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People stand on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb.11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

SCOTUS, in Chevron, squashes Obama-like ‘pen’ and ‘phone’ presidencies

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks March 3, 2015, before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate are wrestling with whether to attend Netanyahu's address to Congress on July 24, 2024. Many are torn between their long-standing support for Israel and their anguish about the way Netanyahu's government has waged war in Gaza. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democrats wrestle with whether to attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress as many plan to boycott

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants' Willie Mays poses for a photo during baseball spring training in 1972. Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. Mays' family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced Tuesday night, June 18, 2024, he had “passed away peacefully” Tuesday afternoon surrounded by loved ones. (AP Photo, File)

Willie Mays, Giants’ ‘Say Hey Kid,’ dies

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Biden to announce policy giving deportation protection, work permits for spouses of U.S. citizens

By Stephen Groves and Seung Min Kim and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama at the Peacock Theater, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Clooney and Roberts help Biden raise $28 million at a fundraiser featuring dire warnings about Trump

By Darlene Superville and Will Weissert - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets with campaign volunteers at the Dr. John Bryant Community Center, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Obama and Clooney and Roberts, oh my! Biden enlists big names for June fundraiser

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer) **FILE**

Biden campaign attacks Trump’s fundraiser guest list

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom before the start of closing arguments in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Jan. 11, 2024, in New York. Records show over the past two years, Axos Bank and its largest individual shareholder Don Hankey, have extended more than $500 million in financing that has benefited Trump. Ethics experts say they could also grant Hankey and Axos Bank outsize sway in a future Trump administration. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool) **FILE**

When Trump has needed cash, a California bank and one of its top shareholders come to the rescue

By Brian Slodysko - Associated Press

U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., faces reporters during a news conference in Quincy, Mass., on Feb. 22, 2010. Former longtime Massachusetts congressman and district attorney Delahunt, a Democratic stalwart who postponed his own retirement from Washington to help pass former President Barack Obama's agenda, has died following an illness. He died Saturday, March 30, 2024, at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 following a long-term illness, news reports said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts has died at age 82

By Brian P.D. Hannon - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, right, and former presidents Barack Obama, left, and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden raise a record $26 million for his reelection

By Colleen Long and Chris Megerian - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and former President Bill Clinton attend at a memorial service for Sen. Robert Byrd, July 2, 2010, at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are teaming up with President Joe Biden for a glitzy reelection fundraiser Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The event brings together more than three decades of Democratic leadership. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Biden fundraiser in NYC with Obama and Clinton nets a whopping $25M, campaign says. It’s a record

By Chris Megerian and Colleen Long - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and former President Bill Clinton, right, pose for a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team under the North Portico of the White House in Washington, May 27, 2010. President Joe Biden will share a stage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday in New York as he raises money for his reelection campaign. It's a one-of-a-kind political extravaganza that will showcase decades of Democratic leadership. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders

By CHRIS MEGERIAN - Associated Press

Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman waves to members of the media as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington, May 17, 2017. Lieberman, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died Wednesday, March 27, 2024, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 82. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats’ VP pick in 2000, dies at 82

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President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama shake stand together on stage during an event about the Affordable Care Act, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden leans on Clinton, Obama popularity to boost sagging campaign

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden gestures after speaking at an event on the campus of George Mason University in Manassas, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, to campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in the upcoming presidential election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Biden, eyeing reelection message, touts record Obamacare signups

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Former U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., who is senior counsel at Covington &amp; Burling, addresses the media, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

Eric Holder, Obama wingman, moans Trump will end ‘democracy’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - An insurance agent talks with clients inside the main location of Las Madrinas de los Seguros, Spanish for "The Godmothers of Insurance," at a shopping center in Miami, on Dec. 5, 2023. The Biden administration says 20 million people have enrolled for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, with still a few days left for signing up. That's a figure President Joe Biden will likely talk about regularly on the campaign trail as the Republican front-runner, former President Donald Trump, vows to dismantle the Obama-era program. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

‘Obamacare’ sign-ups surge to 20 million, days before open enrollment closes

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

Then-President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

Biden’s focus on bashing Trump takes a page from the winning Obama and Bush reelection playbooks

By Will Weissert - Associated Press

Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace gestures as he makes an election campaign speech for his wife, Lurleen, Nov. 8, 1966, in Wetumpka, Ala. Republican presidential candidates will debate Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, within walking distance of where Wallace staged his “stand in the schoolhouse door” to oppose the enrollment of Black students at the University of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. (AP Photo/LG, File)

The next Republican debate is in Alabama, the state that gave the GOP a road map to Donald Trump

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press