| | | President Donald Trump has invited Putin to Washington this autumn, a daring rebuttal to the torrent of criticism in the United States over Trump’s failure to publicly confront the Russian president at their first summit for Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election.
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| With outrage over the Helsinki summit plus revived talk of a Democratic wave in November’s congressional elections, Republicans at a conference in Texas this week had reason to feel downcast, even panicky. Instead, party officials voiced optimism about maintaining control of both the Senate and House of Representatives this autumn. | | |
| Lawyers and immigrant advocates working in south Texas this week reported widespread disarray as the federal government scrambled to meet a court-imposed deadline of July 26 for reunifying families separated by immigration officials under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” measures. | | |
| Trump’s comments that a strong dollar “puts us at a disadvantage” caused an instant fall in the greenback yesterday and marked another example of the U.S. president commenting directly - and sometimes contradictorily - on the country’s currency.
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| | | Trump shoots from the hip on the dollar and Fed, territory most presidents in the modern era usually avoided. Nice graphic from @SaqibReports on Trump's often contradictory dollar comments. https://reut.rs/2O2TNBC 10:39 AM - July 20, 2018 |
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