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5:50 PM ET, April 26, 2015

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Maura Pally / Clinton Foundation:
A Commitment to Honesty, Transparency, and Accountability  —  Over the past few days, many questions have been raised about the Clinton Foundation, its initiatives, and the financial support that allows us to do the uniquely impactful philanthropic work that we do at home and around the world.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Stephanopoulos Challenges Clinton Cash Author: ‘Is There a Smoking Gun?’  —  Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer appeared on This Week and faced a very skeptical George Stephanopoulos, who argued that his accusations that Hillary Clinton exchanged favorable treatment from the U.S. State Department …
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Charity watchdog: Clinton Foundation a ‘slush fund’  —  The Clinton Foundation's finances are so messy that the nation's most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month.  —  The Clinton family's mega-charity took in more than $140 million …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Obama jokes about his fourth-quarter ‘bucket list’ at WHCD  —  President Obama came out swinging in his speech at this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night, mocking his critics and taking various shots at Republicans and members of the media.
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:   8 Obama Jokes That Stood Out From The White House Correspondents Dinner
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
President Obama's Top 10 jokes
Discussion: ABC News
Ric Anderson / LasVegasSun.com:
The big lie: Las Vegan watches as his Reid tale takes off  —  A Las Vegas man claims he started a false rumor that the injuries suffered by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid several months ago were the result of an attack by Reid's brother, not an exercise accident.
Baltimore Sun:
After peaceful start, violence mars Freddie Gray protest in Baltimore  —  A day of mostly peaceful rallies to protest the death of Freddie Gray turned confrontational as dark fell over Baltimore on Saturday with demonstrators smashing the windows on police cars, blocking traffic near …
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX News Radio
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Evan Serpick / citypaper.com:
City Paper photo editor J.M. Giordano beaten by police at Freddie Gray protest
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: 'Clinton Cash???  Author Peter Schweizer  —  This is a rush transcript for April 26, 2015.  It will be updated and may contain errors.  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: And the author of “Clinton Clash,” Peter Schweizer, joins us now.  —  Thank you for joining us this morning, Peter.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Politico
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Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:   Clinton Foundation Acknowledges Mistakes as Schweizer Calls for Investigation
New York Times:
George W. Bush Opens Up About 2016 Race  —  LAS VEGAS - Former President George W. Bush offered rare, and broad-ranging, remarks Saturday night about current national security threats and the 2016 presidential campaign to a large audience of Jewish donors, suggesting that sanctions on Iran …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:   Is anyone afraid of Jeb Bush?
Sean Kelly / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
Father Hopes Mother Of Two Shot In Florida Lives So He Isn't ‘Stuck’ With Their Kids (Video)  —  A father in Jacksonville, Florida raised eyebrows this week after saying he hopes the mother of his children lived after being shot so that he wouldn't be “stuck” with his kids.
Discussion: Liberaland and FOX News Radio
Corey Robin / Salon:
Our perverse centrist patriots: Everything the elite media gets wrong about American politics  —  George Packer is bored with American politics.  “The 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me,” he writes in The New Yorker.  Today's politics “doesn't quicken my pulse.”
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Al Gore's Climate Change Concerts Won't Commit To Being Vegan Only And PETA Is Not Happy About It  —  “While they decide, the earth is dying, so PETA is hoping they immediately announce that they're putting their mock meat where their mouths are, and making the Live Earth events vegan,” a PETA spokeswoman told BuzzFeed News.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
The site has done far more damage to privacy than the NSA  —  THIS WEEK, the group Wikileaks posted on its website the entire archive of data and information stolen from Sony Pictures last fall — and it seems every day there's a new, earth-shattering scoop.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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