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News Wrap: Keystone XL pipeline gets permit to build

Season 2017 Episode 830 | 5m 39s

In our news wrap Friday, the State Department issued a permit to build the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, a project that had been rejected by the Obama administration. Also, a federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of the president's revised travel ban, rejected arguments by Muslim plaintiffs who said the ban was discriminatory.

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