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Former President Donald Trump tosses caps to the crowd as he steps onstage during a rally at the Macomb Community College Sports & Expo Center in Warren, Mich., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP)

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Documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residences last month included analyses about possible pardons, legal bills and retainer agreements with lawyers, and details of calls with foreign presidents, according to a log of potentially privileged materials inadvertently posted in a public court document on Wednesday.

Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 15, 2022. A federal appeals court Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, ordered a lower court review of Biden administration revisions to DACA, a program preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children. The ruling, for now, leaves the future of DACA up in the air. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Appeals court rules DACA was illegally created under Obama, but program to remain intact for now

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Hunter Biden arrives in the East Room before President Joe Biden speaks awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

FBI, big tech accused of colluding to protect Hunter Biden in lawsuit by pro-Trump group

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Voting signs direct voters to the Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services center on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Minneapolis. With Election Day still more than six weeks off, the first votes of the midterm election were already being cast Friday in a smattering of states including Minnesota. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri)

Investigation finds hundreds of voters double-registered in Minnesota

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U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md, left, U.S. Rep. David Trone, D-6th-Md., center, and Seth Lederman, Tonic CEO, chat in a lab area of the Tonix Pharmaceuticals facility following a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 in Frederick, Md. With the snip of a ribbon on a windy Monday afternoon, Tonix Pharmaceuticals officially has a research and development center for infectious diseases — and it’s located in Frederick, right down the road from the city’s municipal airport. (Bill Green/The Frederick News-Post via AP) ** FILE **

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Special U.S. Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, right, and and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, left, attend the opening session of the G-20 Environment and Climate Ministerial Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (Made Nagi/Pool photo via AP) ** FILE **

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Alec Baldwin poses in the press room with the award for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2017. The family of a cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on the set of the film “Rust” has agreed to settle a lawsuit against Baldwin and the movie's producers, and production will resume on the project. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., joins female House Democrats at an event ahead of a House vote on the Women's Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act at the Capitol in Washington, July 15, 2022. Four years after Ocasio-Cortez won a New York congressional primary that toppled a powerful incumbent and sent a jolt through the Democratic Party, the progressive left has had mixed success, with some questioning the limits of the movement’s power. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md, left, U.S. Rep. David Trone, D-6th-Md., center, and Seth Lederman, Tonic CEO, chat in a lab area of the Tonix Pharmaceuticals facility following a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 in Frederick, Md. With the snip of a ribbon on a windy Monday afternoon, Tonix Pharmaceuticals officially has a research and development center for infectious diseases — and it’s located in Frederick, right down the road from the city’s municipal airport. (Bill Green/The Frederick News-Post via AP) ** FILE **

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk out of the White House to board Marine One in Washington, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Tony Bobulinski, who says he is a former associate of Hunter Biden, talks with reporters before the presidential debate, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 15, 2022. A federal appeals court Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, ordered a lower court review of Biden administration revisions to DACA, a program preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children. The ruling, for now, leaves the future of DACA up in the air. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of North Korea's army at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 25, 2022. North Korea on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 fired a ballistic missile over Japan, its neighbors said, escalating tests of weapons designed to strike key targets in regional U.S. allies amid stalled nuclear diplomacy. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

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U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md, left, U.S. Rep. David Trone, D-6th-Md., center, and Seth Lederman, Tonic CEO, chat in a lab area of the Tonix Pharmaceuticals facility following a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 in Frederick, Md. With the snip of a ribbon on a windy Monday afternoon, Tonix Pharmaceuticals officially has a research and development center for infectious diseases — and it’s located in Frederick, right down the road from the city’s municipal airport. (Bill Green/The Frederick News-Post via AP) ** FILE **

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This combination image shows U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, Nov. 6, 2021, and China's President Xi Jinping in Brasília, Brazil, Nov. 13, 2019. President Biden risks snubbing key Asian nations the U.S. has been trying to woo if he does not attend the mid-November Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group's summit in Bangkok, allowing China's President Xi Jinping to seize the spotlight as Beijing's regional influence swells, political analysts said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Eraldo Peres)

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A small American flag is displayed at a memorial to the seven people killed and others injured in Monday's Fourth of July mass shooting at the Highland Park War Memorial in Highland Park, Ill., Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Homeless individuals sheltering at the former Quality Inn hotel on Zuni Street in Denver were told Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, that they had to move out. The Quality Inn in Denver, leased from the private owner by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, provided rooms for those over 65-years-old and people at greater risk for severe COVID-19 illness. The hotel rooms offered homeless people security, privacy, and stability. The programs, however, did spark a national trend of states and cities purchasing hotels to convert into permanent housing. (Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post via AP)

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In this June 10, 2020 file photo, cattle occupy a feedlot in Columbus, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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In this undated file photo provided by the County of Los Angeles, incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon speaks after he was sworn in a virtual ceremony in downtown Los Angeles. (Bryan Chan/County of Los Angeles via AP, File)

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