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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
United passenger David Dao says he's still in the hospital  —  This image made from a video provided by Audra D. Bridges shows David Dao, the passenger who was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago on Sunday.  (Associated Press)  —  David Dao, a Kentucky physician …
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
United CEO, facing boycott calls, defends booting passenger so crew could take his seat  —  United Airlines' chief executive is defending his employees after a passenger who refused to give up his plane seat to a crew member was pulled screaming into the aisle by security, battered …
USA Today:
United Airlines CEO doubles down, says employees followed procedures, flier was ‘belligerent’  —  LOUISVILLE — The intense firestorm roaring against United Airlines and its unrepentant CEO raged on Tuesday after his letter to the airline's employees lauded the behavior of the flight's crew when a …
Daily Mail:
PICTURED: The internal medicine specialist father-of-five who was beaten and dragged off an overbooked United flight as CEO pens ‘tone deaf’ email DEFENDING staff  — The 69-year-old Vietnamese-American is married to a pediatrician who has a clinic in Elizabethtown, Kentucky - about 40 miles south of Louisville
David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Column United passenger threatened with handcuffs to make room for ‘higher-priority’ traveler  —  Geoff Fearns, an Irvine investment manager, was threatened with being handcuffed when he refused to vacate his first-class seat on a United flight to Los Angeles.  (Valerie Fearns)
Discussion: CBS Boston, IJR and East Bay Times
Justin Bachman / Bloomberg:
United Airlines Tumbles After Social-Media Storm Goes Global
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Eric Trump Says Syria Strike Was Swayed By ‘Heartbroken’ Ivanka  —  Donald Trump's decision to bomb Syria was influenced by his daughter, Ivanka, being “heartbroken and outraged” at the country's alleged chemical weapons attack, one of the president's sons told a British newspaper.
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Simon Johnson / Telegraph:
Ivanka Trump encouraged my father to launch air strikes against Assad in Syria after chemical weapons attack, says Eric Trump  —  Eric Trump has said he is “sure” his sister Ivanka used her influence over their father to encourage the US president to launch military action against Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Putin: US plans to fake chemical weapons in Syria
Discussion: Politico, CNN, Reuters, RedState and ABC News
Nick Giampia / Fox Business:
Assad is Worse Than Hitler: Syrian Chemical Weapon Survivor
Discussion: Washington Post
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Reflexive partisanship drives polling lurch on Syria strikes
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Spicer apologizes for claiming Hitler didn't use chemical weapons  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday apologized for claiming that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons, seemingly minimizing the atrocities of the Holocaust.  —  The statement immediately drew fire from Democrats …
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CNN:
Spicer: Hitler ‘was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing’  —  (CNN)White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in an effort to shame Russia's alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his use of chemical weapons, said Tuesday Adolf Hitler …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page  —  The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
Discussion: Political Wire
Sean Moran / Breitbart:
Justin Amash: ‘We Need a Change in Direction from this Speaker or We Need a New Speaker’  —  Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) said that if the House of Representatives does not change course, Republicans might need a new Speaker.  —  The Michigan conservative responded to a question …
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Infowars
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Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows pursues health care deal with Speaker Ryan
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump and Paul Ryan are the problem — a staff shake-up won't fix anything
Jim O’Sullivan / BostonGlobe.com:
Remember Mitt Romney's ‘binders full of women?’  They're real.  And we got them.  —  In the world of important political documents — from the Magna Carta to the Pentagon Papers — there are also those known for more pedestrian reasons.  Count Mitt Romney's “binders full of women” in that category.
Maya T. Prabhu / Post and Courier:
Attendees chant ‘you lie’ at U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson during Graniteville town hall … GRANITEVILLE — U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson received some protests Monday like other Republican congressmen nationwide during town halls this year, getting drowned out at times with loud boos and receiving 30 seconds of “You Lie” chants.
