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11:10 AM ET, April 19, 2017

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats begin to wonder: When do we win?  —  As it became clear late Tuesday evening that Jon Ossoff would fall just short of the 50-percent mark in the first round of voting in a suburban Atlanta special election, Democrats back in Washington started leafing through their calendars and asking: When does the winning start?
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
The Truth About What Happened in the GA-06 Special Election is Different From Either Party's Spin  —  Both sides are spinning their way out of the GA-06 special election.  Here's the truth.  —  First, don't believe the Democrat spin that “it should never have been this close.”
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Live Election Results: Georgia's Sixth Congressional District  —  Democrats hope Jon Ossoff will win them the House seat vacated by Tom Price, the new health and human services secretary.  If no candidate wins a majority of the vote, the top two will advance to a June 20 runoff.
New York Times:
Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, Narrowly Misses Outright Win in Georgia House Race  —  ROSWELL, Ga. — Jon Ossoff, a Democrat making his first bid for elective office, narrowly missed winning a heavily conservative House district in Georgia outright on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Georgia special election goes to runoff as GOP gets wakeup call
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Fox Is Preparing to Cut Ties With Bill O'Reilly  —  Popular host has been implicated in a sexual-harassment scandal  —  Fox News is preparing to cut ties with its biggest star, Bill O'Reilly, according to people close to the situation.  —  A final decision on Mr. O'Reilly's fate could come …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Source: Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are talking exit  —  Fox News will no longer even respond to questions about whether Bill O'Reilly will return to his show.  —  A well-placed source said Tuesday afternoon that representatives for Fox and O'Reilly have begun talking about an exit.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: The Murdochs Are Turning Against Bill O'Reilly
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox considers future without O'Reilly as advertisers flee
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
‘Duped by Trump’: U.S. Taunted Over Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier Tale  —  Criticism rises after the U.S. Navy says it hadn't sent the USS Carl Vinson directly to North Korea after all  —  Alastair Gale aboard the USS Ronald Reagan  —  The revelation that the Pentagon didn't send …
Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos
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Yahoo:
Images show North Koreans playing volleyball at nuclear test site  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. experts who have been forecasting an imminent North Korean nuclear test said on Tuesday they were surprised when they viewed their latest satellite images of the country's nuclear test site and saw volleyball games under way.
Louis Nelson / Politico:   Pence: Misstatements about U.S. aircraft carrier location not intentional
ABC News:
Mike Pence warns North Korea: ‘The sword stands ready’
Discussion: Politico
Ethan Epstein / Weekly Standard:
Bad Reviews For Trump's Korea Policy
Discussion: Instapundit
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump needs a dose of ‘manly virtues’
Discussion: Mediaite
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Trump Mulls U.S. Military Options for North Korea, All Grim
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Aircraft Carrier Wasn't Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed:
Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz Will Not Seek Re-Election  —  The Utah Republican, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, will step down at the end of this congress.  —  Rep. Jason Chaffetz will not seek re-election in 2018, two sources who have been informed of his decision tell BuzzFeed News.
Discussion: Raw Story and Axios
AP News:
The Latest: Fresno suspect faces 4 murder charges  —  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting in downtown Fresno, California (all times local):  —  An official says a man suspected of killing a motel security guard and three people he targeted for being white is being charged with four counts of murder.
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Fox News:
Fresno shooting spree: 3 people killed, suspect who yelled ‘Allahu Akbar,’ says he ‘hates white people’ in custody
USA Today:
First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump  —  Federal agents ignored President Trump's pledge to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by sending a young man back to his native Mexico, the first such documented case …
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:   DHS: USA Today Got Its Big Scoop On Deported ‘DREAMer’ Totally Wrong
Tom Precious / The Buffalo News:
How did Cuomo make $783,000 on memoir that sold 3,200 copies?  —  ALBANY - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo reported his income last year more than doubled from the previous year, thanks to another round of royalty payments on a 2014 HarperCollins memoir that saw lackluster sales.
Discussion: Political Wire
Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Miami state senator curses at black lawmaker — and refers to fellow Republicans as ‘niggas’  —  TALLAHASSEE  —  Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles dropped the n-word to a pair of African-American colleagues in private conversation Monday night — after calling one of them a “f**king a**hole …
Madeleine O'Neill / Erie Daily Times-Morning News:
Police: No direct knowledge of ‘ping’ from Stephens' phone  —  Cleveland Facebook killer committed suicide after troopers stopped car in city of Erie.  McDonald's workers had tipped off troopers that Stephens was in area.  —  Madeleine O'Neill @ETNONeillTim Hahn @ETNHahn
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes's Fake Scandal  —  Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland.
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
A month after dismissing federal prosecutors, Justice Department does not have any U.S. attorneys in place  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making aggressive law enforcement a top priority, directing his federal prosecutors across the country to crack down on illegal immigrants and …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hillary ran the worst presidential campaign ever  —  MORE FROM: … So guess what?  In the last weeks before the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign did no polling.  No. Polling.  Whatsoever.  Oh, it had data.  Lots and lots of data.  Analytics, even.  Data analytics!
John Binder / Breitbart:
H-1B Experts on Trump's Order: ‘This Is What We Elected Him For’  —  President Donald Trump is getting praise from experts on the H-1B foreign guest worker visa for his ‘Hire American’ Executive Order which calls for a review into the system's abuse at the expense of American workers.
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Local, state tax deductions on Gary Cohn's list  —  Gary Cohn has privately said he's warming to the idea of eliminating the local and state tax deduction to pay for tax cuts and simplify the code, according to sources familiar with the thinking of president's top economic advisor.
Discussion: Bloomberg and New York Magazine
CNN:
FBI used dossier allegations to bolster Trump-Russia investigation  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump's campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.
 
 
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