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11:50 PM ET, April 25, 2019

Top Items:

Trump's greatest threat has arrived — The front-runner has finally thrown his hat into the ring. Joe Biden starts the 2020 campaign not only as the favorite for the Democratic nomination but also probably as a slight favorite to win the presidency itself. — Biden's virtue in both contests is his relative moderation.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:

Heather Heyer's Mom Breaks Silence on Joe Biden Invoking Charlottesville for 2020 — 'I wasn't surprised,' Susan Bro told The Daily Beast. ‘Most people do that sort of thing. They capitalize on whatever situation is handy.’ — Tim Teeman — Joe Biden did not tell Susan Bro …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian

Associated Press:

Biden hires strategist Symone Sanders, adds diversity to bid — WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has hired Symone Sanders, a prominent African American political strategist, as a senior adviser to his newly launched presidential campaign. — The move adds a younger, diverse voice to Biden's cadre …

Discussion: Townhall, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, RedState, theGrio, The Daily Beast, Axios, Vanity Fair, Taylor Marsh, Politico, Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon

Joe Biden / YouTube:

America Is An Idea — It's time for respected leadership on the world stage—and dignified leadership at home. It's time for equal opportunity, equal rights, and equal justice. It's time for an economy that rewards those who actually do the work. It's time for a president who will stand up for all of us.

Discussion: Politics K-12, Associated Press, The Hill, Defense One, CBS Philly, Politico, USA Today, Washington Post, Townhall, ABC News, Breitbart, Rolling Stone, Roll Call, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Rush Limbaugh Show, CNN, LifeNews.com, Quartz, Sputnik International, Slate, PJ Media Home, UPI, New York Post, Daily Caller News Foundation, twitchy.com, IJR, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Dot, The Resurgent, The Week, The Daily Caller, American Greatness, Washington Monthly, Fortune, The Atlantic, CNBC, The CT Mirror, Mashable, KTLA, The Last Refuge, Fox News, FiveThirtyEight, Mediaite, Houston Public Media, The Irish Times, Morning Call, NBC News, Fox News Insider, Outside the Beltway, The Stranger, Joe.My.God., TheBlaze, WNEP-TV, Al Jazeera, ThinkProgress, Daily Wire, Raw Story, Shakesville, Bloomberg, Q13 FOX News, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Times, Reason, Axios, HuffPost, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, CBS News and New York Magazine

Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Biden senior adviser: We don't need white men leading the Democratic Party

Discussion: Daily Wire, Politico, NB Blog, Daily Caller News Foundation and twitchy.com

Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Joe Biden's High Crimes Against Logo Design

Discussion: PJ Media Home, Townhall, Roll Call and Liberty Unyielding

Jordan Schachtel / Conservative Review:
Biden wanted to establish a ‘Biden-Putin commission’ to cozy up to the Kremlin

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Townhall, New York Times and Breitbart

Fox News:
Biden hires former Bernie Sanders' spokesperson as senior adviser

Discussion: Washington Post, Axios, Breitbart, Politico, Daily Wire and The Hill

CNN:
Biden is Trump's most anticipated — and feared — rival

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, YouTube, Contemptor and fox5sandiego.com

Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to open his formidable fundraising network to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign

Discussion: The Atlantic, New York Times, BuzzFeed News, NY State of Politics and Mediaite

John F. Harris / Politico:
Joe Biden: Old man, still in a hurry

Discussion: Breitbart

Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Joe Biden Secures Coveted Michael Avenatti Endorsement

Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller, CBS Philly and Breitbart

Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:

“Executives Are Very Worried Fox & Friends Will Be Next”: After Taking Over Fox, Lachlan Murdoch Is in a Trump Trap — When advertisers rebelled at outrage anchors like Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson, Trump called Lachlan's daddy, Rupert Murdoch, to keep them on the air.

Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

How Fox News distorts the news: A Mueller case study — After Attorney General William P. Barr last month released his summary of Robert S. Mueller III's findings, Fox News host Sean Hannity took out his chest-beating equipment. “We, on this program, have been right all along because …

Discussion: Raw Story, Vox and CNBC

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story: Hannity pondering bailing on Fox News because he no longer feels the network is loyal to Trump: report

Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump is terrified that his aides might not lie for him

Discussion: Raw Story

Washington Post:
Stymied by aides, Trump sought out loyalist to curtail special counsel — and drew Mueller's glare

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart

Motherboard:

Why Won't Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. — A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.

Discussion: Rolling Stone, Media Matters for America, Splinter, Washington Monthly, Boing Boing, Shareblue Media, Daily Kos, The Daily Dot and Balloon Juice, more at Techmeme »

Tony Romm / Washington Post:

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called Rep. Ilhan Omar after Trump's tweet sparked a flood of death threats — Twitter did not take down the tweet, despite Omar's request, a source said. — Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday and stood by the company's decision …

Discussion: Townhall, New York Post, Vanity Fair, Slate, Splinter, TheBlaze, Raw Story, Contemptor, Mediaite and theGrio, more at Techmeme »

Casey Newton / The Interface: Why Twitter isn't banning white nationalists

New York Times:

Joe Biden Expresses Regret to Anita Hill, but She Says 'I'm Sorry' Is Not Enough — WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called Anita Hill earlier this month to express his regret over “what she endured” testifying against Justice Clarence Thomas at the 1991 Supreme Court hearings …

John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump's Biden insults fueled by belief he can win

Discussion: New York Times, Breitbart and Herman Cain

Anna Fifield / Washington Post:

North Korea issued $2 million bill for comatose Otto Warmbier's care — BEIJING — North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017.

