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4:25 PM ET, April 22, 2017

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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.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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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!”
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump to hold rally same night as White House Correspondents' Dinner
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump to hold 100th-day rally on same night as White House correspondents' dinner
Discussion: IJR
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:
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: BizPac Review and twitchy.com
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.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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New York Times:   Trump Reaches Beyond West Wing for Counsel
Evgenia Peretz / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Trump Marriage: Melania's Burden  —  Until November 8, Melania Trump's marriage provided her with a golden Fifth Avenue fortress, at a price—putting up with her husband's humiliations and boorishness.  From Melania's ill-fated campaign appearances to her apparent reluctance …
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Historians say a president's first 100 days is a useless benchmark  —  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.
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 …
Discussion: 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’
Discussion: Political Wire
Reuters:
Overseas voters kick off crucial French presidential election  —  French overseas territories and French residents in the United States and Canada began voting on Saturday in France's presidential election, a day before the main first-round of a poll that could change the global political landscape.
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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.
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
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.
Discussion: The Week
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
US to honor Australia refugee deal Trump called ‘dumb’
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Ann Coulter / New York Post:
If US campuses can't protect free speech, they need new management  —  UC-Berkeley this week canceled an April 27 Ann Coulter speech, fearing riots.  This lunacy will only grow until colleges start standing up decisively for free speech.  —  The school is trying to negotiate a new date …
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Milo Yiannopoulos Plots Comeback at UC Berkeley
 
 
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Deseret News:
The calculus behind Jason Chaffetz's sudden decision to walk away
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Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal:
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Shuttering at a Record Pace
Discussion: CNBC and The Daily Caller
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Judith Clark, Getaway Driver in Deadly Brink's Heist, Is Denied Parole
Discussion: Gothamist and Althouse
CBS News:
WikiLeaks releases more top-secret CIA docs as U.S. considers charges
Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
Sandra Pedicini / Orlando Sentinel:
Man dies after riding Disney World's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Arizona Republic:
GOP keeps up pressure on Backpage donations, offers to pay voters' way into Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's event
Discussion: Salon, Shareblue and Occupy Democrats
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats partner with political newcomers aiming to create anti-Trump wave in 2018 midterms
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At a ‘Unity’ Stop in Nebraska, Democrats Find Anything But
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Axios and Rewire