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5:40 PM ET, April 24, 2017

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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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New York Times:
Five Key Questions as a Government Shutdown Looms
David Nather / Axios:
Republicans get details on latest health care compromise
Discussion: TheStreet
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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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 …
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 …
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.  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.
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 …
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: RedState
Financial Times:
Investment in women unleashes global gains  —  Female economic empowerment brings dividends for families, businesses and nations  —  Read next … At the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund spring meetings last week in Washington, a central theme was how to accelerate sustainable, inclusive economic growth.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump pushes empowerment of women in op-ed with World Bank president
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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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Wesley J. Smith / National Review:
NYT Publishes Speech Suppression Advocacy
Discussion: Hot Air
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
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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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
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump disses the United Nations as an ‘underperformer’
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 …
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: SARAH PALIN
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.
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.
Discussion: Daily Wire and New York Times
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Scott Sayare / The Atlantic:   The French Election Is Macron's to Lose
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 …
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 …
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.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘Fox & Friends’ anchor to be State spokesperson  —  Fox News anchor Heather Nauert has been hired by the State Department to be its spokesperson.  —  Nauert, 47, has been a news anchor on “Fox & Friends” since 2012 and has been with Fox News and local New York Fox affiliate Fox 5 …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump faces skeptical audience in Berlin  —  BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to the White House last month may have been filled with awkward moments, but she left with one key takeaway — identifying the first daughter as her back-channel to President Donald Trump.
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 …
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump order could undo designation of national monuments: report  —  President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday instructing the Department of the Interior to review the designations of national monuments by his predecessors, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
 
 
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
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Washington Post:
In Chicago, Obama tells young leaders that ‘special interests dominate the debates in Washington’
Elvia Malagon / Chicago Tribune:
After violent weekend, Chicago nearing 1,000 gunshot victims this year
Azi Paybarah / Politico:
Dietl questions de Blasio's name and heart
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 73% Back Independent Probe of Russian Election Interference
Kate O'Beirne / National Review:
Remembering Kate O'Beirne
Discussion: Power Line
Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:
San Antonio Mayor Suggests ‘Broken People’ Without God Cause Poverty
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Breitbart:
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Donald J. Boudreaux / FEE:
You Are Richer than John D. Rockefeller
Discussion: Bloomberg
Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
For The Left, Socialism Denial Is Holocaust Denial
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
With Budget Debate Looming, Growing Share of Public Prefers Bigger Government
Foreign Policy:
The End of Foreign Aid As We Know It
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: 15 Trumpists who did not survive the first 100 days
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Jonathan Tilove / politics.blog.mystatesman.com:
In midst of custody battle, Alex Jones reveals that at 16, 'I'd already had over 150 women.'
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
 

 
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CNBC:
Comcast confirms plans to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO; the separation may take about a year

James Warrington / Telegraph:
Almost 93% of 600 Guardian and Observer staff organized by the NUJ vote in favor of strike action over the proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction
 
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