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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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U.S. carrier group heads for Korean waters, China calls for restraint
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump to name Howard Lorber to Holocaust council
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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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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump disses the United Nations as an ‘underperformer’
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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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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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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump pushes empowerment of women in op-ed with World Bank president — Ivanka Trump called for the global community to step up its economic empowerment of women in a Monday op-ed co-authored with the president of the World Bank. — In The Financial Times, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim …
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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 …
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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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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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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
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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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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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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.
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 …
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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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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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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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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Ailes Accuser Says Fox News Execs Ordered Eavesdropping On Her Digital Devices — A new lawsuit filed Monday by a suspended Fox News host accuses the network and senior executives of arranging to have her private communications spied on as part of a campaign of intimidation.
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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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