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8:45 PM ET, April 28, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does …
Axios:
Trump sets Tester trap, calls for resignation  —  President Trump went after Sen. Jon Tester Saturday morning for releasing allegations against his pick for Secretary of the VA, Dr. Ronny Jackson.  —  Why it matters: Jackson's confirmation process was already rocky before Tester's team released …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Why Trump's snubbing of White House correspondents' dinner matters  —  Trump's thinly veiled attack on Wash Post  —  For a second straight year, President Trump is using the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner to wage his war on the reporters who cover him.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
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Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic:   A Century of Feuding Between Presidents and the Press
Aleksandra Appleton / Sacramento Bee:
Rep. Devin Nunes is no longer ‘safe’ in his race for re-election, forecaster says  —  The race for congressional District 22, held by longtime GOP incumbent Devin Nunes, has been downgraded from “safely Republican” to “likely Republican” by a closely watched political forecasting website run …
Discussion: The Hill
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Nunes blames ‘radical leftists’ for his failing re-election campaign  —  With his congressional seat in danger, Devin Nunes is desperately blaming his own failures on imaginary boogeymen.  —  With his House seat no longer considered ‘safe’ by election forecasters, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) …
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: England's Baby Alfie and the politics of life  —  Supporters hang balloons and posters in support of British toddler Alfie Evans on a bus stop in Liverpool, north-west England on April 26, 2018.  (Oli Scarff / Getty-AFP)  —  When we're having dinner as a family …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC's Joy Reid Says, “I Genuinely Do Not Believe I Wrote Those Hateful Things”  —  The host says she doesn't think she wrote the posts, but admits they don't seem to have been hacked.  —  On Saturday morning, five days after Joy Reid was accused of authoring a series of homophobic blog posts …
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Will There Always Be an England?
Discussion: Vox and The American Conservative
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Paying the Price for Not Being a Trump Humper  —  Yes, there is a price to be paid.  Yes, it is necessary some of us are willing to pay it.  —  Just a few thoughts on the purging at RedState today and the price to be paid for deviating from the tribe.  I know that price too well.
Tyler Schmall / New York Post:
A lot of Americans think they'd probably try sex with a robot  —  Being a “sex machine” is about to take on a whole new meaning, because according to new research, four in 10 Americans say they would have sex with a robot.  —  A new study asked 2,000 Americans their thoughts around the concept of …
Nic White / Daily Mail:
Trump Tower is on fire in Azerbaijan capital Baku just weeks after deadly blaze at building in New York  —  Firefighters are desperately battling to contain a fire raging through a Trump hotel tower in Azerbaijan.  —  The fire broke out on the middle floors of the 33-storey Trump International Hotel …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Trump Tower fire: Hotel in Azerbaijan capital Baku ablaze just weeks after deadly inferno at New York building
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Emma Kate Protis / Delta News Hub:
Couple achieves ‘Diamond Status’ in Delta-themed wedding  —  It's the rare bride who can say with a straight face: “I actually told him I'd rather have Diamond Status than the diamond ring.”  —  Airline fanatics and Medallions Bess Wohlner and Jeremy Simons recently pledged their love in a Delta-themed wedding.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP report: Clapper told CNN host about Trump dossier in 2017  —  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper  —  has admitted to lawmakers that he discussed the “Steele dossier” about President Trump  —  and Russia with a CNN journalist in early 2017, according to a report …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Comey Confirms: In Clinton Emails Caper, the Fix Was In  —  He knew Obama's Justice Department would sweep Hillary's violations under the rug, so he played along.  —  While promoting his memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, former FBI director James Comey sat for what turned …
Discussion: Amazon.com, YouTube, Fox News and The Hill
New York Times:
Shorebirds, the World's Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction  —  Dr. Fitzpatrick is director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.  Dr. Senner is a scientist who studies migratory shorebirds.  —  A worldwide catastrophe is underway among an extraordinary group of birds — the marathon migrants we know as shorebirds.
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Hacked messages show Qatar appearing to pay hundreds of millions to free hostages … One morning last April, in the 16th month of a grueling hostage negotiation, a top Qatari diplomat sent a text message to his boss to complain about a brazen robbery being perpetrated against his own country.
M.L. Nestel / ABC News:
Waffle House shooting hero raises almost $185K for victims  —  James Shaw Jr., the hero of the April 22 Waffle House shooting, has launched a campaign on a crowdfunding site to raise money for the victims of the deadly attack in a Nashville suburb.  —  Shaw initially wanted to raised $15,000.
Nicole Chavez / CNN:
Texas voter ID law can go into effect, appeals court panel rules  —  (CNN)Texas will be allowed to enforce its voter ID law in the upcoming elections, a federal appeals court has ruled.  —  In the 2-1 decision, a panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned …
New York Times:
The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts Shudder  —  The arrest of a suspect has set off alarms among some scientists and ethicists worried that consumer DNA may be widely accessed by law enforcement.  —  Genetic testing services have become enormously popular …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats were looking at suburban districts.  Now they're glancing toward rural ones too.  —  Last year, as a wave of special elections popped up, every smart Democrat wanted to focus on one seat.  “Watch the special election for Tom Price's seat in suburban Atlanta,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney …
 
 
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Lesley Wroughton / Reuters:
Pompeo starts Mideast tour with call for new Iran sanctions
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Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
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The University of Chicago Press:
The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party Composition and Their Consequences
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EPA staff in ‘despair’ after Pruitt blame game
Melissa Russo / NBC New York:
New NYC Schools Chief's ‘White Manhattan Parents’ Tweet Brews Controversy
Discussion: TheBlaze
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Congress makes a long-overdue move to punish Iran's hostage-takers
Discussion: CNN
 

 
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to the NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

William Earl / Variety:
Heretic's directors say they put a message in the credits that “no generative AI was used in the making of this film” to warn Hollywood about the danger of AI

 
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