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1:40 AM ET, April 25, 2017

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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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Associated Press:
Trump backs away from demand for border wall money  —  President Donald Trump stepped back Monday from demanding a down payment for his border wall in must-past spending legislation, potentially removing a major obstacle to a bipartisan deal just days ahead of a government shutdown deadline.
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
New York Times:
As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, U.S. Fears Time Will Run Out  —  WASHINGTON — Behind the Trump administration's sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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
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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The Hill:   Trump's wall jams GOP in shutdown talks
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened.
Discussion: NBC News
Burgess Everett / Politico:   Decision time for GOP on Trump's wall and government shutdown
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Another government shutdown over Obamacare? Only if Trump wants it.
Discussion: Politico and NPR
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 …
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 and Daily Wire
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Christie gives Trump a ‘B,’ says WH staff need to ‘get their act together’  —  Warren gives Trump an ‘F’ on first 100 days  —  Washington (CNN)With a few days left of his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump's friend Gov. Chris Christie graded his performance so far as a “B.”
Dan Merica / CNN:
State Dept. blog promotes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, prompting ethics concerns  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump personally owns Mar-a-Lago, his private club on Florida's eastern coast.  But that didn't stop the State Department, in a blog post on the United States Embassy in London's website, from touting the property.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN's Tapper: US ‘shamelessly’ advertising Trump's businesses
Discussion: RedState
Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘Fox & Friends’ anchor to be State spokesperson
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 …
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 …
Fox Business:
Obama Wall Street's Newest Fat Cat With Cantor Speech  —  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press)  —  When he was president he called them “fat cats,” but now he's likely thanking them for a huge payday.  —  Former President Barack Obama, less than 100 days out of office …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:   Obama to net $400K for Wall Street speech: report
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News  —  Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels.  But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.  —  “The Rachel Maddow Show” surpassed “Tucker Carlson Tonight” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron R. Hanlon / New Republic:
Why Colleges Have a Right to Reject Hateful Speakers Like Ann Coulter  —  Disinviting right-wing provocateurs isn't a suppression of free speech.  It's a value judgment in keeping with higher education's mission.  —  As graduation season approaches, colleges across the country are locking …
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.
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
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 …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hate speech is free speech, Gov. Dean: Glenn Reynolds  —  The former governor showed himself to be a constitutional illiterate on Twitter.  —  I tell my constitutional law students that there are a couple of statements that indicate that a speaker is a constitutional illiterate who can safely be ignored.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Wire
Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
At Tomi Lahren hearing, judge orders The Blaze to search emails  —  A Dallas County judge on Monday ordered Glenn Beck and his conservative media company The Blaze to produce emails between them and a reporter for The Daily Caller related to the controversial pundit Tomi Lahren.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's administration has taken a tough stance on WikiLeaks in recent weeks.  —  US officials told CNN last week that the Justice Department has prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Dissatisfaction With Speaker Paul Ryan, Congress Overall Is Growing, Poll Finds  —  Nearly three-quarters disapprove of Congress's job performance, up 12 points since February  —  Americans hold dim views of Congress and of House Speaker Paul Ryan, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds …
Discussion: Politicus USA, Axios and Politico
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
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
BBC:
Le Pen ‘steps aside’ as party leader  —  Marine Le Pen says she's stepping aside as leader of far-right National Front party as she seeks French presidency … You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.
 
 
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Resilience of the Resistance
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Big Turnout for Ossoff Surpassed Recent Democratic Benchmarks
Discussion: New York Magazine
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump Holocaust remembrance speech uses wording similar to Holocaust Museum website's
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
New York Times:
El Chapo Complains About Conditions at Manhattan Jail
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Financial Times:
Investment in women unleashes global gains
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 73% Back Independent Probe of Russian Election Interference
Fox News:
Tom Perez draws rebuke from Pelosi after declaring Dems can't be pro-life
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Bow-tie Wearing Dog Vigorously Contests Mark Halperin's Version of Events
Discussion: twitchy.com and RedState