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PAMELA SAMPSON

U.S. Desk editor

Sampson is a U.S. Desk editor based in Atlanta for The Associated Press. She has worked for the AP for 30 years, including 13 years reporting and editing from overseas.

FILE - Employees sort vote-by-mail ballots from municipal elections on Election Day at the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office, Nov. 4, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
Supreme Court seems skeptical of allowing states to accept late-arriving mail ballots
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The Supreme Court‘s conservative majority sounds skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.
 
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem
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President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s immigration crackdown and disaster response.
 
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One shortly before takeoff, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump considers limited strikes on Iran even as diplomat says proposed deal is near
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President Donald Trump warned on Friday that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country’s top diplomat said Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days following nuclear talks with the United States.
 
Former President Barack Obama talks with then President-elect Donald Trump as Melania Trump reads the funeral program before the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Feb. 6, 2026
 
FILE - Groundhog Club handler A.J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 138th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Phil's human handlers took the occasion of Mother's Day, Sunday, May 12, 2024, to announce that the two kids born earlier this spring to Phil and his partner, Phyllis, are named Sunny and Shadow. Sunny is a female, Shadow a male. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger, File)
Groundhog Day highlights: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
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Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of wintry weather Monday, a forecast sure to disappoint many after what’s already been a long, cold season across large parts of the United States.
 
Nurses and their supporters gather for a vigil for Alex Pretti outside VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
DOJ opens a federal civil rights probe into Alex Pretti’s death in Minneapolis
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Jan. 30, 2026
 
Federal immigration officers deploy tear gas at observers after a shooting Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Live updates: A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in Minneapolis
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A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
 
The Capitol is seen in Washington, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, as Congress plans to return to work following a lengthy break. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House rejects Democratic-backed Venezuela war powers resolution
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Jan. 23, 2026
 
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington, as Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio listen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump meets with oil executives as US intercepts fifth sanctioned tanker
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Jan. 9, 2025
 
Passers-by walk past crime scene tape at an entrance to Brown University, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Providence, R.I., following the Saturday, Dec. 13, shooting at the university. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
As it happened: Police place person of interest in custody after Brown University shooting
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A person of interest was in custody Sunday after a shooting during final exams at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others, though key questions remained unanswered more than 12 hours after the attack.
 
President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on farm subsidies in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump administration news, analysis, highlights from Dec. 12, 2025
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Dec. 12, 2025
 
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos arrives at federal court for sentencing, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Central Islip, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in fraud case
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Oct. 17, 2025
 
The U.S. Capitol is seen on the second day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Mass firings of federal workers begin as Trump pressures Democrats to end shutdown
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Oct. 10, 2025
 
Smoke and fire rises from an Israeli airstrike on the Macca Tower, a high-rise building in Gaza City, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, following a prior warning issued by the Israeli army. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)
Hamas accepts some elements of Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, others require negotiation
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Oct. 3, 2025
 
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with President Donald Trump after a news conference in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Palestinian government supports Trump’s plan to end Israel-Hamas war
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | September 29, 2025
 
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Trump administration raises unfounded concerns about autism-vaccine link
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | September 22, 2025
 
FILE - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, is greeted by President Donald Trump as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House in Washington, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Trump meets with Netanyahu for dinner at the White House
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The Senate side of the Capitol is seen in Washington, early Monday, June 30, 2025, as Republicans plan to begin a final push to advance President Donald Trump's big tax breaks and spending cuts package. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Live updates: Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s big bill ahead of July 4 deadline
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 30, 2025
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
Supreme Court allows Trump to deport migrants to countries other than their homelands
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 23, 2025
 
This undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)
Abrego Garcia returned to US to face charges related to human smuggling
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 6, 2025
 
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., pauses in the door of his office to answer questions from reporters about his strategy to advance President Donald Trump's spending and tax bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate returns to debate Trump’s big budget bill
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 2, 2025
 
President Donald Trump, left, and first lady Melania Trump arrive to speak during a bill signing event for the "Take it Down Act" in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, May 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump signs bill making ‘revenge porn’ a federal crime
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 19, 2025
 
President Donald Trump, with Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, left, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, holds an executive order related to drug prices, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump and RFK Jr. say their new plan will lower American drug prices
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 12, 2025
 
The soccer player of Israel Amputee Football Team, Ben Binyamin controls the ball during a practice session in Ramat Gan, Thursday, April 11, 2024. Ben Binyamin was celebrating his 29th birthday at the Tribe of Nova music festival on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel and opened fire on thousands of Israelis dancing to electronic music. Binyamin raced into an air raid shelter, but attackers fired shots and then threw in grenades. He was seriously wounded; his right leg was blown off. He was left for dead. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Soldiers who lost limbs in Gaza fighting are finding healing on Israel’s amputee soccer team
Israel’s national amputee soccer team is heading to France for the 2024 European Amputee Football Championships in June.
 
This undated photo provided by Mohammad Darawshe shows his cousin, Awad Darawshe, an Israeli Arab paramedic. When Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month, Darawshe insisted on staying at the scene to try to save lives. But he sacrificed his own. He was shot to death while bandaging one of the injured. (Courtesy of Mohammad Darawshe via AP)
An Arab paramedic who treated Israelis injured by Hamas militants is remembered as a hero
When Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month, an Israeli Arab paramedic insisted on staying at the scene to try to save lives.
 
FILE - Brent Renaud attends the 74th Annual Peabody Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on May 31, 2015, in New York. Renaud, an American journalist, was killed in a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, March 13, 2022, while gathering material for a report about refugees. Ukrainian authorities said he died when Russian forces shelled the vehicle he was traveling in. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud shot, killed in Ukraine
American journalist Brent Renaud has been killed in Ukraine while gathering material for a report about refugees.
 
A motorist leaves wiper blades exposed in anticipation of heavy snowfall in Southwest Roanoke City on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Roanoke, Va. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)
Snow, ice blast through South with powerful winter storm
A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice is blasting through parts of the U.S. Southeast.
 
Emergency workers respond following an apartment explosion, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021, in Dunwoody, Ga., just outside of Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
4 injured after apartment building explosion near Atlanta
An explosion rocked an apartment building in suburban Atlanta, causing the three-story complex to partially collapse and leaving four people with minor injuries.
 
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A man watches a graffiti showing attacks victim Elodie Breuil, in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 . Breuil died in the shooting at the Bataclan concert hall last Friday. Writing reads, playing with words: Love is inevitable. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Stories of those who died in the Paris attacks
They were students and artists, music lovers and parents. The victims of last week’s attacks in Paris had varied backgrounds and interests.
 
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