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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, file photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, left, congratulates Aaron Hernandez after their AFC Championship NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Foxborough, Mass. Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction and just days ago was acquitted of a double murder, died after hanging himself in his prison cell Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Massachusetts prisons officials said. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Trump congratulates Patriots, doesn’t mention Hernandez

By CATHERINE LUCEY and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2017, file photo, New England Patriots' Tom Brady holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy beside coach Bill Belichick, right, after the Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime at the NFL Super Bowl 51 football game in Houston. A new book and a movie are in the works about Brady and the suspension he overcame to earn an unprecedented fifth Super Bowl ring. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Tom Brady won’t attend New England Patriots’ White House ceremony with Trump

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Studio portrait of Bess Truman

Melania Trump’s reclusiveness much like Bess Truman

By Thomas V. DiBacco

Members of the New England Patriots, including tightend Robert Gronkowski, top center right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, where the president honored the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots for their Super Bowl LI victory. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rob Gronkowski crashes Sean Spicer’s White House briefing

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Jane Hampton Cook wrote about the first White House evacuation during the War of 1812 in her latest book, “The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812." (Vita Images)

Jane Hampton Cook discusses sacking of White House during War of 1812 in latest book

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump gestures as he and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after their meetings at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump was meeting again with his Chinese counterpart Friday, with U.S. missile strikes on Syria adding weight to his threat to act unilaterally against the nuclear weapons program of China's ally, North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House says Donald Trump’s coziness with China is ‘paying off’ on North Korea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The most likely venue for meetings between President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May is Queen Elizabeth's Balmoral Castle, where high security is the norm whenever the monarch is in residence. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s British visit with Theresa May stirs early angst

By Dominic Hinde - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump with his wife Melania Trump, second from left, Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R- Mo., right, and his wife Abigail Blunt, left, laugh during the inaugural luncheon in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. Anna Cristina Niceta Lloyd auditioned for the job of White House social secretary and may not have known it. The veteran event planner’s creativity and handicraft were prominently on display at President Donald Trump’s inaugural luncheon at the Capitol, the fifth one she has worked on. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Meet the woman behind the White House Easter Egg Roll

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2017 file photo, then-President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania walk to their vehicle after attending church service at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House in Washington. At Washington churches, presidents have long been seated in the pews. Bill and Hillary Clinton favored a Methodist church. Jimmy Carter taught Baptist Sunday School. And Barack Obama dropped in at an Episcopal church next to the White House. But as Easter Sunday approaches, President Donald Trump has not attended a church service in the Capitol since the worship events during his inauguration weekend. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Interest in where and when Trump may attend church services

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

South Dakota farmers fear uncertain ethanol future

By PATRICK ANDERSON - Associated Press

In this file photo taken Sept. 22, 2014, the iron perimeter fence lines the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Aide: Secret Service firings to follow fence-jumping

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

In this photo taken Feb. 2, 2017, the White House in Washington seen from the South Lawn. The White House won't make public the logs of visitors to the White House complex, breaking with the practice of President Donald Trump's predecessor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump won’t release White House visitor logs, reverses Obama policy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This combo made Tuesday, April 11, 2017, from images provided by the FBI shows Joseph Jakubowski's mug shot at left and an altered image the FBI made to show Jakubowski with his head and facial hair shaved off. Authorities released the modified mug shot of Jakubowski, because the FBI believes he may have altered his appearance. More than 150 state and federal law enforcement officers have been searching for Jakubowski since April 4, when they believe he took 18 firearms from a gun store in Janesville in southwestern Wisconsin. (FBI via AP)

The Latest: Gun theft suspect appears in federal court

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In this photo taken Feb. 2, 2017, the White House in Washington seen from the South Lawn. The White House won't make public the logs of visitors to the White House complex, breaking with the practice of President Donald Trump's predecessor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House decides against releasing visitor records

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

In this photo take April 5, 2017, White House Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives Dina Powell, followed by Ivanka Trump, leave news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. In a White House split between outsider ideologues and more traditional operators, Powell is viewed as a steady force in the growing influence of the latter. A newer addition to the team, her West Wing experience, conservative background and policy chops have won over Trump’s daughter and son-in-law. Now, as the president turns his attention to international affairs, attempting to craft a foreign policy out of a self-described “flexible” approach to the world, Powell is at the table. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Who’s Dina Powell? A rising Trump national security figure

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

President Trump ordered positions on missile strikes against the Syrian military, after telling voters during the campaign that the U.S. was involved in too many military operations overseas. He also pronounced that NATO is no longer obsolete and said he will not label China as a currency manipulator. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump shifts positions on China currency, NATO, Syria involvement

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2017 file photo, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, right, and others, watch as President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump is distancing himself from chief strategist Steve Bannon, a move that has Bannon's friends and allies worried the White House is about to lose its most important populist voice. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Is Bannon in peril? Trump comments worry his populist base

By JULIE BYKOWICZ and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks to moderator Greta Van Susteren at the Newseum in Washington, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, during &quot;The President and the Press: The First Amendment in the First 100 Days&quot; forum. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sean Spicer’s humble apology a sign of good governance

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2008, file photo, members of a production team work on the under carriage of a Toyota Solara convertible on the assembly line at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky plant in Georgetown, Ky. President Donald Trump's relentless push for more manufacturing jobs has forced the auto industry into a delicate dance of contradictions. Toyota did the waltz with its long-planned announcement Monday, April 10, 2017, that it would spend $1.33 billion to retool the Kentucky factory. (AP Photo/James Crisp, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump again out of his lane on auto jobs

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press