President Trump signed an executive order to give him and other presidents greater power over independent regulatory agencies — entities Congress set up to be shielded from White House control.
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Newly elected Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin speaks after winning the vote at the DNC Winter Meeting at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on Saturday.
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Standing in front of the North Carolina Supreme Court in Raleigh on Jan. 14, Ted Corcoran reads a list of over 60,000 people who cast ballots in the November 2024 election but whose votes have been challenged by Republican court candidate Jefferson Griffin in his extremely close race with Democratic Justice Allison Riggs.
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CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrive for the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
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Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.
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Workers build a stage in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington on Jan. 17, 2025, for the 60th presidential inauguration, which was moved indoors because of cold temperatures expected on Monday.
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President Donald Trump listens to a question while speaking with reporters as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Washington. Trump is en route to Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Employees sort ballots in Los Angeles County on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024. California regularly takes weeks to count all of its general election ballots.
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Doug Burgum encourages voters to support Donald Trump during a campaign rally in January 2024 in Laconia, N.H. Burgum ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination but later dropped out and endorsed him.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing at Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Cleta Mitchell, head of the Election Integrity Network, speaks during a May 2024 news conference outside the U.S. Capitol to introduce the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who's at left.
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Fox News appears headed for trial over false election fraud claims made after the 2020 election, after a New York state appellate court chose not to dismiss a lawsuit brought by voting tech company Smartmatic.
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Then-Vice President Mike Pence reads the final certification of Electoral College votes after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. A new law clarifies that the vice president's role in the counting of electoral votes is ministerial. Congress will count the votes from the 2024 presidential election on Monday.
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U.S. Reps. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., (left) and Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., pose for a portrait together at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 18, 2024.
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Cyclists pass police standing next to a burning makeshift tyre barricade, erected by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon's South Okkalapa township on April 1, 2021.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives for a meeting with Senators in the Russell Senate Office Building on December 17, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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Nevada Republican Party Chair Michael McDonald, one of the 2024 presidential electors facing felony charges related to the 2020 "fake electors" scheme, speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee in July.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to give remarks alongside SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (L) at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump announced that SoftBank will invest over $100 billion in projects in the United States including 100,000 artificial intelligence related jobs.
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Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center on Nov. 6, in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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