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12:45 PM ET, April 23, 2017

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Nearing 100 days, Trump's approval at record lows but his base is holding  —  President Trump nears the 100-day mark of his administration as the least popular chief executive in modern times, a president whose voters remain largely satisfied with his performance, but one whose base of support …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Disapproval of President Donald Trump Grows in Latest WSJ/NBC News Poll  —  The president risks losing the political middle ground, as disapproval outweighs approval by 14 points and independents move away from him  —  Americans have become increasingly dissatisfied with President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump at 100 days: 96 percent of his voters say they'd do it again (POLL)  —  There's no honeymoon for Donald Trump in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, but also no regrets: He approaches his 100th day in office with the lowest approval rating at this point of any president in polls since 1945 …
Salena Zito / New York Post:
How Trump voters feel about his first 100 days  —  MORE FROM: … Last fall, just weeks before Election Day, I traveled the old Lincoln Highway, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies, to learn the attitudes of voters who lived miles from the off-ramps of the main interstates and coastal America.
Washington Post:
President Trump is least popular president at 100-day mark
Discussion: Common Dreams, Instapundit and Axios
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Public Gives Trump Low Marks for First 100 Days: NBC News/WSJ Poll
Discussion: Business Insider and Politico
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Bill O'Reilly Is Gone, But Fox News's Legal Nightmare Continues  —  The Murdochs hoped firing Bill O'Reilly would signal a changing culture at Fox News.  “We want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environment built on the values of trust and respect,” Rupert and his sons …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Root and USA Today
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN's Alisyn Camerota: Roger Ailes sexually harassed me  —  For a long time Alisyn Camerota was reluctant to describe the dark side of working at Fox News.  —  She respects many of her former colleagues.  She has close friends who work there.  But she perceives that something has changed …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Stan Collender / Forbes:
A Government Shutdown This Week Will Depend On What Trump Considers A Win  —  A government shutdown won't happen this week because of a specific spending cut, tax hike or policy rider.  The real, and perhaps only, issue will be Donald Trump's need to record a “win.”
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
House Democrats grow bullish after Trump's stumbles
Discussion: Political Wire and Bloomberg
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
White House budget director takes hard line on border wall, as threat of government shutdown looms
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
History tells us that Republicans are taking on too much this week — and that it isn't likely to end well
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Uber's C.E.O. Plays With Fire  —  Travis Kalanick's drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple's headquarters in early 2015 to meet …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
How Trump Succeeds Without Succeeding  —  Earlier this month, 11 weeks after his inauguration, in the aftermath of bungled attempts at instituting a Muslim travel ban and “repealing and replacing” the Affordable Care Act, and in the midst of sinking approval ratings, steady reports …
Thomas Adamson / Associated Press:
FRANCE BEGINS PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN TEST FOR POPULISM  —  PARIS (AP) — Amid heightened security, French voters began casting ballots for their next president Sunday in a first-round poll that's seen as a litmus test for the spread of populism around the world and a vote on the future of Europe.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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Associated Press:
Tight, tense French presidential vote echoes around world
Discussion: Axios
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Sessions, unlike Trump, says DREAMers are ‘subject to being deported’  —  Striking a different tone than President Trump on DREAMers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said they like “everyone that enters the country unlawfully” are “subject to being deported.”
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 4-23-17: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Xavier Becerra
Discussion: Politicus USA
Yonhap News Agency:
Third U.S. citizen detained in North Korea: sources  —  A former Korean-American professor was arrested in North Korea last week, becoming the third U.S. citizen to be detained by the communist country as of late, according to sources Sunday.  —  The U.S. citizen, identified only by his surname Kim …
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CNN:
American detained in North Korea
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Volleyball Over, North Koreans Go Back to Work at Nuclear Site, Analysts Say
Discussion: Daily Mail
Gary Peterson / East Bay Times:
Child's Donald Trump question elicits congressman's heartfelt reply  —  U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier's town hall was winding down, and as usual his audience had gotten its money's worth.  —  And not just because it was free.  —  DeSaulnier, D-Concord, treated the audience during a recent event …
Discussion: Fox News Insider and TheBlaze
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Jonah Bennett / The Daily Caller:
Congressman Tells Girl That Trump Is More Dangerous Than A Terrorist
Discussion: SARAH PALIN and Geller Report
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump's Fake War on the Fake News  —  Seven days before Donald Trump took office, the inauguration festivities got off to a low-key start inside a modest conference room at the Capitol Hill offices of the American Trucking Association.  There, a hundred-odd familiar faces from the Washington set gathered …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Taplin / New York Times:
Is It Time to Break Up Google?  —  In just 10 years, the world's five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft.  Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon and Facebook have taken their place.
Discussion: Axios
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Sanders denounces threats against Ann Coulter  —  (I-Vt.) denounced the threats made against conservative pundit Ann Coulter that forced the University of California, Berkley to postpone her appearance this week.  —  “I don't like this.  I don't like it,” Sanders told The Huffington Post for a story published Saturday.
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Daniel Marans / The Huffington Post:
Bernie Sanders Condemns Threats Against Ann Coulter Speech At Berkeley
Surain Adyanthaya:
OMG!  AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby.  Then he tried to fight a passenger who stood up for her.  AA591 from SFO to DFW.
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Eli Rosenberg / New York Times:   American Airlines Suspends Flight Attendant After Altercation Over Stroller
 
 
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
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Bill Nye / CNN:
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