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President Biden had to pause for bouts of coughing during a public appearance at the White House Tuesday despite testing negative for COVID-19 over the weekend following his “rebound” infection.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) **FILE**

House Democrats can obtain Trump’s taxes in long-running quest, appeals court rules

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Former President Donald Trump reacts as he leaves after delivering the final remarks during Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

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Thousands of Hindu devotees take spiritual-cleansing dips in the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati during the Kumbh Festival, in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. India's Hindu nationalist-led government is splurging on a religious megafest, spending unprecedented sums as part of a strategy to focus on the country's majority Hindu population ahead of a general election due this year. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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In this file photo, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at New York's Yankee Stadium on July 26, 2021. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, expressed concern with the FBI's Aug. 8, 2022, raid of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) **FILE**

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In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57), and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) conduct a passing honors ceremony with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Murasame-class destroyer JS Ikazuchi (DD 107) and the Kongo-class guided-missile destroyer JS Chokai (DDG 176) in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 19, 2021. A spate of recent Chinese military flights off Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, and naval maneuvers by the United States and its allies to reinforce maritime routes challenged by China are fueling increasing tensions in a region already on edge. (Haydn N. Smith/U.S. Navy via AP)

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Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., questions Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

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A Ukrainian serviceman walks on a street at the frontline in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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In this Sept. 19, 2015, file photo, people celebrate the opening of the 182nd Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

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In this Jan. 27, 2018 file photo, Olivia Newton-John attends the 2018 G'Day USA Los Angeles Gala at the InterContinental Hotel Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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Ezra Miller attends the 15th annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund event at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, Nov. 5, 2018. According to a report from the Vermont State Police on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, Miller has been charged with felony burglary in Stamford, Vt., the latest in a string of recent incidents involving the embattled star of “The Flash.” (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020. Musk said Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are "spam bots" or real people. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Musk challenges Twitter CEO to public debate

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President Joe Biden coughs as he speaks before signing the &quot;CHIPS and Science Act of 2022&quot; during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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In this file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra arrives to attend the first meeting of the interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

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President Joe Biden participates in a briefing at Marie Roberts Elementary School about the ongoing response efforts to devastating flooding, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Lost Creek, Ky. From left are Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Biden, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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In this file photo, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at New York's Yankee Stadium on July 26, 2021. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, expressed concern with the FBI's Aug. 8, 2022, raid of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) **FILE**

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President Joe Biden holds the &quot;CHIPS and Science Act of 2022&quot; after signing it during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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In this file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra arrives to attend the first meeting of the interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

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Former President Donald Trump reacts as he leaves after delivering the final remarks during Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

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This May 8, 2008, photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021, that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

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Police direct traffic outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch participates in a round table discussion in Pewaukee, Wis., Aug. 2, 2022. Establishment Republicans including former Vice President Mike Pence and former Gov. Scott Walker have endorsed Kleefisch, who along with Walker survived a 2012 recall effort. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

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Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., talks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, looking back a year later at his experience during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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In this file photo, a teacher aligns desk in his classroom at Pleasant Run Elementary School, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Indianapolis. With just a few weeks before the return to class for the fall semester, America's public schools are struggling with a wave of departures by COVID-fatigued teachers. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) **FILE**

Report: School districts to spend $90 billion in federal grants on COVID reopening

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Nicole Linton appears in Los Angeles Superior Court for arraignment on murder charges stemming from a traffic accident, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Los Angeles. Linton, suspected of causing a fiery crash that killed five people and an 8 1/2-month-old fetus near Los Angeles, has been charged with murder, as well as vehicular manslaughter, and is being held on $9 million bail. (Frederick M. Brown/Daily Mail.com via AP, Pool)

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FILE - A recently painted mural of Ahmaud Arbery is displayed in Brunswick, Ga., on May 17, 2020, where the 25-year-old man was shot and killed in February. Months after they were sentenced to life in prison for murder, the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood faced a second round of criminal penalties Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, for federal hate crimes committed in the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan, File)

