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7:45 PM ET, April 8, 2019

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CNN:
Trump is removing US Secret Service director  —  (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.  —  President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been pushing to reinstate broader family separation policies and sought to close the US-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas …
Miami Herald:
‘She lies to everyone’: Feds say Mar-a-Lago intruder had hidden-camera detector in hotel  —  Trump Tourism: Access for Sale  —  The Miami Herald is investigating how U.S. President Donald J. Trump has become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful.
New York Times:
Trump Purge Set to Force Out More Top Homeland Security Officials  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to replace the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after forcing the resignation of its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, as he accelerated a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
NBC News:
Trump has for months been urging administration to reinstate child separation policy  —  A senior administration official said they believe Trump is convinced that family separation has been the most effective policy at deterring asylum seekers.  —  President Donald Trump has for months urged …
New York Times:
More Top Homeland Security Officials Set to Leave in Trump Purge  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to sweep out the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after pushing out its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, accelerating a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
CNBC:
Randolph Alles is out as Trump's Secret Service chief  — Alles “will be leaving shortly,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says, adding that President Donald Trump “has selected James M. Murray, a career member of the USSS, to take over as director beginning in May.”
CNN:
Trump overseeing ‘near-systematic purge’ at Department of Homeland Security
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Who Is Left to Say No to Trump?  —  Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen's ignominious end
Wall Street Journal:
White House Seeks Tighter Grip on Immigration Policy
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Los Angeles Times:
Trump aide Stephen Miller ‘going to clean house’ as immigration policy hardens
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
CNN:
The only constant in Trump's world is chaos
Discussion: Raw Story
Major Garrett / CBS News:
Secret Service director, other top Homeland Security officials leaving in overhaul
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had a Hidden Camera Detector, Prosecutors Say  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to President Trump's private club had a device used to detect hidden cameras and a large amount of cash in her Palm Beach hotel room …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Woman accused of illegal entry to Mar-a-Lago had numerous electronic devices, thousands in cash  —  Trump not worried about Mar-a-Lago security breach  —  West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)Yujing Zhang, the woman who allegedly breached security at President Donald Trump's private Florida club …
Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg:
Chinese Intruder at Mar-a-Lago to Stay in Jail Another Week
Discussion: Boing Boing
Kyle Korver / The Players' Tribune:
Privileged  —  PHOTO BYMELISSA MAJCHRZAK/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES  —  W  —  hen the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little.  —  When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in.
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
To Get Trump's Tax Returns, N.Y. Democrats Try a New Strategy  —  ALBANY — In an attempt to work around the White House, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are trying to do what their federal counterparts have so far failed to accomplish: to obtain President Trump's tax returns.
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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The IRS chief must release Trump's tax returns — and Mnuchin must not stop him
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress and Shareblue Media
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Bernie Sanders: Trump Wants To Get Rid Of The Filibuster Too, So Be Skeptical Of It  —  “You should be a little bit nervous if Donald Trump supports it,” the 2020 presidential candidate said.  —  MUSCATINE, Iowa Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Washington Post:
'I've been battling Nadler for years': Feud between Trump, Democrat rooted in decades-old New York real estate project  —  Assembling a group of House Republicans at the White House to talk trade last month, President Trump suddenly launched into a tirade about the congressman leading …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Democrats crafting Mueller response if report drops during recess
NBC News:
Trump administration moves to undercut MLB's deal with Cuba  —  The administration is moving to reverse an Obama-era ruling that allowed Cuban baseball players to sign with major league teams in the U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to undercut a landmark agreement …
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Root
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump administration cancels MLB deal with Cuba
John Harwood / CNBC:
Few Americans think they're getting a Trump tax cut: NBC/WSJ poll  — Just 17% of people believe their own taxes will go down, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll finds.  —  No wonder the 2017 Republican tax cut remains so unpopular — the vast majority of Americans don't think they got one at all.
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Wall Street pans Trump's Fed picks, Stephen Moore and Herman Cain
Discussion: Political Wire
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The White House:
Statement from the President on the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …
Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Iowa student asks Beto O'Rourke ‘Are you here to see Beto?’ in bathroom  —  On Sunday, minutes before being in front of more than 300 people, Beto O'Rourke took a moment for a requisite bathroom break.  While washing his hands, O'Rourke got an unexpected question.
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Lynh Bui / Washington Post:   Md. man planned to run down crowds at National Harbor in an ISIS-inspired attack, prosecutors say
Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while awaiting court hearings  —  A federal judge in Northern California issued a preliminary injunction Monday blocking the Trump administration from requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico …
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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
A Tale Of Two Suburbs  —  I grew up at the top of a hill on the east bank of a river that burned.9 That determined so much.  —  My maternal grandparents bought the house where I grew up in 1949.  They were the rare Catholics in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland …
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
‘Daddy hurt her’: Nobody believed a boy's story, until he dug up the backyard 20 years later  —  It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Fla. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old …
Rachel Kurzius / DCist:
Shaw's Metro PCS Store Has Been Forced To Turn Off Its Go-Go Music, Owner Says  —  For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW.  Until now.  —  Campbell says that T-Mobile, which acquired Metro PCS …
Eric Levenson / CNN:
Felicity Huffman and 12 wealthy parents plead guilty in college admissions scam  —  (CNN)Thirteen wealthy parents, including actress Felicity Huffman, and one coach will plead guilty to using bribery and other forms of fraud as part of the college admissions scandal, federal prosecutors in Boston said on Monday.
 
 
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