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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.
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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 …
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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 Steve Bannon, his ideologist whom the president now professes barely to know? — Trump's jaw-dropping public distancing from Bannon in the New York Post the other day is the latest twist in a struggle that is astonishing …
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New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Bannon, Whose Job May Be in Danger
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
New Front In White House Civil War as Kushner Asserts Authority at NSC
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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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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump dangles Obamacare payments to force Dems to the table
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Threatens to Torch More Republicans
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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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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
New York Times:
To Detain More Immigrants, Trump Administration to Speed Border Hiring
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump administration moving quickly to build up nationwide deportation force
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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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Evan Perez / CNN:
Manafort expected to register as foreign agent for past Ukraine work
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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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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
United CEO feels ‘shame,’ passengers will be compensated
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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
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Foreign journalists in North Korea told to expect a ‘big and important event’ — Foreign journalists in North Korea have reportedly been told to prepare for a “big and important event” on Thursday. — North North Korean officials provided no details about the nature of the event or its location, according to a report by Reuters.
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New York Times:
Suburban G.O.P. Voters Sour on Party, Raising Republican Fears for 2018 — ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A gray mood has settled over conservative-leaning voters in some of the country's most reliably Republican congressional districts, as the party's stumbles in Washington demoralize …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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
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Washington Post:
Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over U.S. missile strikes in Syria — MOSCOW — The rift between the United States and Russia was laid bare Wednesday when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held his first direct talks with Russia's president.
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Media Matters for America:
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”
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘I Screwed Up’: Sean Spicer Apologizes for Holocaust Comments
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