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The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light stands in Keweenaw Bay, June 2, 2022, in Chassell, Mich. The federal government's annual effort to give away or sell lighthouses that are no longer needed for navigation purposes includes 10 lighthouses this year. (Luke Barrett/General Services Administration via AP)

Always wanted a lighthouse? U.S. is giving some away, selling others at auction

By Mark Pratt - Associated Press

This screen image released by Dictionary.com shows an entry for allyship, named Dictionary.com's word of the year. (Dictionary.com via AP)

“Allyship” is 2021 word of the year for online dictionary site

By Leanne Italie - Associated Press

In this Dec. 10, 2019, file photo, John Kelly, President Donald Trump's former chief of staff, talks during the SALT finance conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

John Kelly, ex-Trump chief of staff, says delaying Biden transition could be ‘catastrophic’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2017 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly attends a news conference in Guatemala City. In a White House with multiple competing power centers, Kelly, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Joseph Dunford are emerging as a new force to be reckoned with. All three are have standing invitations to Trump's working dinners and were influential voices in Trump's decision-making process for a new national security adviser. (AP Photo/Luis Soto, File)

John Kelly comes to Mattis defense after Trump criticism: ‘Jim Mattis is an honorable man’

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, left, talks with, White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington during President Donald Trump's meeting to discuss potential damage from Hurricane Michael, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Former White House chief of staff Kelly sides with John Bolton, favors witnesses

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Jim Jones, former National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama, listens during the SALT finance conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Trump, Obama advisers say Russia, Iran remain threats to US

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

This Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, photo shows the word &quot;existential&quot; in a dictionary in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Dictionary.com picked “existential” as the word of the year. The choice reflects months of high-stakes threats and crises, real and pondered, across the news, the world and throughout 2019. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Dictionary.com chooses `existential’ as word of the year

By LEANNE ITALIE - Associated Press

In this Oct. 30, 2019, file photo former Exxon CEO and ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves a courthouse in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Rex Tillerson’s dubious denial of Nikki Haley’s claims

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE-In this Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 file photo, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a security council meeting at United Nations headquarters. President Donald Trump's former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley , alleges in her upcoming memoir that two top administration officials, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then-White House chief of staff John Kelly, tried to enlist her in opposing some of Trump's policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

In memoir, Haley alleges disloyalty among some on Trump team

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Former WH chief of staff says he warned Trump on impeachment

Associated Press

Migrant teens line up for a class at a &quot;tender-age&quot; facility for babies, children and teens, in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, in San Benito, Texas. The facility offers services that include education, nutrition, hygiene, recreation, entertainment, medical, mental health and counseling, according to a U.S. Health and Human Services official. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Private sector seeks to profit by detaining migrant kids

By GARANCE BURKE AND MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the RV/MH Hall of Fame and Museum, Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Elkhart, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Elizabeth Warren calls for probe into John Kelly’s position with company running immigrant shelters

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, center, D-Fla., talks with demonstrators before attempting to enter the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, Monday, May 6, 2019, in Homestead, Fla. Mucarsel-Powell was denied access to the shelter. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Lawmakers ask watchdog to probe migrant teen camp’s contract

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perude watches, President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for H.R. 2, the &quot;Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018,&quot; in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on the White House complex, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Analysis: One by one, Trump’s ‘Axis of adults’ leaving

By JULIE PACE and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perude watches, President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for H.R. 2, the &quot;Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018,&quot; in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on the White House complex, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Analysis: As advisers leave, Trump’s guardrails come off

By JULIE PACE and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

In this Dec. 18, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn arrives at federal court in Washington. President Donald Trump’s band of “my generals” is slowly being disbanded. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s band of ‘my generals’ is disbanding

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2018, file photo, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump has named Mulvaney as his new chief of staff. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Loyalty among attributes Mulvaney brings to White House job

By JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with newly elected governors in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Budget head Mulvaney picked as Trump’s next chief of staff

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

In this July 11, 2018, photo, Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Director of the Office of Management, listens during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Mick Mulvaney tapped as Trump’s acting chief of staff

By S.A. Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In a Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, Nick Ayers, right, listens as Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch waits for the arrival of the casket for former President George H.W. Bush to lie in State at the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump's top pick to replace John Kelly as chief of staff, Nick Ayers, is no longer expected to fill that role, according to a White House official. The official says that Trump and Ayers could not agree on Ayers' length of service. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File)

‘Many’ candidates vying for chief of staff job, Trump says

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press