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2:35 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 …
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
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump dangles Obamacare payments to force Dems to the table
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:
AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout
Discussion: Politico, The Hill 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.
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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Victoria Craw / NEWS.com.au:
US deploys THAAD missile defence, special operatives that took out Osama bin Laden to North Korea
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
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
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’
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Coffman pummeled at town hall for backing GOP Obamacare replacement  —  AURORA, Colo. — During a roughly two-hour town hall here on the outskirts of Denver Wednesday night, nearly every other constituent brought up health care.  —  But not a single one did it to thank Rep. Mike Coffman …
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Anchor Roundtable: Savannah Guthrie, Jake Tapper and More on Fake News, Fairness and When Trump Calls Your Phone  —  Five top TV broadcasters — also including George Stephanopoulos, Bret Baier and Gayle King — swap stories about when guests lie to your face, Megyn Kelly joins your network …
Discussion: Breitbart, Daily Wire, TVNewser and Mediaite
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 …
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 …
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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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: The Verge, Mashable and Axios
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.
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
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 …
 
 
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
US intelligence intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical experts
Discussion: Business Insider and The Nation
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bill O'Reilly cuts back his schedule
Discussion: Business Insider
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Former Clinton Spokeswoman Says Press Leans Left But Claims That Makes Them Tougher on Democrats
Discussion: Mediaite and TheBlaze
Jessica Bates / fox8.com:
8-year-old boy drives 4-year-old sister to get cheeseburger: Police
Discussion: Refinery29, WHNT-TV, Mashable and KTLA
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
David Souter Killed the Filibuster
Yonhap News Agency:
Woman caught stealing gold bracelets, hiding them in buttocks
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The Intercept:
MSNBC'S RACHEL MADDOW SEES A “RUSSIA CONNECTION” LURKING AROUND EVERY CORNER
 Earlier Items: 
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump reverses on NATO: 'It's no longer obsolete'
Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post and Hit & Run
Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
North Carolina bill would punish sports conferences that boycott over anti-LGBT laws
Discussion: Daily Kos, WNCN and Rewire
Heather Long / CNNMoney:
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
Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Betsy DeVos rescinds protections for student loan borrowers
Discussion: Common Dreams, Daily Kos and Bloomberg
Daily Mail:
Melania Trump - An Apology
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

 
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