of former President Donald Trump with signs and t-shirts that read “Blacks for Trump” gather near the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse, Aug. 3, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Young Black and Latino men say they chose Trump because of the economy and jobs. Here’s how and why

November 10, 2024 at 1:20 p.m.

Donald Trump gained a larger share of Black and Latino voters than he did in 2020, when he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, and most notably among men under age...

Democratic candidates, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, left, and unincorporated Miami-Dade voters dance to the sounds of the Bahamian Junkanoo band during a festive visit to the polls at the Joseph Caleb Center during the “Souls to the Polls” event on the last day of early voting Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Miami. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)

Kamala Harris, Obamas and voting rights leaders work to turn out Black voters in run-up to Election Day

November 3, 2024 at 7:59 p.m.

A key strategy in Harris and Democrats’ Black voter outreach includes dispatching the first Black president and his wife, the former first lady, to battleground states where winning may come...

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