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President Joe Biden attends the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Have you heard the one about Trump? Biden tries humor on the campaign trail

President Joe Biden is out to win some votes by scoring some laughs at the expense of Donald Trump. Biden is using mockery with the goal of getting under Trump’s skin and reminding the country of Trump’s blunders.

FILE - President Jimmy Carter, left, and Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., greet Biden supporters at a reception in Wilmington, Del., Feb. 20, 1978. Former President Donald Trump is running against President Biden, but Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, keeps bringing up former President Carter. Trump likes to cite the 99-year-old former president as a measuring stick to belittle Biden. (AP Photo)

Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden. But he keeps bringing up another Democrat: Jimmy Carter

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Friday, April 26, 2024. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

Inside the head-spinning week of Donald Trump’s legal drama

President Joe Biden, right, introduces host Colin Jost at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, hugs Michaelah Montgomery, a local conservative activist, as he visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them

Biden pokes fun at Trump in annual White House correspondents’ dinner speech

An election-year roast of President Joe Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war.

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Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests arriving for White House correspondents’ dinner

US announces new Patriot missiles for Ukraine as part of new $6B aid package

John Barrow speaks to a Democratic group in Hoschton, Ga., on Monday, April 15, 2024, seeking support in his race for the Georgia Supreme Court. Barrow is basing his campaign for the high court around his support for abortion rights as he challenges incumbent Justice Andrew Pinson in a nonpartisan election in May. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

John Barrow speaks to a Democratic group in Hoschton, Ga., on Monday, April 15, 2024, seeking support in his race for the Georgia Supreme Court. Barrow is basing his campaign for the high court around his support for abortion rights as he challenges incumbent Justice Andrew Pinson in a nonpartisan election in May. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

A former Democratic Georgia congressman hopes abortion can power his state Supreme Court bid

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow is trying to harness a voter backlash to abortion restrictions to unseat Georgia Supreme Court Justice Andrew Pinson.

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These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York’s special congressional election

FILE - Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during a hearing on April 20, 2023, in Washington. Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party's approach to immigration. The son of Mexican immigrants and the first Latino to represent his state in the Senate, he has emerged as a persistent force at a time when Democrats are increasingly focused on border security and the country's posture toward immigrants is uncertain. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants

White House

President Joe Biden, from left, walks with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and White House deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed, as they cross the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2024, after returning from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Planning for potential presidential transition underway as Biden administration kicks it off

Congress

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown San Francisco garage, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

They say don’t leave valuables in parked cars in San Francisco. Rep. Adam Schiff didn’t listen

Supreme Court

Supreme Court is seen as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s claim of absolute immunity but decision’s timing is unclear

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he prepares to return to the U.S. following a visit to China, Friday, April 26, 2024, at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Top diplomat Blinken will visit the Mideast again this coming week. What can he achieve this time?

The State Department says Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on his seventh diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began more than six months ago.

Riverton, Utah, Mayor Trent Staggs, a U.S. Senate candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, addresses delegates at the Utah Republican Party Convention, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Utah GOP picks Trump-backed mayor as nominee to replace Sen. Mitt Romney, but primary foes await

The Utah Republican Party has selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Manhattan criminal court during the continuation of his trial on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s first witness in hush money trial

Donald Trump’s defense team in his hush money case is seeking to undermine the testimony of the prosecution’s first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.

Nepal hosts an investment summit in hopes of attracting foreign money for hydropower projects

Nepal is hosting an investment summit, hoping to attract much-needed foreign investment. It particularly wants to develop hydropower projects to produce more electricity that it can sell to neighboring countries.

I Richelle Dietz holds an empty five-gallon water bottle at her home in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Monday, April 22, 2024, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Dietz family relies on bi-weekly water deliveries for basic needs since their water was tainted in 2021. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

A Hawaii military family avoids tap water at home. They’re among those suing over 2021 jet fuel leak

Richelle Dietz is a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy officer living on a Hawaii military base who often thinks about water.

Barbara Pryor, the widow of former Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor, stands before Pryor's casket with their great-grandson Raven at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas on Friday, April 26, 2024. David Pryor died in Little Rock on April 20, 2024. Pryor, a Democrat, remained active in public service long after he left public office. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

David Pryor, former governor and senator of Arkansas, is remembered

Former Arkansas Gov. and U.S. Sen. David Pryor is being remembered. Funeral services were held Saturday for family, friends and colleagues, including former Arkansas governor and President Bill Clinton.