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Ben Billmyer / Associated Press:
Town hall meeting erupts into shouts, boos as Congressman Joe Wilson addresses healthcare repeal
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
The Latest Test for the White House?  Pulling Off Its Easter Egg Roll  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump received an urgent warning in February, informing him of a crucial date he was about to miss.  —  “FYI manufacturing deadlines for the Easter eggs are near,” said a Twitter post directed at Mr. Trump …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
What Reset?  White House to Call Out Russia's Fake News on Syria  —  President Donald Trump's Russian reset is in big trouble.  —  That's one message of a four-page dossier on the Syrian government's April 4 chemical weapons attack that killed up to 100 people and injured many more.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Bloomberg:
Tillerson Asks Why U.S. Taxpayers Should Care About Ukraine  —  Offhand remark an unexpected moment as foreign ministers meet  —  Top diplomat still finding footing in protocol-rich meetings  —  With one offhand remark, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left European diplomats befuddled at a gathering in Italy.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Pennsylvania congressman to be named drug czar by Trump  —  Pennsylvania Congressman Tom Marino is expected to step down from his seat to take on a new role in the Trump administration.  Multiple sources tell CBS News that Marino will head up the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), assuming the informal title of drug czar.
Discussion: Washington Post, STAT and Hit & Run
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Undocumented Immigrants Who Commit Crimes Face Tougher Policy  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to add 125 judges to address a backlog of immigration cases  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors to pursue harsher charges against undocumented immigrants who commit crimes …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:   Sessions tells prosecutors to bring more cases against those entering U.S. illegally
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Schumer: If Trump doesn't release his tax returns, 'it's going to make tax reform much harder'  —  Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is warning that President Trump needs to release his personal tax returns if he hopes to achieve comprehensive tax reform in the coming months.
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Errors prompt Trump to halt reports shaming ‘sanctuary cities’  —  After just three weeks, the Trump administration has stopped publishing a weekly report designed to publicly shame “sanctuary cities” that fail to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts after local police agencies complained …
Paul A. Djupe / Washington Post:
How fights over Trump have led evangelicals to leave their churches  —  The 2016 presidential contest highlighted just how deeply divided the United States is over both politics and religion.  The vast majority of white evangelicals (81 percent) voted for Trump.
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and Raw Story
New York Times:
Think New York Transit Is Bad?  Just Wait  —  In the past few weeks, commuters in New York and New Jersey have been dealing with the chaos caused by the derailments of an Amtrak train and a New Jersey Transit train in New York's Penn Station.  While the accidents themselves were minor …
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
The Silencing of Heather Mac Donald  —  Lofty college statements on free speech are worthless without enforcement.  —  No one who knows her could ever describe Heather Mac Donald as a victim.  —  Still, last Thursday night the Manhattan Institute scholar became the latest target of the latter …
Richard Whitmire / USA Today:
Dreamers aren't about to self-deport: Richard Whitmire  —  If anti-immigration hard liners thought these undocumented kids were going away quietly, they were wrong.  —  Something surprising happened last month when officials at a little-known program that offers modest college scholarships to undocumented …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Rolling Stone Settles With University Administrator Featured In Retracted Campus Rape Story  —  WASHINGTON — Rolling Stone has settled a defamation lawsuit brought by the University of Virginia administrator featured in a since-retracted article about campus rape.
 
 
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Jenna Bush Hager: Barbara Bush has eight toes
Discussion: IJR and Washington Post
Matt Rosoff / CNBC:
Facebook has reached its Microsoft Bing moment, and history shows the results won't be pretty
Discussion: Daily Mail
Media Matters for America:
Wash. Post Doesn't Disclose Writer Supporting Syria Strike Is A Lobbyist For Tomahawk Missile Manufacturer
Discussion: Mediaite and Snopes.com
Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
How today's liberal kids are going to ruin college
Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Not Convinced Obama Wasn't In On Trump Spying
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump promised an ‘unpredictable’ foreign policy. To allies, it looks incoherent.
Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
Here's The Fine Print On The Country's Biggest-Ever Free College Plan
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Trump's border wall will get its start in San Diego County
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