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							<title><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk a Symbol of the Toxic Culture We're In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/13/nyts_peter_baker_charlie_kirk_said_a_lot_of_things_that_riled_people_up_a_symbol_of_the_toxic_culture_were_in.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA["New York Times" chief White House correspondent Peter Baker on "Washington Week" voiced his perplexity that elected officials hold "provocateur" Charlie Kirk in such high regard. On MSNBC, Baker said people calling the left "radical" and "evil" are the ones "ratcheting up the rhetoric."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Weary Biden Heads for the Exit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/a-weary-biden-heads-for-the-exit/ar-AA1w2wyG</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Still stinging from the election, President Biden is pushing for his final priorities but has absented himself from the national conversation about Donald Trump after warning repeatedly that he was a threat to American democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Outrage and the Modern Era of Political Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/trump-violence-assassination-attempt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest apparent assassination attempt against the former president indicates how much the American political landscape has been shaped by anger stirred by him and against him.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Returns to Vastly Different Presidency With 6 Months To Go]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/23/biden-returns-to-a-vastly-different-presidency-with-six-months-to-go/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even though he is no longer a candidate for re-election, President Biden insists that he is not going anywhere, and]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Fumbling Performance, and a Panicking Party]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden hoped to build fresh momentum for his re-election bid by agreeing to debate two months before he is formally nominated. Instead, his halting and disjointed performance on Thursday night prompted a wave of panic among Democrats and reopened discussion of whether he should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[40 Yrs Later, Biden Tries To Echo Reagan's Legacy of Leadership]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/06/forty-years-later-biden-seeks-to-echo-reagans-legacy-of-american-leadership/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The aging American president facing a re-election campaign came to the Normandy coast of France to pay tribute to the]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Felon in the Oval Office Would Test the American System]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/news/felon-oval-office-test-american-163142045.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Revolutionary hero Patrick Henry knew this day would come. He might not have anticipated all the particulars, such as the porn actor in the hotel room and the illicit payoff to keep her quiet. But he feared that eventually a criminal might occupy the presidency and use his powers to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the White House Scramble to Broker a Deal in Gaza]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/news/inside-white-house-scramble-broker-112641601.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the course of a few hours, the news from the Middle East came into the White House Situation Room fast and furious. Israel orders 100,000 civilians out of Rafah in prelude to invasion. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Hamas accepts cease-fire deal,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bystander to '60s Protests, Biden Now Becomes a Target]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/30/a-bystander-to-60s-protests-biden-now-becomes-a-target/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When students took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in April 1968, a young Joe Biden was studying law 250]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Team&rsquo;s Message for Dems Wanting Alternative: Get Over It]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/02/for-democrats-pining-for-an-alternative-biden-team-has-a-message-get-over-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, a lot of Democrats wish President Biden were not running this fall. Only 28]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Putin, Carlson &amp; the Shifting Sands of U.S. Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/trump-putin-carlson-shifting-sands-122701009.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The idea was to isolate him, to make him a pariah, to put him in a box as punishment for brazen violations of international law. They kicked him out of their world leaders' clubhouse, cut off his country's economy, even issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes. But Vladimir...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Biden, a Political Liability That May Not Go Away Soon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/analysis-for-biden-a-political-liability-that-may-not-go-away-soon-after-all/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The investigation that the president's advisers believed was all but done has instead been given new life with the collapse of the plea agreement and the appointment of a special counsel.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anguish in Camelot: RFK Jr. Run Roils Storied Political Family]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/anguish-camelot-kennedy-campaign-roils-160931236.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jack Schlossberg had enough. The only grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, Schlossberg had been watching the presidential campaign of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with increasing dismay.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Indictment Brings Trump Story Full Circle]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/08/indictment-brings-trump-story-full-circle/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was a time, not that long ago really, when Donald J. Trump said he cared about the sanctity of classified information. That, of course, was when his opponent was accused of jeopardizing it and it was a useful political weapon for Mr. Trump.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Complicated Reality of Being America's Oldest President]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/04/inside-the-complicated-reality-of-being-americas-oldest-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was the time last winter when President Biden was awakened at 3 a.m. while on a trip to Asia]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Debt Ceiling Deal, Did Biden Give Away Too Much?