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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 22, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs an executive order on AI in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 11, 2025. REUTERS/Al Drago ...

A Pakistan Army soldier stands guard at the entrance as smoke rises from the Bilal Mosque, after it was hit by an Indian strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, May 7, ...

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during an event with fellow House Democratic members on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, as members of the U.S. House of Representatives returned ...

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, as he makes an announcement on the economy, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst ...

Yamiche Alcindor is the former moderator of Washington Week, the Peabody Award-winning weekly news analysis series on PBS. Alcindor is also a political contributor at NBC News and MSNBC and often ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office at the White House in ...