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WATCH: Trump announces new ways to help veterans get medical care

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

The government wants to make it easier for veterans to get medical care and is promoting new ways to use technology to help.

Keystone XL survived politics, but economics could kill it

By Grant Schulte, Associated Press

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline survived nine years of protests, lawsuits and political wrangling that saw the Obama administration reject it and President Donald Trump revive it, but now the project faces the possibility of death by economics.

Most white millennials now disapprove of Trump, survey says

By Jeff Karoub, Associated Press

Disapproval of President Donald Trump is rising among white millennials, but it's below that of their black, Latino and Asian-American peers, according to a survey released Thursday.

DeVos abandons plan to award federal student loan servicing to a single company

By Andrew Kreighbaum, Inside Higher Ed

The Department of Education will still roll out a website through which borrowers can repay their loans, regardless of their provider.

WATCH: White House defends immigration legislation in news briefing

By Associated Press

Sanders is expected to speak around 2:30 p.m. ET. Watch live here.

Older people dying on job at higher rate than all workers

By Maria Ines Zamudio and Michelle Minkoff, Associated Press

Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases.

5 important stories that have nothing to do with the White House

By Erica R. Hendry, Joshua Barajas, Omar Etman, Iman Smith

A South African child born with HIV has remained virus-free for nearly nine years, Mississippi police shoot and kill the wrong man while serving a warrant and the Vatican shuts off its fountains. Here are five important stories that likely…