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Noah Burden, 28, poses for a portrait outside his apartment complex, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Alexandria, Va. Burden, a communications consultant in Alexandria, thinks Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both too old to be president. He says leaders in their 70s or 80s stand for “a sense of values and sense of the country and the world that just isn’t accurate anymore.” In a new AP-NORC poll, 77% say Biden is too old to be effective in a second term. Fewer worry about Trump’s age but voters have other problems with him. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Biden too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds, Trump’s got other problems

Age discrimination may be banned in workplace but American’s aren’t shy about age bias in oval office

Noah Burden, 28, poses for a portrait outside his apartment complex, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Alexandria, Va. Burden, a communications consultant in Alexandria, thinks Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both too old to be president. He says leaders in their 70s or 80s stand for “a sense of values and sense of the country and the world that just isn’t accurate anymore.” In a new AP-NORC poll, 77% say Biden is too old to be effective in a second term. Fewer worry about Trump’s age but voters have other problems with him. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
This combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidates. Top row from left: South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy. Bottom row from left: former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former vice president Mike Pence, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP

Without Trump, debate gives Republican hopefuls chance to build momentum

Former president has decided not to take part in event as rivals line up for party’s nomination

This combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidates. Top row from left: South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy. Bottom row from left: former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former vice president Mike Pence, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
The federal government in Ottawa is pushing back against the latest U.S. decision to keep imposing duties on Canadian softwood lumber. Trade Minister Mary Ng, shown in this Thursday June 15, 2023 file pjhto, says Canada plans a judicial review of last month’s Treasury Department assessment of the levies, which she calls unfair, unjust and illegal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

Canada wants judicial review of latest U.S. softwood lumber duties

Canada’s trade minister calls levies unfair, unjust and illegal

The federal government in Ottawa is pushing back against the latest U.S. decision to keep imposing duties on Canadian softwood lumber. Trade Minister Mary Ng, shown in this Thursday June 15, 2023 file pjhto, says Canada plans a judicial review of last month’s Treasury Department assessment of the levies, which she calls unfair, unjust and illegal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
Holly, who declined to give her last name, with the group Miami Seaquarium Weekly Demos, demonstrates after the recent death of a captive orca, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, outside the Miami Seaquarium in Key Biscayne, Fla. Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, died Friday at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park in the near future. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Mourners gather to remember the last captive southern resident orca

Tokitae, also known as Lolita, died at the Miami Seaquarium on Friday afternoon

Holly, who declined to give her last name, with the group Miami Seaquarium Weekly Demos, demonstrates after the recent death of a captive orca, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, outside the Miami Seaquarium in Key Biscayne, Fla. Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, died Friday at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park in the near future. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly speaks with reporters at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Joly says Canada has been considering a “game plan” for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right, authoritarian shift after next year’s presidential elections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada mulling ‘game plan’ if U.S. takes far-right, authoritarian shift

Foreign affairs minister says government working scenarios on how to potentially handle situation

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly speaks with reporters at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Joly says Canada has been considering a “game plan” for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right, authoritarian shift after next year’s presidential elections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
This file photo provided by the Hidalgo County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office, shows Pascale Ferrier. Ferrier, a Canadian woman, has pleaded guilty to mailing a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-president Donald Trump. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Hidalgo County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office, via AP File

Quebec woman sentenced to 22 years for sending poisoned letters to Trump

Pascale Ferrier called herself an activist, not a terrorist

This file photo provided by the Hidalgo County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office, shows Pascale Ferrier. Ferrier, a Canadian woman, has pleaded guilty to mailing a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-president Donald Trump. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Hidalgo County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office, via AP File
Homes consumed in recent wildfires are seen in Lahaina, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. The wildfires have devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Hawaii is vowing to protect landowners pressured to sell after wildfires

Governor said he would announce details of Maui land transfer moratorium by Friday

Homes consumed in recent wildfires are seen in Lahaina, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. The wildfires have devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
FILE - Students return to Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Va., on Jan. 30, 2023. The mother a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia is expected to plead guilty Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, seven months after her son used her handgun in the classroom shooting. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

Mom guilty of child neglect after 6-year-old used her gun to shoot teacher

Prosecutors will not seek seek sentence that is longer than 6 months in jail or prison

FILE - Students return to Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Va., on Jan. 30, 2023. The mother a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia is expected to plead guilty Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, seven months after her son used her handgun in the classroom shooting. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
The indictment in Georgia against former President Donald Trump is photographed Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Trump and several allies have been indicted in Georgia over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The criminal case announced Monday is the fourth brought against the ex-president in a matter of months. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

How the Georgia indictment against Donald Trump may be the biggest yet

Former president indicted for the fourth time, case includes a number of his allies

The indictment in Georgia against former President Donald Trump is photographed Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Trump and several allies have been indicted in Georgia over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The criminal case announced Monday is the fourth brought against the ex-president in a matter of months. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
This image provided by Michelle Quezada a jet crashing during an air show on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. A pilot and crew member escaped serious injury when they ejected from a vintage jet that crashed officials said. (Michelle Quezada via AP)

