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11:40 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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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  —  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 …
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.
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 …
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  —  President Donald Trump wants to use a key Obamacare subsidy program as leverage to draw Democrats to the negotiating table on health care, three administration officials with knowledge of Trump's thinking told POLITICO.
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
Discussion: TheBlaze
Associated Press:
Lobbyists tied to ex-Trump aides register as foreign agents
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and AOL
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.
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
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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Victoria Craw / NEWS.com.au:
US deploys THAAD missile defence, special operatives that took out Osama bin Laden to North Korea
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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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
I was wrong about Jeff Sessions
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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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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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 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.
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) …
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 …
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
Discussion: Mashable and Axios
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.
Discussion: Business Insider
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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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Former Clinton Spokeswoman Says Press Leans Left But Claims That Makes Them Tougher on Democrats
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David Souter Killed the Filibuster
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Woman caught stealing gold bracelets, hiding them in buttocks
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Americans have become lazy and it's hurting the economy
Amber Athey / Campus Reform:
‘White Privilege Checklist’ appears in Minnesota dorm
Discussion: Fox News Insider
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Tillerson and Putin Find Little More Than Disagreement in Meeting
Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Betsy DeVos rescinds protections for student loan borrowers
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