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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K  —  The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers.
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Washington Post:
Zinke took $12,000 charter flight home in oil executive's plane, documents show  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana this summer aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives, internal documents show.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Interior Secretary Zinke traveled on charter, military planes  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his aides have taken several flights on private or military aircraft, including a $12,000 charter plane to take him to events in his hometown in Montana and private flights between two Caribbean islands …
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Tom Price Wanted To Reopen His Department's Executive Dining Room, Sources Say  —  The executive dining room was used as an event and meeting space during the Obama years.  —  Tom Price, the Health and Human Services secretary currently under fire for his private jet travel …
Discussion: Salon
New York Times:
Chastened, Tom Price Tries to Deflect Anger Over Chartered Flights
Twitter:
Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, & Misinformation  —  Earlier this summer we outlined some of our work to combat bots and networks of manipulation on Twitter.  Since then, we have received a number of questions about how malicious bots and misinformation networks on Twitter …
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CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Fake black activist accounts linked to Russian government  —  Fake black activist accounts linked to Russia  —  A social media campaign calling itself “Blacktivist” and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during …
CBS News:
Mark Warner calls Twitter presentation to Intel panel “deeply disappointing”
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Exclusive: Kushner didn't disclose personal email account to Senate intel committee  —  Washington (CNN)In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account …
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Andrea Peterson / Politico:
White House launches probe of private email accounts  —  The White House has launched an internal probe of private email use, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from private accounts of senior aides, according to four officials familiar with the matter.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Failed to Disclose Massive Amount of Income on His Senate Ethics Form … Roy Moore, the controversial Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, neglected to disclose as much as $150,000 in income to federal ethics officials, according to a Daily Beast review of public records.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Roy Moore opposed the appointment of an ‘admitted homosexual’ to an ambassadorship in 2006  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for US Senate in Alabama, wrote two columns in 2006 criticizing the Bush administration for appointing openly gay men to government positions.
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lawlessness of Roy Moore  —  Both sides of my family hail from Alabama: my mother's people from the coal mining country of Walker County in the north and the tiny burg of Union Springs farther south; my dad's, from a speck of a cotton-mill town just east of Montgomery.
Discussion: Townhall.com, CNBC and New York Times
CBS News:
Jeff Flake says Republicans should speak out on Roy Moore's past comments
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
WND:
Jihad on our faith  —  Judge Roy Moore is the chairman …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:   GOP, Can You Hear Us Normals Now?
New York Times:
Trump Could Save More Than $1 Billion Under His New Tax Plan  —  Highlighted areas show what parts of President Trump's 2005 tax return could have been affected by the new tax plan.  —  President Trump could cut his tax bills by more than $1.1 billion, including saving tens of millions …
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
9 ways Trump's tax plan is a gift to the rich, including himself
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Democrats need to put forward a tax plan too  —  Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 28.  (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press)  —  Goaded by President Trump …
Discussion: The Week
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Make America Gipper Again
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:   How Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts
New York Times:   Fight Erupts to Shield Tax Breaks Threatened by G.O.P. Overhaul
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema enters Senate race, hoping to unseat Jeff Flake  —  U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is running for the Senate seat held by Jeff Flake, ending months of speculation about her political future and giving Democrats a top-tier fundraiser with experience on Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Politico and Shareblue
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:   Bernie backers give Dem incumbents a pass in 2018
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Removes Paper at Odds With Mnuchin's Take on Corporate-Tax Cut's Winners  —  WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department has taken down a 2012 economic analysis that contradicts Secretary Steven Mnuchin's argument that workers would benefit the most from a corporate income tax cut.
Discussion: The Week and Axios
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: World going to hell in a handbasket as nation comes apart at seams  —  A large majority of American voters feels the bonds that hold the country together are weakening, while over half think the world is going to hell in a handbasket.  —  A Fox News poll released Thursday …
Discussion: Opinion Today
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Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: 83 percent support pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants
Discussion: The Week
Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg:
New ‘KJU’ Shower Gel Not Named After Kim Jong Un, Insists Unilever  —  Unilever, which is trying to make a splash in the Asian cosmetics market, came to a surprising realization after it developed a new shower gel for China.  The initials of the KJU Perfumed by Lux label matched those of the supreme leader of North Korea.
Discussion: Mashable
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
In private remarks, Trump opines on North Korea, Afghanistan and catapults
Discussion: Business Insider
CBS Boston:
Librarian Rejects Books Donated By Melania Trump, Rips Dr. Seuss  —  CAMBRIDGE - The librarian at the Cambridgeport Elementary School is saying no thanks to a shipment of books from First Lady Melania Trump.  —  One school from each state was chosen by the White House to receive ten Dr. Seuss books as part of National Read a Book Day.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘Miracles really do happen’: Rep. Steve Scalise returns to Congress 15 weeks after he was shot  —  For the past 15 weeks, every gathering of House Republican leaders has had one thing in common — an empty chair, marking the absence of Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
Stephen Losey / Air Force Times:
Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates  —  Racial slurs were written on the dormitory message boards of five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School earlier this week.  —  Lt. Col. Allen Herritage …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
 
 
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Steven Malanga / City Journal:
Bench the NFL  —  The league enjoys an antitrust exemption …
Discussion: Instapundit
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Beyond the daily drama and Twitter battles, Trump begins to alter American life
Lili Anolik / Vanity Fair:
The Kate McKinnon Report
Discussion: Splinter
ABC News:
Sens. Susan Collins and Heidi Heitkamp talk bipartisanship
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Detroit Free Press:
Snyder backs state police director amid backlash over FB post condemning NFL protests
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
DOJ files suit against company for allegedly not hiring Americans
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Malone / Reuters:
Education Secretary DeVos faces largely silent protest at Harvard speech
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump-Russia pundit may run for Illinois AG post
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Illinois governor signs bill expanding public funding for abortion
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence sent lawyer to meet with Mueller over the summer
Adam Jentleson / Politico:
The Myth of Mitch McConnell, Political Super-Genius
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
There Is No GOP Establishment or Base. Just Massive Resistance.
Discussion: NBC News and Washington Monthly
 

 
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