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President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the ...

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