Mississippi State Senate Education Committee Chairman Sen. Dennis DeBar, R-Leakesville, presents a bill before legislators on the floor of the Senate chamber, Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Senate agrees to a new school funding formula, sending plan to the governor

Mississippi would change the formula for funding public schools, under a bill that is headed to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.

A suspect is in custody after 6 people were shot outside a club in the nation’s capital, police say

Police say six people were shot outside a nightclub in the nation’s capital. The shootings happened at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington.

FILE - Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., speaks during a Republican Indiana gubernatorial candidate forum in Carmel, Ind., Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

Indiana voters to pick party candidates in competitive, multimillion dollar primaries

The results of some primary elections in Indiana could determine the outcome of the general election in a deep red state where Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature and GOP politicians lead many top offices.

FILE - Daniel Rodimer leaves court after his initial appearance on murder charges at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Rodimer, a retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas, has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man who suffered a head injury during a Halloween Party at a Las Vegas Strip hotel. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Retired pro wrestler, failed congressional candidate indicted in Vegas murder case

A retired professional wrestler who failed in bids for Congress from Nevada and Texas has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man during a Halloween Party last year at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.

Mississippi House Education Committee vice chairman Rep. Kent McCarty, R-Hattiesburg, right, reviews notes on his smartphone as he answers a question from Rep. Omeria Scott, D-Laurel, following the House passing the Mississippi Student Funding Formula, Friday, April 26, 2024, at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. The Mississippi Student Funding Formula is a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to educate. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi lawmakers consider new school funding formula

Mississippi is on track to change the way it pays for public schools with a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to educate.

FILE - U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., right, speaks during a House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 18, 2022. The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of former Illinois Congressman Davis and its treasurer $43,475 for failing to refund excess contributions in a timely manner. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

FEC fines ex-Congressman Rodney Davis $43,475 for campaign finance violations

The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of former Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis and its treasurer $43,475 for failing to refund excess contributions in a timely manner.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

FILE - Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., speaks with the media late Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Meijer withdrew his name from the U.S. Senate race on Friday, April 26, 2024, ending a longshot bid to become the Republican nominee and return to Congress after being ousted by voters for supporting an effort to impeach then-President Donald Trump. (Katy Batdorff/Detroit News via AP, File)

Former Rep. Peter Meijer ends his longshot bid for the GOP nomination in Michigan’s Senate race

Former Rep. Peter Meijer has withdrawn his name from a U.S. Senate race in Michigan. Meijer was seen as a longshot to win the Republican Party’s nomination after voting to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2021.

FILE - South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem attends an event Jan. 10, 2024, at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. The Guardian has obtained a copy of Noem's soon-to-be released book, where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too. She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show her willingness to do anything "difficult, messy and ugly." (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)

South Dakota governor, a potential Trump running mate, writes in new book about killing her dog

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again.

Military veteran charged with attempting to make ricin to remain jailed

A judge has ordered a Marine Corps veteran and former militia member to remain jailed pending trial on charges he attempted to make ricin, a biological toxin ricin.

Mourners line up outside the historic Old Capitol building in Tallahassee, Fla., on Friday morning, April 26, 2024, for a memorial service for former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, who died April 16. Graham, a Democrat, also served as Florida governor before his election to the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)

Florida’s Bob Graham remembered as a governor, senator of the people

Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham has been remembered by Republicans and Democrats alike as a man whose love for the state and people transcended politics.

Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, right, discusses the cost of Medicaid expansion at a public legislative conference committee meeting held at the State Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi legislative leaders swap proposals on possible Medicaid expansion

Mississippi Senate leaders are saying for the first time that they are willing to expand Medicaid to the full level allowed under a federal law signed 14 years ago by then-President Barack Obama.

FILE - Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, June 20, 2023. A judge has recommended that conservative attorney Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Charges revealed against a former Trump aide and 4 lawyers in Arizona fake electors case

Authorities have revealed the conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges that were filed against an ex-aide of former President Donald Trump and four attorneys in Arizona’s fake elector case.

FILE – Republican Assemblymember Vince Fong speaks on the floor of the California Assembly on Thursday, April 11, 2024. A bill Fong wrote to ban the use of nondisclosure agreements when negotiating legislation failed to pass a legislative committee on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

A California bill aiming to ban confidentiality agreements when negotiating legislation fails

A bill to ban the use of confidentiality agreements when negotiating potential laws in California has failed to pass.

