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Policy and Politics
Even as anxieties grow under Trump, these swing voters aren't ready to back Democrats
Ashley Lopez
Swing voters in North Carolina say they are frustrated with President Trump and the state of the economy, but aren't ready to abandon him or his party as the midterms inch closer.
Transportation Security Administration officers staff a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Ill., in this 2010 file photo. The agency was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — but not every U.S. airport uses federal screeners.
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TSA's new 'Gold+' program looks to increase private security screening at airports
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Spencer Pratt is 'winning the internet,' but can he become mayor of Los Angeles?
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Three years ago, this garden near the Kansas City metro area was a lawn. Now it's full of Midwest native plants — like the Ohio spiderwort and mountain mint pictured here —that attract plenty of pollinators.
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Lacey Beaty, mayor of Beaverton, Ore., represented one of the U.S. cities that recently joined the Pact of Free Cities for its recent meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia. In the background (from left to right) are Omar Al-Rawi, member of the Vienna City Council; Audrey Pulvar, deputy mayor of Paris; Gergely Karácsony, mayor of Budapest; and Rafał Trzaskowski, mayor of Warsaw.
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  2. In Georgia, Trump continues to show strength while Democratic voters come out in force
  3. The DOJ is trying to let Trump and his companies off the hook for past tax problems
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