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11:00 AM ET, April 12, 2017

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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Trump won't definitively say he still backs Bannon  —  MORE FROM: … Washington's rumor mill is working overtime on the fate of aide Steve Bannon, who is said to be at the center of the rampant White House in-fighting.  When I asked the President Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump kneecaps Bannon  —  Allies of Steve Bannon fear the White House chief strategist is about to be pushed out, following the posting last night of an ominous interview with Trump by Michael Goodwin, a New York Post columnist and someone the president has been comfortable with over many years.
Discussion: US News
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump discusses North Korean ‘menace’ with Xi
Discussion: Politico
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:   Don't Fall for Morning Joe's Propaganda on Bannon
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Trump's thoroughly confusing Fox Business interview, annotated  —  President Trump spoke with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo in an interview airing Wednesday morning, and it was par for the course for Trump.  —  By which I mean he rewrote history (on his views of attacking Syria) …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: I won't ask for Comey's resignation  —  President Donald Trump does not intend to seek the resignation of FBI Director James Comey and did not do so at the outset of his administration “because I want to give everybody a good, fair chance,” he told Fox Business in an interview that aired Wednesday morning.
Discussion: ABC News
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: I want to pass health care before doing tax reform
Discussion: Axios, ABC News and Political Wire
New York Times:
Live Results: Republicans Defend House Seat in Kansas Special Election  —  Candidate Party Votes Pct.  —  Dem.  —  28,646  —  Ron Estes  —  Rep.  —  27,105  —  Lib.  —  32% reporting (199 of 620 precincts)  —  Republicans are wary of a close race to fill the seat of the new C …
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sos.ks.gov:
Please note the following before viewing election results:  —  1. These are unofficial results.  They will not be official until the state canvass.  2. The results are exactly as collected from county election officers on election night.  3. Results in some areas may be incomplete …
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Just Barely Won The First Post-Trump Congressional Election
Discussion: Political Wire
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Republican Ron Estes prevails in tough Kansas congressional race
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
A Republican won in Kansas. But here's why the GOP is not celebrating.
Discussion: Hot Air and New York Times
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
I was wrong about Jeff Sessions  —  An apology for a tweet about the attorney general that has gone viral  —  Full disclosure: The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts does not like Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  Not one little bit.  —  I didn't like him when he was the first Senator to endorse Donald Trump.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page  —  The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
Daily Mail:
Melania Trump - An Apology  —  The Mail Online website and the Daily Mail newspaper published an article on 20th August 2016 about Melania Trump which questioned the nature of her work as a professional model, and republished allegations that she provided services beyond simply modelling.
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CNNMoney:
Daily Mail pays Melania Trump $2.9 million to settle lawsuit
Reuters:
UK's Daily Mail to pay Melania Trump damages over modeling claims
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Guido Fawkes
Owen Bowcott Legal affairs / The Guardian:
Melania Trump accepts Daily Mail damages and apology in libel case
David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Column United passenger threatened with handcuffs to make room for ‘higher-priority’ traveler  —  Geoff Fearns, an Irvine investment manager, was threatened with being handcuffed when he refused to vacate his first-class seat on a United flight to Los Angeles.  (Valerie Fearns)
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Nicole Gelinas / City Journal:
May I Drag You from Your Seat?
Oscar Munoz / United Hub:
Statement from United Airlines CEO, Oscar Munoz, on United Express flight 3411
Kassem Eid / Wall Street Journal:
Where Were the Pro-Refugee Protesters When Assad Gassed Syrians?  —  Trump has given my people hope, but if Americans truly care they can help remove Syria's tyrant.  —  I know how painful it is to suffocate from nerve gas.  I know the devilish terror that it triggers in the victim's mind.
Discussion: Power Line
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Bill O'Reilly Is Going on Vacation.  Will His Show Return?  —  Embattled Fox News host Bill O'Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation.  O'Reilly's decision to go off the air in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott arguably has the appearance of a suspension …
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say  — Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal  — Their private assessment contradicts …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's budget director is at home in the eye of the storm  —  As President Donald Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney sits in the center of the storm.  He is drafting a White House budget that members of both parties call dead on arrival.  He's still trying to help bridge the gap between …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Meadows Revives Health Care Negotiations: ‘Confident’ Republicans Will Pass Bill, Maybe Before Recess
Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg:   Trump Meddling Leaves Ryan's Clout in Doubt After Health Fiasco
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Sean Spicer Is the Perfectly Awful Spokesman That Donald Trump Deserves  —  The president often says stupid, impulsive, indefensible things.  Why shouldn't his press secretary do the same?  —  President Donald Trump's decision to launch a missile attack against Syria last week rallied Republicans …
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The Hill:
Clinton campaign plagued by bickering  —  The following is an excerpt adapted from “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign,” which will be released on April 18.  Copyright © 2017 by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.  Published by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
The Sun:
KIM'S FATE SEALED Elite US Navy Seal squad that killed Osama bin Laden ‘is training up in South Korea to take out Kim Jong-un’  —  Seal Team Six has been taking part in drills in South Korea as tensions with Kim's regime mount, according to reports  —  By Victoria Craw for news.com.au and Danny Collins
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Justice Ginsburg: Sen. Lindsey Graham one of the ‘women of the Senate’  —  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late Justice Antonin Scalia were honored Monday by Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.  During a speech she gave at the event, Justice Ginsburg described Senator Lindsey Graham as one of the “women of the Senate.”
Discussion: JustOneMinute, Althouse and Bloomberg
 
 
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Erin Blasko / South Bend Tribune:
Joe Donnelly says liberals shouldn't ‘burn the house down’ over his Gorsuch vote
Samantha Reyes / CNN:
Ben Carson rescued from a Miami elevator while Alonzo Mourning waits
Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun Times:
Valerie Jarrett won't charge NEIU for graduation speech
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
How Trump Is Changing What ‘Conservative’ Means
The Hill:
Obama fingerprints at DNC?
Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
‘Ban Cars to Stop Terror’ Says Sweden's Best-Selling Newspaper After Stockholm Attack
Discussion: Infowars and Sputnik International
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Rolling Stone settles with former U-Va. dean in defamation case
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
For Alabama Christians, Governor Bentley's Downfall Is a Bitter Blow
 Earlier Items: 
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House to lift federal hiring freeze
Discussion: Politico
Helaine Olen / New York Times:
United Airlines Is Not Alone
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
What Rick Perlstein's Embarrassing New York Times Essay Gets Wrong
Daily Mail:
What United claimed: The document attached to his passenger file which claimed Dr David Dao …
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
China Threatens To Bomb North Korea's Nuclear Facilities If It Crosses Beijing's “Bottom Line”
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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