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		<title>Twitter leader says he&#8217;s &#8216;sorry&#8217; for social media role in Donald Trump&#8217;s election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 17:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A co-founder of Twitter says he&#8217;s sorry if the popular social media platform helped put Donald Trump in the White House, as the president has suggested. In an interview with The New York Times, Evan Williams says Twitter&#8217;s role in Trump&#8217;s populist rise is &#8220;a very bad thing.&#8221; The president has credited Twitter with his election to the highest office in the land. When confronted with that notion, Williams said: &#8220;If it&#8217;s true that he wouldn&#8217;t be president if it weren&#8217;t&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Americans offer hope, prayer in assessing Donald Trump&#8217;s 100 days</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They are young and old: a high school student who can&#8217;t yet vote, a Vietnam vet who did so proudly. They hail from all corners of the United States and very different walks of life: a &#8220;downhome boy&#8221; from Kentucky, a third-generation Mexican-American from Texas, a stay-at-home mom in Pennsylvania, an Iranian immigrant in Los Angeles. Some oppose Donald Trump and all that he stands for, while others voted enthusiastically for him. Now, they are critiquing him. One hundred days&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ethics panel to probe complaints against Devin Nunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Latest on the congressional inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election (all times local): 10:20 a.m. The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information. The full 10-member committee is investigating the allegations, a departure from the usual procedure of having a smaller subcommittee handle a probe, and an indication of the seriousness of the claims. The California Republican congressman says several left-wing activist groups have&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bill backed by supervisors of elections clears its first Senate panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bill that would make a long list of election law changes made it through its first Senate panel Tuesday with a unanimous vote. SB 1160, sponsored by Fleming Island Republican Sen. Rob Bradley, has the approval of many supervisors of elections in the state. Among the changes it would make are requiring candidates pay qualifying fees by cashier’s check, banning elected officials from serving as poll watchers, and giving supervisors of elections the option to publish sample ballots in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Donald Trump steps up effort to dispute and distract on Russia</title>
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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>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>Fueled by Donald Trump opponents, Rachel Maddow&#8217;s popularity rises</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow can trace the mood of her audience by looking at the ratings. Her MSNBC show&#8217;s viewership sank like a stone in the weeks following Donald Trump&#8216;s election, as depressed liberals avoided politics, and bottomed out over the holidays. Slowly, they re-emerged, becoming active and interested again. Maddow&#8217;s audience has grown to the point where February was her show&#8217;s most-watched month since its 2008 launch. Maddow has emerged as the favorite cable news host for presidential resistors in the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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