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10:55 AM ET, April 10, 2017

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Lucas Aulbach / Courier-Journal:
Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville  —  A video posted on Facebook late Sunday evening shows a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff at O'Hare International Airport.
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Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Audra D. Bridges
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears  —  President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term.  But inside his pressure-cooker of a White House, aides and advisers are sweating the next three weeks.  —  The symbolic 100-day mark by which modern presidents …
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Trump officials tell Russia to drop its support for Syria's Assad  —  Officials in the Trump administration on Sunday demanded Russia stop supporting the Syrian government or face a further deterioration in its relations with the United States.  —  Signaling the focus of talks Secretary …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The split on Syria strategy
Discussion: Vox and Associated Press
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘People Just Flat-Out Lie’  —  President Trump called her “Hillary Clinton's P.R. person” when she got a scoop he didn't like last week.  —  Controversial Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called her “unruly” when she shouted questions at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Discussion: Mediaite
John Sides / Washington Post:
Neil Gorsuch's confirmation shattered political conventions.  Here is why.  —  The confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court has left shattered political conventions in its wake: the refusal to hold hearings for Merrick Garland, the first partisan filibuster of a high court nominee …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Neil Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Discussion: Common Dreams, SCOTUSblog and The Hill
Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
How Neil Gorsuch could affect the Supreme Court
Discussion: Politico
CBS News:
What Americans think about U.S. strike on Syria  —  Fifty-seven percent of Americans approve of the airstrike against Syrian military targets - calling immoral the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons that led to the strike - but most are leery of any military involvement beyond airstrikes, a CBS News poll shows.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
TV ads slam Republicans over would-be Obamacare repeal  —  Moderate House Republicans who flirted with supporting the GOP's now-stalled Obamacare replacement will face attack ads in their districts this week for doing so.  —  Save My Care, a coalition of left-leaning health care advocacy groups fighting …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Publicity Stunts Aren't Policy  —  Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal?  Back in December President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufacturer to keep 1,100 jobs in America rather than moving them to Mexico.
Washington Post:
Republicans begin to fret about holding on to Tom Price's Georgia seat  —  ATLANTA — Republicans are becoming increasingly concerned about their ability to hang on to former Republican congressman Tom Price's seat here in a wealthy, suburban district where restive Democratic energy has been surging since November's election.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Trump's Shadow Is Looming Over This Special Election
Discussion: IJR and Reuters
Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:   Red Alert: GOP Chances Slide in Two Special Elections
The Guardian:
Trump aide drew plan on napkin to partition Libya into three  —  Exclusive: Sebastian Gorka told proposal would be ‘the worst solution’ when he suggested it to senior European diplomat … A senior White House foreign policy official has pushed a plan to partition Libya …
John Archibald / al.com:
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley expected to resign this week  —  It Is becoming clear that Robert Bentley will not last the week as governor.  —  Sources in Montgomery say his lawyers have been involved in negotiations to step down from the governorship and plead to lesser charges, allowing Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey to step up as governor.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg:
The Seven Types of People Who Tweet at Trump  —  I love Twitter," Donald Trump once tweeted.  That love is manifest in more than 34,000 tweets since he took up the mantle @realDonaldTrump and over 350 in the weeks since he became the U.S. president.  Trump has more than 27 million followers on Twitter …
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Trump's Secret Weapon Against Obama's Legacy  —  On February 28, President Donald Trump signed three bills into law.  He held an Oval Office ceremony to spotlight two of them, H.R. 321 and H.R. 255, both of them feel-good symbolic resolutions declaring the importance of women in science and engineering.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Penny Starr / Breitbart:
Donald Trump's Pick For Top Economic Adviser Is Pro-Immigration, Pro-Outsourcing  —  President Donald Trump has picked an economic advisor who believes in growing the nation's economy by importing workers and consumers, and by expanding free-trade outsourcing, despite Trump's “buy American, hire American” campaign promises.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN nabs Eric Lichtblau from the New York Times  —  The voracious recruiters at CNN are at it again: This time, they've managed to coax veteran investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau from his perch at the New York Times.  Lichtblau will serve as assistant managing editor at CNN's Washington bureau.
Associated Press:
SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS ON TAXES VEERS INTO UNEXPECTED CORNERS  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.
Discussion: AOL, Hullabaloo and Eschaton
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
The other California: A flyover state within a state  —  California may never secede, or divide into different states, but it has effectively split into entities that could not be more different.  On one side is the much-celebrated, post-industrial, coastal California, beneficiary …
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Javier Panzar / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats moving senior staffers to Orange County in an effort to flip Republican House seats
Discussion: Political Wire
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Can Bill O'Reilly Keep His Scold's Perch?  —  In 2000, cable news's transformational star — a telegenic scold who knew wrong from right as sure as he knew that a break from “traditional values” would be this nation's ruination — wrote the following words in his book “The O'Reilly Factor”:
Discussion: Raw Story and Hullabaloo
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Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Fox will investigate Bill O'Reilly harassment claims, lawyer says
 
 
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George Sandeman / The Sun:
RED LINE ROW Russia and Iran pledge to hit back against further Syria strikes as they blast US for ‘crossing red lines’
Katie Lobosco / CNNMoney:
New York just OK'd tuition-free college for middle class
Discussion: Mediaite and The Root
Steven Bertoni / Forbes:
Josh Kushner's Complex World: How Jared's Liberal Brother Runs A Billion Dollar Fund In Trump Era
Katherine Rodriguez / Breitbart:
A biographer who is writing a book about former President Barack Obama claims that Obama once …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump sued for not releasing White House visitor logs
Discussion: Raw Story
Naomi Kresge / Bloomberg:
Stada Accepts $5.6 Billion Takeover Offer From Bain, Cinven
Discussion: New York Times, STAT and Axios
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:
Google Denies Labor Department's Pay Disparity Allegations
Discussion: ON LABOR
 Earlier Items: 
Gary Silverman / Financial Times:
A glimpse inside the Trump inner circle
Discussion: Axios
John Koblin / New York Times:
How Stephen Colbert Finally Found His Elusive Groove
Discussion: New Yorker and TVNewser
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Conservative Pipeline to the Supreme Court
Reuters:
Russian computer programmer arrested in Spain: embassy
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
How Bannon's multimedia machine drove a movement and paid him millions
New York Daily News:
Man-spreading dispute over seats on J train leads to hammer attack and large brawl