Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Tuesday's Headlines: Trump softens border wall demands in bid to calm shutdown jitters

President seeks 15 percent corporate tax rate, even if it swells the national debt; Arkansas carries out country's first back-to-back executions since 2000; This congressman's reelection challenge is (almost) as big as Texas; U.S. to launch punitive tariffs on Canadian lumber;
 
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Trump softens border wall demands in bid to calm shutdown jitters
The White House said the president was open to delaying funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border until September as the administration sought to project confidence that a new spending bill would be passed by the Friday deadline and a government shutdown would be avoided.
President seeks 15 percent corporate tax rate, even if it swells the national debt
Sticking to one of his campaign pledges but shattering another, President Trump instructed advisers to drastically cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent. By doing so — but not committing to measures that would offset the revenue loss — Trump is making clear he is putting a priority on cutting taxes over the national debt.
 
Arkansas carries out country's first back-to-back executions since 2000
The second lethal injection of the night had been temporarily halted as a federal judge considered claims that the first execution may have been botched. But late Monday, Marcel W. Williams's death sentence was carried out.
 
This congressman's reelection challenge is (almost) as big as Texas
As Democrats try for an anti-Trump wave in next year's midterm elections, break-the-mold Republican Will Hurd is fighting to hold a vast, politically volatile district along the U.S.-Mexico border with a battle plan that includes being one of the harshest GOP critics of the president's push to build a wall along that border.
 
U.S. to launch punitive tariffs on Canadian lumber
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the administration is planning to impose a roughly 20 percent tariff on softwood lumber imported from Canada, in what may be the biggest trade dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor in over a decade.
 
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Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea
Some lawmakers questioned whether President Trump intends to use the highly sensitive meeting as a photo op ahead of his symbolic 100-day mark.
State Department website removes article touting history of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
The post prompted questions about whether the federal government improperly promoted the president's moneymaking enterprises. In a statement, the State Department apologized for "any misperception."
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Bill O’Reilly sounds like he is about to launch a revenge tour, not an apology tour
On the day he was originally scheduled to return to Fox News from vacation, O'Reilly spoke out on a podcast about the sexual harassment allegations that led to his ouster and hinted at a campaign to clear his name.
Japanese tattoo artist challenges a national revulsion to body art
Taiki Masuda is fighting a $3,000 fine that was levied two years ago. Tattoos are strongly associated with organized crime in Japan and are therefore almost universally viewed with repugnance.
U.S. imposes sanctions on 271 employees of Syrian research center
The Trump administrations says the center was responsible for developing and producing sarin used to kill dozens of people in the April 4 chemical weapons attack by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
 
     
 
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