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Supreme Leader in a Orange Makeup „ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump sparred on Thurs. with Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, over the cost of renovations to the central bank’s headquarters in Washington during a tour of the active construction site.
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The visit by the president and other top @WhiteHouse officials was arranged to find evidence to back up allegations by the administration that Mr. Powell had mismanaged the costly project.
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The tour quickly exposed tensions between the president and Mr. Powell. Mr. Trump, standing next to the Fed chair, said the renovation cost had ballooned to $3.1 billion, beyond the $2.5 billion that the central bank has indicated.
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Mr. Powell shook his head in disagreement and questioned where the number came from. Mr. Trump pulled out a piece of paper summarizing the costs, which included already completed renovations to the William McChesney Martin Building at the Fed.
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– »You just added in a third building, is what that is« – Mr. Powell told Mr. Trump. – »It was built five years ago«.
Mr. Trump responded saying he was talking about the »overall work«.
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As Mr. Powell looked on, Mr. Trump reiterated his call for the Fed to lower interest rates but stopped short of brandishing the insults that he typically uses in reference to the chair, including »Mr. Too Late«, »a major loser« and »numbskull«.”
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„Tuesday marks Hershey’s latest price hike after it raised prices a year ago.
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The chocolate maker posted a $224.2 million profit in its first-quarter earnings this year, though it noted it expected to take a $15 million to $20 million hit from the sweeping tariff policies imposed by @POTUS @realDonaldTrump this year.
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Hershey has requested an exemption from the president and is »hopeful« it could still receive one, Bloomberg reported [1] [2].”
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„Thai and Cambodian soldiers have clashed along the border between their countries in a major escalation that left at least 14 people dead, mostly civilians. The two sides fired small arms, artillery and rockets, and Thailand also launched airstrikes [1].
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Fighting took place in at least six areas on Thurs., according to Thai Defense Ministry spokesperson Surasant Kongsiri,
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a day after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers and led Bangkok to withdraw its ambassador from Cambodia and expel Cambodia’s envoy to Thailand.
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– »Ich habe mich getäuscht« – sagte der ehemalige brandenburgische Ministerpräsident und frühere @spdde-Chef der @saechsischeDE. – »Weil ich das, was jetzt passiert ist, bis vor Kurzem noch für undenkbar gehalten habe«.
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Es war die plötzliche, wenn auch späte Einsicht eines eingefleischten Kremlverstehers. Dass ein russischer [Diktator] im 21. Jahrhundert so weit gehe, Panzer zu schicken und mit Raketen das Nachbarland anzugreifen, habe er sich nicht vorstellen können.
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– „»What’s happening is the demolition of the anticorruption infrastructure in Ukraine« – Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder of the Kyiv-based Anti-Corruption Action Center, told The Wall Street Journal [1]. Kaleniuk helped establish NABU following the 2013–2014 Maidan Revolution.
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In her view, the Ukrainian government was likely emboldened to weaken the agency as in recent months, the U.S. seems to have stopped paying close attention to anti-corruption reforms.
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali @Klitschko (@Vitaliy_Klychko), who has been at odds with [so-called] President @ZelenskyyUa for years, also criticized the new law.
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„After @realDonaldTrump moved to dismember the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which backed internationally oriented outlets such as @VOANews, Chinese state-made broadcasts took the place of U.S. programming on TV networks in countries as disparate as Indonesia and Nigeria.
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@realDonaldTrump, like a growing number of Republicans, viewed the media properties as suspicious fonts of »anti-American« liberalism. But Chinese propagandists exulted at the demise of these U.S.-funded news operations, which had,
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to varying extents, chronicled the state of pro-democracy movements around the world and provided space for dissident voices in countries where political freedoms are curtailed.”
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„White House Correspondents’ Association President @weijia Jiang condemned the ban, saying in a statement Mon. that the White House’s attempt to »punish a media outlet whose coverage it does not like is deeply troubling, and it defies the First Amendment«.
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– »Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media« – said @weijia Jiang, @CBSNews's senior White House correspondent.”