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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 …
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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Beau Evans / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Removal of the first of four New Orleans Confederate monuments begins with Liberty Place — Gallery: Supporters of Confederate monuments watch as one is torn down — Efforts to remove four Confederate monuments commenced early Monday morning (April 24), as crews and police gathered around …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Axios, CNBC, Business Insider, New York Times and Washington Post
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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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.
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Lauren Sherman / The Business of Fashion:
Amidst Backlash, Ivanka Trump Clothing Is Secretly Relabelled as Adrienne Vittadini — BoF has learned that G-III, the company that licenses Ivanka Trump ready-to-wear, has relabelled inventory without the knowledge of the brand and sold it to discount chain Stein Mart.
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NBC News:
First 100 Days — It's the start of a presidency like no other. We talked to historians, activists, and White House veterans to evaluate President Trump's progress at his first major benchmark. — Words BENJY SARLIN Photographs JIM LO SCALZO/EPA — FIRST 100 DAYS ARE HARD. Just ask Bill Clinton.
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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 …
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SARAH PALIN
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Senate Russia probe flounders amid partisan bickering — More than three months after the Senate Intelligence Committee launched its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election — including allegations of collusion by associates of President Trump — the panel has made little progress …
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Senate Trump-Russia Probe Has No Full-Time Staff, No Key Witnesses
Senate Trump-Russia Probe Has No Full-Time Staff, No Key Witnesses
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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 …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Democrats' self-inflicted abortion problem
Democrats' self-inflicted abortion problem
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans sound alarm on Trump's troubles ahead of 2018 — Republicans say President Donald Trump needs to turn things around fast — or the GOP could pay dearly in 2018. — With the party preparing to defend its congressional majorities in next year's midterms, senior Republicans …
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Geller Report, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, Political Wire and Politicus USA
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Who Does the Anne Frank Center Represent? — Sean Spicer was in trouble. In a press conference addressing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people, the White House press secretary had fallen into one of his signature slow-moving train-wrecks of an analogy …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and SARAH PALIN
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.
Jonathan Tilove / politics.blog.mystatesman.com:
In midst of custody battle, Alex Jones reveals that at 16, 'I'd already had over 150 women.' — Good Monday Austin: — On Saturday afternoon Alex Jones tweeted this. — LIVE: Alex Jones Responds to Sandy Hook Vampire http://www.infowars.com/... #tcot pic.twitter.com/1WjBb6Cboo — Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 22, 2017
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: 15 Trumpists who did not survive the first 100 days — THE BIG IDEA: In any normal administration, the failure of Andy Puzder to become secretary of labor would be a major data point in accounts of the president's first 100 days. — It would be difficult, for example …
Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:
San Antonio Mayor Suggests ‘Broken People’ Without God Cause Poverty — Ivy Taylor suggests “not being in a relationship with [one's] creator” leads to being an unproductive member of society — The mayor of San Antonio claims one of the deepest causes of poverty is the lack of a relationship with God.
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 73% Back Independent Probe of Russian Election Interference — Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they want an independent, non-partisan commission instead of Congress to investigate Russia's involvement in the 2016 election, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Politicus USA, Political Wire and naked capitalism
Breitbart:
Report: Kellogg's Spent Millions to Fund Research Undermining Warnings About Sugar in Cereals — Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Mason Boycott-Owen report in The Sunday Times that cereal giant Kellogg's has been funding studies that undermine official government warnings about the link between sugary cereals and obesity.
John Markoff / New York Times:
No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car — This isn't science fiction. A number of start-ups as well as big aerospace firms are trying to build personal aircraft you could fly around town. — CLEARLAKE, Calif. — On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working …
Elvia Malagon / Chicago Tribune:
After violent weekend, Chicago nearing 1,000 gunshot victims this year — Chicago police investigate a double shooting at 79th Street and Maryland Avenue on April 22, 2017. — The number of people shot in Chicago this year is nearing 1,000 after a violent weekend left seven dead and 31 others wounded …
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Azi Paybarah / Politico:
Dietl questions de Blasio's name and heart — Independent mayoral candidate Bo Dietl on Monday, in the course of being endorsed for mayor by a Republican City Council member, accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of changing his name in a cynical ploy to court Jewish voters and of potentially lacking a heart.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump disses the United Nations as an ‘underperformer’ — With the ambassadors to the United Nations Security Council gathered around him in the White House Monday, President Donald Trump labeled the UN “an underperformer” and appeared to both heavily praise and jokingly jab at his U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley.
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