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FILE - White House executive chef Cris Comerford, holds dishes as she speaks during a media preview for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Former White House chef for 5 presidents says first families are 'just regular people' at home

Read full article: Former White House chef for 5 presidents says first families are 'just regular people' at home

A former White House executive chef says U.S. presidents and their families are “just regular people” when they're at home in the private living areas of the executive mansion.

Activists and members of Austin's LGBTQ community gather on the steps of the Texas Capitol on June 28, 2017, to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, a key moment in the birth of the modern LGBT movement in America.
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Texas House could consider repealing ban on homosexual conduct

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The law, on the books since 1973, has been unenforced since 2003, when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump gestures during a business roundtable, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Live updates: Trump visits main U.S. military base in Middle East as violence flares in Gaza

Read full article: Live updates: Trump visits main U.S. military base in Middle East as violence flares in Gaza

President Donald Trump has visited the main U.S. military base in the Middle East as he uses his four-day visit to Gulf states to reject the “interventionism” of America’s past in the region.

FILE - Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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Judge to hear arguments to Louisiana law listing abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances

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A Louisiana judge will hear arguments challenging a first-of-its-kind reclassification of two abortion-inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances.”.

FILE - Newark mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka speaks to reporters after a protest in front of of Delaney Hall, the proposed site of an immigrant detention center, in Newark, N.J., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka set to appear in court on charge of trespassing at immigration facility

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is set to appear in federal court for a status conference on the Trump administration’s charge he trespassed at an immigration detention center in the city last week.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte talks to journalists as he arrives for NATO's informal meeting of foreign ministers in Antalya, southern Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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NATO weighs a US demand to massively hike defense spending as some struggle to meet the current goal

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NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand to massively ramp up defense investment to 5% of gross domestic product over the next 7 years.

FILE - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay,File)
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South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees

Read full article: South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees

President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to hold talks at the White House next week.

FILE - Kentucky Republican gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron concedes to supporters during an election night watch party in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/James Crisp, File)
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Ethics complaint resurfaces as Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron runs for a U.S. Senate seat

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An ethics complaint stemming from Republican Daniel Cameron’s failed run for Kentucky governor has resurfaced as the former state attorney general campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky.

People in support of abortion rights protest outside the Missouri Senate chamber after the Senate voted to approve a referendum seeking to repeal an abortion-rights amendment on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
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Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

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Missouri lawmakers have approved a referendum seeking to repeal an abortion-rights amendment passed by voters six months ago.

Former Detective Brian Wharton testifies during a Criminal Jurisprudence hearing on death row inmate Robert Roberson on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 in Austin. Wharton was an investigator in the case of the death of Nikki Roberson and has expressed his doubts of Roberson's guilt and agrees with stopping his execution. With his scheduled execution drawing closer, a hearing debating the certainty of Roberson's guilt and there is a bipartisan push to stay his execution.
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Proposal to enhance Texas’ pioneering junk science law approved by Texas House

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Last year, lawmakers waded into a dramatic feud over the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, seen as the embodiment of the failures of Texas’ junk science law.

FILE - Sunlight illuminates the exterior of the North Dakota House of Representatives and the state Capitol tower in Bismarck, N.D., on Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)
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Ruling in North Dakota case erases path for people in 7 states to sue under the Voting Rights Act

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Private citizens in seven states no longer have a legal path to sue under a key section of the Voting Rights Act, under a federal appeals court ruling.

A close-up of family planning pamphlets at Latinoamericana Medical Clinic in Spring on March 27, 2025. The clinic, part of Maria Margarita Rojas' network, remains closed after a Waller County judge granted a temporary injunction prohibiting the facility from providing medical services in March.
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Houston midwife accused of illegal abortions appeals clinic closures

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In an appeal filed this week, Maria Rojas’ attorneys accused Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office of a careless investigation.

FILE - EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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EPA chief Zeldin faces bipartisan anger in Senate over funding freeze, grant cancellations

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The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come under bipartisan criticism over his agency’s actions to cancel billions of dollars in congressionally approved spending to address chronic pollution in minority communities and jump-start clean energy programs.

FILE - Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, left, joined by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, testifies as the House Intelligence Committee holds a hearing on worldwide threats, at the Capitol, in Washington, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Gabbard fires 2 top intelligence officials and will shift office that preps Trump's daily brief

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says two veteran intelligence officers have been dismissed because of their opposition to President Donald Trump.

FILE - The Capitol is seen in Washington, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Prosecutor in Trump classified files case takes 5th Amendment in private interview with Congress

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A key prosecutor assigned to the classified documents case against President Donald Trump has invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional interview.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., speaks with an officer demanding she be let into the ICE Detention office after the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
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ICE head recognizes Congress' role in visiting detention facilities, even unannounced

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The head of the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement agency has recognized the right of members of Congress to visit detention facilities —even unannounced.

FILE - James O'Keefe, founder of a conservative nonprofit, waits to be introduced during a news conference, Sept. 1, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Ex-FBI agent and Pentagon contractor sues over secret recording showing him criticizing Trump

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A former FBI agent and Pentagon contractor has sued the founder of a conservative nonprofit known for its hidden camera stings.

Texas business owners may see a lower tax bill in the future. The Texas Legislature is taking steps toward approving a deal that would lower certain taxes.
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Business tax breaks closer to reality after Texas Senate approves compromise

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The Texas House must approve changes to the proposal that were brokered by party leaders. It’s part of a package of bills to bring down property taxes statewide.

Time is running out for Texas lawmakers to reach an agreement on a public education funding package. Senators will discuss their version of a proposal approved by the House during a panel Thursday.
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Clock is ticking for Texas lawmakers to settle differences on $8 billion public school funding package

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Senators will hold a hearing Thursday on their counterproposal to the House's school funding bill. House Democrats and public education advocates have criticized the upper chamber for not moving faster to advance the legislation.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
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Divisions emerge among House Republicans over how much to cut taxes and Medicaid in Trump's bill

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There were cheers when Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee signed off on the GOP tax breaks bill after a round-the-clock session that pushed President Donald Trump’s package past overwhelming Democratic opposition.

FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love

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President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find love.

FILE - The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington, March 9, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Trump can't strip Foreign Service workers of their collective bargaining rights, judge says

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A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration from stripping Foreign Service employees of their collective bargaining rights.

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani welcomes President Donald Trump during an official welcoming ceremony at the Amiri Diwan in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades

Read full article: Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades

Donald Trump is the most powerful and famous person on the planet, and the American president is at the helm of the biggest economy and the strongest military.

Money sent home to Cajola, Guatemala, from the U.S. paid for the construction of dozens of homes, as shown, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)
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Funds from migrants sent back home help fuel some towns' economies. A GOP plan targets that

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says a Republican plan for an excise tax on some of the funds sent by migrant workers from the United States back to their home countries is "arbitrary and unjust.”.

President Donald Trump listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during an event about investing in America in the Cross Hall of the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump administration rescinds curbs on AI chip exports to foreign markets

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Responding to complaints from the tech industry and other countries, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect Thursday that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to certain international markets without federal approval.