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1:30 PM ET, April 12, 2017

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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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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump hammers FBI's Comey for not jailing Clinton: ‘She was guilty of every charge’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  President Donald Trump is not happy with FBI Director James Comey for not arresting former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: I won't ask for Comey's resignation
Discussion: ABC News
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.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Prosecutor: Jeff Sessions's New Immigration Plan Is ‘F*cking Horrifying’  —  NOGALES, Arizona—The crowd was small, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions's speech was short.  But his message couldn't have been clearer:  —  “This is a new era,” said Sessions, who sported a dark suit in the hot Arizona sun.
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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Kremlin: Putin won't meet with Tillerson Wednesday
Discussion: Shareblue, ABC News and The Guardian
Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:   Putin Says Trust With U.S. Deteriorated After Trump Took Office
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Putin meets with Tillerson amid tensions
Discussion: RT and Raw Story
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Putin Meets With Tillerson in Russia After Keeping Him Waiting
Discussion: Althouse
Associated Press:
Trump seems to rule out deeper US intervention in Syria
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
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
Discussion: Raw Story, Hot Air and US News
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:   Don't Fall for Morning Joe's Propaganda on Bannon
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump discusses North Korean ‘menace’ with Xi
Discussion: Politico
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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Budget Director Admits Their Goal Is High Inequality, Not Low Deficits  —  For more than a generation, the Republican Party has single-mindedly pursued the goal of maximizing economic inequality.  They have been almost as single-minded about not describing this as their priority.
Discussion: CNBC
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Budget chief: Trump's promise to eliminate debt was ‘hyperbole’
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Just Barely Won The First Post-Trump Congressional Election  —  Democrat James Thompson gave Republicans a big scare in a deep-red district in Kansas, in the first congressional race of the Trump era.  —  WASHINGTON — The GOP breathed a huge sigh of relief Tuesday night …
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
A Republican won in Kansas. But here's why the GOP is not celebrating.
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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Sky News:
Melania Trump accepts damages from Daily Mail over model claims
Discussion: Daily Wire and Scared Monkeys
Owen Bowcott Legal affairs / The Guardian:
Melania Trump accepts Daily Mail damages and apology in libel case
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.
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 …
Rene Rodriguez / miamiherald:
Ben Carson visits Miami public housing development — and gets stuck in elevator  —  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson's two-day visit to Miami — his third stop on a national listening tour — started with a big glitch.  —  Carson, Miami-Dade County Public Housing Director Michael Liu …
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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 …
Chicago Tribune:
United faces more questions as dragged passenger hires high-powered attorney  —  This video posted on social media shows a passenger on an April 9, 2017, United Airlines flight from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Louisville being removed by security.  (Jayse D. Anspach)
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Nicole Gelinas / City Journal:
May I Drag You from Your Seat?
Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Betsy DeVos rescinds protections for student loan borrowers  —  Student loan servicers have a poor track record of helping borrowers pay back their loans.  —  On Tuesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reversed Obama administration directives that were supposed to make it easier for borrowers to pay back their student loans.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Common Dreams
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.
 
 
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Americans Trust Trump the Most to End Syrian Conflict
Discussion: Business Insider
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Uber's head of communications, Rachel Whetstone, is leaving
Anders Melin / Bloomberg:
This Amazon Employee Out-Earned Jeff Bezos Last Year
Discussion: GeekWire
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Spicer on skipping Correspondents' dinner: 'I don't think we should fake it'
Discussion: Raw Story
Gretchen Reynolds / New York Times:
An Hour of Running May Add Seven Hours to Your Life
Discussion: Daily Mail
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
Americans are using alpacas to dodge taxes, a U.S. senator warns
Jess McIntosh / Lenny Letter:
How I Discovered That My Dad Is a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Erin Blasko / South Bend Tribune:
Joe Donnelly says liberals shouldn't ‘burn the house down’ over his Gorsuch vote
 Earlier Items: 
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
How Trump Is Changing What ‘Conservative’ Means
The Hill:
Obama fingerprints at DNC?
Discussion: Daily Wire
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Justice Ginsburg: Sen. Lindsey Graham one of the ‘women of the Senate’ (Correction added)
New York Times:
Trump's Trademark Continues Its March Across the Globe, Raising Eyebrows
Discussion: Washington Post
Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg:
Trump Meddling Leaves Ryan's Clout in Doubt After Health Fiasco
Discussion: Axios
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
For Alabama Christians, Governor Bentley's Downfall Is a Bitter Blow
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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