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Trump Seeks $7.85 Billion in Harvey Aid, Urges Debt Limit Action

EghtesadOnline: The Trump administration sent Congress a request Friday for almost $8 billion in initial relief for Hurricane Harvey victims and suggested the assistance be authorized in tandem with a measure to raise the federal debt ceiling, a move that House Republicans are unlikely to embrace.
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Publish Date:02/September/2017 | 04:51

Trump Drafted Letter Arguing for Comey's Ouster, Sources Say

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump prepared his own draft letter making the case for firing FBI Director James Comey, which was then circulated among senior White House staff before the deputy attorney general wrote a memo justifying the move, according to two people familiar with matter.
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Publish Date:02/September/2017 | 04:45

Most Asian Stocks Rebound as Korean Fears Abate

EghtesadOnline: Most Asian stocks advanced after President Donald Trump ’s measured response to North Korean missile launches and comments from Kim Jong Un suggested geopolitical tensions will ease off. The yen fell for a second day.
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Publish Date:30/August/2017 | 05:08

Trump Vows ‘All Options’ Open After North Korea Missile Launch

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump said that “all options” are under consideration in response to North Korea firing an unidentified ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday as Kim Jong Un’s latest provocation rattled markets.
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Publish Date:30/August/2017 | 04:50

Trump Afghan Strategy Poised to Fail, Pakistan Premier Says

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump ’s strategy for the nation’s longest-running war in Afghanistan will meet the same fate as the plans of his predecessors, according to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Failure.
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Publish Date:28/August/2017 | 04:36

Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio, Ex-Sheriff Convicted Over Immigration Crackdown

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump pardoned former Arizona county sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday, using his first act of presidential clemency to give reprieve to a political supporter known -- and criminally convicted -- for his tough crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Publish Date:27/August/2017 | 06:22

Yellen Distances Herself From Trump in Jackson Hole Speech

EghtesadOnline: In the end, it sounded more like a swan song than a job audition. By broadly defending the sweeping financial rules put in place in the past decade, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen distanced herself on Friday from the anti-regulatory rhetoric of the man who will decide whether to replace her, President Donald Trump .
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Publish Date:27/August/2017 | 05:18

Yellen and Draghi Both Defend Post-Crisis Financial Regulation

EghtesadOnline: The world’s two most powerful central bankers on Friday delivered back-to-back warnings against dismantling tough post-crisis financial rules that the Trump administration blames for stifling U.S. growth.
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Publish Date:27/August/2017 | 05:12

Gary Cohn Criticizes Trump on Charlottesville but Won't Quit

EghtesadOnline: The markets swooned recently amid reports that Donald Trump ’s top economic adviser, ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, was considering whether to quit. Bloomberg News and others reported that he was deeply distressed by Trump’s comments that "both sides" were to blame for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Publish Date:27/August/2017 | 05:09

Trump slaps sanctions on Venezuela; Maduro sees effort to force default

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prohibits dealings in new debt from the Venezuelan government or its state oil company on Friday in an effort to halt financing that the White House said fuels President Nicolas Maduro’s “dictatorship.”
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Publish Date:26/August/2017 | 13:46

Gorka, a Trump adviser and Bannon ally, is out: White House

EghtesadOnline: White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, who was closely aligned with a nationalist faction led by ousted senior strategist Steve Bannon, no longer works for President Donald Trump , the White House said on Friday.
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Publish Date:26/August/2017 | 13:39

Yellen to Trump: don't expect a flip-flop on financial reforms

EghtesadOnline: Janet Yellen delivered a message to President Donald Trump on Friday, making it clear that if he re-nominates her as Federal Reserve chair she will not turn her back on the raft of U.S. financial reforms that Republicans want to roll back.
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Publish Date:26/August/2017 | 13:33

No U.S.-Russia cyber unit without Trump notifying Congress, bill says

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump would be required to notify U.S. lawmakers before creating a joint U.S.-Russia cyber security unit - an idea that has drawn criticism across the political spectrum - under legislation advancing in Congress.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 05:28

Trump's Afghan decision may increase U.S. air power, training

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Air Force may intensify its strikes in Afghanistan and expand training of the Afghan air force following President Donald Trump 's decision to forge ahead with the 16-year-old war, its top general told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 05:19

Yen Gains, Asia Stocks Stall on Trump Nafta Remark

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump grabbed investors’ attention in an otherwise listless Asian trading session, with the yen rising and S&P 500 Index futures slipping with the Mexican peso as the U.S. president said he may end the North American Free-Trade Agreement.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 04:50

Trump Calls Out Pakistan Even as Security Situation Improves

EghtesadOnline: When U.S. President Donald Trump accused Pakistan on Monday of continuing to provide a “safe haven to agents of chaos, violence and terror” it evoked memories of general lawlessness across the country in the years after 9/11 that drove investors from South Asia’s second-largest economy.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 04:44

Kushner Leads U.S. Delegation to the Middle East

EghtesadOnline: White House adviser Jared Kushner is leading a delegation to the Middle East on behalf of President Donald Trump to discuss the possibility of resuming the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 04:41

Mnuchin Keeps the Economic Agenda Ticking as He Defends Trump

EghtesadOnline: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin emerged over the weekend as one of the staunchest defenders of Donald Trump in the Cabinet, bringing stability to the administration’s economic policy agenda as it heads into what’s expected to be an unpredictable debt-limit debate.
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Publish Date:22/August/2017 | 05:38