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							<title><![CDATA[What Indiana's Defiance Means for Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whitmer's Biggest Test: Can She Deliver Michigan for Biden?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/02/25/gretchen-whitmers-biggest-electoral-test-can-she-deliver-michigan-for-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gretchen Whitmer was planning to speak in Dearborn, Mich., at a feel-good event celebrating a health clinic founded by Muslim]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid Deaths Surge as a Once-Hopeful Summer Ends]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/us/covid-surge-united-states.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cases are starting to fall in some hard-hit Southern states, but nearly half of Americans are not fully vaccinated, allowing the Delta variant to persist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mask? No Mask? New Rules Leave Public Confused]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mask-no-mask-new-rules-leave-americans-recalibrating-hour-by-hour/ar-BB1gM7FO?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Americans whose bare faces had scarcely been seen in public for a year, there were suddenly options. Would they leave the mask behind for a jog? What about the coffee shop? What about the neighbor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s house? The office?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Virus Outbreaks Enter Unwieldy Phase]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/new-coronavirus-phase.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For months, clusters often centered in nursing homes, prisons and food processing plants. With Americans venturing into public more, new types of outbreaks are emerging.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virus Cases Slow in U.S., But Big Picture Still Tenuous]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reports of new cases have declined nationally, and deaths have slowed. But reopening plans leave unanswered questions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Minnesota Mining Country Warms to Tariffs, Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/trump-tariffs-minnesota-mining.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans see a chance to flip a congressional seat in northern Minnesota, where President Trump's steel tariffs are being celebrated as a boost for the mining industry.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Strategy for Dem Mayors Facing Troubles: Attack Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/democrat-mayor-candidates.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitch Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis, who is up for re-election this fall, and other liberal mayors are deflecting criticism by focusing on a common foe.]]></description>
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