Tom O'Connor / Newsweek: Donald Trump Agreed to Pay North Korea $2 Million for Otto Warmbier Hospital Bills, Report Says

Baltimore Sun:

Attorney for Baltimore Mayor Pugh says she's not ‘lucid’ enough to make a decision about resigning — Mayor Catherine Pugh's lawyer Steve Silverman says that she “is not fit to make decisions today” about resigning. (Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun video) — Amid raids by the FBI and IRS …

Discussion: Political Wire

CBS Baltimore:
Where Is Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh? Source Says She Left Home, State After FBI Raid

Discussion: Hot Air, Associated Press, Big League Politics, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller News Foundation, Boing Boing and New York Post

Baltimore Sun:
FBI raids Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's City Hall office, her two houses, as governor calls on her to resign

Discussion: The Last Refuge, New York Post, Jezebel, Joe.My.God., theGrio, USA Today, twitchy.com, Fox News, Big League Politics, The Guardian, NPR, National Review, CNN and Talking Points Memo

Washington Post:

Rosenstein fires back at critics over Mueller report — NEW YORK — Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein hit back hard against politicians and the press Thursday night, and warned that hacking and social media manipulation are “only the tip of the iceberg” …

U.S. Department of Justice:

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Armenian Bar Association's Public Servants Dinner — “Peri yerego.” Good evening. — Rick, I am grateful for your friendship and for your 20 years of exceptional service to the Department of Justice …

Jed Handelsman Shugerman / New York Times:

The Trump Campaign Conspired With the Russians. Mueller Proved It. — By the standards of a potential impeachment inquiry, the evidence is clear. — Mr. Shugerman is a law professor at Fordham. — In his first letter after receiving the Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr accurately quoted …

Discussion: Raw Story

Deanna Paul / Washington Post:

How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings — A recent uptick in sightings of unidentified flying objects — or as the military calls them, “unexplained aerial phenomena” — prompted the Navy to draft formal procedures for pilots to document encounters, a corrective measure that former officials say is long overdue.

Discussion: New York Times, The American Conservative, New York Post, Jezebel, Motherboard and TheBlaze

David French / National Review:

Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness — Graham's willingness to abandon Christian principles when it's politically expedient has cost the church dearly. — It's hard to think of a single prominent American Christian who better illustrates the collapsing …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Raw Story, RedState, ABC News, Washington Post, Friendly Atheist, Mediaite and The Charlotte Observer

Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:

Trump's Chief of Staff Says He's Having a Ball — Here's the thing, Mick Mulvaney says, sitting in his West Wing office on Wednesday afternoon: He knows that Donald Trump's administration doesn't always make good on conservative ideals. He knows that they're “spending a bunch of money …

Discussion: New York Times

Washington Post:

Trump orders staff to prepare arms-control push with Russia and China — President Trump has ordered his administration to prepare a push for new arms-control agreements with Russia and China after bristling at the cost of a 21st-century nuclear arms race, according to administration officials.

Discussion: Political Wire

CNN:
Trump admin aiming for major nuclear deal with Russia and China

Discussion: Raw Story

Bret Stephens / New York Times:

The U.S. Military: Like the French at Agincourt? — America risks a catastrophic defeat if it doesn't radically change the way it thinks about war. — Early on a Sunday morning in 1932, a fleet of some 150 fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes struck the naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Discussion: National Review and Test Feed Using Fields

Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:

BREAKING: FBI Texts Show Agents Discussed Recruiting White House Sources To Spy For Bureau — Senior Republican chairmen submitted a letter Thursday to Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr revealing new texts from former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok to his paramour FBI …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Fox News:
Strzok-Page texts suggested using post-election briefing to gather information on Trump team

Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Last Refuge

Elizabeth Drew / New York Times:

The Danger in Not Impeaching Trump — It may be risky politically, but Congress has a responsibility to act. — Ms. Drew is a journalist based in Washington who covered Watergate. — The decision facing the House Democrats over whether to proceed with an impeachment of President Trump …

Popular Information:

Trump campaign running hundreds of new ads that violate Facebook's rules — Facebook does not seem to be doing anything to stop them. — Melania Trump's birthday is April 26. For weeks, the Trump campaign has used the First Lady's big day — she'll be 49 — to build their email list.

Noah Michelson / HuffPost:

If We Want To Stop Queer Kids From Dying By Suicide, We Need To Start At The Top — I spent my freshman year of high school dreaming of dying. — I was hopelessly, unmistakably and inescapably gay and because of it ― and what that meant about how the world around me saw and (mis) …

Discussion: Page Six, The Blast and Human Rights Campaign

Wesley Morgan / Politico:

Trump leaves Pentagon power vacuum — A quarter of the Pentagon's most senior civilian posts remain filled by temporary personnel who are unconfirmed by the Senate - a high number that has slowed decisions, handicapped the department in policy disputes and shifted more power to the White House …

Discussion: Department of Defense Office … and NPR

John Parkinson / ABC News:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Twitter blunder prompts GOP backlash — Freshman New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deleted a tweet Thursday after she attempted to troll “older male” Republicans for posing next to a cardboard cutout of her. — Only problem: the member …

Discussion: IJR, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze

Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Did President Trump obstruct justice? — When the Department of Justice designated Robert Mueller as special counsel to take over the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign in May 2017, Mueller's initial task was to determine if there had been a conspiracy …