Evening Edition: Trump takes aim at Turkey, says he will double metal tariffs
WorldViews: How a Trump tweet and an Erdogan speech shook Turkey's economy; Manafort got $16 million in loans from bank whose CEO wanted Trump administration post
The president's announcement, made in a tweet, reflects the deteriorating state of relations between the countries. He noted that Turkey's currency was weakening against the U.S. dollar, a phenomenon that had made existing tariffs less effective.
Federal Savings Bank Senior Vice President Dennis Raico testified how Paul Manafort won quick approval for loans as part of a process that featured unusual involvement from the bank's CEO and chairman Steve Calk, who was seeking a role in the Trump administration.
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The good news: Pay is up 2.7 percent in the past year. The bad news: The cost of living is up 2.9 percent. This means, according to Labor Department figures, that U.S. workers' paychecks are worth less than they were a year ago.
Photographer Ryan Kelly had been working all day when he heard a car rev its engine and saw a flash of metal. He pointed his camera, capturing a microsecond of mayhem after last year's gathering of white nationalists and the killing of a young woman who came to protest them.
In her incendiary new book, "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House," she also depicts President Trump as unqualified and narcissistic. Excerpts of the book were obtained by The Washington Post.
The prisoner, believed to have been involved in the USS Cole bombing, was waterboarded at a secret U.S. detention facility in Thailand headed by Haspel.
This year, Awkwafina released a critically acclaimed hip-hop EP, "In Fina We Trust," and is charming the masses in two of the summer's biggest movies: as a scammer and pickpocket in "Ocean's 8," and in "Crazy Rich Asians," in which she's the primary scene stealer.
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