11/7/2017

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S., under my administration, is completely rebuilding its military, and they’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars to the newest and finest military equipment anywhere in the world, being built right now. I want peace through strength! https://t.co/2YXkIvRIFi” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 7, 2017 10:09pm […]

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11/7/2017

GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Tuesday [11-7-17] that stricter gun laws would not have prevented the shooting in a Texas church that killed 26 people and that they could have driven the death toll into the hundreds, since the gunman was shot by an armed bystander. Mr. Trump was asked during a joint […]

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11/7/2017

CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Getting ready to make a major speech to the National Assembly here in South Korea, then will be headed to China where I very much look forward to meeting with President Xi who is just off his great political victory.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 7, 2017 08:00pm […]

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11/7/2017

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former Trump campaign adviser told Congress he had a private conversation with a Russian deputy prime minister during the 2016 presidential campaign and that at least two members of the president’s team were aware, providing more details to what is publicly known about Moscow’s access to President Trump’s circle, […]

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11/7/2017

CLIMATE CHANGE/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Then there was one. Syria announced during United Nations climate talks on Tuesday [11-7-17] that it would sign the Paris agreement on climate change. The move, which comes on the heels of Nicaragua signing the accord last month, will leave the United States as the only country that has rejected the […]

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11/7/2017

SPORTS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The National Football League said on Tuesday [11-7-17] it opposes a tax bill proposed by U.S. House of Representatives Republicans that could force teams to put up more of their own money to fund stadium construction. Under the legislation unveiled last week, local governments could no longer fund the building or renovation […]

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11/7/2017

POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING: “The governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey usually receive heightened attention because they are the first big statewide races (except for special elections) after a new president takes office. But after all the tumult of Donald Trump’s first months as president, this year’s focus is even more intense — for at […]

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11/7/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “President Donald Trump left open the door for North Korea to return to negotiations and said there were signs of progress in the nuclear standoff, his conciliatory tone marking a departure from recent hostile rhetoric toward Pyongyang… On Tuesday, standing 35 miles from the North Korean border, […]

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11/7/2017

BUSINESS/LOBBYING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During the eight years of the Obama administration, business lobbyists often found the gates to the White House closed tight. They are open now under President Donald Trump. That is not altogether unexpected as the New York real estate developer did campaign during the 2016 presidential election on a promise to elevate […]

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11/7/2017

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CARTER PAGE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s campaign team was briefed before and after foreign-policy adviser Carter Page’s trip to Moscow last year, with Mr. Page saying upon his return that he had gotten ‘incredible insights and outreach’ from senior members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration, newly released testimony reveals. Mr. Page, […]

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11/6/2017

DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has decided to end a humanitarian program that shields about 5,000 Nicaraguan immigrants from deportation. A senior administration official said late Monday that those immigrants, living in the U.S. as part of a program called Temporary Protected Status, will have until January 2019 to prepare to leave or apply […]

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11/6/2017

CRISIS/GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Americans struggled Monday [11-6-17] to make sense once again of the mass shootings plaguing the United States, President Trump sought to steer the national conversation to questions about the mental capacity of those pulling the triggers, not the weapons themselves… Mr. Trump’s answer to the fifth-deadliest mass shooting in modern American […]

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11/6/2017

BUDGET/MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump asked Congress on Monday for $4 billion to support missile defense to counter the threat from North Korea, just ahead of his first visit to South Korea since taking office in January… He made his request during his maiden trip to Asia as president, featuring repeated […]

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11/6/2017

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. District judge again declined to ease bail conditions for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business associate Richard Gates on Monday [11-6-17], saying they still needed to provide more financial information. Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she was concerned about some of the $12 million […]

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11/6/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “The United States has partially resumed issuing visas in Turkey after getting assurances about the safety of staff at its missions there, the U.S. embassy said on Monday, in the first step to ease a diplomatic crisis between the two allies. The Turkish embassy in Washington said almost immediately it would […]

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11/6/2017

2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kremlin-backed support for Donald Trump’s candidacy over social media began much earlier than previously known, a new analysis of Twitter data shows. Russian Twitter accounts posing as Americans began lavishing praise on Mr. Trump and attacking his rivals within weeks after he announced his bid for the presidency in June 2015, […]

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11/6/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump pushed for Japan to buy ‘massive’ amounts of military equipment from the U.S., saying that it would help the country shoot down missiles like the pair that nearby North Korea has fired overhead in recent months… Mr. Abe, in turn, anticipated buying more military equipment from the U.S., […]

