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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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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 …
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.
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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 …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump backer met with Bannon about post-WH options: report
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
Trump dangles Obamacare payments to force Dems to the table
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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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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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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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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 …
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
United CEO feels ‘shame,’ passengers will be compensated
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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.
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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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Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Sculptor Of Wall Street Bull Says ‘Fearless Girl’ Horns In On His Work — So far in her young life, New York City's Fearless Girl has drawn countless tourists, a metric ton of media coverage and its fair share of praise as a symbol of the fight for gender equity — so much, in fact …
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Aaron Smith / CNNMoney:
Standoff: ‘Charging Bull’ artist wants ‘Fearless Girl’ out of the way
Standoff: ‘Charging Bull’ artist wants ‘Fearless Girl’ out of the way
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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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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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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
‘I Screwed Up’: Sean Spicer Apologizes for Holocaust Comments
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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.
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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
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Sanders: Trump will be a one-term president — (I) on Wednesday said he doesn't believe President Trump will win a second term as president. — “In terms of the first three months in office, Donald Trump — is the least popular president in the history of polling,” Sanders told The Associated Press while speaking in New York. "
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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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