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11:00 AM ET, April 22, 2017

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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The White House Seems Excited to Shut Down the Government  —  Next Saturday, April 29th, is President Trump's hundredth day in office, a historical marker used by the press to assess a new President's progress since the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Trump becomes wild card in spending fight  —  President Trump has emerged as the wildcard as congressional leaders clamber to reach agreement on a package to keep the government funded and prevent a shutdown.  —  Republican leaders are keenly aware which “poison pill” provisions are non-starters …
Wall Street Journal:
Border Lawmakers Balk at Donald Trump's Wall Request  —  No House or Senate members from the region express support for the funding proposal  —  WASHINGTON—Not a single member of Congress who represents the territory on the southwest border said they support President Donald Trump's request …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker jokes: I'll support Trump's border wall ‘if Russia pays for it’  —  California Rep. Ted Lieu (D) is mocking requests for funding President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, saying the only way he'd even support a border wall it is “if Russia pays for it.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
White House budget chief floats trade on ObamaCare, border wall funding
Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos
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.
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Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
Breaking: U.S. investigators find “signs of possible collusion between the campaign and Russian officials”  —  Only one week after the Guardian quoted British sources as saying there was “specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
T.A. Frank / Vanity Fair:
Please, God, Stop Chelsea Clinton from Whatever She Is Doing  —  The last thing the left needs is the third iteration of a failed political dynasty.  —  Amid investigations into Russian election interference, perhaps we ought to consider whether the Kremlin, to hurt Democrats, helped put Chelsea Clinton on the cover of Variety.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Vows to Unveil Tax-Cut Plan Next Week, Surprising Staff  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his Treasury Department on Friday to review measures put in place by the Obama administration, setting the stage for a rollback of regulations that were intended to curtail corporate tax evasion and prevent another financial crisis.
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:   The White House reveals what next week's ‘big announcement’ on taxes will look like
WTAE:
Trump to unveil tax plan with ‘massive’ cuts next week, AP says
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Milo Yiannopoulos Plots Comeback at UC Berkeley  —  Yiannopoulos wouldn't say who is backing the effort, financially or otherwise, nor would he say which, if any, student group has invited him to speak at Berkeley.  —  Milo Yiannopoulos is plotting his comeback, allegedly to take place at UC Berkeley …
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Ann Coulter / New York Post:
If US campuses can't protect free speech, they need new management
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
New York Times:
Berkeley Is Being Tested on 2 Fronts: Free Speech and Safety
Discussion: Business Insider
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Berkeley Once Stood for Free Speech. Now It Rolls Over.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Surgeon general dismissed, replaced by Trump administration  —  The White House administration on Friday dismissed U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, saying it is continuing the process of transitioning to new leadership.  —  “Today, Dr. Murthy, the leader of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps …
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New York Times:
Nurse Replaces Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Resigns
Discussion: The Hill and Vox
New York Times:
Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics.  Then He Shaped an Election.  —  As the F.B.I. investigated Hillary Clinton and the Trump campaign, James B. Comey tried to keep the bureau out of politics but plunged it into the center of a bitter election.  —  WASHINGTON — The day before he upended …
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces.  Head-Scratching Ensues.  —  Archival research doesn't get much more exciting than the 2004 heist movie “National Treasure.”  Nicolas Cage, playing a historian named Benjamin Franklin Gates, discovers a coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
Discussion: The Guardian
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John R. Ellement / BostonGlobe.com:
Second parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found — in England
Discussion: Daily Mail and CBS Boston
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Marine Le Pen gets poll boost after Paris attack as Donald Trump says her chances of victory have improved  —  Donald Trump has said the Paris terrorist attack would boost Marine Le Pen's presidential chances after a last-minute poll gave her a modest increase in support.
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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
Discussion: Scripting News
CBS News:
WikiLeaks releases more top-secret CIA docs as U.S. considers charges  —  WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks released what it claims is the 31-page user guide for a CIA device code-named “Weeping Angel.”  It can turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TV's built-in microphone.
Discussion: Business Insider
Tim Alberta / Politico:
'The Ideas Made It, But I Didn't'  —  His first date with his future wife was spent in a New Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey into the wee hours with Hunter S. Thompson.  He stood several feet away from Martin Luther King Jr. during the “I Have a Dream” speech.
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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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Florida State Senator Resigns After Using Racial Slur in Tirade
Discussion: Political Wire and TheBlaze
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Caitlyn Jenner reflects on how her life has changed since transitioning into a woman  —  Two years ago, the celebrated Olympic hero and famous reality TV show dad then known as Bruce Jenner revealed to the world in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer that he had struggled his entire life with gender identity.
 
 
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
US to honor Australia refugee deal Trump called ‘dumb’
Discussion: Politico
Sandra Pedicini / Orlando Sentinel:
Man dies after riding Disney World's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Arizona Republic:
GOP keeps up pressure on Backpage donations, offers to pay voters' way into Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's event
Discussion: Salon, Shareblue and Occupy Democrats
WKRN-TV:
Man killed, 2 injured during shootout at Bordeaux shop
Discussion: LewRockwell and Bearing Arms
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats partner with political newcomers aiming to create anti-Trump wave in 2018 midterms
Discussion: Political Wire
Center for American ProgressCenter …:
Premium Increases for Pre-Existing Conditions Under Latest ACA Repeal Plan, by State
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At a ‘Unity’ Stop in Nebraska, Democrats Find Anything But
Discussion: Rewire
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Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
The Persistence of Trump Derangement Syndrome
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Georgia Brown / The Guardian:
Britain set for first coal-free day since Industrial Revolution
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