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7:55 PM ET, April 10, 2017

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Lucas Aulbach / Courier-Journal:
Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville  —  A video posted on Facebook late Sunday evening shows a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff at O'Hare International Airport.
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
United Passenger Dragged From Overbooked Flight  —  A man on an overbooked United Airlines flight was forcibly removed from his seat and dragged through the aisle on Sunday, and video of the anguished protests by him and other passengers spread rapidly on Monday as people criticized the airline's tactics.
Brian Doherty / Hit & Run:
Why Should Police Help United Airlines Cheat Its Customers?  —  The world is rightly abuzz over an awful incident yesterday in which a man was beaten and dragged off a plane by police at Chicago's O'Hare airport for the crime of wanting to use the seat he's paid for on a United Airline flight getting ready to leave for Louisville.
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A man wouldn't leave an overbooked United flight. So he was dragged off, battered and limp.
Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daring Fireball
NBC News:
United Airlines CEO Apologizes After Video Shows Man Dragged Off Flight
Discussion: USA Today and IJR
Chicago Tribune:
United CEO apologizes after video of O'Hare passenger dragged from flight goes viral
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX News Radio
John Archibald / al.com:
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley expected to resign this week  —  It Is becoming clear that Robert Bentley will not last the week as governor.  —  Sources in Montgomery say his lawyers have been involved in negotiations to step down from the governorship and plead to lesser charges, allowing Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey to step up as governor.
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John Archibald / al.com:
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigns amid sex scandal  —  Embattled Gov. Robert Bentley this afternoon agreed to a deal that forced him to resign the office of governor, plead guilty to two misdemeanors and agree to never again hold public office.  —  The extraordinary agreement …
Claire Aiello / WHNT-TV:
Gov. Robert Bentley resigns from office: “It is time for me to step down”  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. - After a tumultuous day in Montgomery, Governor Robert Bentley has resigned from office.  —  “The time has come for me to look at new ways to serve the people of our great state.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
5 Of The Wildest Details In Report On Alabama Guv's Efforts To Hide Affair
Discussion: Vox and Axios
Eric Velasco / Politico:
How Alabama's ‘Luv Guv’ Broke New Ground in a Scandal-Plagued State
Discussion: ABC News
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:   Alabama governor resigns, pleads guilty to charges tied to allegations he tried to cover up affair with a top aide
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Robert Bentley, Alabama Governor, Resigns Amid Scandal
Associated Press:
Official: Russia knew in advance of Syrian chemical attack  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has concluded Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official said Monday.  —  The official said a drone operated by Russians was flying over a hospital …
Discussion: Hot Air, Reuters, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Susan Rice's claim that Obama got Syria to ‘verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile’  —  “We were able to find a solution that didn't necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished.
Reuters:
Kremlin, angry at Syria missile strike, says Putin won't meet Tillerson  —  The Kremlin said on Monday that U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will not meet President Vladimir Putin when he visits Moscow on Wednesday, a move that could point to tensions over a U.S. missile attack on a Syrian air base last week.
CBS News:
What Americans think about U.S. strike on Syria
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Russia and Iran say U.S. ‘crossed red lines’ with strike on Syrian air base
Gary Langer / ABC News:
51 percent back US strike on Syria but with concern about Russian relations (POLL)
Discussion: Mother Jones and Politico
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Breitbart editors tell staffers to stop writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, sources say  —  Employees at Breitbart News have been asked by senior editors to refrain from writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears  —  President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term.  But inside his pressure cooker of a White House, aides and advisers are sweating the next three weeks.  —  The symbolic 100-day mark by which modern presidents …
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
The Trouble With Trump's White House Is Donald Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
NASDAQ.com:
Midday Update: Stocks Return Gains on Reports of Chinese Troop Deployments on N. Korea Border  —  The benchmark averages have surrendered earlier gains on news that China has deployed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border, and the U.S. is considering further sanctions against Russia.
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Kelly Mclaughlin / Reuters:   China 'deploys 150,000 troops to deal with possible North Korean refugees over fears …
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:   South Korean Paper Reports China Has Deployed 150,000 Troops To North Korea Border
Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
San Bernardino School Shooting: Man Kills Wife Then Himself; 1 of 2 Students Wounded Has Died  —  After being admitted onto the campus of North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, a 53-year-old Riverside man went to his wife's special education classroom and opened fire Monday …
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Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Teacher killed, students wounded in San Bernardino special-ed classroom shooting, officials say
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
KS-04 Moves to Lean Republican, GA-06 to Toss Up  —  In the final hours of the special election to replace new CIA Director Mike Pompeo in Wichita, Kansas, Republicans are expressing alarm that Democrat James Thompson is within striking distance of carrying a seat President Trump won by 27 points last November.
Discussion: Political Wire
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The Huffington Post:
Democratic Voters Pour Cash Into Kansas Special Election While National Party Stays Away
Discussion: Washington Post
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Markey: Dems Will Reinstate SCOTUS Filibuster If We Control Senate And WH (VIDEO)  —  Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said Monday that, if Democrats regain control of the Senate and the White House, they will reverse Republicans' change to the filibuster rules for Supreme Court nominees.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
White House walks back suggestion US may respond to additional barrel bombs in Syria  —  The White House is walking back a suggestion from press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday that President Donald Trump may take more military action in Syria in response to additional barrel bombings of civilians.
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and RedState
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to raise forensic science standards and has suspended an expanded review of FBI testimony across several techniques …
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘People Just Flat-Out Lie’  —  President Donald Trump called her “Hillary Clinton's P.R. person” when she got a scoop he didn't like last week.  —  Controversial Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called her “unruly” when she shouted questions at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones:
There's Racist.  And Then There's Stunningly Racist.  Then There's This GOP Fundraising Email.  —  Last week, a fundraising email was circulated in support of David Clarke, Milwaukee's infamous conservative sheriff.  The email was made to look like it came from Rudy Giuliani.
Discussion: RedState and Daily Kos
 
 
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Sean Spicer just called Russia an “ally”
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