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The top-ranking official at the National Park Service (NPS) apologized to the agency’s employees Friday for behaving “in an inappropriate manner in a public hallway” earlier this year. P.

A lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator MORE lobbied the agency for three clients last year, apparently contradicting his claim that he hadn’t represented clients at the EPA during the Trump administration, according to new disclosure forms filed by his former employer. J.

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MORE has presided over a strong U.S. economy during his first term, maintaining low unemployment and solid growth ahead of the November elections.  Republicans hope the positive trends will carry them to victory in the midterm campaign, but growing trade tensions and tightening financial conditions could slow the expansion.

Economists see U.S. growth nearing the White House's target of 3 percent, in part because of the $1.5 trillion tax-cut law that Republicans passed in December.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is creating his own reality to campaign against – a reality with familiar slogans, yet one that is not real. This alternative reality has: a vast, partisan conspiracy to spy on his campaign and try to bring down the presidency; Democrats apparently scheming to separate parents from their children at a lawless border even while being led by "MS-13 lover Nancy Pelosi"; a Second Amendment in imminent danger of repeal;

The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is making it all about … President Donald Trump. It's a fact of Trump's brand of leadership that all politics is personal.

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If those votes on state budget amendments seem at odds with the image that state Republicans often try to project — they are.  Capital Source Samantha Ormsby, who has served as a deputy press secretary, will replace Nicole Caravella, who left the mayor’s office last week for a job in the private sector.