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A broken Trump promise to coal country

by JEFF HORWITZ, MICHAEL BIESECKER and MATTHEW DALY

The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the president personally promised him. The Energy Department says it considered issuing the order sought by companies seeking relief for plants it says are overburdened by environmental rules and market stresses. But the department ultimately ruled it was unnecessary, and the White House agreed, a spokeswoman said. ...

by DOUG THOMPSON - Opinion

In its lead editorial Sunday, The New York Times laid out what most Americans now know and fear. Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, is unfit for the job and poses a major threat to the ...

by JOSH LEDERMAN AND ROBERT BURNS

Declaring the U.S. will win “in the end,” President Donald Trump vowed Monday night to keep American troops fighting in Afghanistan despite his earlier inclination to withdraw. But he insisted the U.S. would not offer “a blank check” after 16 years of war, and he pointedly declined to say whether or ...

by CLAIRE GALOFARO

One-hundred-fifty baskets of pink petunias hang from the light posts all over this city, watered regularly by residents trying to make their community feel alive again. A local artist spends his afternoons high in a bucket truck, painting a block-long mural of a little girl blowing bubbles, each cir ...