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12:30 AM ET, April 18, 2018

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New York Times:
Sanctions Flap Erupts Into Open Conflict Between Haley and White House  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump was watching television on Sunday when he saw Nikki R. Haley, his ambassador to the United Nations, announce that he would impose fresh sanctions on Russia.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump letting Haley take heat despite signing off on sanctions  —  President Donald Trump gave approval last week for rolling out airstrikes in Syria as well as new sanctions on Russia, according to three senior administration officials — but U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley …
The Hill:   Top Trump energy adviser resigns
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:   Image projected on Trump's DC hotel: 'There's a rapist in the White House'
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Haley fires back at White House: 'I don't get confused'
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
Robin Bravender / E&E News:
Trump's top energy aide stepping down
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and Axios
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Nikki Haley responds to White House claims: “I don't get confused”
Discussion: New York Post and The Daily Caller
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Sean Hannity's Ties to Two More Trump-Connected Lawyers  —  Sean Hannity has had no shortage of lawyers.  In court on Monday, his name was disclosed as the third “mystery client” of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.  Though Hannity says he was never actually Cohen's client …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Hannity's rising role in Trump's world: ‘He basically has a desk in the place’  —  The phone calls between President Trump and Sean Hannity come early in the morning or late at night, after the Fox News host goes off the air.  They discuss ideas for Hannity's show, Trump's frustration …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“You Only Hire Cohen for One Reason”: Inside Fox News, Sean Hannity's Michael Cohen Disclosure Stokes a Crisis as Murdoch Wavers on Trump  —  The revelation that Trump's lawyer offered legal advice to Fox News's biggest name was shocking, even to Fox loyalists.  “This is bad,” one Fox staffer said.
Discussion: Mediaite
The Babylon Bee:   Nation Suddenly Worried Sean Hannity Might Not Be Completely Objective
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend … CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-secret visit to North Korea over Easter weekend as an envoy for President Trump to meet with that country's leader, Kim Jong Un, according to two people with direct knowledge of the trip.
Associated Press:
Supreme Court strikes down part of immigration law as too vague  —  The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.  —  The court's 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Neil Gorsuch voted with the liberal justices, but his opinion should chill you to the bone  —  Broadly speaking, there are two different approaches to the law on the Supreme Court's right flank.  —  Justice Samuel Alito is the consummate partisan.  Unlike his other conservative colleagues …
Ilya Shapiro / Washington Examiner:
Surprised by Neil Gorsuch's ruling? You weren't paying attention.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Gorsuch Joins Supreme Court's Liberals to Strike Down Deportation Law
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and New Republic
Vince Lattanzio / NBC 10 Philadelphia:
Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks Mid-Flight; Plane Lands Safely in Philadelphia  —  Southwest Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Philly  —  A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely in Philadelphia Tuesday after the jet violently depressurized when a piece …
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Max Jaeger / New York Post:
Hero who landed Southwest flight was an ace Navy pilot
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Daily Beast
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Mattis Wanted Congressional Approval Before Striking Syria.  He Was Overruled.  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged President Trump to get congressional approval before the United States launched airstrikes against Syria last week, but was overruled by Mr. Trump …
Discussion: CNN, The Week and Raw Story
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Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
‘One last time’: Barbara Bush had already faced a death more painful than her own
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jon Meacham / New York Times:
Barbara Bush, a First Lady Without Apologies
Discussion: CBS News, FOX2now.com, CNBC and CNN
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Handful of House Republicans mobilize to protect Mueller  —  A small band of House Republicans has suddenly backed a bill to prevent President Donald Trump from unilaterally firing special counsel Robert Mueller — giving some bipartisan life to a measure that has largely been shunned by GOP leaders.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mitch McConnell Gives Trump Green Light to Fire Mueller
Washington Post:   7-term Republican Rep. Charlie Dent, who had announced he wasn't running in the fall, says he'll resign next month
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The GOP ‘Has Become the Caricature the Left Always Said It Was’  —  Hours after Paul Ryan announced his retirement last week, President Donald Trump tweeted a photo of the House speaker and the rest of the GOP congressional leadership at dinner together at the White House.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Marco Rubio, Darling of G.O.P. Establishment, Hires a Thorn in Its Side
Discussion: The Resurgent and National Review
New York Times:
Why There Is No ‘Liberal Tea Party’
Internal Revenue Service:
IRS provides additional day to file and pay for taxpayers through Wednesday, April 18; IRS processing systems back online  —  WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline.
