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6:55 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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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 …
CNBC:
Dollar falls, hits session low, after Trump says currency is getting too strong
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
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.
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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.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Civil Rights Groups Warn Against Return To Bush-Era Politicization Of DOJ Hiring
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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New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Top Adviser Stephen K. 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.
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump backer met with Bannon about post-WH options: report  —  White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon reportedly met with a key backer of President Trump last week to discuss opportunities for the senior aide should he leave the White House.  —  Two two sources briefed on the meeting told …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump kneecaps Bannon
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) …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump hammers FBI's Comey for not jailing Clinton: ‘She was guilty of every charge’
Discussion: Shareblue
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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Budget Director Admits Their Goal Is High Inequality, Not Low Deficits  —  For more than a generation, the Republican Party has single-mindedly pursued the goal of maximizing economic inequality.  They have been almost as single-minded about not describing this as their priority.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
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 …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Tillerson: US-Russia relations at ‘low point’ after Syria strike
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and RedState
Richard Roth / CNN:
Russia vetoes UN Syrian resolution
Discussion: RedState, Common Dreams and NPR
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Let's speculate about what the Kansas special election means for health care  —  Republicans barely held on in Kansas.  That's bad news for Trumpcare. … The big political news last night was the Kansas special election in the state's Fourth Congressional District, where Republicans kept …
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
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The Sun:
KIM'S FATE SEALED Elite US Navy Seal squad that killed Osama bin Laden ‘is training up in South Korea to take out Kim Jong-un’  —  Seal Team Six has been taking part in drills in South Korea as tensions with Kim's regime mount, according to reports  —  By Victoria Craw for news.com.au and Danny Collins
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Paul Joseph Watson / Infowars:
GOOGLE SEARCHES FOR “WORLD WAR 3” HIT HIGHEST EVER PEAK
Discussion: Daily Mail
StrategyPage:
China: Those Troublesome Koreans
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
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.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump reverses on NATO: 'It's no longer obsolete'
Discussion: ABC News
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump's campaign chairman.  —  Ukrainian investigators called it evidence …
Discussion: Politico
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
AP confirms Manafort's ‘Black Ledger’ Ukraine payouts
Discussion: AOL
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Burger King's new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper  —  Oh no, Google  —  Burger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought-out ad today that's designed to intentionally set off Google Homes and Android phones.
Daily Mail:
Melania Trump - An Apology  —  The Mail Online website and the Daily Mail newspaper published an article on 20th August 2016 about Melania Trump which questioned the nature of her work as a professional model, and republished allegations that she provided services beyond simply modelling.
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BBC:
Melania Trump wins damages from Daily Mail over ‘escort’ allegation
The Intercept:
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.
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
‘Charging Bull’ sculptor says ‘Fearless Girl’ distorts his art. He's fighting back.
Discussion: RedState and ThinkProgress
The Hill:
Clinton campaign plagued by bickering  —  The following is an excerpt adapted from “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign,” which will be released on April 18.  Copyright © 2017 by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.  Published by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
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.
Associated Press:
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.
Chicago Tribune:
United faces more questions as dragged passenger hires high-powered attorney  —  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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Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Veteran patients in imminent danger at VA hospital in D.C., investigation finds
Yonhap News Agency:
Woman caught stealing gold bracelets, hiding them in buttocks
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Nather / Axios:
Latest Trumpcare idea: Let different health plans fight it out
Discussion: New York Magazine and Bloomberg
Campaign Legal Center:
New Evidence Suggests Mercer-Backed Super PAC Unlawfully Coordinated with Trump Campaign …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
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