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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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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
The White House reveals what next week's ‘big announcement’ on taxes will look like — The White House will release the “broad principles and priorities” of their plans to overhaul federal taxes on Wednesday, a White House official said Friday night, downplaying expectations that the Trump administration …
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
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker jokes: I'll support Trump's border wall ‘if Russia pays for it’ — California Rep. Ted Lieu (D) is mocking requests for funding President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, saying the only way he'd even support a border wall it is “if Russia pays for it.”
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Political Wire
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Trump becomes wild card in spending fight — President Trump has emerged as the wildcard as congressional leaders clamber to reach agreement on a package to keep the government funded and prevent a shutdown. — Republican leaders are keenly aware which “poison pill” provisions are non-starters …
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, New York Magazine, Daily Kos and The Hill
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:
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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Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Surgeon general dismissed, replaced by Trump administration — The White House administration on Friday dismissed U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, saying it is continuing the process of transitioning to new leadership. — “Today, Dr. Murthy, the leader of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps …
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.
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
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, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and IJR
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Ann Coulter / New York Post:
If US campuses can't protect free speech, they need new management
If US campuses can't protect free speech, they need new management
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Shot in the Dark
New York Times:
Berkeley Is Being Tested on 2 Fronts: Free Speech and Safety
Berkeley Is Being Tested on 2 Fronts: Free Speech and Safety
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Business Insider
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Berkeley Once Stood for Free Speech. Now It Rolls Over.
Berkeley Once Stood for Free Speech. Now It Rolls Over.
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The Federalist and The Daily Caller
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
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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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
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Marine Le Pen gets poll boost after Paris attack as Donald Trump says her chances of victory have improved — Donald Trump has said the Paris terrorist attack would boost Marine Le Pen's presidential chances after a last-minute poll gave her a modest increase in support.
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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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CBS News:
WikiLeaks releases more top-secret CIA docs as U.S. considers charges — WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks released what it claims is the 31-page user guide for a CIA device code-named “Weeping Angel.” It can turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TV's built-in microphone.
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Business Insider
U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Sends Letter to Nine Jurisdictions Requiring Proof of Compliance with 8 U.S.C. § 1373 — Today, the Department of Justice sent the attached letters to nine jurisdictions which were identified in a May 2016 report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General …
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Mary Ellen Klas / miamiherald:
Hooters ‘calendar girl’ and Playboy ‘Miss Social’ were Artiles' paid consultants — TALLAHASSEE — Just months before his resignation Friday, Sen. Frank Artiles scored a coup in November when he unseated Democrat Dwight Bullard with an aggressive $1 million campaign in a district that favored Democrats.
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Florida Politics, Occupy Democrats, Naked Politics, Raw Story, Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Florida State Senator Resigns After Using Racial Slur in Tirade
Florida State Senator Resigns After Using Racial Slur in Tirade
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Political Wire and TheBlaze