Republican Party, Jerome Powell, Houston Astros: Your Thursday Evening Briefing
Finally, the late-night hosts were truly tickled by reports
that President Trump wanted to call the tax plan "The Cut Cut Cut Act." "I will say, every time he’s on TV I have this fantasy that a director will walk in and go, ‘Cut, cut, cut!’" Seth Meyers joked.
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"What Ms. Gerwig has done — and it’s by no means a small accomplishment — is to infuse one of the most convention-bound,
rose-colored genres in American cinema with freshness and surprise," our critic writes.
Robert Mercer, a billionaire investor and conservative lightning rod, said he was selling his stake in Breitbart — which the former Trump strategist Stephen Bannon has resumed running — to his daughters "for personal reasons."
And he is retreating from the helm to the research arm of his $50 billion hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies.
A former contestant on "The Apprentice," Summer Zervos, above, is suing President
Trump for defamation for insults after she accused him of unwanted advances.
Jerome Powell, above, President Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Reserve — arguably the second most powerful post in government — is seen as a centrist
and pragmatist who will stay Janet Yellen’s course on monetary policy.