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		<title>Senate confirms Alex Acosta as Donald Trump&#8217;s secretary of labor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Senate on Thursday confirmed Alex Acosta as Labor secretary, filling out President Donald Trump&#8216;s Cabinet as he approaches his 100th day in office. The 60-38 vote confirms Acosta to the post. Once sworn as the nation&#8217;s 27th Labor secretary, the son of Cuban immigrants will lead a sprawling agency that enforces more than 180 federal laws covering about 10 million employers and 125 million workers. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., spoke for many Republicans with a statement issued just after&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis: For Donald Trump, the weight of world&#8217;s problems sink in</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For Donald Trump, the reality of the world&#8217;s problems may be starting to sink in. Standing in the sunny White House Rose Garden, the president said Wednesday that the gruesome chemical weapons attack in Syria had changed his views on the quagmire of a conflict that he&#8217;d previously indicated he wanted to steer clear of. He mourned the deaths of the youngest victims — &#8220;innocent children, innocent babies&#8221; — and said brutality had &#8220;crossed a lot of lines for me.&#8221;&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Donald Trump steps up effort to dispute and distract on Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 01:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After weeks on the defensive, President Donald Trump has stepped up his efforts to dispute, downplay and distract from revelations stemming from the investigations into the Kremlin&#8217;s interference in last year&#8217;s election and possible Russian ties to his campaign associates. The White House says the real story is not about Russia — it&#8217;s about how Obama administration officials allegedly leaked and mishandled classified material about Americans. Trump and his aides have accused former officials of inappropriately disclosing — or &#8220;unmasking&#8221;&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Congress seen as not likely to pass tax overhaul quickly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After their humiliating loss on health care, Republicans in Congress could use a quick victory on a big issue. It won&#8217;t be an overhaul of the tax code. Overhauling the tax code could prove harder to accomplish than repealing and replacing Barack Obama&#8216;s health law. Congressional Republicans are divided on significant issues, especially a new tax on imports embraced by House Speaker Paul Ryan. And the White House is sending contradicting signals on the new tax, adding to the uncertainty.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paul Manafort had plan to benefit Vladamir Putin government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump&#8216;s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests. Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>House GOP health bill facing fresh House committee test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The White House and Republican leaders are talking to rank-and-file lawmakers about revising the GOP health care overhaul, hoping to keep a rebellion by conservatives and moderates from snowballing and imperiling the party&#8217;s showpiece legislation. Four days after a congressional report projected the bill would pry coverage from millions of voters, signs of fraying GOP support for the legislation were showing. The measure would strike down much of former President Barack Obama&#8216;s 2010 overhaul and reduce the federal role, including&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Donald Trump looking to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in tough moments</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Faced with aggressive on-air questioning about the president&#8217;s wiretapping claims, Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn&#8217;t flinch, she went folksy. Speaking to George Stephanopoulos on &#8220;Good Morning America,&#8221; she pulled out a version of an old line from President Lyndon Johnson: &#8220;If the president walked across the Potomac, the media would be reporting that he could not swim.&#8221; The 34-year-old spokeswoman for President Donald Trump was schooled in hardscrabble politics — and down-home rhetoric — from a young age by her father,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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