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FILE - Visitors take in the massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in, Keystone, S.D. Gates will be locked and thousands of rangers will be furloughed from national park sites if Congress doesn’t reach a budget agreement Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. But Arizona and Utah officials say they’ll make sure visitors can still enjoy the dramatic depths of the Grand Canyon and the soaring red cliffs of Zion Valley and South Dakota says it will pay to keep Mount Rushmore and Badlands accessible. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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A lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case cut a contentious …

FILE - President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden leaves after a court appearance, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

The Dianne Feinstein they knew: Women of the Senate remember …

This image from U.S. Senate video, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., speaks about the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the Senate chamber on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Washington. In tributes to Feinstein after her death, her female colleagues talked about her indomitable, fierce intelligence and how she had paved the way for so many women. Feinstein was the first female mayor of San Francisco, one of California’s first two female senators and the first female chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Senate Television via AP)

President Biden says the looming shutdown isn’t his fault. …

President Joe Biden pauses while speaking about democracy and the legacy of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain to look up at supporters in the balcony at the Tempe Center for the Arts, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

A government shutdown is nearing this weekend. What does …

Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young speaks about the possible government shutdown during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Iowa’s two campaigns: Donald Trump’s rivals search for …

FILE - People stand on stairs to listen as Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a Fair-Side Chat with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds at the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Trump animates California Republicans with calls to shoot …

Hats with campaign slogans are sold before a speech by former President Donald Trump at the California Republican Party Convention, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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IRS contractor charged with leaking tax return information …

FILE - A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen on May 4, 2021, in Washington. A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about a government official and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people. The Justice Department said in a statement Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, that 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. is accused of stealing tax return information and giving it to two different news outlets between 2018 and 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

California Gov. Newsom will pick Feinstein’s replacement. …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom fields questions in the spin room before a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Federal prosecutors press Trump gag order request …

Former President Donald Trump speaks in Clinton Township, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Mike Mulholland)

McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government …

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pauses as he addresses reporters about efforts to pass appropriations bills and avert a looming government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. He is joined at right by House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., and Rep. Monica de la Cruz, R-Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bail bondsman charged alongside Trump in Georgia …

In this image made from video from Judge Scott McAfee's virtual Zoom hearing, Scott Graham Hall, left, stands with his attorney Jeff Weiner, right, in Superior Court of Fulton County before Judge McAfee, not pictured, in Courtroom 5A on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Atlanta. Hall, a bail bondsman charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others in the Georgia election interference case, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges on Friday, becoming the first defendant to accept a plea deal with prosecutors. (USA Today via AP, Pool)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, trailblazer …

FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., smiles after announcing the introduction of a Senate bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 16, 2011. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has died. She was 90. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

What Dianne Feinstein’s death means for control of …

FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and a group of women senators gather at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 4,2014, to advocate for a bill by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, that would allow people with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers. From left are, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Feinstein, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has died. She was 90. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)