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9:10 AM ET, April 30, 2018

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Molly Roberts / Washington Post:
Michelle Wolf got it just right … “Thank you!”  —  That's how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer's declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was “a disgrace.”  Her response is instructive: To Wolf …
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Weekly Standard:
Joy Reid's Journalistic Ethics  —  Not a great weekend for the American news media.  —  It's hard to know if these are hard times or triumphant times for the mainstream news media.  On the one hand, major news organizations—the New York Times, say, or the Washington Post …
Jim Jamitis / RedState:   Don't Get Angry About Mean Insult Comics If You Helped Put One in the Oval Office
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Ronny Jackson won't return to old job as Trump's physician  —  White House physician Ronny Jackson will not return to his role as the president's personal physician, according to two senior administration officials, after a string of allegations caused the Navy rear admiral to withdraw …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Pelosi's giant first quarter  —  NEW: HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI raised $16.1 million for House Democrats in the first quarter of 2018, a massive pile of cash that brings her total this cycle to $66.7 million.  She is outpacing her fundraising of the 2016 cycle by nearly $10 million …
Washington Post:
‘Ready, shoot, aim’: President Trump's loyalty tests cause hiring headaches  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then the star of President Trump's early Cabinet, was assembling his staff and picked Sarah Isgur Flores as his top spokeswoman.  —  There was just one problem: She had criticized Trump …
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters - so-called millennials - as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll.
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
The Daily Beast:
Trump Should Win Nobel Peace Prize, Says South Korean President  —  Donald Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker peace between North and South Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday.  Relations between North and South have taken remarkable steps over the past two months …
Discussion: Reuters and Political Wire
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump has already been ‘played’
Arthur Allen / Politico:
‘Who the hell is this person?’  Trump's Mar-a-Lago pal stymies VA project  —  A West Palm Beach doctor's ties to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago social circle have enabled him to hold up the biggest health information technology project in history — the transformation of the VA's digital records system.
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
The Original Donald Trump  —  Amid the aftershocks of Donald Trump's firing of James Comey last May, I went to see Angels in America at the same theater in London, the National, where I'd first seen it as a New York Times drama critic some 25 years earlier.  The play didn't transport me quite …
Discussion: New York Times
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys' Manual, which features high-level policy statements as well as practical guidance to prosecutors on how to do their jobs.
Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING.  Huge Mother of All Explosions Hits Syrian City of Hama (VIDEO)  —  Right now reporting is sketchy and confused.  This is the synopsis: Sunday evening, Damascus time, several Syrian Army bases were struck by what appear to be airstrikes.  There was a major explosion at a Syrian Army base near the city of Hama.
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Jerusalem Post:   WATCH: Syrian army says ‘enemy’ rocket attacks strike at military bases
Paul Walsh / Star Tribune:
Former George W. Bush ethics lawyer ditches GOP, to seek U.S. Senate in Minn. as Democrat  —  Richard Painter will take on Tina Smith, who holds the seat now as Al Franken's successor.  —  Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's White House …
Elena Schneider / Politico:
GOP civil war in Ohio threatens another special election loss  —  Republicans' latest special election headache is unfolding in central Ohio, where a chaotic primary has divided the party and stoked fears of losing another seat in Donald Trump territory to Democrats.
CNN:
Famed photographer among 29 killed in twin Afghanistan blasts  —  Journalists among dozens killed in Kabul bomb attacks  —  Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)Eight journalists were among 29 people killed in a suicide attack in Kabul Monday, including a famed photographer who had written of the dangers of reporting in the Afghan capital.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:   Third RFE/RL Journalist Dies As Toll Rises In Kabul Suicide Bombings
Ben Taub / New Yorker:
The Spy Who Came Home  —  Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.  —  Shortly after an evening nap, Patrick Skinner drove to the police station in the Third Precinct in Savannah, Georgia, wearing ill-fitting body armor.  It was late December, and bitterly cold …
Associated Press:
White House mystery: Where is Macron's gifted oak tree?  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A mystery is brewing at the White House about what happened to the oak tree President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron planted there last week.  —  The sapling was a gift from Macron on the occasion of his state visit.
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study Says  —  Gauges worn on troops' helmets and body armor register substantial blasts in combat and in training  —  WASHINGTON—Thousands of U.S. troops are likely suffering traumatic brain injury not just from battlefield explosions …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The one-trick pony: Inside Trump's negotiating style  —  President Trump tells people he keeps the world guessing with his wild unpredictability.  But those who work most closely with him say he's a one-trick pony in negotiations.  —  The trick: Threaten the outrageous, ratchet up the tension …
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The NRA said guns will be banned during a Pence speech.  Parkland students see hypocrisy. … The National Rifle Association has championed the idea of “a good guy with a gun,” but no firearms will be allowed when Vice President Pence speaks at its annual meeting — sparking criticism from Parkland …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump expected to address NRA's annual meeting
Discussion: Political Wire
Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post:
‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers' brains on an industrial scale  —  Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Showdown builds between Comey, House: Just what did FBI director say about Michael Flynn?  —  There's an intense conflict brewing between some Capitol Hill Republicans and fired FBI director James Comey.  The Republicans say Comey has been lying about what he told them in a March 2017 meeting.
 
 
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NBC News:
GOP candidates' circular firing squad ahead of Indiana Senate primary
Amy Harder / Axios:
Why climate change can't escape Washington's back burner
Discussion: Politico
Harry Litman / CNN:
In court, Trump's fortunes are plummeting
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
I Miss Pope Benedict XVI
New York Times:
U.S. Allies Brace for Trade War as Tariff Negotiations Stall
Tom Precious / The Buffalo News:
Amid political chatter, Democratic women push Hochul's re-election bid
 Earlier Items: 
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Democrats Ignore Dossier In Russia Report, In Stark Contrast To Their Early Rhetoric
CBS News:
Trey Gowdy says House Intel report doesn't fully vindicate Trump on Russian collusion
Discussion: HuffPost
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Elaine Chao the enforcer
Michael Edison Hayden / Newsweek:
REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE, WHO HAS CALLED FOR COUNTRY ‘FREE FROM JEWS,’ COULD BE DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S CHALLENGER
Discussion: Splinter
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Left vs. Left: Richard Cordray and Dennis Kucinich Battle for Governor of Ohio
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What savvy journalists say when they are minimizing Trump's hate movement against journalists