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11/5/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald J. Trump has spoken with the king of Saudi Arabia to offer a wholehearted endorsement of a drive to modernize the kingdom, as the Saudi authorities arrested scores of prominent business people and ministers in a sweeping anti-corruption crackdown. In an unusually lengthy and detailed readout of the […]

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11/5/2017

RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The group behind the release of last year’s Panama Papers has published a new collection of documents about offshore finance that touches the Trump administration. The so-called Paradise Papers show financial connections between wealthy Russians and two members of President Donald Trump’s administration, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and White House adviser […]

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11/5/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump opened his 10-day swing through Asia on Sunday [11-5-17] with some of the familiar trappings from home: donning a leather bomber jacket before addressing U.S. troops stationed in Japan and golfing nine holes with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Things become more rigorous Monday, as Messrs. Trump and Abe […]

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11/5/2017

CRISIS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…Americans do what we do best: we pull together. We join hands. We lock arms and through the tears and the sadness, we stand strong… https://t.co/qkCPgtKGkA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 5, 2017 11:48pm […]

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11/4/2017

AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Airstrikes carried out by the American military killed at least 13 civilians on Saturday in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, according to residents and officials in the area, a difficult battleground for both Afghan and American forces. The airstrikes took place in the Chardara district, where Afghan commandos, often advised by […]

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11/4/2017

DHS/FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is set to decide by Monday [11-6-17] whether 86,000 Hondurans and 5,000 Nicaraguans living in the U.S. can remain here under a program that protects immigrants from countries that have suffered major disasters or social upheaval. The decision could signal the administration’s overall approach to the program, known […]

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11/4/2017

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to our GREAT Military/Veterans and @PacificCommand. Remember #PearlHarbor. Remember the @USSArizona! A day I’ll never forget. https://t.co/CMkB0kTkSc” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 4, 2017 02:08am […]

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11/3/2017

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you for such a beautiful welcome Hawaii. My great honor to visit @PacificCommand upon arrival. Heading to Pearl Harbor w/ @FLOTUS now. https://t.co/6gDME9cmnS” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 3, 2017 10:07pm […]

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11/3/2017

CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Earth is experiencing the warmest period in the history of civilization and humans are the dominant cause of the temperature rise that has occurred since the start of the 20th century, according to an exhaustive scientific report unveiled Friday by 13 federal agencies. The report was approved by the White […]

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11/3/2017

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In an extraordinary Supreme Court filing on Friday, the Justice Department accused the American Civil Liberties Union of misconduct in the case of an undocumented teenager known as Jane Doe. The teenager obtained an abortion last month over the government’s objection after an appeals court allowed it… David Cole, the A.C.L.U.’s […]

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11/3/2017

2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump pressed the Justice Department again on Friday [11-3-17] to investigate his political opponents, lashing out at Democrats as he argued that they were the ones who acted corruptly during last year’s election and not his own campaign, which actually is under investigation. Shortly before leaving Washington for an […]

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11/3/2017

REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said he was unsure whether his top diplomat, Rex Tillerson, would remain in his post for the rest of Trump’s term in the White House and was ‘not happy’ that some State Department staff were not supporting his agenda. In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox […]

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11/3/2017

FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn’t looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems… New Donna B book says she paid for and stole the Dem Primary. What about the deleted E-mails, Uranium, Podesta, the Server, plus, plus… People are angry. […]

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11/3/2017

GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans’ tax proposal faces stiff opposition from private-equity firms that say it threatens to disrupt their business model, which often relies on ladling debt onto acquisition targets. Still, this version of the bill is more positive for the industry than a previous plan that may have had more dire consequences for […]

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11/3/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump starts the longest and most anticipated trip of his first year in office on Saturday, a 10-day excursion that boasts stops in five Asian countries. But the biggest focus will be on where he isn’t going: North Korea. Pyongyang’s desire to be considered a global nuclear power—and […]

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11/2/2017

MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two U.S. B-1B bombers flew near North Korea on Thursday [11-2-17], alongside Japanese and South Korean jet fighters, provoking anger from Pyongyang ahead of President Donald Trump’s closely watched trip to Asia. The flyover, which U.S. Pacific Command said in a statement was planned in advance and not in response to […]

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11/2/2017

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill into law setting up a commission to honor the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth next year. The law commends the 19th Century abolitionist leader for a life dedicated to fighting injustice, and states, ‘all Americans could benefit from studying the life of Frederick […]

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11/2/2017

DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Democrats from the House Oversight Committee, stonewalled by the Trump administration and fuming at their Republican colleagues, sued the General Services Administration on Thursday [11-2-17] to try to force the release of documents relating to its lease with the Trump International Hotel here. The suit, which has little legal precedent, is […]

