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7:30 PM ET, May 2, 2017

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New York Times:
Ivanka Trump Has the President's Ear.  Here's Her Agenda.  —  A month before Donald J. Trump was elected president, he and his aides watched his daughter's coolly composed surface crack open.  —  Inside Trump Tower, the candidate was preparing for a debate when an aide rushed in with news …
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
White House aims for Thursday signing of religious liberty executive order  —  President Donald Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on Thursday for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump set to sign religious liberty order: report
Discussion: RedState
Robert Bluey / Heritage Foundation:
Statement From the Chairman of Heritage's Board of Trustees  —  Vice President, Publishing & Editor in Chief, Daily Signal … The Heritage Foundation's Board of Trustees, by a unanimous vote, has asked for and received the resignation of Jim DeMint as president and CEO of the organization.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
The real reason Jim DeMint got the boot  —  Jim DeMint's ouster from The Heritage Foundation came as a shock to the hundreds of scholars and staffers who've seen the organization's political influence grow thanks to DeMint's controversial decision to align the leading conservative think tank closely with Donald Trump.
Discussion: Political Wire and twitchy.com
CNN:
Sources: Former Acting AG Yates to contradict administration about Flynn at hearing  —  Washington (CNN)Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is prepared to testify before a Senate panel next week that she gave a forceful warning to the White House regarding then-National Security Advisor …
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Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:   Rep. Cummings busts Pence: “I warned the vice president directly” about Michael Flynn
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Colbert Demolishes Trump for Insulting ‘Face The Nation’ Host John Dickerson … President Donald Trump insulted Face The Nation host John Dickerson and Stephen Colbert is pissed.  —  As the Late Show host explained in his monologue on Monday, during his CBS colleague's Sunday morning interview …
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Mark Graham / Decider:
Stephen Colbert's Shocking Attack On Trump Concludes With A Homophobic Slur … Once the clock struck midnight on Donald Trump's 100 days in office, Stephen Colbert's claws came out.  He delivered his most vicious attack on the President to date during the monologue of Monday night's …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Fred Upton's cynical reversal on repealing Obamacare shows why people distrust Republicans  —  If you want to gain an understanding of why it's so difficult for many people to trust Republicans on healthcare, look no further than the cynical decision of Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton: ‘If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president’  —  New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she takes personal responsibility for her 2016 loss, but also pointed to the timing of a letter from FBI Director James Comey and Russian interference as factors.
Discussion: Hot Air, Balloon Juice and TheBlaze
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Associated Press:
Full public FBI reveal is rare for Trump-Russia type probes
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton: ‘I was on the way to winning’ until Comey, Russia intervened
Discussion: ABC News
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Department will not charge Baton Rouge officers in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling  —  The Justice Department has decided not to bring charges against the officers involved in the death of Alton Sterling, whose videotaped shooting by police in Baton Rouge last summer prompted unrest across the city …
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YouTube:
Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son's Birth & Heart Disease … Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel.  At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and is now home with his family.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Adviser Jared Kushner Didn't Disclose Startup Stake  —  Investments show ties to Goldman Sachs, George Soros and Peter Thiel as well as a number of loans  —  Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, didn't identify on his government financial disclosure form …
Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like  —  In late March, Hypatia, a feminist-philosophy journal, published an article titled “In Defense of Transracialism” by Rebecca Tuvel, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, as part of its spring 2017 issue.
Discussion: Daily Nous
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republican Blurts Out That Sick People Don't Deserve Affordable Care  —  Republicans usually defend their health care position with an array of buzzwords like choice, patient-centric, or competition.  In a CNN interview, Representative Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican, makes the case …
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Jimmy Kimmel Might Have Struck the Final Blow Against the GOP Health-Care Plan
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Video captures fistfight between passengers on flight to Los Angeles  —  (CNN)One minute passengers were settling into their seats for the 11-hour flight from Tokyo, Japan, to Los Angeles.  —  The next they were scrambling out of the way as a male passenger became irate and began throwing punches …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House scrambles to rebrand spending bill as Trump ‘win’  —  The Trump administration is doing damage control as Congress inches toward passage of a massive spending deal that ducks the president's most contentious demands.  —  Less than 48 hours after the funding bill's release …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump tries to claim border wall win in budget deal
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
A Woman Is On Trial For Laughing During A Congressional Hearing  —  Activist was arrested by a rookie cop after laughing at a claim that Jeff Sessions treated “all Americans equally.” … WASHINGTON The U.S. Capitol Police officer who decided to arrest an activist because she briefly laughed …
Discussion: Vox, The FADER, Hit & Run, Raw Story and The Week
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell shoots down Trump's call to end the filibuster  —  (R-Ky.) is shooting down President Trump's push for Republicans to change the Senate's rules for blocking legislation.  —  Asked if Republicans would nix the 60-vote filibuster to allow legislation to pass by a simple majority …
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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Bret Stephens Isn't the Only Problem at the New York Times Op-Ed Page  —  From Friedman to Bruni, the paper of record's columnists are abysmal.  —  At this point the case against the New York Times's decision to give Bret Stephens an op-ed column is well-known.
CNN:
GOP candidate's husband shares image urging voters to ‘free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation’  —  (CNN)The husband of Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel shared an image on his Twitter timeline Tuesday that urged voters to support his wife in order to “free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Ben Tulchin / Medium:
First Brexit, Then Trump.  Is Le Pen the Next Political Earthquake?  (Part 2)  —  After the first round of the French presidential election, we re-ran our analysis (here is link to our initial analysis) and while it is looking promising for Macron, there is still a realistic scenario in which Le Pen could win.
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Orioles' Adam Jones berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park  —  BOSTON — Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones was berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park while a bag of peanuts was thrown at him Monday night, calling it one of the worst cases of fan abuse he has heard in his career.
James Ball / BuzzFeed:
UK Defence Ministry Casts Doubt On Trump Aide's Military Service Claims  —  Sebastian Gorka, an aide to President Donald Trump, has claimed roles relating to counter-terror, Northern Ireland, and in investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia — but the UK Ministry of Defence can't find evidence for any of it.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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Reuters:
U.S. lawmakers grill airline executives after customer disasters
Discussion: Hot Air
Joe Pagonakis / newsnet5:
Cleveland police union to file federal lawsuit against toy gun makers
Discussion: TheBlaze and ThinkProgress
Daniel Payne / The Federalist:
Did Bill Nye Censor Himself Because Of Transgender Ideology?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dr. Susan Berry / Breitbart:
Paul Ryan: ‘Planned Parenthood Is Not Funded’ in Budget Reconciliation Bill
Discussion: Speaker.gov
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias
Devin Henry / The Hill:
Trump donation could pay for Civil War battlefield repair projects
Discussion: USA Today
Jackie Rehwald / Springfield News-Leader:
Lightning strike kills 32 cows near Cabool
Discussion: Daily Mail
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
In Tense Encounter, Merkel Tells Putin Sanctions Must Remain
Discussion: Axios
Robert P. Jones / New York Times:
The Collapse of American Identity
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Trump farmers now worry he was serious about NAFTA repeal
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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