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12:55 PM 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.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
The White House reveals what next week's ‘big announcement’ on taxes will look like  —  The White House will release the “broad principles and priorities” of their plans to overhaul federal taxes on Wednesday, a White House official said Friday night, downplaying expectations that the Trump administration …
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
Mike Lillis / The Hill:   Trump becomes wild card in spending fight
New York Times:
Nurse Replaces Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Resigns  —  America's doctor was fired on Friday and replaced by a nurse.  —  Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, an Obama administration holdover, was asked to resign by the Trump administration.  He was replaced by his deputy …
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Melanie Eversley / USA Today:   Surgeon general dismissed, replaced by Trump administration
Vivek Murthy:
Two years and four months ago, I was honored to be sworn …
Discussion: NBC News and STAT
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: BizPac Review and twitchy.com
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.
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 …
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
The history of the first 100 days — and why Trump is right about the ‘ridiculous standard’  —  The date was July 24, 1933.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting behind a desk in the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room.  To his left was a microphone, to his right a glass of water.
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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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Pence: U.S. to honor refugee deal with Australia  —  The United States will honor an Obama-era agreement with Australia to help resettle Syrian refugees, despite the Trump administration not favoring the arrangement, Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday.
Discussion: The Week
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
US to honor Australia refugee deal Trump called ‘dumb’
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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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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
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
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Why Trump likes his freewheeling Oval Office schedule  —  President Donald Trump leaves large blocks of “private time” on his Oval Office schedule for spontaneous meetings and phone chats with ex-aides, friends, media figures, lawmakers and members of his Cabinet — an old habit he's carried …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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
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
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
 
 
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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
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WKRN-TV:
Man killed, 2 injured during shootout at Bordeaux shop
Discussion: LewRockwell and Bearing Arms
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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: Axios and Rewire
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
The Persistence of Trump Derangement Syndrome
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 

 
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