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The shaft tower at the Energy Fuels Inc. uranium Pinyon Plain Mine is shown Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, near Tusayan, Ariz. The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Uranium is being mined near the Grand Canyon as prices soar and the US pushes for more nuclear power

The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work at a mine less than 10 miles from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

Diverted traffic, including an ambulance on a call, passes a closed portion of the Washington Bridge, Friday, March 8, 2024, in East Providence, R.I. The closure of a section of the bridge, and onramps, due to failure of some bridge components, has caused a significant loss to local businesses. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Key takeaways about the condition of US bridges and their role in the economy

The Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge, which has been closed indefinitely since October 2023 after the Federal Highway Administration raised safety concerns, is shown Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Tacoma, Wash. Nearby business owners say they have noticed a decrease in customers as traffic has slowed on their street due to the closure. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Closed bridges highlight years of neglect, backlog of repairs awaiting funding

President Joe Biden, center, and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Joe Biden is lapping Donald Trump when it comes to campaign cash — and he’ll need it

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Trump posts video with an image of a hog-tied Biden, drawing a rebuke from Democrat’s campaign

Aerial footage shows crane working on wreckage of Baltimore bridge collapse

Crews were set to begin removing the wreckage of a collapsed highway bridge in Baltimore on Friday. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said a large crane, which can lift up to 1,000 tons, would be one of at least two used to clear the channel of the twisted metal and concrete remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and the cargo ship that collided with it this week.

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President Joe Biden, right, and former presidents Barack Obama, left, and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden says his glitzy fundraiser with Obama and Clinton projects party unity heading into November

President Joe Biden says his record-setting fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall shows that Democrats are united in ways that Republicans can’t match.

FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Biden says he’s working to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held for a year in Russia

President Joe Biden says the U.S. is working every day to secure the release of a Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia.

FILE - People vote at the Milwaukee County Sports Complex, on Nov. 3, 2020, in Franklin, Wis. Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties' presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Voters will also decide the fate of two Republican-backed statewide ballot measures that will shape how elections in the state are run and funded. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Wisconsin’s presidential primaries and ballot questions

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete in the Wisconsin presidential primaries, a contest that’s now less about winning delegates and more about carrying the pivotal state in November.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference after attending the wake of New York City police officer Jonathan Diller, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Massapequa Park, N.Y. Diller was shot and killed Monday during a traffic stop, the city's mayor said. It marked the first slaying of an NYPD officer in two years. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Outpaced by Biden, Trump hopes to rake in $33 million during Florida fundraiser

Former President Donald Trump is aiming to take in $33 million at a Florida fundraiser next week. He’s hoping to outraise an event President Joe Biden held last week where the Democrat took in $25 million, setting a new single-event fundraising record.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

House Republicans invite President Biden to testify at public hearing as impeachment inquiry stalls

House Republicans have invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses.

FILE - A male alligator snapping turtle is held after being trapped by the Turtle Survival Alliance-North American Freshwater Turtle Research Group, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018, as part of the process of tagging turtles. The species is among dozens under consideration for federal protections. The Biden administration on Thursday, March 28, 2024, restored a rule that gives blanket protections to species considered threatened with extinction. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

The Biden administration has restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back under former President Donald Trump.

Liam Sawyer, of Indianapolis, charges his 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E, Friday, March 8, 2024, at an electric vehicle charging station in London, Ohio. The charging ports are a key part of President Joe Biden’s effort to encourage drivers to move away from gasoline-powered cars and trucks that contribute to global warming. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Federal EV charging stations are key to Biden’s climate agenda, yet only 4 states have them

Electric vehicle charging ports are a key part of President Joe Biden’s effort to encourage drivers to move away from gasoline-powered cars and trucks that contribute to global warming, but only four states have them.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at El Portal restaurant, March 19, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Biden is announcing a new rule to protect consumers who purchase short-term health insurance plans

President Joe Biden is announcing new steps to protect consumers who buy short-term health insurance plans that critics say amount to junk.

A migrant from Maracaibo, Venezuela, sits on a railroad track lined by makeshift tents where migrants take refuge in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuelans are increasingly stuck in Mexico, explaining drop in illegal crossings to US

An immigration crackdown in Mexico has hit Venezuelans especially hard. The development highlights how much the U.S. depends on Mexico to control migration.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference after attending the wake of New York City police officer Jonathan Diller, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Massapequa Park, N.Y. Diller was shot and killed Monday during a traffic stop, the city's mayor said. It marked the first slaying of an NYPD officer in two years. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for ‘law and order,’ to show contrast with Biden

Donald Trump has attended the wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty.

President Joe Biden, right, and former presidents Barack Obama, left, and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden raise a record $26 million for his reelection

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world have delivered a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden at a campaign fundraiser that hauled in a record-setting $26 million-plus for the incumbent’s reelection campaign.

FILE - President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and former President Bill Clinton, right, pose for a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team under the North Portico of the White House in Washington, May 27, 2010. President Joe Biden will share a stage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday in New York as he raises money for his reelection campaign. It's a one-of-a-kind political extravaganza that will showcase decades of Democratic leadership. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders

President Joe Biden will share a stage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in New York as he raises money for his reelection campaign.

