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Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell on Tuesday introduced legislation to maintain health benefits for retired union coal miners whose companies have declared bankruptcy in recent years. McConnell was among those who successfully worked last year to provide a four-month extension of health benefits that protected 16,000 miners whose benefits would otherwise have been cut off on Jan. 1. Democrats made a major push as well, as the government neared a shutdown last December.

After they marched, 500 women learned how to run a ” for office

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks to participants of EMILY's List "Ready to Run" candidate training at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 22, 2017. The day after the Women's March brought half a million people to Washington, 500 women from across the country spent Sunday learning how to run for office.

On first day, Trump signs health care executive order

President Donald Trump quickly assumed the mantle of the White House on Friday, making his first executive order one aimed at his predecessor's signature health care law and swearing-in members of his national security team to his Cabinet. Hours after delivering a stinging rebuke of the political status quo in his inaugural address, Mr. Trump sat at the president's formal desk in the Oval Office as he signed the order that White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said was aimed at "minimizing the economic burden" of the "Obamacare" law.

Trump takes charge, assertive but untested 45th US president

Pledging emphatically to empower America's "forgotten men and women," Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, taking command of a riven nation facing an unpredictable era under his assertive but untested leadership. Under cloudy, threatening skies at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Trump painted a bleak picture of the America he now leads, declaring as he had throughout the election campaign that it is beset by crime, poverty and a lack of bold action.

Senate confirms Trump’s picks for defense, homeland security

The Republican-led Senate, taking little time to fill two critical national security posts, overwhelmingly confirmed a pair of retired Marine generals tapped by President Donald Trump to run the Pentagon and secure America's borders. A little more than an hour later, Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to James Mattis to be defense secretary and John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump signs executive order to “ease burden” of Obamacare

Hours after inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed his first executive order, directing federal agencies to "ease the burden" of his predecessor Barack Obama 's health care law, or Obamacare. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus also sent out a memo to order all government agencies to immediately freeze regulations until further notified, according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer.

Donald Trump, Inaugurated as 45th US President, Says It’s ‘Only America First’

Donald Trump, sworn in Friday as the 45th U.S. president, used his inaugural address to tell the nation that he was going to put America and American workers first. "From this day forward, it's going to be only America first," Trump said.

Battenfeld: Donald Trump ushers in age of people first, pols second

Trump signaled in his first day of office that he's not going to go along with the power brokers in the nation's capital - many of them standing right behind him on the inaugural stage. The new president's defiant speech after taking the oath of office was a jab at every lawmaker, lobbyist, ex-president, network pundit and editorial writer who scoffed at Trump's campaign and message and worked to defeat him.

Trump takes charge

Pledging emphatically to empower America's "forgotten men and women," Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday, taking command of a riven nation facing an unpredictable era under his assertive but untested leadership. Under cloudy, threatening skies at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Trump painted a bleak picture of the America he now leads, declaring as he had throughout the election campaign that it is beset by crime, poverty and a lack of bold action.

Donald Trump inauguration: Wild man in the White House

Donald Trump is not renowned as an orator. Although speech-making has been a potent tool of past US presidents - his predecessor one of the most compelling - the mish-mash of "America first" jingoism Mr Trump has presented at his inauguration ceremony in Washington hardly amounts to a cogent agenda to guide his term in office.

Justice Department granted hearing delay in Baltimore police case

Justice Department granted hearing delay in Baltimore police case Justice lawyers: More time needed to brief incoming administration on sweeping police agreement. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jKDCfF n this 2015 file photo, Baltimore police stand in formation as a curfew approaches in the ciity a day after unrest that occurred following the funeral of Freddie Gray', who died while in police custody.

Era of co-operation over in international trade, Trump says

U.S. President Donald Trump applauds in the presidential review stand outside the White House during the 58th presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 20, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump applauds in the presidential review stand outside the White House during the 58th presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 20, 2017.