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11/2/2017

CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration officially cut off a small Chinese bank from the U.S. financial system on Thursday [11-2-17], accusing it of helping North Korea develop its illegal ballistic missile program. The White House in June said it planned to sever the Chinese Bank of Dandong from the world’s most important […]

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11/2/2017

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donna Brazile just stated the DNC RIGGED the system to illegally steal the Primary from Bernie Sanders. Bought and paid for by Crooked H… This is real collusion and dishonesty. Major violation of Campaign Finance Laws and Money Laundering – where is our Justice Department?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 […]

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11/2/2017

DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the clock ticking and so-called Dreamers in limbo, Senate Republicans signaled Thursday [11-2-17] they are in no hurry ahead of a March deadline to pass legislation giving legal protections to young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Democrats and their allies have been laying the groundwork to try to […]

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11/2/2017

GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans cheered the unveiling of their long-awaited tax-overhaul bill, though fault lines quickly emerged over some of its components… Yet the 400-page measure also drew quick rebuffs from some of the Republicans’ reliable allies outside of Congress, including the Club for Growth, the National Association of Realtors, and the National Federation of […]

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11/2/2017

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Twitter Inc faced questions on Friday [11-3-17] about its approach to internal security after a company employee briefly deactivated U.S. President Donald Trump’s account. The 11-minute blackout of the @realDonaldTrump account late on Thursday drew widespread attention on the microblogging site. Twitter is already grappling with criticism of its handling of account […]

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11/2/2017

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, may go to trial as early as April on money-laundering and conspiracy charges stemming from accusations that he and an associate failed to pay taxes on millions of dollars they earned overseas. During a brief hearing Thursday [11-2-17] at U.S. District Court […]

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11/2/2017

LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “US prosecutors have objected to an entry request for Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who became known for attending the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower. Veselnitskaya, an attorney for Cyprus-based company Prevezon Holdings and its Russian owner, Denis Katsyv, asked for immigration parole, an alternative to […]

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11/2/2017

IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am calling on Congress to TERMINATE the diversity visa lottery program that presents significant vulnerabilities to our national security. https://t.co/tW4wOlI4vu” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 01:33pm […]

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11/2/2017

ATTORNEY GENERAL/FOREIGN POLICY/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill regarding his candor about Russia and the Trump campaign amid revelations that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year. According to court filings unsealed this week, […]

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11/2/2017

AFGHANISTAN/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Aides to President Donald Trump have considered reviving an office it shut down months ago that was dedicated to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan, a sign that the Trump administration’s policy there remains unsettled. Multiple sources said that senior Trump aides have discussed resurrecting the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan […]

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11/2/2017

NEW YORK/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [11-2-17] called for the man accused of killing eight people and injuring 12 others by driving a truck down a crowded Manhattan bicycle path to be put to death…. The evening before, Mr. Trump also tweeted about the appropriate punishment for Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old Uzbek […]

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11/2/2017

BUSINESS/CHINA/COMMERCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein will visit China as part of a business delegation in November at the same time as U.S. President Donald Trump, a Goldman spokesman confirmed. Blankfein will be the only executive of a major financial company traveling as part of the trade mission which is […]

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11/2/2017

ENERGY/INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will work to minimize environmental impacts on Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if Congress opens it to drilling, a top interior department official said ahead of his testimony today on Capitol Hill. Greg Sheehan, acting director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said in an interview with The Wall […]

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11/2/2017

GUANTANAMO/NEW YORK/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Would love to send the NYC terrorist to Guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the Federal system… There is also something appropriate about keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed. Should move fast. DEATH PENALTY!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 06:50am […]

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11/1/2017

CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great mtg w/ @Cabinet today. Tomorrow, I will be announcing the new head of the Fed. I think you will be extremely impressed by this person! https://t.co/5ASJVLGAiG” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 1, 2017 10:21pm […]

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11/1/2017

NEW YORK/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Wednesday that he would consider sending the suspect arrested after the terrorist attack in New York to the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and called on Congress to cancel a longstanding immigration program that he blamed for allowing the man into the country. The president’s comments […]

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11/1/2017

IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration on Tuesday [10-31-17] over its detention of a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was stopped by Border Patrol agents in Texas last week on her way to surgery. The girl, Rosa Maria Hernandez, had been living in Laredo, Tex., with her parents, […]

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11/1/2017

GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is a math problem at the root of the Republican delay in introducing a sprawling tax bill, and it grows, in part, from President Trump’s two non-negotiables on taxes. Mr. Trump has insisted on ‘massive’ tax cuts, including reducing the top corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent and […]

