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President Joe Biden delivers remarks about vaccinations, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

More than a half million Americans gain coverage under Biden

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republicans trod well-worn path to court to sue Biden

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

President Joe Biden arrives at Pittsburgh International Airport ahead of a speech on infrastructure spending, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis: Bumpy road ahead for Biden’s infrastructure plan

By JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

No ruling in case deciding fate of DACA immigration program

Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, file photo, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, speaks to the media about her reaction to Obama's re-election, in the garden of her house in the village of Kogelo, western Kenya. Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday, March 29, 2021 but did not disclose the cause of death. She was at least 99 years old. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Obama family matriarch has died in a Kenyan hospital at 99

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1975, file photo President Gerald Ford listens to a news reporter's question during a news conference at the Executive Office building in Washington. It was Ford's first live nationally broadcast news conference since June 24. (AP Photo, File)

Biden readies for 1st news conference, White House tradition

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

In this March 21, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden speaks with members of the press on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Biden is going to Ohio to showcase health insurance cost cuts at what may be the best time for Democrats to talk up the Affordable Care Act since it became law. Biden’s COVID-19 relief law pumps up “Obamacare” subsidies for premiums to address longstanding problems of affordability, particularly for people with solid middle-class incomes. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden expands ‘Obamacare’ by cutting health insurance costs

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House says five staffers out due to past marijuana use

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster talks about vaccine distribution and abortion during a news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. Congress just sweetened the incentives for states to extend Medicaid insurance coverage to more low-income adults, but the dozen Republican-controlled states that have spent years resisting expanding the programs have no plans to change course now. “Gov. McMaster isn’t for sale, regardless of whatever ill-conceived ‘incentives’ congressional democrats may come up with,” spokesman Brian Symmes said in a statement. “What the federal spending plan does is attempt to offer a short term solution for a long term problem.” (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, file)

Medicaid incentive so far not enough to sway holdout states

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

Bruce Springsteen, left, appears with former President Barack Obama during their podcast of conversations recorded at Springsteen's home studio in New Jersey. The eight-episode series covers their upbringings, racism, fatherhood and even recall a White House singalong around a piano. (Rob DeMartin/Spotify via AP)

Obama in upcoming podcast credits his mother for his path

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks with Mary Anna Ackley, Owner of Little Wild Things Farm, left, and Michael Siegel, Co-owner of W.S. Jenks &amp; Son, right, during a visit at W.S. Jenks &amp; Son hardware store, a small business that received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark International Women's Day, Monday, March 8, 2021, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

$1.9T Biden relief package a bet government can help cure US

By JOSH BOAK and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark International Women's Day, Monday, March 8, 2021, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden’s big relief package a bet gov’t can help cure America

By JOSH BOAK and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about cancer in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

EDITORIAL: Biden pivot toward Iran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this July 30, 2013, file photo, Gary Gensler testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.President Joe Biden’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming before a Senate panel for his confirmation hearing, at a moment when a roiling stock-trading drama has spurred clamor for tighter regulation of Wall Street. Gensler, a chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Obama era, has experience as a tough markets regulator during the financial crisis (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Biden’s pick for SEC flags trading app gimmicks for scrutiny

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

A migrant family crosses the border into El Paso, Texas, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. After waiting months and sometimes years in Mexico, people seeking asylum in the United States are being allowed into the country as they wait for courts to decide on their cases, unwinding one of the Trump administration's signature immigration policies that President Joe Biden vowed to end. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

DHS secretary blames Donald Trump for new border surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: When in doubt, blame America

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Honduran boys whose family wants to seek asylum in the U.S., play on the sidewalk in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Thousands of people are waiting to claim asylum and more come each day, falsely believing they will be able to enter the U.S. now that former President Donald Trump is out of office. While President Joe Biden has taken some major steps in his first weeks in office to reverse Trump's hardline immigration policies, his administration hasn't lifted some of the most significant barriers to asylum-seekers. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and BEN FOX - Associated Press