FILE- Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee presides over a hearing, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. DeKalb Superior Court Judge Stacey Hydrick on Thursday, APril 25, 2024, upheld the disqualification of Tiffani Johnson, a candidate who had had planned to run against McAfee. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)

Judge upholds disqualification of challenger to judge in Trump’s Georgia election interference case

A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case.

FILE — A sign welcomes motorists to New York, on the border with Connecticut, near Rye Brook, N.Y., March 29, 2020. A federal appeals court has ruled, Friday, April 26, 2024, that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York to require internet providers to charge low-income residents $15 for broadband

A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents.

Isaac Johnson, who just completed an internship with Topeka's public schools and is finishing work on a social work degree, talks to reporters during a news conference, Thursday, April 26, 2024, in front of a mural at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Johnson, who is transgender, worries about the effects of a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, which also would bar state employees from promoting social transitioning for youth. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

A ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care also would bar advocacy for kids’ social transitions

A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children’s social transitioning.

FILE- Mayor Patrick Rosenello stands next to a destroyed section of sand dune in North Wildwood N.J., Jan. 22, 2024.. on April 25, 2024, North Wildwood and the state of New Jersey announced an agreement for an emergency beach replenishment project there to protect the city until a full-blown beach fill can be done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that may still be two years away. Winter storms punched a hole through what is left of the city's eroded dune system, leaving it more vulnerable than ever to destructive flooding. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Help is coming for a Jersey Shore town that’s losing the man-vs-nature battle on its eroded beaches

Help is finally on the way for the most critically eroded part of the Jersey Shore. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas while waiting — in vain — for the same sort of replenishment proj

FILE - The Internal Revenue Service 1040 tax form for 2022 is seen on April 17, 2023. The IRS said Friday, April 26, 2024, more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program. It says the program's users claimed more than $90 million in refunds, saving roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have spent with commercial tax preparation companies. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

140,000 people did their taxes with the free IRS direct file pilot. But program’s future is unclear

The IRS says more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program.

FILE - R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case May 8, 2019, in Chicago. A federal appeals court on Friday, April 26, 2024, upheld R&B singer R. Kelly’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in his Chicago case. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly ‘s challenge of 20-year sentence

A federal appeals court says singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago.

FILE - Gov. Janet Mills attends an event, March 11, 2022, in Augusta, Maine. On Friday, April 26, 2024, Mills signed into law a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding background checks for private sales of weapons, bolstering the state's “yellow flag” law, criminalizing the transfer of guns to prohibited people and expanding mental health crisis care. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine governor signs off on new gun laws, mental health supports in wake of Lewiston shootings

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed off on a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding background checks for private sales of weapons, bolstering the state’s “yellow flag” law, criminalizing the transfer of guns to pr

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Business, Government and Society Forum at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Tech CEOs Altman, Nadella, Pichai and others join government AI safety board led by DHS’ Mayorkas

The CEOs of leading U.S. technology companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation’s critical services from “AI-related disruptions.”

A clearance sign is displayed at a retail clothing store in Downers Grove, Ill., Monday, April 1, 2024. On Friday, April 26, 2024, the Commerce Department issues its March report on consumer spending. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month

A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed’s reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid.

FILE - Pages from the Shein website, left, and from the Temu site, right, are shown in this photo, in New York, Friday, June 23, 2023. Online fast-fashion retailer Shein must face the European Union's strictest level of digital regulations, the bloc said on Friday, April 26, 2024 as it added the company to its list of big platforms that need extra scrutiny. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Online retailer Shein is latest to face strict European Union digital regulations

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein must face the European Union’s strictest level of digital regulations.

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions

Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur investors who have collectively made tens of millions over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business – Truth Social – will keep dropping despite wild swings tha

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with construction workers at the construction site of the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in midtown Manhattan, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Trading Trump: Truth Social’s first month of trading has sent investors on a ride

With Donald Trump facing dozens of federal criminal charges and hundreds of millions in legal expenses, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. went public on the Nasdaq exchange March 26.

House approves bill to criminalize organ retention without permission

Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill making it a crime for medical examiners to retain a deceased person’s organs without family permission.