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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>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>Donald Trump tax cut: Huge, vague and likely mild boost for economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2017 01:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump&#8216;s team boasted Wednesday that its tax-cut plan would lighten Americans&#8217; financial burdens, ignite economic growth and vastly simplify tax filing. Yet the proposal so far remains short of vital details, including how it would be paid for. And based on the few specifics spelled out so far, most experts suggest that it would add little to growth while swelling the budget deficit and potentially handing large windfalls to wealthier taxpayers. Trump&#8217;s plan would replace the current seven&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How communities shaped by refugees became Donald Trump country</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Richard Rodrigue stood in the back of a banquet hall, watching his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter mingle among her high school classmates. These teenagers speak dozens of languages, and hail from a dozen African nations. They fled brutal civil war, famine, oppressive regimes to find themselves here, at an ordinary high school pre-prom fete in this once-dying New England mill town, revived by an influx of some 7,500 immigrants over the last 16 years. Rodrigue smiled and waved at his daughter,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Marco Rubio says next step in Syria is negotiating regime change</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/marco-rubio-says-next-step-syria-negotiating-regime-change/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Marco Rubio says the next step in Syria should be to work with Sunni governments to discuss &#8220;an alternative&#8221; government in Syria. Rubio is a Florida Republican and onetime rival of President Donald Trump. The conservative tells NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show that Trump should reach out to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Turkey, to discuss ways to get Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and create a new regime. Assad has not responded to&#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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