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Republican senators want to know if MORE has an endgame in the escalating trade fight with China.  The fight over tariffs has sent markets into turmoil and clouded economic prospects, worrying senators ahead of the midterm elections.  Prices for soybeans, corn and wheat dropped in anticipation that China will hit U.S. exports hard if Trump goes through with a plan to impose tariffs on another $100 billion in Chinese imports.

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Special Counsel Vladimir Putin as a casual chance encounter “over a beer,” sources told ABC News. Well-connected Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, a key witness given limited immunity by Mueller, has been interviewed seven times by prosecutors on a wide range of subjects.

President Donald Trump both literally and figuratively threw out his prepared remarks at a West Virginia roundtable event that was supposed to be about tax reform. The president instead launched into a freewheeling riff on several unrelated topics, including extended remarks on illegal immigration in which he hearkened back to controversial and Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has since said the president was talking about the military building wall

A day after President the Pentagon had few answers Thursday about how the call-up would take place or how many Guardsmen could be involved. Officials did indicate that the troops would likely play mainly a support role as they've done in the past, but because planning is only in its initial stages, could not provide a timeline for their arrival, or say whether they would be armed. Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One Thursday how many National Guard members he wants on the border, the president responded, “Anywhere from 2,

President Donald Trump responded for the first time on Thursday to questions about a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. While speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One following an appearance in West Virginia, Trump was asked if he knew about the $130,000 payment Trump’s longtime personal attorney and confidant Michael Cohen arranged for Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as she was shopping the story of her alleged 2006 affair with Trump to several major media outlets shortly before the 2016

The TAKE with Rick Klein Staff letting Trump be Trump is one thing.

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capital source The former chief of staff to Mayor Martin Walsh raised more than $900,000 in the first quarter of the year.  John Kingston, who is facing faces an April 28 Republican convention to get on the primary ballot, tore up his party registration after Trump got the nomination in 2016.   Capital Source State Senator Joseph Boncore will not run for Suffolk district attorney.