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7:10 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
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
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.
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 …
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: Shareblue Media and The Hill
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.
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.
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:
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.
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 …
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
VIRGINIA NEWSPAPER RUNS KKK RECRUITMENT FLYER IN FULL ON FRONT PAGE  —  A Virginia newspaper has come under fire from its readers after it ran a Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyer in full on its front page.  —  The Westmoreland News ran a story on how KKK recruitment flyers and DVDs …
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 …
Discussion: Deadline, Fox News Insider, Mediaite and IJR
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
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Golf course that called the police on black women loses business, faces call for state investigation … In the days after white golf course owners called the police on five African American women they said were not playing fast enough, a Pennsylvania state senator has called for an investigation …
BBC:
Alfie Evans: Legal battle toddler dies  —  Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old toddler at the centre of a High Court legal battle, has died, nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn.  —  The boy from Merseyside, who had a degenerative brain condition, died at 02:30 BST, his father Tom Evans said.
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump rebrands diplomatic norms as events in Asia, Europe and elsewhere spin on his axis  —  President Trump on Friday placed himself at the center of the remarkable summit between the leaders of North and South Korea, taking credit for bold and innovative diplomacy that may open a path to peace where other leaders failed.
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Mike Pompeo / US Department of State:
U.S. Department of State
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Melissa Russo / NBC New York:
New NYC Schools Chief's ‘White Manhattan Parents’ Tweet Brews Controversy
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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Congress makes a long-overdue move to punish Iran's hostage-takers
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
SCOTUS seeks the US government's views in the $1B copyright fight between Cox Communications and Sony, Warner Music, Universal Music, and other music companies

 
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