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President Joe Biden turns to Vice President Kamala Harris as he speaks about border security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

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President Biden will ignore Democratic scuttlebutt about replacing Kamala Harris as his 2024 running mate, say party strategists who argue dumping her would alienate key voters and risk creating an image of instability in the administration.

A man shops at a supermarket on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, in New York. An inflation gauge that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve, Friday, July 29, jumped 6.8% in June from a year ago, the biggest increase in four decades, and leaving Americans with no relief from surging costs. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) ** FILE **

Inflation bites into Super Bowl snacks

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Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Flowers are secured to a pole as a memorial to Karon Blake, 13, on the corner of Quincy Street NE and Michigan Avenue NE in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. The note reads, "Karon we will love and miss you dearly." Karon Blake was shot and killed on the 1000 block of Quincy Street NE early morning Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., leaves the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. House Republicans have voted to oust Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The vote in a raucous session on Thursday to remove the Somali-born Muslim lawmaker came after her past comments critical of Israel. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ** FILE **

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Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, leaves court, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in New York. The former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Durbin demands details about work by indicted FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks after taking the oath of the office on the steps of the Arkansas Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Will Newton)

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Twitter shutting down free access to its public data

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An exit sign is shown at a McDonald's restaurant in Pittsburgh on Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) ** FILE **

Fast-food chains outsource work to robots

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Archbishop Timothy Broglio conducts an Easter Sunday Mass at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Broglio of the Military Services, who oversees Catholic ministries to the U.S. armed forces, was elected Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Catholic bishop leader hits Biden’s claim that pope OKs abortion funding

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Groundhog Club handler A.J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, while Vice President Dan McGinley reads the scroll during the 137th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Phil's handlers said that the groundhog has forecast six more weeks of winter. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger)

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National Economic Council Director Brian Deese listens as President Joe Biden speaks about energy and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 19, 2022, in Washington. Biden said Thursday in a statement that Deese would step down as director of the White House National Economic Council. That position had him coordinating policy across the government and negotiating with Congress on coronavirus aid, the budget, infrastructure, tax, clean energy incentives, investments in computer chip plants and other measures that the president signed into law. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden’s economic adviser to resign, adding to White House staff shake-up

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks with reporters after speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan 20, 2023. A new poll shows that more U.S. adults disapprove than approve of the way President Joe Biden has handled the discovery of classified documents at his home and former office. Yet that seems to have had little impact on Biden's overall approval rating. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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President Joe Biden speaks at the construction site of the Hudson Tunnel Project, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in New York. Biden is traveling to New York City to showcase a $292 million mega grant that will be used to help build a rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

University of Delaware seen as next target in Biden classified documents probe

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Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, speaks to guests during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, April 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Sen. Joe Manchin talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 19, 2023. Senior Democratic lawmakers have turned sharply more critical of President Joe Biden’s handling of classified materials after the FBI discovered additional items with classified markings at Biden’s home. Manchin is urging the president to tell the public, “‘Look, I was irresponsible.”‘ (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Manchin scolds Biden energy official as administration bends climate law: ‘Quit fighting us’

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., meets with reporters just after the new House Republican majority ousted Democratic Rep. lhan Omar, a Somali-born Muslim from Minnesota, from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrat launches ‘24 campaign against Kevin McCarthy

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A Russian flag is held above the Olympic Rings at Adler Arena Skating Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Feb. 18, 2014. Russia and its ally Belarus have been invited to compete at the Asian Games in the next step to qualify athletes for next years Paris Olympics. The arrangement has been brokered by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC indicated on Wednesday that it favours allowing Russians to compete at the 2024 Olympics as neutral athletes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

White House says Russian, Belarusian athletes should not compete under flags at Paris 2024 Olympics

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President Joe Biden speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Flowers are secured to a pole as a memorial to Karon Blake, 13, on the corner of Quincy Street NE and Michigan Avenue NE in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. The note reads, "Karon we will love and miss you dearly." Karon Blake was shot and killed on the 1000 block of Quincy Street NE early morning Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

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This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP) **FILE**

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This June 13, 2016, file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. A current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a former supervisor in the agency were indicted Friday, May 20, 2022 on federal charges accusing them of leaking confidential law enforcement information to defense lawyers in Florida in exchange for cash and gifts. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

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Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks with members of the press after a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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In this April 1, 2017, file photo, a service dog named Orlando rests on the foot of its trainer, John Reddan, while sitting inside a United Airlines plane at Newark Liberty International Airport during a training exercise in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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Travelers wait in line at a TSA security check at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, on July 1, 2022. Power was briefly knocked out at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, leaving many passengers at one of the world's busiest airports in the dark and halting security checks. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, second from left, walks past military guards during his arrival at the Department of National Defense in Camp Aguinaldo military camp in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on Thursday February 2, 2023. (Rolex Dela Pena/Pool Photo via AP)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is backdropped by a screen showing the countries that signed a strategic energy partnership at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan met in Romania's capital to conclude an agreement on an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the European Union amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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You Si-Kun, left speaks with a translator to reporters following an address at the 2023 International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times)

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Dallas Stars' Jason Robertson celebrates after scoring a goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait to receive help and check-up at a clinic that run by the WFP, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. A spokesman for the U.N. food agency says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs. Aid agencies have been providing food, education, healthcare and other critical support to people, but distribution has been severely impacted by a Taliban edict banning women from working at national and international nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., talks with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington following his meeting with President Joe Biden, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is proposing the Economic Justice Act, using the coronavirus relief package to address “structural inequalities have persisted in health care and housing, the economy and education.” (Associated Press/File)

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