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After Courting Black Voters, Trump Downplays Black Unemployment

The president has glossed over persistently high unemployment among African Americans, a group he needed to secure a second term.

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President in the Oval Office on June 4, when he said that the opening of new factories was a reason for Black workers to have hope.
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Trump Defends Asking FIFA to Review Folarin Balogun’s World Cup Ban

The president said he called the head of FIFA but “didn’t tell him what to do.” The overturning of the ban has roiled soccer and brought renewed scrutiny to the relationship between the two leaders.

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President Trump received the first FIFA Peace Prize from the head of the soccer governing body, Gianni Infantino, in December.
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How Trump Put Himself in the Middle of America’s 250th

The president placed his image and initiatives front and center, blurring the line, critics said, between loyalty to nation and loyalty to him.

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President Trump in Bismarck, N.D., on Wednesday. Historians say he has made an aggressive push to revert to eras he considers to have embodied American greatness.
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At Trump’s Direction, Federal Agencies Are Abandoning Discrimination Cases

President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded his call.

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Kenni Miller joined a class-action lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but the case was later dropped by the Trump administration.
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At Trump’s Direction, Federal Agencies Are Abandoning Discrimination Cases

President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded his call.

© Kristian Thacker for The New York Times

Kenni Miller joined a class-action lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but the case was later dropped by the Trump administration.
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Trump Says It’s ‘Too Bad’ Supreme Court Upheld Birthright Citizenship

The court’s decision was a major rebuke to President Trump, who falsely asserted that Congress could reverse it through legislation.

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If President Trump were to pressure Congress to take up birthright legislation, it would be an exceedingly difficult vote ahead of the midterm elections.
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