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8:10 PM ET, April 25, 2017

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Dean Karayanis / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Looks Like Trump Is Caving on Funding the Wall  —  RUSH: I'm not happy to have to pass this on.  I'm very, very troubled to have to pass this on.  And I want to say at the outset that I hope my interpretation is wrong, and I hope this is not the case.  But it looks like, from here …
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Republicans offer spending plan without border wall as Trump continues to vow that it will be built  —  A new Republican bid to keep the government open past Friday includes no new money for the construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, diminishing the chances of a last-minute spending fight.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Looks like Trump is ‘caving’ on border wall  —  Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that it looks like President Trump is “caving” on his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a high-profile campaign promise, ahead of a Friday deadline to fund the government.
Ben White / Politico:
Trump expected to include Democrat-friendly spending in tax plan
Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump gets booed, hissed at during Berlin event  —  BERLIN — Ivanka Trump arrived in Berlin on Tuesday morning armed with facts and figures to recite at what was expected to be a highbrow international summit to discuss women's entrepreneurship, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Workers endured long hours, low pay at Chinese factory used by Ivanka Trump's clothing-maker  —  Workers at a factory in China used by the company that makes clothing for Ivanka Trump's fashion line and other brands worked nearly 60 hours a week to earn wages of little more than $62 a week, according to a factory audit released Monday.
CNN:
German crowd hisses, boos at Ivanka when she defends her dad
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
In defense of Ivanka Trump after she was hissed at in Germany
Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Blocked by Federal Judge  —  San Francisco, Santa Clara County win court injunctions  —  President argued ‘immeasurable harm to the American people’  —  A San Francisco judge barred enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order withholding funds …
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Federal judge blocks Trump's sanctuary cities order
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Judge blocks part of Trump's sanctuary cities executive order
Discussion: TheBlaze
CNN:
White House denies House investigation request for Flynn documents  —  What you need to know about Michael Flynn  —  (CNN)The White House declined Tuesday to provide documents related to President Donald Trump's former national security adviser that the panel investigating Michael Flynn had requested …
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Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times:
White House Refuses to Turn Over Flynn Documents to House Inquiry
Aidan Quigley / Politico:
Trump appoints Alles as Secret Service director
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Flynn may have broken law, say Oversight leaders
Discussion: Politico
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Flynn likely broke the law by failing to disclose foreign payments, House Oversight leaders say
Justin Green / Axios:
Ted Cruz introduces “EL CHAPO Act” to pay for the wall  —  Senator Ted Cruz wants to use assets seized from drug lords such as El Chapo, the Mexican kingpin who was recently extradited to the U.S., to pay for border security and the border wall.  — The idea: U.S. prosecutors …
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Bob Price / Breitbart:
Ted Cruz Calls for $14 Billion Seized from ‘El Chapo’ to Fund Border Wall
Ted Cruz:
Sen. Cruz Introduces the EL CHAPO Act
Discussion: New York Magazine and IJR
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies  —  Beyond proposed cut from 39.6%, president wants to slash corporate levies on firms' foreign profits  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Wednesday is planning to unveil a proposal to cut corporate taxes …
KWWL-TV:
Iowa State Patrol Investigators inspecting crash involving Chris Soules  —  The Buchanan County Sheriff's Office says Chris Soules has been arrested for leaving the scene of a deadly crash.  —  Soules, who's from Arlington, is well known for starring in the show “The Bachelor.”
Discussion: TMZ.com, Refinery29, Fox 59, WGN-TV, Fox News, AOL and IJR
The Huffington Post:
Sen. Mike Enzi: A Guy Who Wears A Tutu To A Bar ‘Kind Of Asks For It’  —  The Wyoming senator was speaking to a group of high school and middle school students.  —  Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) told a group of high school and middle school students last week that it's fine to be a member of the lesbian …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike Rowe:
This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country's war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society.  Behold the latest assault from Nordstrom's.  The “Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans.” http://bit.ly/2oYpyBn  —  Finally - a pair of jeans that look …
Tucker Doherty / Politico:
The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think  —  How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell?  News organizations old and new, large and small, print and online, broadcast and cable assigned phalanxes of reporters armed with the most sophisticated polling data and analysis to cover the presidential campaign.
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Who Targeted Clinton Appear to Attack France's Macron  —  The campaign of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been targeted by what appear to be the same Russian operatives responsible for hacks of Democratic campaign officials before last year's American presidential election …
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Anna March / Salon:
Bye bye, Bernie: He's not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can't stop chasing the great white male  —  The Democratic Party is selling out women and all marginalized groups in favor of Bernie Sanders' dangerous myths VIDEO  —  To the extent that Democrats are looking for their progressive soul …
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D.D. Guttenplan / The Nation:
Why Was Heath Mello Thrown Under the Bus?
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Breitbart Has Been Denied Permanent Congressional Press Credentials  —  The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill, a move that would have given the right-wing news outlet more legitimacy within the Washington media.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Obama's $400,000 Wall Street speaking fee will undermine everything he believes in  —  To fight the rising tide of populism, mainstream leaders need to raise their ethical game.  —  Former President Barack Obama's decision to accept a $400,000 fee to speak at a health care conference organized …
Washington Post:
UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus  —  The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests in a public plaza on campus after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday afternoon.
Discussion: East Bay Times
Ben Becker / WJAX:
Brawl at Orange Park Mall involved up to 60 people, Clay County Sheriff's Office says  —  A video of Saturday's brawl at the Orange Park Mall has gone viral — it now has more than 800,000 views on the Action News Jax Facebook page.  —  The Clay County Sheriff's Office said up to 60 people …
Star Tribune:
Trump administration to defend contraception mandate required under Affordable Care Act  —  President Donald Trump promised religious groups he would reverse the Obama administration's requirement that employers provide birth control to their employees under the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: RedState
Sarah Wildman / Vox:
Trump's Holocaust Remembrance Day speech was normal — for any other president  —  After months of missteps, the president delivers an appropriately somber speech on the Holocaust.  —  President Donald Trump delivered the type of strong, somber speech about the Holocaust Tuesday morning …
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Babies Floating in Fluid-Filled Bags  —  When babies are born at 24 weeks' gestation, “it is very clear they are not ready to be here,” says Emily Partridge, a research fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  —  Doctors dress the hand-sized beings in miniature diapers and cradle …
Discussion: RedState, The Week and The Next Web
 
 
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Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
Hannity: No Longer Can the Slander Against Me Slide …
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Congressman Bought Pharma Stock, Pushed Bill That Could Help It, and Bought More
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian:
Justin Trudeau: father's influence made my brother's marijuana charge ‘go away’
Discussion: Political Wire
Pew Research Center:
As Mexican share declined, U.S. unauthorized immigrant population fell in 2015 below recession level
Discussion: KFOR-TV, NPR and The Daily Caller
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Trump Seems to Retreat on Shutdown, But Secret Spending Bill Still Looms
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: Tucker Carlson Tops in First Night at 8 O'Clock
Ruth Styles / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Hot felon’ Jeremy Meeks is DEPORTED from the UK less than eight hours after he landed for a fashion shoot
Discussion: The Root, Mashable and theGrio
 Earlier Items: 
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Centrist Republican leader Charlie Dent says he's still a ‘no’ on Obamacare repeal bill
Discussion: Political Wire
Trend Micro:
From Espionage to Cyber Propaganda: Pawn Storm's Activities over the Past Two Years
Discussion: Axios
CNN:
First on CNN: Ex-Christie aide joins Cuomo as new chief of staff
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Bonnie Bacarisse / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit's Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’
Discussion: Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency
 
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