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8:50 PM ET, April 21, 2017

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CNN:
Sources: Russia tried to use Trump advisers to infiltrate campaign  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI gathered intelligence last summer that suggests Russian operatives tried to use Trump advisers, including Carter Page, to infiltrate the Trump campaign, according to US officials.
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump wades into French elections  —  Two days before a French election that has Europe on edge, President Donald Trump weighed in Friday with a tweet that seemed to imply support for the controversial far-right populist Marine Le Pen.  —  Trump's Friday morning tweet responded to a shooting …
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Associated Press:
THE LATEST: TRUMP SAYS DREAMERS SHOULD ‘REST EASY’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says young immigrants shielded from deportation - often referred to as “dreamers” - should “rest easy” about his immigration policies.
David Brooks / New York Times:   The Crisis of Western Civ
Sid Verma / Bloomberg:
Analyst Who Predicted Trump's Ascendancy Bets on Le Pen Win
U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Sends Letter to Nine Jurisdictions Requiring Proof of Compliance with 8 U.S.C.  § 1373  —  Today, the Department of Justice sent the attached letters to nine jurisdictions which were identified in a May 2016 report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Feel The Propaganda, Feel the Hate  —  We're familiar with President Trump's dystopian vision of an America in chaos, preyed on by foreigners and awash in citizens violated by feral criminals and “illegals.”  Through last year's campaign and into this year, Trump has repeatedly lied …
Discussion: Scripting News
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump admin warns 9 ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions they may lose funds
Discussion: Political Wire
Joseph Tanfani / Los Angeles Times:
Justice Department warns sanctuary cities in California, 8 other jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration enforcement
Discussion: Occupy Democrats and CNBC
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
White House budget chief floats trade on ObamaCare, border wall funding  —  President Trump's budget chief Mick Mulvaney said Friday that the White House is offering Democrats money for key ObamaCare payments in exchange for money to help fund the president's proposed border wall.
Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Schumer jabs White House over offer to fund Obamacare subsidies in exchange for border wall
Discussion: New York Magazine
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Today's executive orders are the nail in the coffin of Trump's economic populism  —  There's no workers' party here.  —  Friday afternoon, Donald Trump traveled to the US Treasury Department where he's expected to sign a new executive order.  The order aims at making life easier …
Discussion: ABC News and Common Dreams
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Mary Ellen Klas / miamiherald:
Hooters ‘calendar girl’ and Playboy ‘Miss Social’ were Artiles' paid consultants  —  TALLAHASSEE  —  Just months before his resignation Friday, Sen. Frank Artiles scored a coup in November when he unseated Democrat Dwight Bullard with an aggressive $1 million campaign in a district that favored Democrats.
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Kristen Clark Herald / miamiherald:
Sen. Frank Artiles apologizes for using racial slurs  —  Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles formally apologized on the Florida Senate floor on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, for insulting and using racial slurs against two black lawmakers two days prior.  —  Friends of Artiles …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Massive power outage hits San Francisco, shuts down businesses, BART station, cable cars, traffic lights  —  A massive power outage in San Francisco caused a blackout Friday morning in several neighborhoods, from the Financial District to the Presidio, forcing the closure of businesses …
May Bulman / The Independent:
Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference  —  Mental health experts say President is ‘paranoid and delusional’  —  Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.
WTAE:
Trump to unveil tax plan with ‘massive’ cuts next week, AP says  —  President Donald Trump says businesses and individuals will receive a “massive tax cut” under a tax reform package he plans to unveil next week.  —  In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump says the plan will result …
Discussion: Axios
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Bloomberg:   Trump Plan Said Unlikely to Back Ryan's Border-Adjusted Tax
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Vacation's Over: Obama Returns to Public Life Next Week  —  WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's extended post-presidential vacation is about to end.  After spending weeks in French Polynesia — including time on the yacht of the movie mogul David Geffen along with Bruce Springsteen …
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John R. Ellement / BostonGlobe.com:
Second parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found — in England  —  Two Harvard University researchers announced Friday that they have found a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence in a tiny records office in southern England.  —  The only other parchment copy …
Discussion: CBS Boston
USA Today:
Trump condos worth $250 million pose potential conflict  —  LAS VEGAS — President Trump's companies own more than 400 condo units and home lots whose sale could steer millions of dollars to Trump, a USA TODAY investigation has found.  —  USA TODAY spent four months cataloging every property Trump's companies own across the country.
