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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 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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Trump on North Korea: “After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it's not so easy”
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Reversals Hint at Wall Street Wing's Sway in White House
Trump Reversals Hint at Wall Street Wing's Sway in White House
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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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Spicer: Trump wanted to clear up ‘blurred’ line between him and Bannon
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Is Bannon in peril? Trump comments worry his populist base
Is Bannon in peril? Trump comments worry his populist base
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
When Jared Wins — Can someone reacquaint Donald Trump with …
When Jared Wins — Can someone reacquaint Donald Trump with …
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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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Sheila Abdus-Salaam, Judge on New York's Top Court, Is Found Dead in Hudson River — Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an associate judge on New York State's highest court and the first African-American woman to serve on that bench, was found dead on Wednesday in the Hudson River, the authorities said.
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Undercooled meat. Dangerous fish. Health inspectors zing Trump's Mar-a-Lago kitchen — Just days before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's Palm Beach private club, Florida restaurant inspectors found potentially dangerous raw fish …
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Syria's Assad says chemical attack ‘100 percent fabrication’ — A handout picture released by the Syrian presidency's press office shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during an interview with AFP in the capital Damascus on April 12, 2017 — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'I'd like to think' Russia didn't know about Syrian chemical attack
Trump: 'I'd like to think' Russia didn't know about Syrian chemical attack
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
US intelligence intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical experts
US intelligence intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical experts
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British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia — Exclusive: GCHQ is said to have alerted US agencies after becoming aware of contacts in 2015 — Britain's spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members …
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Jay Elwes / Prospect Magazine:
Interview: Richard Dearlove—I spy nationalism
Interview: Richard Dearlove—I spy nationalism
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NC lawmaker calls Abraham Lincoln a ‘tyrant’ like Hitler — A day after setting off one firestorm, a Cabarrus County lawmaker set off another Wednesday by calling Abraham Lincoln “the same sort (of) tyrant” as Adolf Hitler. — Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County made the comparison …
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NC legislator compares Hitler to Abraham Lincoln in Facebook post
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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
Trump Threatens to Torch More Republicans
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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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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
No, the media did not identify the wrong David Dao as United's passenger
No, the media did not identify the wrong David Dao as United's passenger
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Teen accidentally kills himself as friends watch on Instagram Live … “I heard a big boom. I couldn't tell if it was a gun shot or what.” — Shaniqua Stephens had just watched her 13-year-old son take out the trash Monday evening when she heard a noise. — “I just knew that it was something that was wrong,” she said.
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Carter Page: ‘Something may have come up in a conversation’ with Russians about lifting US sanctions — Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said that when he was in Moscow last summer, “something may have come up in a conversation” with Russians about lifting U.S. sanctions.
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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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Why I won't date hot women anymore — When it came to dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity, Dan Rochkind had no problem snagging the city's most beautiful women. — “I could have [anyone] I wanted,” says Rochkind, now 40 and an Upper West Sider with a muscular build and a full head of hair.
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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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Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
North Korea may be capable of sarin-tipped missiles: Japan PM
North Korea may be capable of sarin-tipped missiles: Japan PM
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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.
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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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Operation Normal: Trump goes -al — Operation Normal achieved supremacy yesterday — and a new phase of Trump's presidency begins. — Sound smart: conservatives should have seen this coming. Trump goes where the applause is loudest. If that means being a full-throated birther, fine!