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Bill Shine Resigns As White House Communications Director
By: Brian Naylor | NPR
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Shine, a former Fox News executive, will become a senior adviser to the president’s 2020 re-election campaign.

Trump’s Overhaul Of Federal Family Planning Program Faces Multiple Lawsuits
By: Sarah McCammon | NPR
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The Trump administration has finalized new rules that bar federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions. Abortion-rights supporters call that prohibition a “gag” rule.

Report: The Trade Deficit Is Only Getting Wider
By: Jim Zarroli | NPR
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President Trump has pushed tariffs to cut the trade gap. But the United States bought more from other countries than it sold to them last year, pushing the deficit to a level not seen since 2008.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Announces He Will Resign
By: Laurel Wamsley I NPR
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Gottlieb, who will resign in a month, stood out in the Trump administration for his efforts to regulate the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. The reasons for his resignation are not yet clear.

Trump Accepts Kim ‘Word’ He Had No Role in Warmbier Death
By: Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he takes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at his word” that Kim was unaware of the alleged mistreatment of an American… Read More

Trump Suspends China Tariff Hike, Citing Progress In Trade Talks
By: Scott Horsley | NPR
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President Trump has suspended a planned increase in tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese imports, after what he called “very productive” trade talks in Washington this weekend.

Trump Administration Proposes Sweeping Changes To Federal Family Planning Program
By: Sarah McCammon | NPR
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Any organization that provides or refers patients for abortions will be ineligible for Title X funding to cover STD prevention, cancer screenings and contraception.

Trump Will ‘Protect’ Emergency Declaration If Congress Disapproves, Miller Says
By: Matthew S. Schwartz | NPR
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The president is prepared to veto any congressional resolutions of disapproval on his declaration of a national emergency over border security, White House adviser Stephen Miller says.

Congress Sprints To Pass Border Security Package With Trump’s Support Unclear
By: Kelsey Snell | NPR
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Congressional leaders are prepared to vote Thursday on a $333 billion bipartisan spending package to avoid the threat of a partial government shutdown.

Trump Will Sign Border Compromise To Avert Shutdown Along With Emergency Declaration
By: Kelsey Snell | Jessica Taylor | NPR
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Updated at 3:20 p.m. ET President Trump will support a border security funding compromise reached by a group of bipartisan lawmakers, averting a partial government shutdown early Saturday — but… Read More

President Trump And Allies Push To Save A Very Specific Coal Plant
By: Jeff Brady | NPR
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President Trump and other Republicans are pressuring the Tennessee Valley Authority not to close a coal plant in Kentucky. A major Trump backer supplies the plant with most of its coal.

Halting U.S. HIV Epidemic By 2030: Difficult But Doable
By: Joe Neel | Selena Simmons-Duffin | NPR
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The Trump administration has a plan to end the spread of HIV in the U.S. in 10 years. HIV/AIDS advocates say it’s feasible but that the administration’s actions on health run counter to the goal.

Trump Nominates Outspoken Critic David Malpass To Head World Bank
By: Jim Zarroli | NPR
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The nomination of Treasury Department official David Malpass already has generated controversy in the international development community.

Pentagon Deploying 3,750 Troops To Southern Border
By: Matthew S. Schwartz I NPR
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U.S. service members will install wire barriers and help monitor the border. However, some in Congress have questioned whether it’s a good use of active-duty troops.

Trump Administration Wants To Cut Drug Prices By Eliminating Middlemen’s Rebates
By: Alison Kodjak | NPR
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Pharmacy benefit managers are the focus of proposed regulations that could reduce drug costs for seniors and cut profits for middlemen. It could set a precedent for the broader market.

Trump Signs Bill To End Government Shutdown
By: Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill that temporarily opens the federal government for three weeks, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history at 35 days. The… Read More

Flights Delayed At LaGuardia, Other Airports As Workers Call In Sick Amid Shutdown
By: Laurel Wamsley | NPR
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The FAA said it was mitigating staff shortages by rerouting traffic and adding workers. The White House said it was monitoring the delays, which also affected airports in Philadelphia and Newark, N.J.

U.S. Is Rolling Out Its ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy On Central American Asylum-Seekers
By: Richard Gonzales | NPR
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The plan, expected to meet with a swift legal challenge, comes out of talks with Mexican officials. The administration is implementing it first at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry.

All The Criminal Charges To Emerge So Far From Robert Mueller’s Investigation
By: Jason Breslow | NPR
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President Trump has called the Russia investigation a “witch hunt,” but more than 30 people have been charged. Many of those who’ve been accused, however, may never go to trial.

Supreme Court Revives Trump’s Ban On Transgender Military Personnel, For Now
By: Bill Chappell | NPR
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The court’s decision allows the Pentagon to bar transgender people from joining or remaining in the military while two lower-court rulings that had blocked the policy are appealed.

Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Blocking Citizenship Question On 2020 Census
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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The Trump administration is asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the first major court ruling over plans to add a question about U.S. citizenship status to the 2020 census.

Federal Immigration Agents Separated More Migrant Children Than Previously Thought
By: John Burnett | NPR
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Before family separation became an official and controversial policy of the Trump administration, federal immigration agents separated “thousands” of migrant children from their parents.

Trump’s Ex-Lawyer Cohen Acknowledges Scheme To Rig Polls In Presidential Race
By: Philip Ewing | NPR
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Michael Cohen tweeted about what appeared to be another example of questionable actions he’d taken in order to help Trump’s presidential ambitions. He already has pleaded guilty to others.

Federal Watchdog Finds Government Ignored Emoluments Clause With Trump Hotel
By: Jessica Taylor | NPR
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The Inspector General for the General Services Administration, said that agency lawyers decided to ignore the constitutional issues when they reviewed the lease after Trump won the 2016 election.

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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A federal judge in New York has issued the first ruling out of multiple lawsuits over a question about U.S. citizenship status. The ruling is expected to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.
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