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12:15 PM ET, April 26, 2017

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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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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
House GOP health bill changes exempt members of Congress  —  A new amendment to the Republican ObamaCare replacement bill exempts members of Congress and their staff from its effects.  —  The new changes to the bill would allow states to apply for waivers to repeal key ObamaCare provisions …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans are still very far from repealing Obamacare  —  It all comes down to turnout.  —  Suddenly, House Republicans sure seem like they are starting to move again on their previously stunted quest to repeal and replace Obamacare.  —  But where that movement is actually heading is not yet clear.
Discussion: Politico, Hit & Run and Axios
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
GOP still optimistic about health care revival  —  GOP House members came out of a conference meeting Wednesday morning still optimistic about a health care vote next week, provided the deal-making amendment gets fixed to subject Congress to the same Affordable Care Act regulation waivers as everyone else.
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Vox
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Club for Growth, FreedomWorks throw support behind latest GOP health plan  —  Two influential conservative groups that opposed the GOP's original ObamaCare repeal-and-replace plan will now support the latest version of it.  —  Club for Growth and FreedomWorks on Wednesday announced their support …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Axios
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus leaders back new health-care plan
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 …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More
Discussion: Business Insider
Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg:
Trump's 15% Corporate Tax Plan May Just Be His Opening Gambit
Discussion: Politico
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump attacks judiciary for blocking order on sanctuary cities  —  President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the nation's judiciary Wednesday, blaming the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for the ruling by a federal district court judge that blocked Trump's move to deny federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities.
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The Huffington Post:
Judge Blocks Donald Trump's Executive Order On Sanctuary Cities
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ann Coulter On Verge of Pulling Out of Speech at Berkeley  —  Ann Coulter said Wednesday that she is likely to cancel her planned appearance at the University of California, Berkeley, because she faced threats of violence and felt she was left without the support of local law enforcement who have said it cannot guarantee her safety.
Discussion: Berkeleyside
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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 …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Apparently repealing Obamacare could violate international law  —  We've already seen that repealing Obamacare is politically perilous.  Now there's a new complication: It may also violate international law.  —  The United Nations has contacted the Trump administration as part of an investigation …
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump contradicts her father on Syrian refugees: Admittance to U.S. ‘has to be part of the discussion’  —  Ivanka Trump stepped out publicly on the international stage for the first time this week, and she's now speaking out on one of the most controversial issues of her father's presidency: Syrian refugees.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's tax day
New York Post:
When will Obama have made enough money?  —  Cantor Fitzgerald LP will pay former President Barack Obama $400,000 to speak at a conference in September, likely the first of many lucrative Wall Street paydays.  —  Good for him.  —  SEE ALSO  —  Obama doesn't really need the money …
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The Sun:
WHO BUN IT?  Brit bunny riddle as rabbit destined to be world's biggest dies on United Airlines jet to US  —  Three foot Simon died in the cargo section of a Boeing 767 after leaving Heathrow  —  SCANDAL-hit United Airlines is facing a new PR disaster — after a valuable giant rabbit died mysteriously on one of its planes.
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Daily Mail:
Kim readies for war: North Korean leader salutes as his army fires rockets and torpedoes at mock enemy warships during country's ‘largest ever’ live-fire artillery drills  — North Korea marked military anniversary with the country's ‘largest ever’ live-fire artillery drills on Tuesday
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CNN:
Caitlyn Jenner doesn't regret voting for Trump despite his LGBT ‘mistakes’  —  Caitlyn Jenner on Trump: He's made mistakes  —  (CNN)Caitlyn Jenner may not like everything US President Donald Trump's administration has done so far — especially when it comes to actions affecting transgender Americans like her.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Mashable and Mediaite
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Caitlyn Jenner: ‘I would seriously look at a run’ for office
Discussion: RedState and Towleroad
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Will GOP Fund Planned Parenthood But Not Border Wall? … When Donald Trump stood in the lobby of Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 and announced he was running for president, he told all who listened to “mark” his words.  —  “I would do various things very quickly,” Trump said.
Chrissacca / LOWERCASE capital:
Hanging up my spurs.  —  A couple years ago, my wife Crystal and I were cleaning out our garage in Truckee when we came across an old notebook of mine from when I lived in Ireland at age 20.  Back then, a friend had asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Carl Bernstein: Flynn is ‘central to what FBI believes is cover-up’ … CNN commentator Carl Bernstein suggested Wednesday that former national security adviser Michael Flynn's is key to helping the FBI unravel a vast “cover-up” of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Jeff Stein / Vox:
The NYT's new columnist defends his views on Arabs, Black Lives Matter, campus rape  —  On April 12, the New York Times's vaunted editorial page got a new addition.  Bret Stephens, formerly a columnist at the Wall Street Journal, will join Ross Douthat and David Brooks among the stable of in-house conservatives at the Gray Lady.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Ivanka Trump's new fund for female entrepreneurs  —  Ivanka Trump told me yesterday from Berlin that she has begun building a massive fund that will benefit female entrepreneurs around the globe.  Both countries and companies will contribute to create a pool of capital to economically empower women.
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The biggest story of Trump's first 100 days?  His survival  —  MORE FROM: … Unless the world ends before Saturday, most assessments of President Trump's first 100 days will include a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.  The emphasis will reveal more about those doing the grading than Trump himself.
 
 
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘This country cannot survive with a failure at the top’: Chris Matthews explodes at ‘pure evil’ Donald Trump
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
SCOOP: NBC could move studio from Nebraska Ave. …
Lauren Camera / US News:
Charter and Magnet Schools Among Best in U.S.
Discussion: National Review, Joanne Jacobs and AOL
David Nather / Axios:
Trump administration won't promise to keep making insurer payments
Discussion: Politico and ThinkProgress
John Irish / Reuters:
French intelligence says Assad forces carried out sarin attack
Los Angeles Times:
For first time, more L.A. residents believe new riots likely, new poll finds
Discussion: CityLab and KTLA
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Texas high-school student peed in teacher's cup before she drank from it, police say
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Rex Tillerson Spurns Africa In Botched Meeting with African Union Chief
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Trump's First 100 Days: What Mattered, And What Didn't
Amanda Watts / CNN:
Cops use murdered woman's Fitbit to charge her husband
Charles R. Kesler / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is a Real Republican, and That's a Good Thing
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Slow pace of Trump nominations leaves Cabinet agencies ‘stuck’ in staffing limbo
Discussion: TalkLeft and Politico
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
The US just lost a trade battle with Mexico
Discussion: Occupy Democrats, Politicus USA and FEE
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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