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Here is our weekly survey of news stories to round out the week of April 25-May 1, 2016.
‘We do not go abroad in search of enemies,” Trump says in his first foreign policy speech https://t.co/00iHzRUCuB pic.twitter.com/s9vRKVWtEU
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) April 28, 2016
A soda tax could make Americans healthier, but could also disproportionately hurt the poor: https://t.co/ahLN7iUUld pic.twitter.com/IQT4ACcwQ8
— Brookings (@BrookingsInst) April 28, 2016
U.S. Senators are impatient with Obama’s approach to Beijing over the South China Sea. https://t.co/40eBudcweP pic.twitter.com/s7nWc580gu
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) April 28, 2016
Dems have a far more favorable impression of their party than Repubs have of theirs https://t.co/CnQKTYrN3c pic.twitter.com/AqG83RP9aH
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) April 28, 2016
The U.S. economy eeks out the weakest growth in two years in the first quarter. The details: https://t.co/O1W4ZytwZw pic.twitter.com/2MwzzQtzaK
— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) April 28, 2016
Apple finds courting Chinese customers trickier than it first appeared https://t.co/UEY3TSQKNv pic.twitter.com/neFKVFxvTx
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) April 29, 2016
South Korean voters have made clear that they’re looking for change, writes @jbmllr https://t.co/4VgKT6ar0l
— WorldPoliticsReview (@WPReview) April 29, 2016
Q&A: Customs and Border Protection chief discusses new era of transparency https://t.co/B7ZP1R9NA2 pic.twitter.com/t5He0L8HQq
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 29, 2016
The divorce gap https://t.co/am5jfbNytU pic.twitter.com/5Gb9qpqWVl
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 29, 2016
Argentina’s central bank to take aim at inflation, starting in September https://t.co/9us5scKlMn
— WSJ Europe (@WSJeurope) April 29, 2016
Weed scientists are mapping marijuana’s genome—and it could change how we think of weed https://t.co/VZ0n1aq7rz pic.twitter.com/mVsbK7tSXx
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 29, 2016
Jeremy #Corbyn denies U.K. #Labour has anti-Semitism problem after lawmakers suspended https://t.co/UFzof3ybw8 pic.twitter.com/ZBE9tHj35k
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) April 29, 2016
New York has led government efforts to regulate bitcoin. Is it working? https://t.co/F1u7aIhWaV pic.twitter.com/q2ssdtTQfN
— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) April 28, 2016
History will not judge the Sanders campaign by the number of votes won but by how it shaped this remarkable moment https://t.co/eLfbhKVdY4
— The Nation (@thenation) April 28, 2016
Rift between President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu stalls record Israeli aid deal https://t.co/uz4pV7IyiQ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 29, 2016
The teen birth rate in the US has declined 61 percent since the 1990s https://t.co/U8fCuYsbo3 pic.twitter.com/ItWIg1p6LR
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 29, 2016
Colombia: Constitutional Court Upholds Same-Sex Marriage https://t.co/D8iPPjCD0K
— HRW Dispatches (@hrwdispatches) April 29, 2016