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In about nine hours, President Trump is scheduled to deliver a constitutionally mandated annual speech to a joint session of Congress, the State of the Union.
It is an opportunity for the President of the United States to set the national agenda or perhaps reset it.
A new NPR-PBS News-Marist poll suggests a majority of Americans believe the country is doing worse under Trump's watch.
The president sees it differently, and he's expected to try to make that point on matters of the economy, military action overseas, and military deployments at home, among other actions.
NPR's Frank Ordonez spoke with a pollster about all of it.
NPR's Frank Ordonez reporting.
customs agents are now collecting new global tariffs of 10 percent, not the 15 percent tariffs the president had announced plans for over the weekend.
Farmers in the Northwest are scrambling to make sense of the tariffs just ahead of planting and harvesting some of spring's first crops.
Northwest Public Broadcasting's Anna King has more.
military task force is working to dismantle Mexican drug cartels.
More from NPR's Quill Lawrence.
House of Representatives is expected to vote later today on an aviation safety bill spurred by the deadly midair collision near Washington, D.C.