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        <title><![CDATA[Michael Smallberg - Deputy News Team Lead]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Michael Smallberg is a legislative analyst with Bloomberg Government. Previously, he was an investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, reporting on issues such as Wall Street oversight and the federal inspector general system. Michael has a bachelor's degree in history from Brown University.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the U.S. Is Moving Closer to Delisting Chinese Firms]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin Bain]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 03:35:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Washington, D.C., as the 51st State? What to Know]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Smallberg]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd&apos;s neck for more than nine minutes last May, was convicted of second-degree murder in his politically explosive trial. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the U.S. Is Threatening to Delist China Stars Like Alibaba]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Naoreen Chowdhury]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 04:15:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A police officer and a security gard stands in front of signage at the Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday, March 24, 2021. China&apos;s government has proposed establishing a joint venture with local technology giants that would oversee the lucrative data they collect from hundreds of millions of consumers, according to people familiar with the matter.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Biden Might Change Trump’s Immigration Policies]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Long before the U.S. tightened its borders to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump set about reshaping America’s immigration system with a nationalist and isolationist bent. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Taylor]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:34:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the U.S. Mail Became a Presidential Campaign Issue]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Rarely has the U.S. Postal Service found itself a top issue in a presidential election. But the coronavirus has turned up the pressure in two ways. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/how-the-u-s-mail-became-presidential-campaign-issue-quicktake</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Teague Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:03:30 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A United States Postal Service letter carrier wears a protective mask while delivering mail in Fairfax, Virginia on May 19.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The U.S. Postal Service Was in Bad Shape. Then the Virus Came]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/how-virus-inflamed-u-s-mail-s-preexisting-condition-quicktake</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Smallberg]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 04:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A United States Postal Service (USPS) worker delivers mail in Grand Island, Nebraska, U.S., on April 22.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the Pandemic Fuels U.S. Debate Over Immigration]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Long before the U.S. tightened its borders to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, as many countries did, President Donald Trump set about reshaping America’s immigration system with a nationalist and isolationist bent. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Taylor]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:41:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Law That Biden Says He’d Use More to Fight Virus]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Babbage]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
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