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9:45 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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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.
Chicago Tribune:
United CEO apologizes after video of O'Hare passenger dragged from flight goes viral
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX News Radio
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:   Officer who dragged bloodied passenger off flight placed on leave
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 …
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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.
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
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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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
The Trouble With Trump's White House Is Donald Trump  —  It took Donald Trump 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to buy himself one day of kind coverage at the end of another otherwise terrible week.  But what the president himself described as an impulsive reaction to heartrending photos …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politicus USA
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.
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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, The Gateway Pundit, Reuters and IJR
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.
Kelly Mclaughlin / Reuters:
China 'deploys 150,000 troops to deal with possible North Korean refugees over fears Trump may strike Kim Jong-un following missile attack on Syria'  — China, which was left shocked by the air strikes, has deployed medical and backup units from the People's Liberation Army forces to the Yalu River
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NASDAQ.com:
Midday Update: Stocks Return Gains on Reports of Chinese Troop Deployments on N. Korea Border
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:   South Korean Paper Reports China Has Deployed 150,000 Troops To North Korea Border
Jonathan Lloyd / NBC Southern California:
2 Adults and 1 Child Dead, 1 Student Critically Injured in Shooting at San Bernardino Elementary School  —  The shooting appeared to stem from a domestic violence dispute involving the shooter and teacher, Garcia said  —  A teacher and a student were shot dead and another child …
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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 …
New York Times:
Trump Tops Obama, Bush and Clinton in Golfing and Private Getaways So Far  —  After years of criticizing former President Barack Obama for playing golf and going on private getaways, President Trump has already done more of both in his first 81 days than Mr. Obama, as well as former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
White House walks back suggestion US may respond to additional barrel bombs in Syria
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and RedState
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
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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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: Daily Kos and RedState
New York Times:
California Moves to Become ‘Sanctuary State,’ and Others Look to Follow  —  A 42-year-old immigrant was on her way to church in Mendota, a small city in California's Central Valley, one afternoon last month when the police stopped her because the tinted windows on her 2006 Nissan were too dark.
Mary Emily O'Hara / NBC News:
New York Becomes Only State to Offer Free Four-Year College  —  New York will be the only state in the country to offer universal public college tuition coverage for working- and middle-class residents after the program was included in the budget package approved Sunday night.
Discussion: IJR, CNNMoney, Gothamist, WIVB-TV, AOL and KFOR-TV
 
 
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Club for Growth aims to muscle House moderates into accepting Freedom Caucus health proposal
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
O'Reilly's ratings rise as advertisers flee
Discussion: RedState
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:
Rio Grande Valley is unusually quiet as illegal border crossings drop to lowest point in at least 17 years
Discussion: RT and neo-neocon
James McAuley / Washington Post:
Marine Le Pen: France ‘not responsible’ for deporting Jews during Holocaust
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:
Sean Spicer just called Russia an “ally”
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
NRA-NYT war escalates: 'Old gray hag, we're coming for you'
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
KS-04 Moves to Lean Republican, GA-06 to Toss Up
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Daily Express:
Revenge porn website demanding money to take down victims' photos
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Jeremy Harris / KUTV-TV:
Orrin Hatch says he plans to run for another term
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Inside Hillary Clinton's Plan to Come Out of the Woods
Ekin Karasin / Daily Mail:
Now that's a VERY deep end: Glass bottomed swimming pool on 42nd floor jets out into thin air …
Discussion: IJR
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B
 
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