2 hurt as former Soviet MiG-23 fighter plane crashes at US air show

Pilot noticed loss of power before crash of Cold War plane in Michigan

This image provided by Michelle Quezada a jet crashing during an air show on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. A pilot and crew member escaped serious injury when they ejected from a vintage jet that crashed officials said. (Michelle Quezada via AP)
The offices of the Marion County Record sit across from the Marion County Courthouse in Marion, Kan., Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Marion, Kansas. Law enforcement officers raided the newspaper office and seized computers and employee cell phones in what Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer believes is an attempt to intimidate the newspaper as it examines local issues, including the police chief’s background. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Small town police, newspaper press freedom fight swirls after newsroom raid

Kansas police searches reportedly prompted by complaint from local restaurant owner

The offices of the Marion County Record sit across from the Marion County Courthouse in Marion, Kan., Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Marion, Kansas. Law enforcement officers raided the newspaper office and seized computers and employee cell phones in what Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer believes is an attempt to intimidate the newspaper as it examines local issues, including the police chief’s background. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers search vehicles with the help of a canine at the Peace Bridge Port of Entry in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Earlier this year, U.S. border agents used helicopters and a fixed-wing airplane to round up 124 people along the Canada-U.S. border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

U.S. agency’s airborne migration sweep at Canadian border nets 124

‘Operation Jagdakommando’ ran to address ‘unprecedented illicit cross-border activity’

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers search vehicles with the help of a canine at the Peace Bridge Port of Entry in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Earlier this year, U.S. border agents used helicopters and a fixed-wing airplane to round up 124 people along the Canada-U.S. border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Former President Donald Trump boards his plane at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Donald Trump headed to Washington on Thursday to answer to charges that he worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election, with the former president set to appear in a federal courthouse mere blocks from the U.S. Capitol building that his supporters stormed to try to block the peaceful transfer of power. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump pleads not guilty to charges he tried to overturn 2020 election

Trump accused of trying to subvert will of voters and undo election loss in days before Jan. 6, 2021

Former President Donald Trump boards his plane at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Donald Trump headed to Washington on Thursday to answer to charges that he worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election, with the former president set to appear in a federal courthouse mere blocks from the U.S. Capitol building that his supporters stormed to try to block the peaceful transfer of power. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Workers put up barricades outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is due in court on Thursday, the first step in a legal process that will play out in a courthouse between the White House he once controlled and the Capitol his supporters once stormed. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump returns to D.C. to face latest charges, steps from scene of Capitol Hill riots

Former president enjoys a staggering 37-point lead over closest challenger in Republican race

Workers put up barricades outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is due in court on Thursday, the first step in a legal process that will play out in a courthouse between the White House he once controlled and the Capitol his supporters once stormed. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE - Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a CNN town hall at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 18, 2016. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that the network’s referring to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the lawsuit filed last October. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed

Florida judge rules it a stretch to think readers would connect Trump to Hitler from news reports

FILE - Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a CNN town hall at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 18, 2016. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that the network’s referring to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the lawsuit filed last October. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)
Police in Montana say Alicia Navarro is safe and happy after turning up 4 years and 1,600 kilometres from home. Commons Wikimedia

U.S. teen missing for nearly 4 years shows up safe at police station far from home

Arizona’s Alicia Navarro walked into a Montana police after vanishing at age 14

Police in Montana say Alicia Navarro is safe and happy after turning up 4 years and 1,600 kilometres from home. Commons Wikimedia
This combination of images provided by NOAA and University of Miami shows experimentally outplanted corals on January 2023, left, and the same coral on July 2023 after suffering from bleaching near Miami. Scientists have seen devastating effects from prolonged hot water surrounding Florida — coral bleaching and some death. (Allyson DeMerlis, Michael Studivan/NOAA and the University of Miami via AP)

Water at tip of Florida hits hot tub level and may have set world record for warmest seawater

The water temperature on the tip of Florida hit hot tub levels,…

This combination of images provided by NOAA and University of Miami shows experimentally outplanted corals on January 2023, left, and the same coral on July 2023 after suffering from bleaching near Miami. Scientists have seen devastating effects from prolonged hot water surrounding Florida — coral bleaching and some death. (Allyson DeMerlis, Michael Studivan/NOAA and the University of Miami via AP)
FILE - White House Chef Tafari Campbell smiles Nov. 6, 2008, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Campbell, an employee of former President Barack Obama, has drowned near the couple’s home on Martha’s Vineyard. Massachusetts State Police confirmed that the paddleboarder whose body was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond on Monday, July 24, 2023 was Tafari Campbell, of Dumfries, Virginia. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, file)

Obamas’ personal chef drowns near family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard

Former President Barack Obama’s personal chef has drowned near the family’s home…

FILE - White House Chef Tafari Campbell smiles Nov. 6, 2008, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Campbell, an employee of former President Barack Obama, has drowned near the couple’s home on Martha’s Vineyard. Massachusetts State Police confirmed that the paddleboarder whose body was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond on Monday, July 24, 2023 was Tafari Campbell, of Dumfries, Virginia. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, file)
Portland Police respond to a shooting at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon. (Maxine Bernstein/The Oregon via AP)

A maternity ward in Oregon is the scene of fatal gunfire

Gunfire erupted in a maternity unit of an Oregon hospital over the…

Portland Police respond to a shooting at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon. (Maxine Bernstein/The Oregon via AP)
News media wait outside of the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse where their is a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 18, 2023(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump’s classified documents case in Florida

A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next…

News media wait outside of the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse where their is a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 18, 2023(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)