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10:10 AM ET, April 19, 2017

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats begin to wonder: When do we win?  —  As it became clear late Tuesday evening that Jon Ossoff would fall just short of the 50-percent mark in the first round of voting in a suburban Atlanta special election, Democrats back in Washington started leafing through their calendars and asking: When does the winning start?
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
The Truth About What Happened in the GA-06 Special Election is Different From Either Party's Spin  —  Both sides are spinning their way out of the GA-06 special election.  Here's the truth.  —  First, don't believe the Democrat spin that “it should never have been this close.”
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Live Election Results: Georgia's Sixth Congressional District  —  Democrats hope Jon Ossoff will win them the House seat vacated by Tom Price, the new health and human services secretary.  If no candidate wins a majority of the vote, the top two will advance to a June 20 runoff.
New York Times:
Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, Narrowly Misses Outright Win in Georgia House Race  —  ROSWELL, Ga. — Jon Ossoff, a Democrat making his first bid for elective office, narrowly missed winning a heavily conservative House district in Georgia outright on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Georgia special election goes to runoff as GOP gets wakeup call
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia special election will go to runoff
Discussion: Atlanta Buzz … and Heat Street
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Fox Is Preparing to Cut Ties With Bill O'Reilly  —  Popular host has been implicated in a sexual-harassment scandal  —  Fox News is preparing to cut ties with its biggest star, Bill O'Reilly, according to people close to the situation.  —  A final decision on Mr. O'Reilly's fate could come …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Source: Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are talking exit  —  Fox News will no longer even respond to questions about whether Bill O'Reilly will return to his show.  —  A well-placed source said Tuesday afternoon that representatives for Fox and O'Reilly have begun talking about an exit.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: The Murdochs Are Turning Against Bill O'Reilly
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox considers future without O'Reilly as advertisers flee
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
CNNMoney:
His job in jeopardy, Bill O'Reilly's team fights back
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Pence: Misstatements about U.S. aircraft carrier location not intentional  —  Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that misstatements about the location of a U.S. aircraft carrier supposedly on its way to the waters off the Korean peninsula were not made intentionally.
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Yahoo:
Images show North Koreans playing volleyball at nuclear test site
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
New York Times:
Aircraft Carrier Wasn't Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested
ABC News:   Mike Pence warns North Korea: ‘The sword stands ready’
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Trump Mulls U.S. Military Options for North Korea, All Grim
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Ethan Epstein / Weekly Standard:
Bad Reviews For Trump's Korea Policy
Discussion: Instapundit
AP News:
The Latest: Fresno suspect faces 4 murder charges  —  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting in downtown Fresno, California (all times local):  —  An official says a man suspected of killing a motel security guard and three people he targeted for being white is being charged with four counts of murder.
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Jim Guy / Fresno Bee:
Three dead in central Fresno shooting spree; suspect caught, linked to Motel 6 slaying
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
AP Changes Fresno Shooter's Words From ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Removes Islam Reference
Discussion: Geller Report and RedState
USA Today:
First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump  —  Federal agents ignored President Trump's pledge to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by sending a young man back to his native Mexico, the first such documented case …
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:   DHS: USA Today Got Its Big Scoop On Deported ‘DREAMer’ Totally Wrong
Madeleine O'Neill / Erie Daily Times-Morning News:
Police: No direct knowledge of ‘ping’ from Stephens' phone  —  Cleveland Facebook killer committed suicide after troopers stopped car in city of Erie.  McDonald's workers had tipped off troopers that Stephens was in area.  —  Madeleine O'Neill @ETNONeillTim Hahn @ETNHahn
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
A month after dismissing federal prosecutors, Justice Department does not have any U.S. attorneys in place  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making aggressive law enforcement a top priority, directing his federal prosecutors across the country to crack down on illegal immigrants and …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hillary ran the worst presidential campaign ever  —  MORE FROM: … So guess what?  In the last weeks before the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign did no polling.  No. Polling.  Whatsoever.  Oh, it had data.  Lots and lots of data.  Analytics, even.  Data analytics!
Tom Precious / The Buffalo News:
How did Cuomo make $783,000 on memoir that sold 3,200 copies?  —  ALBANY - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo reported his income last year more than doubled from the previous year, thanks to another round of royalty payments on a 2014 HarperCollins memoir that saw lackluster sales.
Discussion: Political Wire
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes's Fake Scandal  —  Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland.
John Binder / Breitbart:
H-1B Experts on Trump's Order: ‘This Is What We Elected Him For’  —  President Donald Trump is getting praise from experts on the H-1B foreign guest worker visa for his ‘Hire American’ Executive Order which calls for a review into the system's abuse at the expense of American workers.
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
CNN:
FBI used dossier allegations to bolster Trump-Russia investigation  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump's campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.
Ian Mason / Breitbart:
Exclusive-Sarah Palin Shreds Liz Warren for Ripping Off Her ‘Fight Like a Girl’ Quote  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tweeted “fight like a girl” to her followers Tuesday.  She later used the same phrase in an interview with National Public Radio promoting her new book. … The line may seem familiar.
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Audie Cornish / Arts & Life : NPR:   Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Call To Action: ‘This Fight’ Will Take Everybody
 
 
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Randy Krehbiel Tulsa / Tulsa World:
Sen. James Lankford experiences little of the rancor aimed at other members of Congress
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
Turkey Arrests Dozens Over Referendum Protests
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
White House aides grapple with newfound celebrity
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
U.S. Isn't Saying How Much Damage ‘Mother of All Bombs’ Did in Afghanistan
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans avoided calamity in this month's two special elections, but a lot more peril lies ahead
Jacquie Slater / WCTX-TV:
Police report alleges New Haven teacher had sex with student in classroom
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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New York Times:
Why Are Republicans Making Tax Reform So Hard?
National Journal:
In Georgia, Democrats Learn That Opposing Trump Is Not Enough
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Local, state tax deductions on Gary Cohn's list
Discussion: Bloomberg and New York Magazine
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Lawsuit against Trump now includes China trademarks
Discussion: The Guardian
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders: I don't consider myself a Democrat
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