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/28/in-pursuit-of-consensus-did-biden-find-the-reasonable-middle-or-give-away-too-much/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After weeks of tense wrangling between the White House and House Republicans, the fiscal deal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reached on Saturday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to raise the debt]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debt Ceiling Crisis Complicates Biden's Diplomacy Abroad]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/17/for-biden-crisis-at-home-complicates-diplomacy-abroad/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden leaves for Japan on Wednesday for a meeting of the leaders of seven major industrial]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Running on His Record (and Away From It)]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/25/biden-is-running-on-his-record-and-away-from-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just hours after formally kicking off his re-election campaign, President Biden appeared on Tuesday before a crowd of union supporters chanting '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'four more years'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to outline his case for a second term.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Biden Era, Treaties More Likely To Be Broken Than Brokered]]></title>
							<link>https://buffalonews.com/biden-faces-an-era-when-treaties-are-more-likely-to-be-broken-than-brokered/article_983cefe3-6948-5fce-b6d6-5f64cc1e36ca.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - President Biden leaves today for Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of sectarian violence.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A President Faces Prosecution, and a Democracy Is Tested]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/30/a-president-faces-prosecution-and-a-democracy-is-tested/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time in American history, a grand jury has voted to indict a former president of the United States on criminal charges. It is worth pausing to repeat that: A grand jury has voted to indict an American president for a crime for the first time in history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Drawing Up '24 Playbook That Looks a Lot Like '20]]></title>
							<link>https://buffalonews.com/biden-in-preparing-to-run-is-drawing-up-a-2024-playbook-that-looks-a-lot/article_8da2273e-3ff6-5762-8b36-ae3d741ae0e9.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Forget the Wilmington, Del., basement. This time, he will have a Rose Garden. And Air Force One and a big white mansion and all the other advantages of incumbency in a year when he is not forced by a pandemic to stick to streaming from downstairs.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Mishandling of Secret Docs Lets Trump Off the Hook]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/01/24/bidens-handling-of-secret-documents-complicates-the-case-against-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[F.B.I. agents are rummaging through President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s private home. Republicans are on the attack. Democrats are reluctant to defend him. Lawyers are being hired. Witnesses are being interviewed. The press secretary is being pelted with questions she cannot or will not answer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden Stayed Mum on Classified Docs for 68 Days]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/01/20/68-days-of-silence-why-the-white-house-stayed-mum-on-classified-documents/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decision by President Biden and his top advisers to keep the discovery of classified documents secret from the public and even most of the White House staff for 68 days was driven by what turned out to be a futile hope that the incident could be quietly disposed of without broader...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Second Impeachment of Trump Feels Different]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/us/politics/trump-impeachment-trial.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At issue will be many aspects that defined Donald Trump's presidency: his relentless assaults on truth, his fomenting of divisions, his shattering of norms and his undermining of an election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/us/politics/trump-biden-inauguration.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost has gone beyond mere venting of grievances at the risk of damaging the very American democracy he is charged with defending.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Final Days of Rage and Denial]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-final-days-of-rage-and-denial/ar-BB1bEZx9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last act of the Trump presidency has taken on the stormy elements of a drama more common to history or literature than a modern White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dire Consequences of President Trump's Dishonesty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/trump-presidency-dishonesty.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether President Trump wins or loses on Nov. 3, the very concept of public trust in an established set of facts necessary for the operation of a democratic society has been eroded.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Private Trump Angst of a Republican Icon]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over lunch a few blocks from the White House on a bright, sunny day in the summer of 2019, one of the architects of the modern Republican Party admitted he was thinking the unthinkable. If Joseph R. Biden, Jr., won the his party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination, former Secretary of State James A. Baker...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Dems Brace for Showdown Over Ginsburg Seat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-democrats-brace-for-showdown-over-supreme-court-seat/ar-BB19eHYe?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' President Trump and his adversaries mobilized on Sunday for an epic campaign-season showdown over the future of the Supreme Court even as the nation prepared to honor the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an outdoor viewing to be held according to pandemic-era...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Kushner's Revisionist History in Boasting of Success]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/politics/trump-kushner-coronavirus-revisionist-history.html?action=click&amp;module=Spotlight&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We did all the right moves, the president said Wednesday. The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story, said his son-in-law.]]></description>
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