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FILE – Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testifies during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on March 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Criticizing a judge’s order barring abortion pills, Becerra on Sunday, April 9, blasted the decision as “not America” and pledged a vigorous legal fight by the Biden administration to maintain access for women seeking safe ways to end unwanted pregnancies. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Abortion pill ruling ‘reckless’ and ‘not America,’ says health secretary Xavier Becerra

By Hope Yen and The Associated Press

FILE – Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks before the arrival of President Joe Biden at the construction site of the Hudson Tunnel Project, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in New York. Nearly 50 businesses and nonprofits including rideshare companies Uber and Lyft, industrial giant 3M and automaker Honda are pledging millions of dollars in initiatives to stem a “crisis” in road fatalities under a new federal effort announced Friday, Feb. 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Uber, 3M, Lyft and almost 50 other businesses pledge millions in federal effort to cut road deaths after record spike in 2021

By Hope Yen and The Associated Press

A Ford Mustang Mach-E is charged at a Ford dealership in Colma, California, US, on Friday, July 22, 2022. Ford Motor Co. is expected to release earnings figures on July 27. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Thinking of buying an EV? Here’s what you need to know about Biden’s new $7,500 tax credit

By Hope Yen, Tom Krisher, and others

FILE – An electric vehicle is plugged into a charger in Los Angeles, on Aug. 25, 2022. People who want to buy an electric vehicle could get a bigger-than-expected tax credit come Jan. 1, 2023, because of a delay by the Treasury Department in drawing up rules for the tax breaks. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Rule delay means your new EV tax credit might be double if you buy before March

By Hope Yen, Tom Krisher, and others

A passenger is seen boarding a Metrobus in downtown Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The Washington DC government voted to waive fares for Metrobus rides within city limits starting July, 1, 2023, becoming the nation’s most populous city to offer free public transit. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington D.C. is making public buses free forever

By Hope Yen and The Associated Press

FILE – Former President Donald Trump announces a third run for president as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. A prosecutor on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, said Trump “knew exactly what was going on” with top Trump Organization executives who schemed for years to dodge taxes on company-paid perks. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Top Republicans slam Trump’s call to ‘terminate’ the Constitution over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen

By Hope Yen and The Associated Press

FILE – Republican Mehmet Oz, right, is seen live on a monitor in the media tent, next to a poster of Democrat John Fetterman, left, as the two U.S. Senate candidates hold their first and only debate, at the WHTM-TV/ABC 27 Studio in Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 25, 2022. With inflation a top concern for voters, many Republican candidates are seeking to capitalize on Americans’ precarious financial situations heading into next week’s midterm elections to vilify a key component of President Joe Biden’s climate agenda: electric vehicles. (Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)

Republicans want you to fall out of love with your Tesla as they campaign on largely untrue statements about electric vehicles

By Hope Yen, Matthew Daly, and others

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaks after winning the gubernatorial primary at an election night watch party on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Erin Woodiel/The Argus Leader via AP)

Bar abortion pills, but don’t punish women for them, South Dakota governor says: ‘I don’t believe women should ever be prosecuted’

By Hope Yen and The Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a “Save America Rally” near the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Trump’s months-long effort to toss out the election results and extend his presidency will meet its formal end this week, but not without exposing political rifts in the Republican Party that have pitted future contenders for the White House against one another. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

January 6 Capitol riot panel says evidence it gathered enough to indict Trump

By Hope Yen and The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 21: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., departs after a meeting with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and White House officials on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Manchin said to support wealth tax to fund Biden’s big spending package

By Lisa Mascaro, Hope Yen, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 24: U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during an event on Building Back Better for Women at the East Front Steps of the U.S. Capitol September 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. House Democrats held a news conference on the “Women’s Health Protection Act” (WHPA) that will be voted on in the House after the news conference. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden agenda faces make-or-break week as divided Democrats fight over price tag

By Hope Yen, Lisa Mascaro, and others

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks in the Brady Briefing Room during the daily White House briefing on May 12, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Pete Buttigieg revives Obama-era program hiring minority and low-income workers for public works projects

By Hope Yen, Ashraf Khalil, and others

US President Joe Biden speaks to the press before boarding Air Force One after spending the weekend in Wilmington, at New Castle airport in New Castle, Delaware on March 28, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden lays out infrastructure spending plan that will cost trillions

By Hope Yen and The Associated Press

Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation, wears a protective mask while speaking during a meeting on infrastructure with U.S. President Joe Biden, not pictured, and House members in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 4, 2021. U.S. infrastructure including roads, bridges and sewers received a mediocre grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers, an assessment that will help buttress Biden’s coming plan for a major infrastructure-spending package. Photographer: Oliver Contreras/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Buttigieg heads to a divided Congress to pitch a mega investment in infrastructure

By Kevin Freking, Hope Yen, and others

Trump visits CDC as coronavirus spreads in U.S.

Fact checking Trump’s claims on the coronavirus outbreak—and its impact on the economy

By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen, and others

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