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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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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.
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Offered China Better Trade Terms in Exchange for Help on North Korea
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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Rich Lowry / Politico:
When Jared Wins  —  Can someone reacquaint Donald Trump with …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Bannon, Whose Job May Be in Danger
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.
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New York Times:
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, Judge on New York's Top Court, Is Found Dead in Hudson River  —  Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an associate judge on New York State's highest court and the first African-American woman to serve on that bench, was found dead on Wednesday in the Hudson River, the authorities said.
Discussion: New York Magazine and NPR
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.
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 …
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Ben Brown / Fox Business:
Border Patrol Union President: Illegal Immigration Decline ‘Strictly’ Due to Trump
Discussion: Hot Air
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Coffman pummeled at town hall over GOP Obamacare repeal  —  AURORA, Colo. — Nearly every other constituent brought up health care at a town hall here on the outskirts of Denver Wednesday night, in one of the most competitive House districts in the country.  —  But not a single one did it to thank …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Brian Eason / Denver Post:
Mike Coffman on White House spokesman Sean Spicer: “He needs to go.”
Discussion: KUSA-TV and Raw Story
MJ Lee / CNN:   At raucous town hall, GOP congressman confronts anger about Trump
Chicago Tribune:
Letter: I was on United flight 3411.  Here's what I saw.  —  This video posted on social media shows a passenger on an April 9, 2017, United Airlines flight from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Louisville being removed by security.  (Jayse D. Anspach)
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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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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Foreign journalists in North Korea told to expect a ‘big and important event’
Discussion: IJR and The Guardian
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Broken Supreme Court  —  When he was discussing military strategy or diplomacy, Gen. Colin Powell, the former secretary of state, liked to invoke what he called the Pottery Barn rule: “If you break it, you own it.”  —  Well, the Republicans broke the Supreme Court confirmation process.
Discussion: Althouse, SCOTUSblog and Reuters
Jose Lambiet / miamiherald:
Undercooled meat.  Dangerous fish.  Health inspectors zing Trump's Mar-a-Lago kitchen  —  Just days before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's Palm Beach private club, Florida restaurant inspectors found potentially dangerous raw fish …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Operation Normal: Trump goes -al  —  Operation Normal achieved supremacy yesterday — and a new phase of Trump's presidency begins.  —  Sound smart: conservatives should have seen this coming.  Trump goes where the applause is loudest.  If that means being a full-throated birther, fine!
Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Boy battled rare disorder with enthusiasm before being gunned down in his San Bernardino classroom  —  North Park Elementary School student Jonathan Martinez, 8, was killed along with his teacher by a gunman at the San Bernardino school Monday.  (Handout)  —  Many who knew Jonathan Martinez remembered …
Discussion: Associated Press
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bill O'Reilly cuts back his schedule  —  Bill O'Reilly's future with Fox News may still be unclear, but the star of the channel's prime time line up — and the host with the highest ratings — has quietly made one major change recently: he is now hosting four days a week, instead of five.
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Christina Farr / CNBC:
Apple has a secret team working on the holy grail for treating diabetes  — Apple has a secret group of biomedical engineers developing sensors to monitor blood sugar levels, sources tell CNBC  — If successful, the advance could help millions of diabetes patients and turn devices like the Apple Watch into a must-have
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’
Tegna / WXIA-TV:
Teen accidentally kills himself as friends watch on Instagram Live … “I heard a big boom.  I couldn't tell if it was a gun shot or what.”  —  Shaniqua Stephens had just watched her 13-year-old son take out the trash Monday evening when she heard a noise.  —  “I just knew that it was something that was wrong,” she said.
Discussion: The Root, Daily Mail, KFOR-TV and KTLA
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Crucified man had prior run-in with authorities  —  I guess this is how we are writing up the victims of crimes now.  I did not realize that when you boarded a plane you gave away the right to have your past remain your past, but a theme of life these days is that only people …
Discussion: Snopes.com
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Anchor Roundtable: Savannah Guthrie, Jake Tapper and More on Fake News, Fairness and When Trump Calls Your Phone  —  Five top TV broadcasters — also including George Stephanopoulos, Bret Baier and Gayle King — swap stories about when guests lie to your face, Megyn Kelly joins your network …
Discussion: Breitbart, Daily Wire, TVNewser and Mediaite
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC legislator compares Hitler to Abraham Lincoln in Facebook post  —  N.C. Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany's Adolf Hitler.  —  Pittman was responding to commenters on his campaign Facebook page …
 
 
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Washington Post:
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
US intelligence intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical experts
Discussion: Business Insider and The Nation
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Sanders: Trump will be a one-term president
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