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Former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent: GOP ‘big tent’ was never meant to include ‘Nazis or Klansmen!’ /

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President Donald Trump announces a $6.25 billion donation from Michael Dell, right, CEO of Dell Technologies and his wife Susan to “Trump Accounts,” in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 2, 2025.

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Unions, religious groups and community organizations in Chicago rally outside the conference of the American Bankers Association.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy walks to a bilateral meeting with Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly.

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Jonathan Capehart slams Trump’s ’18-minute high-pitch screed of a speech’

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Tom Homan outside The White House.

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Harmeet Dhillon speaks at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C.

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A bruise is visible on the back of Donald Trump’s right hand

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Hakeem Jeffries is talking while Chuck Schumer stands next to him.

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A view of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was recently renamed the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

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A screenshot of surveillance footage, released by the FBI, of the suspect in the pipe bomb case in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump takes part in a signing ceremony in the President's Room following the 60th inaugural ceremony on Jan. 20, 2025 at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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U.S. President Donald Trump steps on stage to speak at a political rally.

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A police officer holds a weapon to the camera as protesters face off with police outside of a federal building in downtown Los Angeles for an anti-Trump "No Kings Day" demonstration.

Photos of the year: How these moments defined 2025

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Donald Trump stands next to Vladimir Putin on the tarmac

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro; U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump confirms U.S. strike in Venezuela in the clumsiest possible way

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U.S. President Donald Trump attends the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center

Trump completely misread the Kennedy Center Honors audience

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Jeremy Lewin at the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, pictured, R-Ga, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky held a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 18, 2025.

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U.S. President Donald Trump is joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Mandana Dayani poses with her daughters after being sworn in as a trustee to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council on Dec. 8.

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