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        <title><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson - Senior Editor:DC Weekends]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says US Will Begin Blockade of Ships To and From Hormuz]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:01:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says US Could ‘Take The Oil’ in Iran, Seize Export Hub: FT]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:39:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Secret Service Says It Shot, Killed Armed Man at Mar-a-Lago]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:15:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says He Will Increase Global Tariffs to 15% From 10%]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:08:47 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>President Donald Trump during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 20. Photographer: Bonnie Cash/UPI</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Signs of Trump Overreach After Another Death in Minneapolis]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The shooting death of a US citizen by federal agents has prompted pushback even from some members of Trump’s own party.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:59:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Federal law enforcement agents deploy tear gas into a crowd in Minneapolis on Jan. 23. Hundreds of videos have shown the agents using pepper spray, shoving, punching and kicking protesters who have stayed largely peaceful and are recording the agents’ actions.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Schumer Says Democrats Will Block DHS Funding After Shooting]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:57 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democrat policy luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. A bipartisan group of senators is making a long-shot bid to break a stalemate over health care subsidies, while also acknowledging that time has run out to pass legislation before the credits expire Dec. 31.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says Credit Card Firms Violate Law If Rates Not Capped]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:10:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>President Donald Trump takes questions from the members of the press aboard Air Force One on January 11, 2026 en route back to the White House from Palm Beach, Florida.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Lashes Out at Cuellar for Running as Democrat After Pardon]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:55:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Urges House to Vote for Epstein Files Release in Reversal]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Lucey]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:13:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Floats Venezuela Talks as US Labels Maduro a Terrorist]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Martin]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:03:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says He Will Not Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Tariffs]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:56:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on November 2, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House from his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, residence where he spent the weekend. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Harris, Newsom Begin Jockeying for 2028 Presidential Campaigns]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Former US Vice President Kamala Harris during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Warns of ‘Imminent’ Attack by Hamas Against Palestinians]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:09:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Palestinians using excavators dig deep into the ground, reportedly searching for bodies, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 17, 2025.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Blocked by Judge From Sending California Troops to Oregon]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erik Larson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:34:13 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Federal agents hold back protesters outside an ICE facility in Portland on Oct. 4. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Sends California Guard to Oregon After Court Setback]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erik Larson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:51:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Federal law enforcement officers clash with protesters outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 4.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Orders US Troops to Portland, Authorizes ‘Full Force’]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:33:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House on Sept. 26.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump to Meet Arab Leaders in New York About Gaza War: Axios]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Palestinians from Gaza City move southwards with their belongings, on the coastal road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on Sept. 19, 2025.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Suggests Murdochs Will Have Role in New TikTok Deal]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:51:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Rupert Murdoch, co-chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., left, and Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., arrive for a morning session at the Allen &amp; Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Friday, July 13, 2018. The 35th annual Allen &amp; Co. conference gathers many of America&apos;s wealthiest and most powerful people in media, technology, and sports. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bessent Says Russian Economic Woes Can Bring Putin to Table]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Benjaminson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:42:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[US, Russia Agreed on Ukraine Security Pledges, Witkoff Says]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-17/rubio-says-ukraine-ceasefire-still-on-table-as-trump-seeks-deal</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Martin]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
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