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8:10 AM ET, April 13, 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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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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Bannon, Whose Job May Be in Danger
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
New Front In White House Civil War as Kushner Asserts Authority at NSC
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 Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Threatens to Torch More Republicans
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
Discussion: New York Magazine and NPR
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
New York Times:
To Detain More Immigrants, Trump Administration to Speed Border Hiring
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Slot
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump administration moving quickly to build up nationwide deportation force
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
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’  —  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.
Discussion: IJR and The Guardian
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. "
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Pours Money Into Montana House Race
Discussion: Political Wire
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
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’
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
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.
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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European Court Strikes Down Required Sterilization for Transgender People
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New York Times:
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Operation Normal: Trump goes -al
Washington Post:
Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over U.S. missile strikes in Syria
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Bill O'Reilly cuts back his schedule
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David Souter Killed the Filibuster
The Intercept:
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