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8:45 PM ET, April 15, 2017

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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War  —  West Wing sources come clean about the backstabbing, the bullying, the distrust, and the buzzing flies.  —  I. BUZZING FLIES  —  The West Wing of the White House is a cramped collection of tiny offices, some of them windowless, linked by narrow hallways.
Discussion: Politicus USA, Axios and CANNONFIRE
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New York Times:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Pillars of Family-Driven West Wing  —  WASHINGTON — One has an office down the hall from the president in the White House; the other just moved into an office a floor up.  One recently visited war-torn Iraq as the president's emissary; the other will soon head …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Kushner found Trump advisor Navarro by browsing Amazon  —  Jared Kushner found a White House economic advisor by browsing Amazon, Vanity Fair reported Saturday.  —  Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, was asked by Trump to do research on China, and turned to Amazon, the report said.
Discussion: RedState
BBC:
N Korea missile launch fails, says South Korea  —  North Korea has attempted to launch a missile on its east coast which is believed to have failed, South Korea's military says.  —  It comes a day after the state warned the US that it was “ready to hit back with nuclear attacks” amid mounting tension in the region.
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Parades New Long-Range ‘Frankenmissile’  —  Pyongyang displays military hardware, including apparently new intercontinental ballistic missile  —  SEOUL—North Korea showed off what appeared to be at least one new long-range missile at a military parade Saturday …
Brad Lendon / CNN:
North Korea surprises with display of new missiles
New York Times:
North Korean Missile Launch Fails, and a Show of Strength Fizzles
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Maxine Waters rallies Tax March crowd for Trump's impeachment  —  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) renewed her call for impeaching President Trump during Saturday's Tax March in Washington.  —  “I don't respect this president.  I don't trust this president.  He's not working in the best interests of the American people,” Waters said.
Discussion: RT and IJR
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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
14 arrested at Berkeley protest over Trump tax returns  —  Trump Tax Day protests turn violent  —  As protesters in cities across the country came out Saturday to call on President Trump to release his tax returns, a demonstration in Berkeley, California turned violent.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Privacy group sues IRS for not disclosing Trump's taxes
Discussion: Politico and epic.org
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump takes route to Mar-a-Lago that misses Tax March protesters
Discussion: KFOR-TV and CBS Chicago
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
Are Anti-Trump Protests Losing Steam?
Los Angeles Times:
Berkeley braces for another pro-Trump rally, counter protests  —  Pro-Trump supporters and counter-protesters clash in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley in March.  (Dan Honda / East Bay Times)  —  Berkeley officials are bracing for a “Patriots Day” rally Saturday …
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KRON4.com:
WATCH LIVE: Violent pro, anti-Trump protest happening in Berkeley  —  BERKELEY (KRON) — Twenty-one people are in custody and 11 people were injured after an enormous group of pro and anti-Trump demonstrators clashed in Berkeley.  —  Hundreds of President Trump supporters and anti …
Discussion: CNN and CBS San Francisco
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Trump demands gold-plated welcome  —  President insists on a carriage journey down The Mall to Buckingham Palace  —  Donald Trump waving from the Queen's royal carriage is not a scenario many would have foreseen a year ago, but it has become a very real prospect, forcing security services to plan an unprecedented lockdown.
Michael Corkery / New York Times:
Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?  —  Along the cobblestone streets of SoHo, Chanel handbags and Arc'teryx jackets are displayed in shops like museum pieces, harking back to the height of the neighborhood's trendiness.  But rents there are softening, and the number of vacant storefronts is rising.
Discussion: National Review
Alan Yuhas / The Guardian:
Man accused of assaulting woman at election rally says Trump inspired him  —  Lawyers for veteran being sued over an altercation at a Trump campaign rally in Kentucky says he acted at the candidate's urging  —  Steve Bannon: is Trump's right-hand man falling from grace?  —  Read more
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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Serafin Gómez / Fox News:
First lady Melania Trump, son moving to Washington this summer, WH confirms  —  President Trump's wife and their young son will officially be moving into the White House this summer, following the end of the school year, a senior White House official tells Fox News.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Melania Trump seemed like a rebellious first lady. She's turning out to be a retro one.
Caroline Alphonso / Globe and Mail:
Anxiety intensifies in Toronto's suburbs as anti-Muslim rhetoric escalates  —  Hamza Aziz makes sure to stay close to a friend at all times, and his parents have told him not to be outside after dark - precautions the student never imagined would be needed in his quiet corner of suburban Toronto.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:
The 16-year-old who told off Jeff Flake has a message for “old white man” Trump  —  We recently reported on the courage of 16-year-old Deja Foxx, who faced down Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) at a town hall in Mesa, Arizona, over his support for Donald Trump's anti-Planned Parenthood crusade.
Discussion: Mediaite and Arizona Republic
New York Times:
O'Reilly's Behavior Said to Have Helped Drive Megyn Kelly Out at Fox  —  Last fall, in the weeks after 21st Century Fox struck settlements with two women who said that Bill O'Reilly had sexually harassed them, the Fox News host went on morning television and offered a harsh assessment of women …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly left Fox News in part due to O'Reilly: report
Discussion: RedState
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Even Canadians are skipping trips to America after Trump travel ban  —  The cancellations came quickly and in rapid succession.  Within days of President Trump's first executive order restricting travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, a number of European travel groups pulled their plans …
Diego Mendoza-Moyers / Arizona Republic:
Ex-NFL star drove truck that hit, killed daughter in Mesa  —  Todd Heap, a former NFL football player who also starred at Arizona State University, was behind the wheel of a truck that accidentally struck and killed his 3-year-old daughter at their home in Mesa on Friday, police have confirmed.
 
 
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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Trump heads to Fla. golf course
Fox News Insider:
Mother of All Bombs: Johnny Joey Jones Obama Didn't Want to Bomb, Trump Gave Generals Control
Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
A benefit to defying Trump: House Freedom Caucus members applauded at town halls for defeating Trumpcare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Roger Stone defends WikiLeaks, calls for CIA head to resign over attacks
Discussion: Newsmax and RedState
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge weighs arguments in SF, Santa Clara sanctuary cities case
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Chatting With Fish About Water
 Earlier Items: 
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right
Annie Karni / Politico:
Tillerson's stock rises in the White House
CBS News:
Secret Service costs for Trump family protection continue to mount
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Cohn's Goldman Sachs Shares Sold as He Touted Financial Overhaul
Discussion: Political Wire
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House to Keep Its Visitor Logs Secret
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Arkansas judge prohibits state from using lethal injection drug, blocking scheduled executions
USA Today:
Trump's taxes must be released before tax reform: Painter and Eisen
Discussion: Longreads
 

 
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