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Trump tweeted that “things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia.”
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President Trump allowing states to withhold federal family-planning funds from facilities that provide abortion services. On Twitter, Trump he expects that China “will properly deal with North Korea,” and promised that “things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia.” In a statement, the U.S. Central Command that a U.S.-led airstrike in Syria unintentionally killed its largest non-nuclear bomb, nicknamed “the mother of all bombs,” on an ISIS target in Afghanistan. During his first speech as C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo a “hostile intelligence service,” and denounced its founder, Julian Assange.

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