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6:15 PM ET, April 15, 2017

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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War  —  West Wing sources come clean about the backstabbing, the bullying, the distrust, and the buzzing flies.  —  I. BUZZING FLIES  —  The West Wing of the White House is a cramped collection of tiny offices, some of them windowless, linked by narrow hallways.
Discussion: Politicus USA, Axios and CANNONFIRE
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New York Times:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Pillars of Family-Driven West Wing  —  WASHINGTON — One has an office down the hall from the president in the White House; the other just moved into an office a floor up.  One recently visited war-torn Iraq as the president's emissary; the other will soon head …
Discussion: Raw Story
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Kushner found Trump advisor Navarro by browsing Amazon  —  Jared Kushner found a White House economic advisor by browsing Amazon, Vanity Fair reported Saturday.  —  Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, was asked by Trump to do research on China, and turned to Amazon, the report said.
Discussion: RedState
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Parades New Long-Range ‘Frankenmissile’  —  Pyongyang displays military hardware, including apparently new intercontinental ballistic missile  —  SEOUL—North Korea showed off what appeared to be at least one new long-range missile at a military parade Saturday …
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Brad Lendon / CNN:
North Korea surprises with display of new missiles  —  (CNN)North Korea put its adversaries on notice Saturday, when it showed off a bevy of new missiles and launchers at its annual military parade.  —  Pyongyang showed off two new intercontinental ballistic missile-sized canisters …
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Shows Off Long-Range Missiles in Military Parade
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Trump demands gold-plated welcome  —  President insists on a carriage journey down The Mall to Buckingham Palace  —  Donald Trump waving from the Queen's royal carriage is not a scenario many would have foreseen a year ago, but it has become a very real prospect, forcing security services to plan an unprecedented lockdown.
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Maxine Waters rallies Tax March crowd for Trump's impeachment  —  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) renewed her call for impeaching President Trump during Saturday's Tax March in Washington.  —  “I don't respect this president.  I don't trust this president.  He's not working in the best interests of the American people,” Waters said.
Discussion: IJR
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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Trump heads to Fla. golf course
Michael Corkery / New York Times:
Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?  —  Along the cobblestone streets of SoHo, Chanel handbags and Arc'teryx jackets are displayed in shops like museum pieces, harking back to the height of the neighborhood's trendiness.  But rents there are softening, and the number of vacant storefronts is rising.
Discussion: National Review
Serafin Gómez / Fox News:
First lady Melania Trump, son moving to Washington this summer, WH confirms  —  President Trump's wife and their young son will officially be moving into the White House this summer, following the end of the school year, a senior White House official tells Fox News.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Melania Trump seemed like a rebellious first lady. She's turning out to be a retro one.
New York Times:
O'Reilly's Behavior Said to Have Helped Drive Megyn Kelly Out at Fox  —  Last fall, in the weeks after 21st Century Fox struck settlements with two women who said that Bill O'Reilly had sexually harassed them, the Fox News host went on morning television and offered a harsh assessment of women …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly left Fox News in part due to O'Reilly: report
Discussion: RedState
Alan Yuhas / The Guardian:
Man accused of assaulting woman at election rally says Trump inspired him  —  Lawyers for veteran being sued over an altercation at a Trump campaign rally in Kentucky says he acted at the candidate's urging  —  Steve Bannon: is Trump's right-hand man falling from grace?  —  Read more
Discussion: Raw Story
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Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Even Canadians are skipping trips to America after Trump travel ban  —  The cancellations came quickly and in rapid succession.  Within days of President Trump's first executive order restricting travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, a number of European travel groups pulled their plans …
Caroline Alphonso / Globe and Mail:
Anxiety intensifies in Toronto's suburbs as anti-Muslim rhetoric escalates  —  Hamza Aziz makes sure to stay close to a friend at all times, and his parents have told him not to be outside after dark - precautions the student never imagined would be needed in his quiet corner of suburban Toronto.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Los Angeles Times:
Berkeley braces for another pro-Trump rally, counter protests  —  Pro-Trump supporters and counter-protesters clash in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley in March.  (Dan Honda / East Bay Times)  —  Berkeley officials are bracing for a “Patriots Day” rally Saturday …
Discussion: The Hill
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:
The 16-year-old who told off Jeff Flake has a message for “old white man” Trump  —  We recently reported on the courage of 16-year-old Deja Foxx, who faced down Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) at a town hall in Mesa, Arizona, over his support for Donald Trump's anti-Planned Parenthood crusade.
Discussion: Mediaite and Arizona Republic
CNN:
‘Mother of all bombs’ killed 94 ISIS fighters, Afghan official says  —  Kabul (CNN)At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Saturday.
Fox News Insider:
Mother of All Bombs: Johnny Joey Jones Obama Didn't Want to Bomb, Trump Gave Generals Control  —  Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran Johnny “Joey” Jones praised President Trump for dropping the “mother of all bombs” on ISIS, saying the last administration failed to take appropriate action.
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
A Letter From An Ivy League Admissions Dean  —  A young woman was accepted at Brown—and then the other note arrived.  —  Brown University in Providence, R.I. houses one of the country's most selective undergraduate colleges.  The Brown Daily Herald, a student-run newspaper …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Roger Stone defends WikiLeaks, calls for CIA head to resign over attacks  —  Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone on Friday defended WikiLeaks calling for the CIA head to resign for attacking the anti-secrecy site's legitimacy.  —  In an interview with Newsmax Stone blasted CIA Director Mike Pompeo …
Discussion: Newsmax and RedState
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW STATEMENT ON WHITE HOUSE REFUSAL TO RELEASE VISITOR LOGS  —  Washington, D.C.—In response to the White House's decision to break six years of tradition and refuse to release White House visitor logs, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Executive Director Noah Bookbinder released the following statement:
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House to Keep Its Visitor Logs Secret
Discussion: ProPublica and Balloon Juice
 
 
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George Bennett / Post On Politics:
EXCLUSIVE: Melania Trump visits girls at HomeSafe in Lake Worth
Discussion: AOL and The Gateway Pundit
Diego Mendoza-Moyers / Arizona Republic:
Ex-NFL star drove truck that hit, killed daughter in Mesa
Rick Perlstein / Washington Spectator:
Guns, Extremism, and Threats of Escalation
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
A benefit to defying Trump: House Freedom Caucus members applauded at town halls for defeating Trumpcare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge weighs arguments in SF, Santa Clara sanctuary cities case
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Chatting With Fish About Water
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right
 Earlier Items: 
Annie Karni / Politico:
Tillerson's stock rises in the White House
CBS News:
Secret Service costs for Trump family protection continue to mount
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Cohn's Goldman Sachs Shares Sold as He Touted Financial Overhaul
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Marine Le Pen wants to kill the European Union. But it actually helps pay her bills.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Arkansas judge prohibits state from using lethal injection drug, blocking scheduled executions
USA Today:
Trump's taxes must be released before tax reform: Painter and Eisen
Discussion: Longreads
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump's reelection campaign raised $13.2 million in first quarter
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strength
 

 
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