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President Trump has been deeply frustrated about the lack of progress building a signature promise of his campaign: a wall along the Mexican border.   Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explicitly authorized an investigation into whether President Trump’s former campaign chairman colluded with the Russian government.   President Trump spoke a day after the White House dangled the prospect of extending a White House welcome to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  President Donald Trump won’t let up on Amazon.

President Trump has been deeply frustrated about the lack of progress building a signature promise of his campaign: a wall along the Mexican border.   Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explicitly authorized an investigation into whether President Trump’s former campaign chairman colluded with the Russian government.   President Trump spoke a day after the White House dangled the prospect of extending a White House welcome to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  President Donald Trump won’t let up on Amazon.

U.S. stocks slid Monday after China announced new tariffs on agricultural imports from the United States in response to MORE’s levies on foreign steel and aluminum. The Dow Jones industrial average shed 459 points, or 1.9 percent, after being down by as much as 750 earlier in the day. China announced a 15-percent tax on more than 120 U.S. imports, including pork, fruit and nuts, as a response to Trump’s tariffs of 25 percent and 10 percent on Chinese steel and aluminum, respectively.

MORE’s support among women plunged this month as he battled controversies surrounding alleged affairs with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, according to a new poll. Support from women fell from 41 percent to 35 percent in the new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, even as Trump’s support among men rose 3 points to 53 percent. Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll co-director Mark Penn said the growing gender gap in the poll is the result of the “Stormy Effect.”

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Thousands of teachers marched Monday on state capitals in Oklahoma and Kentucky, shuttering schools and demanding that Republican-controlled legislatures vote to increase their pay. The demonstrations come on the heels of a nine-day strike in West Virginia, where teachers secured a 5 percent pay raise, and protests in Arizona last week, where teachers wore red and gathered at the state capital to demand a much larger 20 percent pay increase. Teachers in Oklahoma received a pay raise when Gov.

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President State Department. "By the way, we're knocking the hell out of Rex Tillerson have said repeatedly that those troops will remain and the civilian presence will increase as the U.S. works to prevent a new terror group from forming. But Trump's suggestion then that the U.S.

After five days with no public appearances on his schedule, President Donald Trump arrived in Richfield, Ohio, Thursday to speak with local workers and make a renewed public relations push for his administration's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan. "We will transform our roads and bridges from a source of endless frustration into a source of absolutely incredible pride," Trump said to members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 18.