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8:30 AM ET, April 26, 2017

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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes  —  President Trump on Wednesday plans to call for a significant increase in the standard deduction people can claim on their tax returns, potentially putting thousands of dollars each year into the pockets of tens …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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New York Times:
Trump's Tax Plan: Low Rate for Corporations, and for Companies Like His  —  President Trump plans to unveil a tax cut blueprint on Wednesday that would apply a vastly reduced, 15 percent business tax rate not only to corporations but also to companies that now pay taxes through the personal income tax code …
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 …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Ryan likely to get rolled on tax reform  —  Donald Trump is set to steamroll Paul Ryan on tax reform, the issue the speaker has devoted his political career to achieving.  —  But don't expect Ryan to relinquish his pet cause easily.  —  The White House on Wednesday will drop the outlines …
Discussion: ABC News
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
Discussion: CNBC
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal  —  Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.  —  House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans' new health amendment lets insurers charge sick people more, cover less  —  House Republicans are floating a new amendment to their health care bill, one that would likely cause even more Americans to lose coverage than the last version.  —  The American Health Care Act …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Apparently repealing Obamacare could violate international law
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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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Rules That Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Is “Clearly Unconstitutional”
Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Judge blocks part of Trump's sanctuary cities executive order
Discussion: Politicus USA and TheBlaze
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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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Budget director: Trump would sign a funding bill without wall money  —  Mulvaney: Trump open to bill without wall fund  —  Washington (CNN)With a potential government shutdown set for Friday at midnight, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney confirmed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump would …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News anchor joins lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment at network  —  Fox News still under grand jury probe  —  Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs, including an anchor, joining a suit alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the network.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Fox News Faces New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit  —  Troubles at Fox News compounded yet again on Tuesday, with the emergence of new allegations of racial discrimination at the company coming less than a week after the ouster of the network's star Bill O'Reilly.
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.
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Christopher Wallace / Fox News:   UC Berkeley riots: Violence looms as mayor questioned over ties to extremist group
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus leaders back new health-care plan  —  White House officials and several Republican lawmakers claimed Tuesday they were nearing a deal on health-care legislation with the House Freedom Caucus, with at least three leading figures in the hard-line group ready to support …
Discussion: Axios and The Week
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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
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
Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Views on Russian influence reflect partisan finger-pointing (POLL)  —  It's a partisan cold war right here at home: A majority of Democrats think now-President Donald Trump's campaign tried to help Russia influence the 2016 election, while a majority of Republicans think former President …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
The US just lost a trade battle with Mexico  —  Canada's foreign minister: Lumber tax will hurt Americans  —  The US just lost a trade battle with Mexico.  It's the first loss of the Trump era.  —  Mexico and the US have fought for years over tuna.  The US insists that any Mexican tuna sold …
Discussion: Occupy Democrats, Politicus USA and FEE
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.”
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 …
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 …
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.
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Slow pace of Trump nominations leaves Cabinet agencies ‘stuck’ in staffing limbo  —  President Trump's Cabinet secretaries are growing exasperated at how slowly the White House is moving to fill hundreds of top-tier posts, warning that the vacancies are hobbling efforts to oversee agency operations …
Discussion: Politico and TalkLeft
 
 
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Charles R. Kesler / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is a Real Republican, and That's a Good Thing
Claire Berlinski / The American Interest:
Guilty Men  —  Turkish democracy didn't die all at once …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Instapundit
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Survivor's Guilt and the Media
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:
With Secret Airship, Sergey Brin Also Wants to Fly
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Marine Le Pen May Get a Lift From an Unlikely Source: The Far Left
Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
Hannity: No Longer Can the Slander Against Me Slide …
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Congressman Bought Pharma Stock, Pushed Bill That Could Help It, and Bought More
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Star Tribune:
Trump administration to defend contraception mandate required under Affordable Care Act
Discussion: The Resurgent and RedState
Pew Research Center:
As Mexican share declined, U.S. unauthorized immigrant population fell in 2015 below recession level
Discussion: AOL, NPR, The Daily Caller and KFOR-TV
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
In defense of Ivanka Trump after she was hissed at in Germany
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Babies Floating in Fluid-Filled Bags
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