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5:25 PM ET, April 22, 2017

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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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Vivek Murthy:
Two years and four months ago, I was honored to be sworn in as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States.  For the grandson of a poor farmer from India to be asked by the President to look out for the health of an entire nation was a humbling and uniquely American story.
Melanie Eversley / USA Today:   Surgeon general dismissed, replaced by Trump administration
New York Times:
Trump Reaches Beyond West Wing for Counsel  —  WASHINGTON — Relationships have always been President Trump's currency and comfort, helping him talk his way into real estate deals over three decades in New York.  Those who know him best say that his outer confidence has always belied an inner uncertainty …
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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: Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
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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Billy House / Bloomberg:
Health Care Vote Likely in Early May, House Conservative Says  —  Freedom caucus member says compromises will bring more support  —  Not an actual Obamacare repeal, but ‘best we can negotiate’  —  A key House Republican lawmaker expects a vote during the first week in May on a new version …
Discussion: Politico
Paul Kane / Washington Post:   History tells us that Republicans are taking on too much this week — and that it isn't likely to end well
Mike Lillis / The Hill:   Trump becomes wild card in spending fight
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
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump to hold rally on night of White House Correspondents Dinner  —  President Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania the night of the White House Correspondents Dinner, he said Saturday.  —  “Next Saturday night I will be holding a BIG rally in Pennsylvania.  Look forward to it!”
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump to hold rally same night as White House Correspondents' Dinner
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump to hold 100th-day rally on same night as White House correspondents' dinner
Discussion: IJR
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.
Evgenia Peretz / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Trump Marriage: Melania's Burden  —  Until November 8, Melania Trump's marriage provided her with a golden Fifth Avenue fortress, at a price—putting up with her husband's humiliations and boorishness.  From Melania's ill-fated campaign appearances to her apparent reluctance …
Discussion: AOL
Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal:
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Shuttering at a Record Pace  —  Years of overbuilding and the rise of online shopping have come to a head; malls as ‘energy suckers’  —  American retailers are closing stores at a record pace this year as they feel the fallout from decades of overbuilding and the rise of online shopping.
Discussion: CNBC and The Daily Caller
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Historians say a president's first 100 days is a useless benchmark  —  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.
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
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
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker jokes: I'll support Trump's border wall ‘if Russia pays for it’
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Reuters:
Overseas voters kick off crucial French presidential election  —  French overseas territories and French residents in the United States and Canada began voting on Saturday in France's presidential election, a day before the main first-round of a poll that could change the global political landscape.
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Mark J. Perry / American Enterprise Institute:
18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year
Deseret News:
The calculus behind Jason Chaffetz's sudden decision to walk away
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Hullabaloo
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Judith Clark, Getaway Driver in Deadly Brink's Heist, Is Denied Parole
Discussion: Gothamist and Althouse
Young Immigrants / Associated Press:
Excerpts from AP interview with President Donald Trump
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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CBS News:
WikiLeaks releases more top-secret CIA docs as U.S. considers charges
Discussion: Business Insider
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Caitlyn Jenner reflects on how her life has changed since transitioning into a woman
Ann Coulter / New York Post:
If US campuses can't protect free speech, they need new management
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
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 and Shareblue
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats partner with political newcomers aiming to create anti-Trump wave in 2018 midterms