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Biden is hosting a Hanukkah ceremony at the White …

Activists with Jewish Voice for Peace, gather to protest the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and chain themselves to the fence outside the White House, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Biden announces 3 decommissioned Philadelphia fire companies …

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, left, salutes firefighters in the audience as he arrives at Engine 13 in Philadelphia, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, for an event recognizing that the city of Philadelphia is receiving a 22.4 million dollar SAFER Grant, that enables the Philadelphia Fire Department to reopen three fire companies. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Special counsel Jack Smith asks Supreme Court to rule …

FILE - Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. Smith is asking the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. A federal judge ruled the case could go forward, but Trump signaled he would ask the federal appeals court in Washington to reverse that outcome. Smith is attempting to bypass the appeals court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Zelenskyy issues plea for support during Washington visit …

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses for a photo after his interview with The Associated Press in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Nov. 30, 2023. Zelenskyy will address U.S. military officers at the National Defense University as part of a last-minute push to convince Congress to provide more money for weapons before funding runs out. President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $61.4 billion for wartime funding for Ukraine as part of a $110 billion package that also includes money for Israel and other national security priorities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

A jury is seated in the election workers’ defamation damages …

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. The trial will determine how much Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of fraud while pushing President Donald Trump's baseless claims after he lost the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Air Force disciplines 15 as IG finds that security failures …

FILE - This image contained in Justice Department motion for continued pretrial detention of Jack Teixeira, shows electronic items recovered from a dumpster at his mother and stepfather's home in North Dighton, Mass. The massive classified documents leak by an Air Force service member earlier this year was made worse by the intentional failure by multiple officials to report to take required action on his suspicious behavior, the Air Force inspector general reported Monday. Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira is accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform. He pleaded not guilty in June to federal felony charges. (Justice Department via AP, File)

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Biden goes into 2024 with the economy getting stronger, …

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about investing in clean energy manufacturing at CS Wind, the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Pueblo, Colo. Biden goes into next year's election with a vexing challenge: Just as the U.S. economy is getting stronger, people are still feeling horrible about it. Pollsters and economists say there has never been as wide a gap between the underlying health of the economy and public perception. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Wisconsin secretary of state calls for removal of …

Wisconsin Elections Commission member Robert Spindell speaks during a meeting, Nov. 2, 2023 in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin’s Democratic secretary of state is calling for the Republican who served as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump to be removed from his position on the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Spindell was one of 10 Republicans who signed certificates in 2020 falsely stating that Trump had won Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

The Supreme Court rejects an appeal over bans on …

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Nov. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Divers recover the seventh of 8 crew members killed …

FILE -In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, Aviation Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Nicholas Hawkins, signals an MV-22 Osprey to land on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on May 17, 2019. When the U.S. military took the extraordinary step of grounding its fleet of V-22 Ospreys this week, it wasn't reacting just to the recent deadly crash of the aircraft off the coast of Japan. The aircraft has had a long list of problems in its short history. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Amber Smalley/U.S. Navy via AP)

Trump says he won’t testify again at his New York …

FILE - Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table with his attorney's Christopher Kise, left, and Alina Habba, at New York Supreme Court, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, Pool, File)

Zelenskyy will meet Biden at the White House amid …

FILE - President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington. President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs sits idle in Congress, neither approved nor rejected, but subjected to new political demands. Republicans are insisting on U.S.-Mexico border policy provisions in exchange for any new funds for Ukraine to fight Russia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden’s focus on bashing Trump takes a page from …

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about investment in rail projects, including high-speed electric trains, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)