President Donald Trump's Cabinet and others at the White House broke out into applause Thursday afternoon as Trump signed a proclamation honoring Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. "Today we have your Columbus Day proclamation for Monday, which we're signing a bit early," White House staff secretary Will Scharf told Trump Thursday ahead of the monthly Cabinet meeting. "Columbus, obviously, discovered the new world in 1492. He was a great Italian explorer. He sailed his three ships, the Nina, the Pinto and Santa Maria, across the Atlantic Ocean, and landed in what's today the Caribbean. And...

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