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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The White House Seems Excited to Shut Down the Government — Next Saturday, April 29th, is President Trump's hundredth day in office, a historical marker used by the press to assess a new President's progress since the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump to hold rally on night of White House Correspondents Dinner — President Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania the night of the White House Correspondents Dinner, he said Saturday. — “Next Saturday night I will be holding a BIG rally in Pennsylvania. Look forward to it!”
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Business Insider and The Week
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump to hold rally same night as White House Correspondents' Dinner — President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is holding a rally the same night as the White House Correspondents' Dinner. — “Next Saturday night I will be holding a BIG rally in Pennsylvania. Look forward to it,” the president tweeted.
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Axios
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
The White House reveals what next week's ‘big announcement’ on taxes will look like
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Trump becomes wild card in spending fight
New York Times:
Nurse Replaces Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Resigns — America's doctor was fired on Friday and replaced by a nurse. — Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, an Obama administration holdover, was asked to resign by the Trump administration. He was replaced by his deputy …
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Vivek Murthy:
Two years and four months ago, I was honored to be sworn in as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. For the grandson of a poor farmer from India to be asked by the President to look out for the health of an entire nation was a humbling and uniquely American story.
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NBC News, The Daily Caller and STAT
Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Surgeon general dismissed, replaced by Trump administration
T.A. Frank / Vanity Fair:
Please, God, Stop Chelsea Clinton from Whatever She Is Doing — The last thing the left needs is the third iteration of a failed political dynasty. — Amid investigations into Russian election interference, perhaps we ought to consider whether the Kremlin, to hurt Democrats, helped put Chelsea Clinton on the cover of Variety.
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New York Times:
Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election. — As the F.B.I. investigated Hillary Clinton and the Trump campaign, James B. Comey tried to keep the bureau out of politics but plunged it into the center of a bitter election. — WASHINGTON — The day before he upended …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
'The Ideas Made It, But I Didn't' — His first date with his future wife was spent in a New Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey into the wee hours with Hunter S. Thompson. He stood several feet away from Martin Luther King Jr. during the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Wall Street Journal:
Border Lawmakers Balk at Donald Trump's Wall Request — No House or Senate members from the region express support for the funding proposal — WASHINGTON—Not a single member of Congress who represents the territory on the southwest border said they support President Donald Trump's request …
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Talking Points Memo
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker jokes: I'll support Trump's border wall ‘if Russia pays for it’
Dem lawmaker jokes: I'll support Trump's border wall ‘if Russia pays for it’
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Political Wire
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Schumer jabs White House over offer to fund Obamacare subsidies in exchange for border wall
Schumer jabs White House over offer to fund Obamacare subsidies in exchange for border wall
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RedState, Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze, Business Insider, The Hill, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
The history of the first 100 days — and why Trump is right about the ‘ridiculous standard’ — The date was July 24, 1933. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting behind a desk in the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room. To his left was a microphone, to his right a glass of water.
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Talking Points Memo, IJR, Raw Story, Hot Air and FOX6Now.com
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Pence: U.S. to honor refugee deal with Australia — The United States will honor an Obama-era agreement with Australia to help resettle Syrian refugees, despite the Trump administration not favoring the arrangement, Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday.
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The Week
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
US to honor Australia refugee deal Trump called ‘dumb’
US to honor Australia refugee deal Trump called ‘dumb’
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ThinkProgress
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Caitlyn Jenner reflects on how her life has changed since transitioning into a woman — Two years ago, the celebrated Olympic hero and famous reality TV show dad then known as Bruce Jenner revealed to the world in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer that he had struggled his entire life with gender identity.
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Page Six, AOL and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Why Trump likes his freewheeling Oval Office schedule — President Donald Trump leaves large blocks of “private time” on his Oval Office schedule for spontaneous meetings and phone chats with ex-aides, friends, media figures, lawmakers and members of his Cabinet — an old habit he's carried …
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Political Wire
Young Immigrants / Associated Press:
Excerpts from AP interview with President Donald Trump — Excerpts from The Associated Press interview conducted Friday with President Donald Trump, with editing for clarity and brevity: — On the legal status of the “dreamers,” young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally and protected …
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Talking Points Memo
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Milo Yiannopoulos Plots Comeback at UC Berkeley — Yiannopoulos wouldn't say who is backing the effort, financially or otherwise, nor would he say which, if any, student group has invited him to speak at Berkeley. — Milo Yiannopoulos is plotting his comeback, allegedly to take place at UC Berkeley …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Gateway Pundit
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Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues. — Archival research doesn't get much more exciting than the 2004 heist movie “National Treasure.” Nicolas Cage, playing a historian named Benjamin Franklin Gates, discovers a coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
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The Guardian
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John R. Ellement / BostonGlobe.com:
Second parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found — in England
Second parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found — in England
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Daily Mail and CBS Boston
CNN:
Sources: Russia tried to use Trump advisers to infiltrate campaign — Washington (CNN)The FBI gathered intelligence last summer that suggests Russian operatives tried to use Trump advisers, including Carter Page, to infiltrate the Trump campaign, according to US officials.
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Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
Breaking: U.S. investigators find “signs of possible collusion between the campaign and Russian officials”
Breaking: U.S. investigators find “signs of possible collusion between the campaign and Russian officials”
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Trump OKs DACA Amnesty: ‘This Is a Case of Heart’ — Illegal aliens who crossed the border as children don't have to worry about being sent home, President Donald Trump told the Associated Press in a Friday interview. — Illegals enrolled in the President Barack Obama's …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Vows to Unveil Tax-Cut Plan Next Week, Surprising Staff — WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his Treasury Department on Friday to review measures put in place by the Obama administration, setting the stage for a rollback of regulations that were intended to curtail corporate tax evasion and prevent another financial crisis.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Feel The Propaganda, Feel the Hate — We're familiar with President Trump's dystopian vision of an America in chaos, preyed on by foreigners and awash in citizens violated by feral criminals and “illegals.” Through last year's campaign and into this year, Trump has repeatedly lied …
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Scripting News
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Sends Letter to Nine Jurisdictions Requiring Proof of Compliance with 8 U.S.C.
Department of Justice Sends Letter to Nine Jurisdictions Requiring Proof of Compliance with 8 U.S.C.
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