FILE - Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, speaks during a news conference outside the Capitol, Dec. 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Hunter Biden’s lawyers push California judge to toss out tax charges

Attorneys for Hunter Biden have asked a judge to toss out the tax case accusing him of a four-year scheme to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes while living an extravagant lifestyle.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a campaign event with Vice President Kamala Harris in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Voting ends Saturday in North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary, with President Joe Biden looking to add the state’s handful of delegates to his insurmountable lead for the party’s nomination. The party-run contest rounds out the busiest month of voting on the presidential primary calendar, with 30 states, plus the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories all holding primaries and caucuses in the last 30 days. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary

Voting ends Saturday in North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary, with President Joe Biden looking to add the state’s handful of delegates to his insurmountable lead for his party’s nomination.

Former President Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at 40 Wall Street after a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 25, 2024, in New York. A New York judge has scheduled an April 15 trial date in former President Donald Trump's hush money case. Judge Juan M. Merchan made the ruling Monday. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear ‘skeleton’ campaign

Donald Trump’s political operation was widely praised for its professionalism and effectiveness throughout the Republican nomination fight.

Vice President Kamala Harris embraces President Joe Biden after a speech on healthcare in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, March. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)

Biden and Harris argue that Democrats will preserve health care and Republicans would take it away

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been promoting their health care agenda during an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Feb. 17, 2024. Trump is urging Republican leaders in Michigan to target Black voters in the swing state. Trump met with Michigan GOP chair Pete Hoekstra last Tuesday, March 19, in Florida to strategize his reelection bid and keyed in on "nontraditional Republican voters," Hoekstra said Monday, March 25. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Trump tells Michigan’s Republican chair to ramp up outreach to Black voters in Detroit, chair says

Former President Donald Trump is urging Republican leaders in Michigan to target Black voters in the swing state.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Republicans threaten to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt over Biden documents case

House Republicans are threatening to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he does not turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

FILE - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris addresses youth gathered on Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, Pool, File)

Biden and Harris discuss migration in separate White House meetings with Guatemalan leader Arévalo

The White House says President Joe Biden discussed migration with President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala after the Central American leader held similar talks with Vice President Kamala Harris.

FILE - This combo image shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, March 9, 2024 and President Joe Biden, right, Jan. 27, 2024. Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020 presidential election. But presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump appears to stoke more fear and anger among voters from his opposing party than President Joe Biden does from his. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo, File)

As Biden tours the country and visits swing states, Trump is fundraising and playing golf

As President Joe Biden campaigns for reelection at a furious pace, his 2024 rival, Donald Trump, is behind closed doors.

President Joe Biden waves to members of the media as he walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 22, 2024, to travel to Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate’s early-morning passage ended shutdown threat

President Joe Biden has signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills that Congress just passed, ending the threat of a potential partial government shutdown.

FILE - Border Patrol agents ask asylum-seeking migrants to line up in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after the group crossed the border with Mexico,Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month. But at a time when immigration is increasingly a concern for voters, the numbers were still among the lowest of Joe Biden's presidency. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Arrests for illegal border crossings nudge up in February but still among lowest of Biden presidency

The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month.

FILE - Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani attends a ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 9, 2024. The White House announced Friday, March 22, that President Joe Biden plans to host al-Sudani on April 15 as the countries hold formal talks about winding down the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq. (Murtadha Al-Sudani/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Biden to host Iraqi leader with talks underway on winding down coalition against the Islamic State

The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month.

President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One Wednesday March 20, 2024, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden and Trump ask voters if they’re ‘better off’ than they were 4 years ago. It’s complicated

Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are posing the time-tested question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

FILE - Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 26, 2020. Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday, March 21, 2024, and sponsored by Eshoo, and Rep. Neal Dunn, R-Fla., will require online platforms to label audio and video generated using artificial intelligence. The bill is the latest legislative proposal to address the privacy, national security and consumer risks raised by the rapidly developing technology. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

New bipartisan bill would require online identification, labeling of AI-generated videos and audio

New bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would require the identification and labeling of online content generated using artificial intelligence.

Rye Development CEO Paul Jacob talks about his company's plans to build a $1.3 billion coal-to-pumped storage hydropower facility as Gov. Andy Beshear looks on during a news conference, Thursday, March 21, 2024 in Frankfort, Ky. Jacob says the project will create about 1,500 construction jobs and 30 operations jobs once the facility is operational. (Tom Latek/Kentucky Today via AP)

Energy agency announces $475M in funding for clean energy projects on mine land sites

The Biden administration has announced up to $475 million in federal funding for clean energy projects on current or former mine land sites. The U.S.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. An attorney for Donald Trump says he’s optimistic an appellate review will lead to the Georgia 2020 election interference case against him being dismissed and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis being disqualified. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Trump’s latest 2024 campaign fundraising report shows him lagging behind Biden in cash

Former President Donald Trump’s fundraising picked up last month but his political operation is still struggling to catch up to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One Wednesday March 20, 2024, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

78,000 more public workers are getting student loans canceled through Biden administration changes

Another 78,000 Americans are getting their federal student loans canceled through a program that helps teachers, nurses and other public servants.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., listens to a speaker during an event at AFSCME Council 13 offices, March 14, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. For Democrats trying to defend the White House and Senate majority, Casey is emerging as the tip of the spear in trying to reframe the election-year narrative around inflation, a key soft spot in 2024 for Democrats on the all-important voter issue of the economy. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

In Pennsylvania’s Senate race, Casey puts ‘greedflation’ and corporations on the ballot

For Democrats trying to defend the White House and Senate majority, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is emerging as the tip of the spear in trying to reframe the election-year narrative around inflation.

Migrants wait to climb over concertina wire after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas immigration ruling puts spotlight on nation’s most conservative federal appeals court

The federal appeals court that heard arguments over a Texas law that would allow the state to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally is a favorite for Republicans.