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Saturday, August 4, 2018

Tipsheet: Trump roars into rally season

 
 
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The Memo: Trump roars into rally season
By Niall Stanage
 
President Trump is hitting the campaign trail in earnest, and that could carry dangers as well as benefits for the Republicans he is trying to get elected.
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Trump to visit Ohio in waning days of nail-biter House election
By Lisa Hagen
 
President Trump is set to visit Ohio on Saturday as Republicans scramble to hang onto a reliably red seat in a must-win special House election next week, the final one before November's midterms.
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Trump officials look to neutralize cyber threats in supply chain
By Olivia Beavers
Federal officials are ramping up efforts to crack down on threats to the U.S. supply chain amid growing fears about the risks from foreign-made technology.
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Top Koch official fires back at critics: We are not an 'appendage' of the GOP
By Jonathan Easley
A senior official from the political network affiliated with billionaire conservative businessman Charles Koch sent a letter to donors on Friday saying the network stands by its decision not to support Republicans that break from their free market ideology on issues like spending and trade.
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Federal judge says Trump must fully restore DACA
By Aris Folley
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The judge said his court reaffirms its conclusion that DACA’s rescission “was unlawful and must be set aside.”
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Manafort accountant testifies she helped falsify tax records
By John Bowden
A former accountant for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified Friday that she helped falsify tax records on his behalf in order to misrepresent $900,000 in personal income as a business loan.
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Trump blindsided staff with promise to halt elephant trophy imports
By Timothy Mama and Miranda Green
A series of tweets President Trump sent in November promising to halt imports of elephant trophies blindsided staffers in his own administration and cut off months of planning to ease the import process, newly released emails show.
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Senate Democrats plan to meet with Kavanaugh amid documents fight
By Jordain Carney
Senate Democrats plan to take their fight over obtaining Brett Kavanaugh’s documents directly to the nominee himself later this month.
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Pompeo: North Korea's Kim will determine timeline for denuclearization
By John Bowden
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will determine his nation's timeline for possible denuclearization as the Trump administration pushes Pyongyang to give up its nuclear capabilities.
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Nikki Haley accuses Russia of violating sanctions with North Korean work permits
By John Bowden
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Friday accused Russia of violating international sanctions by continuing to issue permits for North Korean citizens to work in Russia.
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Jobs data hasn't been this good since the days of the iPod
By Gregory Daco
OPINION | At first glance, the 157,000 jobs added in July might appear weak. However, looking at the broader picture, the economy has continued to add 200,000 jobs on a monthly basis over the past year, and these jobs number continue to reduce the amount of slack in the labor market.
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Trump’s foreign policy rooted in Nixon, Reagan principles
By Red Jahncke
OPINION | Few would think of Donald Trump’s foreign policy as Nixonian or Reaganesque, but it sounds like the president is playing their sheet music.
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The Associated Press: GOP grumbles as Donald Trump reshapes midterm campaigns
By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas
President Donald Trump’s strategy of becoming aggressively involved in the midterm elections is prompting concern among some Republicans who worry he’s complicating the political calculus for GOP candidates trying to outrun his popularity.
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Bloomberg News: Tit-For-Tat Becomes the Norm as U.S., China Dig In for Trade War
By Andrew Mayeda
The trade war between the world’s two biggest economies is taking on a life of its own.
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The New York Times: There’s Trump’s Foreign Policy and Then There’s His Administration’s
By Mark Landler
 
In the last five days, President Trump has thanked Kim Jong-un of North Korea for his “nice letter,” reminisced about his “great meeting” with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and offered to meet Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, without any preconditions.
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The Washington Post: Trump associate socialized with alleged Russian agent Maria Butina in final weeks of 2016 campaign
By Rosalind S. Helderman
 
Maria Butina, the Russian gun-rights activist who was charged last month with working as an unregistered agent of the Kremlin, socialized in the weeks before the 2016 election with a former Trump campaign aide who anticipated joining the presidential transition team, emails show, putting her in closer contact with President Trump’s orbit than was previously known.
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The Wall Street Journal: July Hiring Slowdown Masks Labor Market Strength
By Sarah Chaney
Workers enjoyed a strong start to summer, with low unemployment and steady wage gains offering fresh incentive to jump into the job market.
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