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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

Google Appears to Foil Burger King's Advertising Stunt  —  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 …

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

Lobbyists tied to ex-Trump aides register as foreign agents  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington lobbying firm that worked on a covert influence campaign in the U.S. under the direction of two former top campaign advisers to President Donald Trump has registered after the fact with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.

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) …

White Nationalists And Neo-Nazis Use Sean Spicer's Hitler Comments To Validate Holocaust Conspiracy Theories, Attack Jews  —  Sean Spicer Claimed Hitler “Didn't Even Sink To Using Chemical Weapons” And “Was Not Using The Gas On His Own People The Same Way That Assad Is Doing”

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 …

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.

Standoff: ‘Charging Bull’ artist wants ‘Fearless Girl’ out of the way  —  State Street: Why we commissioned the Wall St. ‘Fearless Girl’  —  The artist behind “Charging Bull,” the bronze sculpture that has come to symbolize Wall Street, wants “Fearless Girl” out of the way.

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 …

Trump surrogate says Trump's own adviser being a Russian agent isn't evidence of ‘collusion’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Kayleigh McEnany went on CNN on Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump from charges that he and his presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government.

MSNBC'S RACHEL MADDOW SEES A “RUSSIA CONNECTION” LURKING AROUND EVERY CORNER  —  One day after her network joined the rest of corporate media in cheering for President Trump's missile attack on Syria, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was back to regular business: seeing Russian collaboration with Trump at work.

President Trump on NATO: 'It's no longer obsolete'  —  President Donald Trump reversed course on his view of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Wednesday, saying the organization is “no longer obsolete” after months of bashing the defense alliance as no longer relevant during his campaign.