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A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House

Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric-car company are cropping up from coast to coast and even overseas.

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Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in ‘green bank’ grants

Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service

Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska is the latest GOP member of Congress to face angry crowds back home

More than 200 people converged on an eastern Nebraska high school auditorium Tuesday evening for a town hall held by Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Flood. Only minutes in, jeers, boos and angry demands for answers revealed most were there to voice their displeasure with the congressman.

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Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge’s order stopping removal

Vice President JD Vance and his wife heckled by crowd at the Kennedy Center concert

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he travels to New Orleans, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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In this file photo provided by Los Alamos National Laboratory, barrels of radioactive waste are loaded for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) at the Radioactive Assay Nondestructive Testing (RANT) facility in Los Alamos, N.M., April 2019. (Nestor Trujillo/Los Alamos National Laboratory via AP, File)

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Sydney Smith, who lost her job due to DOGE cuts, stands in front of the Sydney Yates building that houses the Forest Service on Thursday, March. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Young people who aspired to government service dismayed by Trump ending the federal fellows program

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch

This image provided by Travis Bond shows Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of the DOGE Service, pictured in 2014 at a health care technology conference in San Francisco, (Travis Bond via AP)

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President Donald Trump is briefed on the effects of Hurricane Helene at Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, N.C., Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, as first lady Melania Trump looks on. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to employees at the Department of Homeland Security, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republicans once railed against armed IRS agents. Now they want them for immigration enforcement

A heavily redacted declaration by Catrina Pavlov Keenan is photographed Tuesday, March 18, 2025, as newly released court documents shed no fresh light on the circumstances under which Prince Harry entered the United States. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

US government court filings keep Prince Harry’s immigration forms secret

A worker walks in front of a transformer which was destroyed after a recent Russian missile attack at DTEK's power plant in Ukraine, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Trump and Putin agree to an immediate ceasefire for energy infrastructure in Ukraine conflict

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington on Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump fires 2 Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, seeking more control over regulators

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks along the southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

A timeline of the legal wrangling and deportation flights after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act

A scallop fishing boat leaves the dock, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Yarmouth, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Fishermen say Trump’s DOGE budget cuts are preventing them from adopting climate-friendly technology

Attendees sit during a town hall with U.S. Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Columbus, Neb. Many attendees demanded answers over Flood's support for President Donald Trump's policies. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska is the latest GOP member of Congress to face angry crowds back home

Elon Musk departs the Capitol following a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Delaware’s status as corporate capital might be on the line in a fight over shareholder lawsuits

President Donald Trump waves from the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, March 17, 2025 (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’ is unflinching in its White House coverage in the shadow of Trump’s $20B lawsuit

This combo of phots shows Republican state Rep. candidate Chuck Davis left, on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Clairton, Pa.; and Democrat state Rep. candidate Dan Goughnour in McKeesport, Pa., on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Majority control of Pennsylvania House hinges on special election in steel region near Pittsburgh

Alabama Senate advances bill to allow small fraction of nonviolent offenders resentencing

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey visits the sidelines during an NCAA football game between Troy and Arkansas State, Oct. 7, 2023, in Troy, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)

Alabama lawmakers approve a ban on devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns

This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file)

JFK assassination files released, sending history buffs hunting for new clues

The chair for Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn, a Republican from Grand Rapids, sits empty in a Senate hearing room in the State Capitol complex in St. Paul on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, a day after his arrest in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota Senate Republicans call on GOP colleague to resign after prostitution arrest

Vice President JD Vance, center, speaks at a rally about "America's industrial resurgence," Friday, March 14, 2025, at Vantage Plastics in Bay City, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Vance to serve as RNC’s finance chair in sign of his growing influence

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

A look at the judge who blocked Trump’s deportations and is now facing calls for impeachment

The Department of Homeland Security seal is pictured as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Kodiak, Alaska. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

They worked to prevent violence and terrorism at the agency created after 9/11. Then they got fired

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responds to questions from reporters during a meeting with Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Pentagon is cutting up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations

President Donald Trump responds to reporters as he arrives at the White House after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Appeals court hears arguments over Trump’s bid to fire 2 board members

Georgia governor names labor commissioner and vaults first Hispanic woman into statewide office

A sign on the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency is photographed Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

EPA plans to cut scientific research program, could fire more than 1,000 employees

IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler, right, and IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley, appear before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing to argue that the Justice Department interfered with a yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

IRS agents who investigated Hunter Biden given promotions at the Treasury Department

This image made from video by NASA shows Russian astronaut Alexei Ovchinin, left, Butch Wilmore, center, and Suni Williams wait to greet newly arrived astronauts after the SpaceX capsule docked with the International Space Station, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (NASA via AP)

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Nadine Menendez, wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, leaves Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trial begins for Nadine Menendez, wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez

Mississippi Senate, House propose new income tax elimination plans, set stage for showdown

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

Michal Roseberry, a victim of human trafficking,speaks against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's proposal to limit lawsuits on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)

Amid heightened blowback, a push to limit lawsuits in Georgia moves forward

This photo provided by North Carolina State University shows Kevin Howell, who will succeed UNC longtime chancellor Randy Woodson, who is retiring in 2025. (Marc Hall/North Carolina State University via AP)

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A person on a scooter crosses a street in a residential area located right next to the Port of Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in San Pedro, Calif. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

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Rahmani, who has been experiencing anxiety and depression since the Trump administration cut federal funding for refugee programs, rubs his eyes while sitting in his apartment in Laurel, Md., Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Rahmani, an Afghan refugee and father of two, plays with his daughter at the apartment where they were resettled by the Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area organization in Laurel, Md., Monday, March 3, 2025. He and his family are among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when President Donald Trump cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Part of a file, dated Nov. 24, 1963, quoting FBI director J. Edgar Hoover as he talks about the death of Lee Harvey Oswald, is photographed in Washington, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

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House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

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A voter casts a ballot during early voting in Waukesha, Wis., Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

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Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

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