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A currency trader walks near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 2, 2021. Asian shares were higher Friday after a broad rally pushed the S&amp;P 500 past 4,000 points for the first time. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Global stocks rise; Treasury yields rally after jobs report

By STAN CHOE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2021, file photo, a JetBlue flight arrives at Salt Lake City International Airport, in Salt Lake City. Risky stocks seen as nearly untouchable a year ago burst to the market's best performances during the first three months of 2021, headlining a fourth straight quarter of gains for the S&amp;P 500. Stocks of airlines, oil producers and banks soared on expectations that COVID-19 vaccinations and massive spending by the U.S. government are setting the stage for a roaring economic recovery this year. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Safety last: Risky investments soared at start of 2021

By STAN CHOE - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday, March 18, 2021 file photo shows syringes filled with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop up site in the Queens borough of New York. According to results released on Monday, March 29, 2021, The U.S government’s first look at the real-world use of COVID-19 vaccines found their effectiveness was nearly as robust as it was in controlled studies. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

COVID vaccine found highly effective in real-world US study

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 24, 2019, file photo shows a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. Comcast Corp. reports financial results Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Why taxing Comcast (and its employees) is bad for small business

By Gene Marks

The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center stands in Dallas on March 29, 2020. The U.S. government wants to house up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers at the center as it struggles to find space for a surge of migrant children who have inundated the border and strained the immigration system just two months into the Biden administration. (Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Immigrant teens to be housed at Dallas convention center

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and JAKE BLEIBERG - Associated Press

Federal officers are surrounded by smoke as they push back demonstrators during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Nancy Pelosi eyes Congressional Gold Medal for Capitol Police, dismisses Portland federal officers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 31, 2019 file photo, migrants line up in Matamoros, Mexico, for a meal donated by volunteers from the U.S., at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses to Brownsville, Texas. Some asylum seekers were told by officials Friday, March 5, 2021, that the U.S. government may reopen their cases and they would eventually be able to enter the U.S. to wait out the asylum process. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File)

US gives hope to previously denied asylum seekers in camp

By MARÍA VERZA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Photo via AP)

SolarWinds unsure how hackers breached their system, months after public disclosure

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, photo shows the United States Chamber of Commerce building in Washington. The Chamber of Commerce is preparing for a court battle with the Biden administration's antitrust enforcers. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Mark Warner questions why multibillion-dollar U.S. cybersecurity enterprise did not catch SolarWinds

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Drivers with a vaccine appointment enter a mega COVID-19 vaccination site set up in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. One of the largest vaccination sites in the country was temporarily shut down Saturday because dozen of protesters blocked the entrance, stalling hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line for hours, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Los Angeles Fire Department shut the entrance to the vaccination center at Dodger Stadium about 2 p.m. as a precaution, officials told the newspaper. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

US won’t make immigration arrests at virus vaccination sites

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This Aug. 28, 2020, file photo shows the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

US executes Virginia gang killer despite COVID-19 infection

By Michael Tarm and Denise Lavoie - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file image provided by Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery shows Lisa Montgomery. Montgomery who In 2004, killed a pregnant woman, cut a baby from her womb and then passed off the newborn as her own is set to die for the crime. Lisa Montgomery would be the first woman executed by the federal government in some six decades if her execution happens as scheduled on Jan. 12, 2021, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind. (Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery via AP)

US carries out its 1st execution of female inmate since 1953

By MICHAEL TARM and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press

In this June 14, 2018, file photo, the FBI seal is seen before a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) **FILE**

US: Hack of federal agencies ‘likely Russian in origin’

By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

This is a court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Julian Assange appearing at the Old Bailey in London for the ruling in his extradition case, in London, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. A British judge has rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying it would be “oppressive” because of his mental health. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said Assange was likely to kill himself if sent to the U.S. The U.S. government said it would appeal the decision. (Elizabeth Cook/PA via AP)

UK judge refuses US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Microsoft says hackers viewed source code, didn’t change it

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 file photo, Valentina Frey of Switzerland breasts feed her daughter, Charlotte Katharina, in the Paul VI hall on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican. Pope Francis at the start of his audience mentioned her as an example of tenderness and beauty. Released on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, the first U.S. government dietary guidelines for infants and toddlers recommend exclusive feeding of breast milk for at least six months and no added sugar for children under age 2. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

New US dietary guidelines: No candy, cake for kids under 2

By CARLA K. JOHNSON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Trump is traveling to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump sows chaos for Congress, departs for Florida

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this image made from video released by the State of West Virginia, a nurse administers a coronavirus shot to west Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Charleston, W.Va. The 69-year-old Republican governor said he would receive a shot before cameras which would make him one of the first top elected officials in the country to get vaccinated. Officials said they want to demonstrate their confidence in the vaccine. (State of West Virginia via AP)

Politicians and vaccines: Set an example or cut in line?

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI - Associated Press

FILE - This combination made from file photo shows Blackwater guards, from left, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Heard, Liberty, Slatten and Slough, the four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone. (AP Photo/File)

Pardons in killings of Iraqi civilians stir angry response

By ERIC TUCKER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

This June 6, 2013, file photo, shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Senator: Treasury Dept. email accounts compromised in hack

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press