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The president canceled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned congressional delegation trip overseas, after she disinvited him from delivering the State of the Union.
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It’s Thursday, January 17. The partial government shutdown is now in its 27th day.

Donald Trump’s administration likely separated thousands more children from their parents than previously thought since the practice of family separations first spiked in 2017, a new finds. While administration officials had once denied that a family separation policy was ever official, it was revealed in 2018 that more and placed in custody elsewhere, sometimes in facilities thousands of miles away from the border.  

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