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10:45 PM ET, April 12, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says Dollar ‘Getting Too Strong,’ Won't Label China a Currency Manipulator  —  President leaves open possibility of renominating Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. dollar “is getting too strong” and he would prefer the Federal Reserve keep interest rates low.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Offered China Better Trade Terms in Exchange for Help on North Korea  —  President doesn't demand departure of Syria's Assad but says it's likely  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Wednesday he has offered Chinese President Xi Jinping a more favorable trade deal …
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump backs off fiscal pledges and adopts centrist policies that he once fought  —  President Trump is abandoning a number of his key campaign promises on economic policy, adopting instead many of the centrist positions he railed against while campaigning as a populist.
Washington Post:
Inside Bannon's struggle: From ‘shadow president’ to Trump's marked man  —  When Stephen K. Bannon reported for work Wednesday, he did not act like a man who had just been publicly humiliated by his boss.  —  The chief White House strategist cycled in and out of the Oval Office for meetings …
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
New Front In White House Civil War as Kushner Asserts Authority at NSC  —  White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner is leading an unprecedented effort to meddle in the White House's National Security Council, causing mayhem for senior staff who say the president's son-in-law is interfering …
New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Bannon, Whose Job May Be in Danger  —  WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's grenade-lobbing pugilist of a chief strategist, has a fitting nickname for his West Wing office: “the war room.”  —  But more and more, war is being waged on Mr. Bannon himself.
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:   Trump backer met with Bannon about post-WH options: report
Rich Lowry / Politico:   When Jared Wins  —  Can someone reacquaint Donald Trump with …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Threatens to Withhold Payments to Insurers to Press Democrats on Health Bill  —  Almost three weeks after canceling a vote on his health-care package over infighting among his fellow Republicans and the opposition of the Democrats, President Donald Trump dug back into the fight …
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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
After Campaign Exit, Manafort Borrowed From Businesses With Trump Ties  —  That morning, he stepped down from guiding Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, after a brief tenure during which Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination, Democrats' emails were hacked and the campaign's contacts with Russia came under scrutiny.
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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and AOL
Associated Press:
Lobbyists tied to ex-Trump aides register as foreign agents
Evan Perez / CNN:
Manafort expected to register as foreign agent for past Ukraine work
Discussion: TheBlaze
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Manafort is expected to register as a foreign agent
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Post:
Judge washes up dead along the Hudson River  —  Medical examiners remove Abdus-Salaam's body.  —  Robert Miller  —  A pioneering judge, who became the first Muslim woman in US history to serve on the bench, was found dead Wednesday — washed up on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River, sources said.
Discussion: The Hill, The Root, Raw Story and Snopes.com
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Pours Money Into Montana House Race  —  Close call in Kansas special election fires up Republicans  —  WASHINGTON—Republican leaders may have been caught off guard by the weakness of their candidate in the Kansas special election, but they won't let it happen again in Montana, where another House election will be held May 25.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Let's speculate about what the Kansas special election means for health care
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
I was wrong about Jeff Sessions  —  An apology for a tweet about the attorney general that has gone viral  —  Full disclosure: The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts does not like Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  Not one little bit.  —  I didn't like him when he was the first Senator to endorse Donald Trump.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Prosecutor: Jeff Sessions's New Immigration Plan Is ‘F*cking Horrifying’  —  NOGALES, Arizona—The crowd was small, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions's speech was short.  But his message couldn't have been clearer:  —  “This is a new era,” said Sessions, who sported a dark suit in the hot Arizona sun.
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn't Seem O.K. With Google  —  Google appeared to stymie a marketing stunt on Wednesday by Burger King, which had introduced a television ad intended to prompt voice-activated Google devices to describe its burgers.  —  A video from a Burger King marketing agency showed …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Burger King's new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper
New York Times:
Court Approved Wiretap on Trump Campaign Aide Over Russia Ties  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department obtained a secret court-approved wiretap last summer on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, based on evidence that he was operating as a Russian agent …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:   Trump surrogate says Trump's own adviser being a Russian agent isn't evidence of ‘collusion’
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's budget director on what's on, and off, the table for cuts  —  As President Donald Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney sits in the center of the storm.  —  He is drafting a White House budget that members of both parties call dead on arrival.  He's still trying to help bridge …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘I Screwed Up’: Sean Spicer Apologizes for Holocaust Comments  —  In a 2014 speech at his old high school in Rhode Island, Sean Spicer laid out his personal guidelines for success.  Rule No. 4: Take responsibility when you mess up, and you will be rewarded.
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Sofia Petkar / Daily Express:
Kim Jong-Un ‘orders IMMEDIATE EVACUATION of Pyongyang’ as tensions with US escalate  —  NORTH Korea leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly ordered residents of the country's capital Pyongyang to leave the city immediately, sparking fears he may be preparing for war.  —  GETTY
Discussion: UPI and The Gateway Pundit
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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
United CEO feels ‘shame,’ passengers will be compensated  —  Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines, today said he felt “shame” when he saw viral video of airport police dragging a bloodied passenger from one of his airline's flights Sunday night.  —  “This will never happen again,” …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Trump's thoroughly confusing Fox Business interview, annotated  —  President Trump spoke with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo in an interview airing Wednesday morning, and it was par for the course for Trump.  —  By which I mean he rewrote history (on his views of attacking Syria) …
Fox News:
Fast and Furious scandal: Suspected triggerman in border agent's murder arrested  —  EXCLUSIVE - The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun supplied by the U.S. government was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, senior law enforcement …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Tillerson and Putin Find Little More Than Disagreement in Meeting  —  MOSCOW — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for nearly two hours Wednesday, but the two men appeared unable to agree on the facts involving the deadly chemical weapons assault …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bret Stephens leaves Wall Street Journal for New York Times  —  One of the loudest voices against President Donald Trump from The Wall Street Journal's editorial pages is decamping for the competitor across town.  —  Bret Stephens, the Journal's deputy editorial page editor …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump administration moving quickly to build up nationwide deportation force  —  The Trump administration is quickly identifying ways to assemble the nationwide deportation force that President Trump promised on the campaign trail as he railed against the dangers posed by illegal immigration.
 
 
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Americans have become lazy and it's hurting the economy
Amber Athey / Campus Reform:
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Betsy DeVos rescinds protections for student loan borrowers
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