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Trump says State of the Union speech will focus on unity amid divided government

WASHINGTON - Rarely has the mere scheduling of a State of the Union address shed so much light on the state of the nation, and specifically the relations among the leaders of its government.

President Donald Trump is to deliver the annual address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, a week later than initially planned. For the first time, he faces a newly empowered Democratic opposition that is deeply opposed to his hard-line immigration agenda, and primed to investigate his administration on a range of issues.

"It's going to be a speech that's going to cover a lot of territory, but part of it is going to be unity," Trump told

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