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The 45th president’s speech struck an unusually pessimistic tone — especially for a man taking office at a time of broad economic prosperity. Donald Trump said “wealth, strength and confidence had dissipated” because of jobs lost overseas and promised that “a new vision will govern our land.”
Demonstrators who had promised to shut down the city were successful at several checkpoints. Elsewhere in D.C., officers in riot gear used concussion grenades to break up the crowd.
The stark national divide was already on full display as Trump supporters and detractors began coming face to face.
We asked those who came to Washington to celebrate the inauguration, and those who didn’t, about their desires. Not for Trump, or even the country. But for themselves.
John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic president; Ronald Reagan, the first actor and also the first to have divorced; Barack Obama, the first African American. But Donald Trump can boast more firsts than the men who presided before him.
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Donald Trump said he read a profile of Shane Bouvet, a Trump volunteer who planned to attend the inauguration in a donated suit and shoes, and was impressed by his story.
The 45th president will inherit a nation as deeply polarized as it has been in years and with no signs of a reconciliation on the horizon. Can Trump change that? Will he even try?
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Despite the largest federal investment ever targeted to failing schools, graduation rates, test scores and college enrollment for those that got money under the program were no different from schools that did not receive funds.
Yahya Jammeh lost an election last month, and West African nations have said they will oust him by force if diplomatic efforts fail and he clings to power.
The Facebook founder is traveling the country, reconnecting with religion and fast becoming an object of speculation that he could be preparing a run for the presidency.
The discoveries came just as hope was fading for about 30 people missing after the resort was swallowed by a huge snowslide late Wednesday. Italy’s state news agency said the survivors included two children.
In one of his final acts as president, Obama commuted the sentences of 330 federal prisoners. Serving life in prison, Trenton Copeland had been pleading for months.
Ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, Shepard Fairey launched the “We the People Campaign,” which he says focuses on the groups that the president-elect disparaged in his campaign.
The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf has advanced by 17 miles in a little more than a month, continuing to suggest that a very large break could be coming.
Gastineau, one of the most feared pass-rushers of the 1980s, said he believes his neurological disorders are the result of the hits he delivered and took during his 10-year NFL career.
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