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Trump: National monuments a ‘massive federal land grab’
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Trump: National monuments a ‘massive federal land grab’

April 26, 2017

Slamming what he called “a massive federal land grab,” President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments…

Ivanka Trump defends father, brushes aside groans in Berlin
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Ivanka Trump defends father, brushes aside groans in Berlin

April 25, 2017

Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser of U.S. President Donald Trump; International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde; and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from left, chat after a panel at the…

Climbers scale 80-foot tree to help eagle
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Climbers scale 80-foot tree to help eagle

April 21, 2017

DC4, a baby eaglet, after being rescued from a nest after it got its foot caught in a tree limb. It appears not to have broken any bones.Courtesy of Al…

Utah Rep. Chaffetz says he won’t run for re-election
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Utah Rep. Chaffetz says he won’t run for re-election

April 19, 2017

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, says he won’t for re-election or any other office in 2018.Associated Press file Chaffetz, who has been rumored as…

U.S. hit IS with largest non-nuclear bomb ever used
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U.S. hit IS with largest non-nuclear bomb ever used

April 13, 2017

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military’s largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan. A Pentagon spokesman…

Putin meets Tillerson as tensions rise over Syria
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Putin meets Tillerson as tensions rise over Syria

April 12, 2017

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens, right, to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, back to a camera, during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday.Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press Tillerson, making…