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Berkeley Once Stood for Free Speech.  Now It Rolls Over.  —  In the 1960s, students at Berkeley helped change the world by igniting the Free Speech Movement, a seminal moment in the history of 20th-century civil liberties.  Fifty years later, Berkeley leftists seem to have decided …
Christopher Weaver / Wall Street Journal:
Theranos Secretly Bought Outside Lab Gear, Ran Fake Tests: Court Filings  —  Company says it disagrees with many of allegations, saying they reflect ‘one-sided filing’  —  Theranos Inc. misled company directors about its laboratory-testing practices, used a shell company to “secretly” …
Discussion: Engadget, New York Magazine and Axios
Scott Detrow / NPR:
Bernie Sanders Defends Campaigning For Anti-Abortion Rights Democrat  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders is campaigning for Omaha, Neb., mayoral candidate Heath Mello Thursday night, and he's not apologizing for it.  —  “Absolutely, and I want him to win,” Sanders, I-Vt., told NPR Thursday, after a rally in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
2nd doctor, wife arrested in genital mutilation case  —  Federal agents Friday arrested a second doctor in connection with the nation's first genital mutilation case, sources told The Detroit News.  —  Dr. Fakhruddin Attar is accused of letting Dr. Jumana Nagarwala perform mutilations at his Burhani Medical Clinic on Farmington Road.
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
No, Gov. Dean, there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment  —  Former Vermont governor Howard Dean writes: … This leads me to repeat what I've said before: There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment.  Hateful ideas (whatever exactly that might mean) …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
How Trump Blew Up the Conservative Media  —  Months before Donald Trump blew up American politics with his surprise win in November, he did the same thing to the conservative media.  Through much of the campaign, two very different media moguls with colliding visions for the Republican Party vied …
Omar Mahmood / USA Today:
Islam needs Islamophobia right now: Voices  —  In Pakistan, a mob killed a journalism student because he didn't believe.  That could have been me.  —  Last week, a 23-year-old journalism student was beaten to death by a mob outside the cafeteria of Abdul Wali Khan University in northern Pakistan.
Matt Bai / Yahoo:
Campaign books that help shatter our politics  —  In the beginning there was Theodore White, the legendary observer of 20th century presidential campaigns, with his “Making of the President 1960.”  Then there was Joe McGinniss' brilliant account of the first iteration of modern campaign consulting …
Discussion: IJR and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Huffington Post Blogger Declares Trump Supporters Deserve to Die  —  The Huffington Post recently deleted a blog post in which the author fantasized about the deaths of Donald Trump supporters.  —  “Trump Supporters Deserve to Die More Than I Do,” wrote Chris Cali, an artist and musician …
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
House intel panel invites former acting AG Sally Yates to testify  —  The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday asked several senior Obama administration officials, including former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, to testify publicly in the panel's probe into Russian interference in the U.S. election.
 
 
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Georgia Brown / The Guardian:
Britain set for first coal-free day since Industrial Revolution
Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit:
Confirmed: Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin Publicly Supports Violent Left-Wing ANTIFA Group
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Devin Henry / The Hill:
Treasury won't grant Exxon drilling waiver for Russia
Discussion: Vox and Common Dreams
Conor Skelding / Politico:
Columbia spending $2.5M to study its students' sex lives
Alaska Dispatch News:
Anchorage dentist charged with Medicaid fraud, ‘unlawful dental acts’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
State Dept. official reassigned amid conservative media attacks
Discussion: Raw Story
The Texas Tribune:
Nancy Pelosi mocks Trump, is bullish on 2018 midterms
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Friedman / Politico:
National progressive PAC sees N.J. as proving ground for ‘anti-Trump power building’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
Feinstein is waiting for family health issues to be resolved before announcing her 2018 plans
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
‘They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
New York Times:
What Is Hawaii?
Discussion: CNN, Occupy Democrats and IJR
Brian Eason / Denver Post:
Aurora Democrat David Aarestad joins race to unseat Mike Coffman
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dem rep: Jim Crow's ‘nieces and nephews’ are in the White House
Michael Wines / New York Times:
‘Pivotal Moment’ for Democrats? Gerrymandering Heads to Supreme Court
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Google is a monopoly — and it's crushing the internet
Discussion: The Atlantic