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Trump official tells census workers Congress has final say over the count, not Trump
Days after the president's call for a “new” census, the top official overseeing the Census Bureau told employees that Congress, not Trump, has final say over the tally, NPR has exclusively learned.
Could D.C. National Guard deployment be a warning for cities like Minneapolis?
The deployment is meant to address what the president sees as out-of-control crime in D.C. He warned that other cities could face similar intervention.
What to know about past meetings between Putin and his American counterparts
Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterparts were a regular occurrence early in his tenure. But as tensions mounted between Moscow and the West following the illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and allegations of meddling with the 2016 U.S. elections, those became increasingly less frequent, and their tone became less friendly. 
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