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“We have to show some strengths,” the real estate mogul said Thursday, adding that he hoped the president “doesn’t do something very foolish and very stupid to show his manhood.”

Austin Police Department officials hold a news conference on the deadly car accident where a suspected drunken driver hit a crowd at South By Southwest at 11:30a.m. ET.

Heavy snow causes accidents and power outages from the Midwest to New England. NBC’s Dylan Dreyer reports.

General Motors now says it noticed a problem with ignition switches in 2001, three years earlier than it had previously reported. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports.

Multiple people are dead after a huge pileup on the Ohio Turnpike late Wednesday. WKYC's Sara Shookman reports.

Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).

A suspected drunk driver faces two counts of capital murder after striking a crowd at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others. KXAN’s Sophia Beausoleil reports.

House Republicans are proposing another enormous tax break for corporations to outsource jobs. The latest Republican outsourcing plan is very similar to the one promoted by former Gov. Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential campaign, which President Barack Obama said would cost 800,000 jobs.

Americans think sugar is more harmful to a person's health than marijuana, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released this week. The answer choices to the poll question were tobacco (49%), followed by alcohol (24%), sugar (15%), marijuana (8%), all (3%), and not sure (1%).

Four more bodies were found overnight in the smoldering rubble of two upper Manhattan buildings leveled by a gas explosion that injured more than 70 people and spewed debris for blocks, bringing the death toll to seven.