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Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ ditches Biden guardrails, ‘red tape,’ wants chatbots to cut out their liberal bias

By Matt O'Brien, Ali Swenson, and others

White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event for the signing of the GENIUS Act, a bill that regulates stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ to mix tech industry wishlist with culture war attacks on ‘woke AI’

By Matt O'Brien, Ali Swenson, and others

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump

Trump dismayed by MAGA’s obsession with ‘a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein’

By Ali Swenson, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

FILE – Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., walks to the chamber as senators arrive for votes and policy meetings, at the Capitol in Washington, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis won’t run in 2026 after opposing Trump’s bill and being threatened with a primary challenge

By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press

United States Military Academy graduating cadets line up during commencement ceremonies in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Trump tells West Point graduates ‘we do not need an officer corps of careerists and yes men’

By Seung Min Kim, Ali Swenson, and others

US President Donald Trump

Trump plan to require proof-of-citizenship to vote shot down by judge

By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press

Supervisor of the Checklist for the State of New Hampshire Leslie Dombroski, left, registers Elise Collins, 18, to vote in Derry, N.H., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)

Trump signs order to make voters show proof of citizenship in elections, with swift pushback expected from states which set their own voting rules

By Ali Swenson, Christina A. Cassidy, and others

Dan Bongino in 2019

Right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino will join Kash Patel as deputy FBI director; says he wants agents who investigated Trump fired

By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press

FILE – The seal on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Racist post-election text messages telling Black Americans to report to plantations prompt FBI investigation

By Ayanna Alexander, Ali Swenson, and others

Voters line up to vote as a early voting location opened in Carmel, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Election Day 2024 is here but 82 million ballots have already been cast—more than half the 2020 vote

By Christina A. Cassidy, Ali Swenson, and others

FILE – Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Almost half of U.S. voters are worried about violent attempts to overturn November election results

By Gary Fields, Ali Swenson, and others

mail-in ballot

Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

By Melissa Goldin, Mike Catalini, and others

Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly speaks to The Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

U.S. cybersecurity head says there’s no chance a foreign adversary can change Harris-Trump election results

By Christina A. Cassidy, Ali Swenson, and others

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

Many political AI deepfakes are totally cartoonish, but the technology is still shaping the election

By Dan Merica, Ali Swenson, and others

Kamala Harris is seen behind a Vice President podium as a blurred crowd of supporters in the background hold supportive signs.

Microsoft traces fake Kamala Harris hit-and-run video back to Russian troll farm

By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press