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11/1/2017

HEALTHCARE/MEDICARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said it is slashing a lucrative pharmaceutical subsidy Medicare pays some hospitals, prompting the American Hospital Association and other powerful hospital groups to threaten legal action to block the move. In a rule released Wednesday [11-1-17] evening, the federal agency that runs Medicare said it would sharply lower what […]

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11/1/2017

CALIFORNIA/DREAMERS/IMMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “California’s attorney general and those in three other states asked a federal judge on Wednesday to temporarily block the Trump administration’s decision to rescind a program that protects undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children. The request for a preliminary injunction comes in litigation being pursued by the states, along with […]

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11/1/2017

FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has notified Federal Reserve governor Jerome Powell that President Donald Trump intends to nominate him as the next chairman of the central bank, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move likely to combine continuity on interest-rate policy with perhaps a lighter touch on financial regulation. […]

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11/1/2017

NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thanks to @SenateMajLdr McConnell and the @SenateGOP we are appointing high-quality Federal District… and Appeals Court Judges at a record clip! Our courts are rapidly changing for the better!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 1, 2017 05:03pm and 05:03pm […]

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11/1/2017

NEW YORK/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just spoke with @NYGovCuomo and @NYCMayor de Blasio to let them know that the federal government… fully supports any and all of their efforts with respect to the West Side attack. #NYCStrong” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 1, 2017 03:14pm and 03:14pm […]

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11/1/2017

DHS/IMMIGRATION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-1-17] slammed a visa lottery program that he said gave entry to the U.S for the driver of a rental truck who plowed into pedestrians and cyclists in New York… Mr. Saipov came to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010, officials said. Immigration officials haven’t said publicly […]

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11/1/2017

FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he thought Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was ‘excellent’ but declined to say who was his pick to lead the U.S. central bank ahead of a planned announcement on Thursday afternoon. ‘I think Janet Yellen is excellent,’ Trump told reporters during a meeting with cabinet […]

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11/1/2017

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-1-17] announced his choices to lead U.S. attorney offices in California, Maryland, Connecticut, Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana, the White House said in a statement. The White House said Trump will nominate John Anderson for U.S. attorney for New Mexico; John Durham for Connecticut; Brandon […]

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11/1/2017

HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Consumers will begin signing up Wednesday [11-1-17] to take part in the Affordable Care Act next year, kicking off a crucial six-week stretch that could test the law’s durability amid Republican leaders’ continuing desire to see it repealed. This year’s annual open-enrollment period, the fifth in the ACA’s history, faces more uncertainty […]

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11/1/2017

2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s options are limited for ending the Russia probe he so wants to see over… Despite Trump’s desire to cut the Russia investigations short — and pressure from some allies to do so — the president and his advisers are quickly coming to the realization there isn’t much […]

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11/1/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has been holed up in a series of rapid-fire briefing sessions on his upcoming 12-day, five-country tour through Asia — an effort the White House hopes will help avoid the kind of diplomatic snafus that have dogged his presidency. The trip — Trump’s longest yet — comes […]

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10/31/2017

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three U.S. aircraft carriers are scheduled to travel near the Korean Peninsula soon, and the military may decide to keep them in the area for maneuvers that would coincide with President Donald Trump’s coming visit to Asia, U.S. defense officials said. It would be the first military exercise involving three U.S. carriers […]

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10/31/2017

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate on Tuesday [10-31-17] confirmed University of Notre Dame law professor Amy Barrett for a federal appeals court judgeship, closing for now a debate about whether it is appropriate for lawmakers to ask a nominee questions about their religious faith. Ms. Barrett was confirmed to the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court […]

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10/31/2017

DRUGS/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Officials in multiple U.S. states are seeking to substantially expand a lawsuit accusing generic-drug companies of colluding to fix prices, including new allegations that high-ranking executives at two companies were directly involved. Attorneys general in 45 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico filed a motion in federal court in […]

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10/31/2017

2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House on Tuesday [10-31-17] sought to take credit for the arrest of a former Trump campaign aide who had repeated contacts with Russia-linked officials offering ‘dirt’ on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — marking the latest damage control move as the Russia probe intensifies. President Donald Trump and other […]

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10/31/2017

TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal trade officials are recommending that the Trump administration impose a tariff of up to 35% on imported solar panels to protect U.S. solar manufacturers from low-priced foreign products that have undercut the companies’ ability to compete. Members of the U.S. International Trade Commission outlined their various recommendations Tuesday [10-31-17], which […]

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10/31/2017

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former senior adviser on President Donald Trump’s campaign team, Sam Clovis, sought to distance himself on Tuesday [10-31-17] from George Papadopoulos, an ex-campaign aide who has pleaded guilty in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to Federal […]

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