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12:55 PM ET, April 13, 2017

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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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Jay Elwes / Prospect Magazine:
Interview: Richard Dearlove—I spy nationalism
Discussion: Shareblue, Daily Mail and Politicus USA
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 …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump on North Korea: “After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it's not so easy”  —  President Donald Trump recounted an absolutely astounding detail about one of his conversations with Chinese President Xi Jinping in comments published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday afternoon.
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CBS News:
CBS Poll: Americans lack confidence in Trump's ability to handle North Korea
Discussion: RedState and AOL
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: US-Russia relationship ‘will work out fine’
Sofia Petkar / Daily Express:
Kim Jong-Un ‘orders IMMEDIATE EVACUATION of Pyongyang’ as tensions with US escalate
Discussion: UPI and The Gateway Pundit
New York Post:
Judge washes up dead along the Hudson River  —  Medical examiners remove Abdus-Salaam's body.  —  Robert Miller  —  A pioneering judge, who became the first Muslim woman in US history to serve on the bench, was found dead Wednesday — washed up on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River, sources said.
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New York Times:
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, Judge on New York's Top Court, Is Found Dead in Hudson River  —  Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an associate judge on New York State's highest court and the first African-American woman to serve on that bench, was found dead on Wednesday in the Hudson River, the authorities said.
Discussion: KTLA, Above the Law and NPR
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.
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
NC lawmaker calls Abraham Lincoln a ‘tyrant’ like Hitler  —  A day after setting off one firestorm, a Cabarrus County lawmaker set off another Wednesday by calling Abraham Lincoln “the same sort (of) tyrant” as Adolf Hitler.  —  Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County made the comparison …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
GOP rep on Spicer: ‘He needs to go’
Discussion: Politico and TheBlaze
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 …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Assad: Chemical attack is ‘100 percent fabrication’
Discussion: The Hill, The Root and Hot Air
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.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
U.S.-led coalition accidentally bombs Syrian allies, killing 18  —  U.S.-led aircraft accidentally bombed friendly Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing 18, the Pentagon said Thursday.  The April 11 bombing marks the worst confirmed friendly-fire incident …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
18 Syrian Fighters Allied With U.S. Are Killed in Coalition Airstrike
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Discussion: WDTN-TV, The Root, Daily Mail, AOL, KFOR-TV and KTLA
Washington Post:
Inside Bannon's struggle: From ‘shadow president’ to Trump's marked man  —  When Stephen K. Bannon reported for work Wednesday, he did not act like a man who had just been publicly humiliated by his boss.  —  The chief White House strategist cycled in and out of the Oval Office for meetings …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Spicer: Trump wanted to clear up ‘blurred’ line between him and Bannon
Discussion: Salon, RedState, Axios, CNN and New York Times
Chicago Tribune:
Letter: I was on United flight 3411.  Here's what I saw.  —  This video posted on social media shows a passenger on an April 9, 2017, United Airlines flight from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Louisville being removed by security.  (Jayse D. Anspach)
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
No, the media did not identify the wrong David Dao as United's passenger
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Above the Law
Miles Moffeit / Dallas Morning News:
Deal over Trump-branded Dallas hotel is dead  —  The developer trying to build a Trump-brand hotel in Dallas told the city this week that the deal is dead.  —  Mukemmel “Mike” Sarimsakci, who has been promoting plans to launch the Trump Organization's new Scion line of luxury hotels …
Discussion: New York Times
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Inside a NJ Republican's furious town hall  —  FLANDERS, N.J. — After the embarrassing collapse of their ObamaCare repeal bill, most House Republicans are steering clear of town halls over the two-week April recess.  —  Not Rep. Leonard Lance.  —  The unassuming, moderate …
Discussion: Blue Virginia
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Threatens to Withhold Payments to Insurers to Press Democrats on Health Bill  —  Almost three weeks after canceling a vote on his health-care package over infighting among his fellow Republicans and the opposition of the Democrats, President Donald Trump dug back into the fight …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Threatens to Torch More Republicans
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
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 …
Justin Green / Axios:
64% of Republicans want to see Trump's tax returns  —  The big number: 80% of Americans want President Trump to release his tax returns, including 64% of Republicans, according to a MoveOn.org poll conducted by Global Strategy Group.  —  The shiny object: Trump shows no signs of changing his mind …
CNN:
President Trump today: Live updates  —  Today, Spicer will hold his first press briefing after his Hitler comment.  Until then, watch some of his most eventful briefings.
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Blue Virginia
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump backs off fiscal pledges and adopts centrist policies that he once fought  —  President Trump is abandoning a number of his key campaign promises on economic policy, adopting instead many of the centrist positions he railed against while campaigning as a populist.
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Carter Page: ‘Something may have come up in a conversation’ with Russians about lifting US sanctions  —  Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said that when he was in Moscow last summer, “something may have come up in a conversation” with Russians about lifting U.S. sanctions.
 
 
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Breitbart London / Agence France-Presse:
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Discussion: Infowars
David Greene / NPR:
George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative
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The Times & The Sunday Times:
Facebook publishing child pornography
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Broken Supreme Court
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Mike Allen / Axios:
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Crucified man had prior run-in with authorities
Discussion: Snopes.com
Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Boy battled rare disorder with enthusiasm before being gunned down in his San Bernardino classroom
Discussion: Associated Press
Fox News:
Fast and Furious scandal: Suspected triggerman in border agent's murder arrested
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
After Campaign Exit, Manafort Borrowed From Businesses With Trump Ties