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This photo combo of images provided by the Kent County Sheriff and Delaware Department of Justice, respectively, shows Adam Dean Fox, left, and Barry Croft Jr. on April 8, 2022. The men who are accused of crafting a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and ignite a national rebellion are facing a second trial with jury selection starting Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, months after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on the pair while acquitting two others in the case. (Kent County Sheriff and Delaware Department of Justice via AP, File)

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FILE - Video journalists and photographers work as Mufid Hassayneh, Palestinian minister of public works, center, and Mohammed Abu Haloub of Qatar Charity, unseen, speaks during a cornerstone ceremony for rebuilding Zafer 4 Tower in Gaza, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 18, 2015. Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers issued sweeping new restrictions on journalists after the recent conflict there, but then rescinded them, a group representing foreign media in Israel and the Palestinian territories said Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Hamas issues, then rescinds, sweeping rules on Gaza coverage

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Maryam holds a poster showing her father Khalil Awawdeh, a Palestinian prisoner in Israel, at the family house in the West Bank village of Idna, Hebron, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Arabic graffiti reads: &quot;to those who are in love, my heart is like a stranger, it is a long time.&quot; Awawdeh who has refused food for 150 days and is wasting away in an Israeli jailhouse infirmary has suddenly been thrust at the center of efforts to firm up a Gaza cease-fire. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Pedestrians walk past the mascot, Thambi, displayed near Marina beach on the inaugural day of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India, Thursday, July 28, 2022. The Olympiad will run from July 28 to Aug. 10 at Poonjeri village in Mamallapuram. (AP Photo)

Ukrainian women capture chess Olympiad gold after Russians barred

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In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57), and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) conduct a passing honors ceremony with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Murasame-class destroyer JS Ikazuchi (DD 107) and the Kongo-class guided-missile destroyer JS Chokai (DDG 176) in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 19, 2021. A spate of recent Chinese military flights off Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, and naval maneuvers by the United States and its allies to reinforce maritime routes challenged by China are fueling increasing tensions in a region already on edge. (Haydn N. Smith/U.S. Navy via AP)

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Carolina Panthers' Julius Peppers (90) runs a drill with assistant defensive line coach Sam Mills III, right, during the NFL football team's minicamp in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) ** FILE **

Commanders fire defensive line coach Sam Mills III

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Serena Williams holds her trophy after defeating her sister Venus during the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests. “I’m turning 41 this month, and something’s got to give,” Williams wrote in an essay released Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, by Vogue magazine. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

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This photo combo of images provided by the Kent County Sheriff and Delaware Department of Justice, respectively, shows Adam Dean Fox, left, and Barry Croft Jr. on April 8, 2022. The men who are accused of crafting a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and ignite a national rebellion are facing a second trial with jury selection starting Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, months after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on the pair while acquitting two others in the case. (Kent County Sheriff and Delaware Department of Justice via AP, File)

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AR-15-style rifles are on display at Burbank Ammo &amp; Guns in Burbank, Calif., on June 23, 2022. Gun manufacturers have made more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade, and for two companies those revenues have tripled over the past three years, a House investigation unveiled Wednesday, July 27, found. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

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Serena Williams holds her trophy after defeating her sister Venus during the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests. “I’m turning 41 this month, and something’s got to give,” Williams wrote in an essay released Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, by Vogue magazine. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures as he speaks during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. DeSantis announced that he was suspending State Attorney Andrew Warren, of the 13th Judicial Circuit, due to &quot;neglect of duty.&quot; (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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In this handout photo taken from video released by Roscosmos on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, a Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off to carry Iranian Khayyam satellite into orbit at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome near Baikonur, Kazakhstan. A Russian rocket has successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:52 a.m. Moscow time (0552 GMT) Tuesday from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. (Roscosmos via AP)

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