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Firing Trump's Cabinet is easy. Replacing them is hard.
President Donald Trump's appetite for an ambitious shake-up of his Cabinet and other key advisers is already facing headwinds from inside his own administration and some Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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Trump administration finally announces Russia sanctions over election meddling
The Trump administration announced Thursday it is enacting new sanctions on Russia, including individuals indicted last month by special counsel Robert Mueller, in a sweeping new effort to punish Moscow for its attempts to interfere in the 2016 US election.
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Barron Trump's school signs open letter to President demanding action on gun laws
The school attended by President Donald Trump's youngest son joined an open letter demanding the President pass gun legislation to protect students.
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Bill Gates to meet with Trump at the White House
President Donald Trump will sit down with billionaire Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday.
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Wells Fargo's CEO is getting a 36% raise after the bank's nightmare year
Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan got a 36% raise after one of the darkest years in the bank's history.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry says he's not interested in VA job
Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Thursday he is not interested in leaving his post for another cabinet position.
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Trump: 'It certainly looks like' Russia was behind London attack
President Donald Trump, during a meeting Thursday in the Oval Office with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, told reporters that "it certainly looks like" Russia was behind the nerve agent attack in the United Kingdom.
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A generation shaped by gun violence plans to make itself heard today
Jackson Mittleman opened a news alert on his phone on Valentine's Day, and saw a tragically familiar image: Students with their hands raised, fleeing a shooting.
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Here's how teens are showing their political might in 2018
Fueled by the 2016 election results, Winter Minisee said she opted to preregister to vote "the moment she turned 16."
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Tillerson's dismissal rattles foreign nerves ahead of North Korea summit
Rex Tillerson may have spent the last 14 months being contradicted by his boss on all manner of foreign policy, but the now-fired Secretary of State was at least a known quantity for US allies during tense moments in 2017.
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What's changed one month after the Parkland shooting
A month ago, a former student roamed the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, opening fire on terrified students and teachers at the Florida school.
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5 things for March 14: Student walkout, Pennsylvania race, Trump, Stephen Hawking
t's #MyFreedomDay. Learn how students are standing up to modern slavery. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.
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State Department looks past Tillerson to get ready for Pompeo
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet with his senior staff Wednesday morning to discuss the road ahead after his unceremonious firing a day earlier.
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Will Trump's new CIA pick denounce torture programs she was part of?
If Gina Haspel is going to be confirmed as the next CIA director, a post she was nominated to fill by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, she will have to disavow the interrogation techniques that made her famous.
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School shootings in the spotlight Wednesday with House vote, Senate hearing
The US House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a bill to fund more security at schools, exactly one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
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Staffing shakeup to overshadow five Cabinet members pitching infrastructure plan to the Hill
Five Cabinet secretaries are heading to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a hearing on infrastructure, but it's likely other issues will come up amid the news that President Donald Trump is shaking up his administration.
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Darrell 'Bubba' Wallace: How Lewis Hamilton inspired NASCAR star
Lewis Hamilton made his Formula One debut in 2007 and a year later he became the sport's youngest champion at the age of 23.
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Trump's intelligence whisperer prepares for State role
As news of Donald Trump's upset victory flashed across the TV screen in front of him in November 2016, Mike Pompeo watched in astonishment.
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She could be the first woman ever to run the CIA
President Donald Trump's pick to head the CIA, Gina Haspel, would be the first female director of the intelligence agency if confirmed. Haspel, who served as deputy director of the agency under Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, since February 2017, has accepted the new role, saying in a statement that she was "grateful to President Trump for the opportunity, and humbled by his confidence in" her.