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Washington Post:
IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before midnight deadline
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
I.R.S. Website Crashes on Tax Day as Millions Tried to File Returns
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Privilege is real.  But being a white man shouldn't disqualify me. … I am the child of privilege — or so I am being told.  I am white, I am male.  Put them together and you would think I've been sitting on a trust fund — unearned, unappreciated and unjustified.
Discussion: Jezebel, Daily Kos and Shakesville
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Richard Cohen's privilege, explained
Discussion: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Speaker Paul Ryan / Fox News:
Tax Day isn't usually a day to celebrate.  This year is different  —  Investment strategist CFRA Lindsey Bell weighs in on ‘Fox & Friends First.’  —  Filing taxes is something that fills most of us with dread.  We do the costly, complicated chore and can't wait to move on.  It's usually not a day to celebrate.
Discussion: CNBC and Speaker.gov
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Paul Waldman / The Week:
Americans don't pay enough taxes
Erik Avanier / WJXT-TV:
Controversy over Jacksonville store's display of military flags caught on camera  —  Video shows city inspector getting in face of veteran at Jaguar Power Sports  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville city inspector walked into a Cedar Hills Estate business to issue a warning citation …
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Vic Micolucci / WJXT-TV:
City suspends Jacksonville inspector over military flag flak
Discussion: TheBlaze
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Here's Why Congressman Blake Farenthold Resigned So Abruptly  —  He was about to get some bad news.  —  WASHINGTON It's been a mystery why former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) abruptly resigned earlier this month.  —  But HuffPost has new details on what happened.
Discussion: VICE News, CNN, Political Wire and Splinter
New York Times:
San Francisco's Big Seismic Gamble  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Sailors arriving in San Francisco in the 19th century used two giant redwood trees perched on a hill to help guide their ships into the bay.  The redwoods were felled for their lumber at around the time of the gold rush …
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:   Clean up San Francisco's streets, tourist industry pleads
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump campaign paid Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller's lawyers, records show  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid more than $66,000 to the law firm that represents Keith Schiller, his former longtime bodyguard, newly filed campaign records show.  —  Schiller, who left a White House job …
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Trump's trade rep spends $1M on new furniture, blames Obama  —  WASHINGTON - President Trump's Trade Representative is spending nearly $1 million on new furniture — and blaming the Obama Administration.  —  US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spent more than $917,000 to furnish …
Discussion: VICE News and Washington Monthly
Neda Ulaby / NPR:
NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air  —  Every weekday for more than three decades, his baritone steadied our mornings.  Even in moments of chaos and crisis, Carl Kasell brought unflappable authority to the news.  But behind that hid a lively sense of humor …
 
 
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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Cohen and Attorney-Client Privilege
Jeff McCall / The Hill:
Ingraham's ratings spike a wake-up for advertisers
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
US and Russian nuclear arsenals set to be unchecked for first time since 1972
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Guns Fall From Record High as Top Problem
Discussion: RedState and Daily Wire
Veronique Hyland / ELLE:
Joy Reid Is Quietly, Steadily, Stealthily Changing the Game for Women on TV
Jack Suntrup / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Top Missouri GOP lawmakers call on Greitens to resign
Discussion: HuffPost and ABC News
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump sours on talking with Mueller after FBI raid of lawyer's office
 Earlier Items: 
Brenda Medina / miamiherald:
Family pleads for release of immigrant with Down syndrome arrested during recent raid
Hilary Weaver / Vanity Fair:
Matt Lauer Is Planning His Comeback
Discussion: Page Six
Oliver Carroll / The Independent:
‘Russian Elon Musk’ raped and tortured to death in custody, say experts
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Good Grief. Cohen's World Gets Mobbier The Closer I Look
Discussion: Associated Press
Laura Bassett / HuffPost:
Anti-Abortion Leader Emerges As White Nationalist
Discussion: Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Jezebel
Starbucks Newsroom:
Starbucks to Close All Stores Nationwide for Racial-Bias Education on May 29
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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