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8:50 PM ET, April 13, 2017

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CNN:
First on CNN: US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan  —  Washington (CNN)The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission.  —  A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB …
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: I don't know if ‘mother of all bombs’ sends message to North Korea
Discussion: ABC News
The Guardian:
British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia  —  Exclusive: GCHQ is said to have alerted US agencies after becoming aware of contacts in 2015  —  Britain's spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members …
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CNN:
British intelligence passed Trump associates' communications with Russians on to US counterparts  —  Watch Trump's stunning U-turns on key issues  —  Washington (CNN)British and other European intelligence agencies intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials …
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Guardian Report Claims U.S. Has “Concrete Evidence” of Trump-Russia Collusion  —  Buried in the last paragraph of a Guardian story about British intelligence alerting the U.S. to contact between Trump advisers and Russian officials is this sort-of bombshell:
Discussion: Agence France-Presse
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A source close …
Discussion: Shareblue
NBC News:
U.S. May Launch Strike If North Korea Reaches For Nuclear Trigger  —  The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump's base turns on him  —  Donald Trump's true believers are losing the faith.  —  As Trump struggles to keep his campaign promises and flirts with political moderation, his most steadfast supporters — from veteran advisers to anti-immigration activists to the volunteers who dropped …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Donald Rodham Clinton  —  Observers have been waiting for more than a year for Donald Trump to stop acting like a beer hall bouncer and start acting more presidential.  On Wednesday, that wish came true, as Baby Donald completed his transformation into a standard chief executive of the United States …
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Spicer defends Trump: Issues are 'evolving towards the president's position'
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and TheBlaze
Jose Lambiet / miamiherald:
Undercooled meat.  Dangerous fish.  Health inspectors zing Trump's Mar-a-Lago kitchen  —  Just days before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's Palm Beach private club, Florida restaurant inspectors found potentially dangerous raw fish …
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Associated Press:
Rust, mold, parasites: Trump's Mar-a-Lago cited for 78 health violations in the last three years
Discussion: Politicus USA
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:
Spicer refuses to say if Trump was in Situation Room for Afghanistan strike, flees amid questions  —  The United States dropped a GBU-43 bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in our arsenal, on what has been described as an “ISIS tunnel complex” in Afghanistan.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Trump's threat prompts Democrats to play hardball over Obamacare payments  —  Democrats signaled that they will seek to secure payments owed to health insurers under the Affordable Care Act as part of pending negotiations over a government spending bill Thursday — a new wrinkle in sensitive talks …
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
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Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:   Democrat Paul Davis initiates campaign for Rep. Lynn Jenkins' 2nd District congressional seat
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
What President Trump's coming Obamacare decision could mean for Americans
Discussion: Politico, Washington Monthly and Vox
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
Detroit physician charged with mutilating girls' genitalia  —  Detroit — A Detroit emergency room physician was charged Wednesday with mutilating the genitalia of two 7-year-old girls in what is believed to be the first case of its kind brought under federal law.
Discussion: Snopes.com and twitchy.com
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
DOJ Arrests Michigan Doctor For Genital Mutilation of Six Year Old Girls
Discussion: TheBlaze
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Detroit doctor accused of genital mutilation on 7-year-old girls
Discussion: IJR and Daily Wire
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Said No to Troops in Syria.  His Aides Aren't So Sure.  —  Listening to his campaign rhetoric, the last thing you would expect Donald Trump to do as president would be to escalate a ground war in the Middle East.  He won the Republican nomination last year by campaigning …
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. military says misdirected airstrike in northern Syria killed 18 allied fighters
Discussion: U.S. Central Command, IJR and KTLA
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
GOP rep: ‘Bullcrap’ to say taxpayers pay my salary  —  Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) faced off with constituents at a town hall this week, telling the audience that they don't pay his salary.  —  “You say you pay for me to do this?  That's bullcrap,” Mullin said at the town hall in Jay, Okla., according to a video of the incident.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Inside a NJ Republican's furious town hall
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump privately signs anti-Planned Parenthood law  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump privately signed a bill on Thursday that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans.
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Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:
This GOP Lawmaker Was Just Booed For His Bizarre Planned Parenthood Proposal
Christian Gollayan / New York Post:
Why I won't date hot women anymore  —  When it came to dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity, Dan Rochkind had no problem snagging the city's most beautiful women.  —  “I could have [anyone] I wanted,” says Rochkind, now 40 and an Upper West Sider with a muscular build and a full head of hair.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Democrats want Kushner's security clearance suspended  —  A handful of House Democrats are calling on federal authorities to suspend Jared Kushner's security clearance amid a wide-ranging probe into Trump associates' contacts with Russian officials.  —  President Donald Trump's son …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House Democrats call for revoking Kushner's security clearance
Discussion: IJR and RedState
Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Where in the World Are Jared & Ivanka for Passover?  Canada  —  In a misdirection of sorts, Ivanka Trump posted the following photo on Monday of her family at the White House: … This post led to much of the media including The Jerusalem Post to conclude, “This year …
Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
In its last year, the Obama administration had its eyes on burnishing the outgoing president's legacy — and ignored the threat from an old foe.  —  No one from  —  the Obama administration seems to remember when they figured out they were falling victim to one of the greatest intelligence operations in history.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Hullabaloo
Agence France-Presse:
Syria's Assad says chemical attack ‘100 percent fabrication’  —  A handout picture released by the Syrian presidency's press office shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during an interview with AFP in the capital Damascus on April 12, 2017  —  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad …
Zeke Smith / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Survivor’ Contestant Opens Up About Being Outed as Transgender (Guest Column)  —  “I'm not wild about you knowing that I'm trans,” two-time show player Zeke Smith writes for THR about this week's episode. … I'm not wild about you knowing that I'm trans.
Tegna / WXIA-TV:
Teen accidentally kills himself as friends watch on Instagram Live … “I heard a big boom.  I couldn't tell if it was a gun shot or what.”  —  Shaniqua Stephens had just watched her 13-year-old son take out the trash Monday evening when she heard a noise.  —  “I just knew that it was something that was wrong,” she said.
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Uber's Top Secret “Hell” Program Exploited Lyft's Vulnerability  —  As the ride-sharing market was exploding in the U.S. between 2014 and the early part 2016, Uber had an advantage over Lyft that helped Uber maintain its lead, The Information has learned.  Thanks to a secret software-based …
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
CIA head: WikiLeaks a ‘non-state hostile intelligence service’ … CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday hammered WikiLeaks, calling the organization a “non-state hostile intelligence service.”  —  In his first major public appearance since taking the top intelligence post in the Trump administration …
 
 
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Brian Resnick / Vox:
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Hannah Devlin / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Washington Post
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Prediction prof: Trump will be impeached
Discussion: Raw Story, Faithwire and AOL
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Vulgar video causes Republicans to pull support from Assembly candidate in competitive district
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
New York Times:
Mystery and Melancholy Surround Death of Judge Found in the Hudson