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5:40 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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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 …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
Discussion: CNBC
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Instead of launching tax reform, Trump could ground it
Discussion: Mother Jones and Bloomberg
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 …
Star Tribune:
Trump administration to defend contraception mandate required under Affordable Care Act
Discussion: RedState
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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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: TheBlaze
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
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
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.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News anchor joins lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment at network
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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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
Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times:
White House Refuses to Turn Over Flynn Documents to House Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — White House officials have refused to turn over documents related to the hiring and firing of Michael T. Flynn, President Trump's first national security adviser, the -House's top oversight lawmakers said Tuesday.
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CNN:
White House denies House investigation request for Flynn documents
Aidan Quigley / Politico:
Trump appoints Alles as Secret Service director
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
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 …
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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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
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
In Sheriff David Clarke's jail, water was kept from mentally ill inmate for 7 days before he died of dehydration
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 …
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Congressman Bought Pharma Stock, Pushed Bill That Could Help It, and Bought More
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
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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
Discussion: RedState, The Week and The Next Web
 

 
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast plans to announce Wednesday that it will be spinning off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO

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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