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Kristalina Georgieva, the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund, applauded the Trump administration's "bravery to use a tax reform to spur more growth" in an exclusive interview with "Axios on HBO." Why it matters: Georgieva vowed that she would be able to persuade the U.S. to commit more money to the fund during the course of her five-year term. "I will get my quota increase," she said — in the face of reported U.S. opposition and a U.S. veto over any changes. Georgieva comes to the IMF from the World Bank, where she was CEO and where she...

The University of Oregon graduate student accused of disrupting a flight between Eugene and Denver this week was worried about finding a university teaching job, and fearful that she might be deported to her native Bulgaria... ``There were a lot of signs of stress that started to appear,''... Georgieva, 35, faces a federal charge of interfering with the crew of a flight that left Eugene on Wednesday. Her final destination that day was a mathematics conference in San Antonio, where she hoped to meet potential employers. She is accused of threatening passengers and insinuating that there was a bomb on...