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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing  —  Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday.  —  All 100 senators have been asked …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former press secretary Josh Earnest doesn't have much sympathy for Sean Spicer  —  Press secretary Josh Earnest's advice for his successor Sean Spicer  —  Former White House press secretary Josh Earnest is speaking for the first time about how his successor Sean Spicer is doing.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea  —  The White House announced Monday it would host an unusual private briefing on North Korea for the entire U.S. Senate, prompting questions from lawmakers over whether the Trump administration intends to use the event as a photo op ahead of his 100-day mark.
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:   As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, U.S. Fears Time Will Run Out
France 24:   N.Korean media issue threat to ‘wipe out’ US
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Will Provoke a Crisis or Be Humiliated This Week  —  The president has miscalculated the politics of government funding.  —  It's hard to imagine a better metaphor for Donald Trump's presidency than if, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress, he celebrates his 100th day in office by shutting down his own government.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Decision time for GOP: Trump's ire or government shutdown  —  Republicans are caught in one of their biggest dilemmas of the year: Whether to cross President Donald Trump and ignore his demand for border wall funding or join him and invite a government shutdown while the GOP controls all of Washington.
Discussion: ABC News
The Hill:   Trump's wall jams GOP in shutdown talks
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Another government shutdown over Obamacare? Only if Trump wants it.
Discussion: Politico and NPR
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened.
Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News and TheStreet
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15%  —  President tells staff he wants to prioritize reductions over deficit concerns  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has ordered White House aides to accelerate efforts to draft a tax plan slashing the corporate rate to 15% and prioritizing cuts …
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Washington Post:
Trump seeks 15 percent corporate tax rate, even if it swells the national debt
Discussion: The Week
Demian Bulwa / San Francisco Chronicle:
BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders  —  A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones …
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly set for June NBC debut … Megyn Kelly is ready to get back on TV.  Page Six has exclusively learned that Kelly will officially start at NBC next month.  —  “She will start in May, and her Sunday show will premiere in June,” a network insider told us.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Megyn Kelly's First Show for NBC Will Debut in June
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN's Tapper: US ‘shamelessly’ advertising Trump's businesses  —  CNN host Jake Tapper on Monday said the State Department is “shamelessly” advertising President Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.  —  “Well, they're just shamelessly promoting his products on U.S. government, taxpayer-financed websites.
Discussion: RedState
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘Fox & Friends’ anchor to be State spokesperson
Dan Merica / CNN:
State Dept. blog promotes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, prompting ethics concerns
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Forget the critics, Mr. President.  Your first 100 days have been just fine.  —  Despite the best efforts of the White House “PR apparatus” to sell the president's first 100 days as a success, the New York Times declared in an editorial, the new administration has, in fact, been plagued by …
Discussion: The Week, Daily Wire and The Guardian
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NBC News:   First 100 Days  —  It's the start of a presidency like no other.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Macron Campaign Wards Off Hacking Attempts Linked to Russia  —  Presidential candidate's campaign suffers multipronged phishing attack beginning in mid-March  —  PARIS—Hackers matching the profile of a pro-Kremlin group have tried in recent weeks to access campaign email accounts …
Zach Kyle / Idaho Statesman:
Chobani sues Alex Jones, InfoWars for defamation over Twin Falls assault coverage  —  Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government …
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Obama's hidden Iran deal giveaway  —  When President Barack Obama announced the “one-time gesture” of releasing Iranian-born prisoners who “were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses” last year, his administration presented the move as a modest trade-off for the greater …
Steve Chawkins / Los Angeles Times:
Robert Pirsig dies at 88; wrote counterculture classic ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’  —  Robert Pirsig in 1991 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. (Gary Guisinger / For The Times)  —  In the nearly five years it took Robert Pirsig to sell “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Despite Reports, Fmr Fox Guest Now Claims She Was Never Sexually Harassed by Sean Hannity  —  Debbie Schlussel, a former Fox News guest, appeared on a local radio show on Friday and recounted an incident where Sean Hannity purportedly asked her to a hotel, and when she rebuffed his advances …
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
Bill Nye's Bizarre Video On Transgenderism Bombs On YouTube [VIDEO]  —  A clip of Bill Nye's latest television show promotes transgenderism and other gender identities as hard science, and it's performing horribly on YouTube, as of Monday.  —  “My Sex Junk,” published on YouTube Sunday …
Discussion: Hot Air and SARAH PALIN
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump Holocaust remembrance speech uses wording similar to Holocaust Museum website's  —  President Trump's Holocaust remembrance remarks use similar wording to the Holocaust Museum website's “Introduction to the Holocaust” page.  —  “The Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution …
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth  —  Struggling communities deserve help, but nostalgia economics won't work.  —  A wave of recent columns argue that what Trump superfans — or at least some hazily imagined, hard-pressed Northern working-class version of them — really want is respect.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Fox News:
Tom Perez draws rebuke from Pelosi after declaring Dems can't be pro-life  —  Democrats no longer have a choice about being pro-choice.  —  So says Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, who drew a swift rebuke from Republicans and a public swipe from a top leader of his own party …
Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon … Stephen K. Bannon, who maintains a precarious hold over the nativist wing of the Trump White House, honed his skills in the art of conservative persuasion in the most liberal precinct of the American imagination, Hollywood.  He became himself in the byways of the movie business.
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Bow-tie Wearing Dog Vigorously Contests Mark Halperin's Version of Events  —  Charlie, the adorable bow-tie-wearing dog who landed at the center of a national controversy on Friday night when NBC News Senior Political Analyst Mark Halperin tweeted a photo that many took to mean he was unhappy …
Discussion: twitchy.com and RedState
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump jokes that Haley could ‘easily be replaced’  —  DON'T MISS A BRIEF.  SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
Discussion: Political Wire
Ulrich Baer / New York Times:
What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech  —  At one of the premieres of his landmark Holocaust documentary, “Shoah” (1985), the filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was challenged by a member of the audience, a woman who identified herself as a Holocaust survivor.
 
 
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
San Antonio mayor blames poverty on ‘broken people’ who aren't ‘in a relationship with their creator’
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
The way we were, &c.  —  On the Obama era, the Trump era …
Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
At Tomi Lahren hearing, judge orders The Blaze to search emails
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Dissatisfaction With Speaker Paul Ryan, Congress Overall Is Growing, Poll Finds
Discussion: Axios, Politicus USA and Politico
New York Times:
El Chapo Complains About Conditions at Manhattan Jail
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign
 Earlier Items: 
David Nather / Axios:
Republicans get details on latest health care compromise
Discussion: TheStreet
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 73% Back Independent Probe of Russian Election Interference
Foreign Policy:
The End of Foreign Aid As We Know It
Discussion: The Week
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: 15 Trumpists who did not survive the first 100 days