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11:55 AM ET, April 23, 2017

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Nearing 100 days, Trump's approval at record lows but his base is holding  —  President Trump nears the 100-day mark of his administration as the least popular chief executive in modern times, a president whose voters remain largely satisfied with his performance, but one whose base of support …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Disapproval of President Donald Trump Grows in Latest WSJ/NBC News Poll  —  The president risks losing the political middle ground, as disapproval outweighs approval by 14 points and independents move away from him  —  Americans have become increasingly dissatisfied with President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump at 100 days: 96 percent of his voters say they'd do it again (POLL)  —  There's no honeymoon for Donald Trump in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, but also no regrets: He approaches his 100th day in office with the lowest approval rating at this point of any president in polls since 1945 …
Salena Zito / New York Post:
How Trump voters feel about his first 100 days  —  MORE FROM: … Last fall, just weeks before Election Day, I traveled the old Lincoln Highway, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies, to learn the attitudes of voters who lived miles from the off-ramps of the main interstates and coastal America.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Bill O'Reilly Is Gone, But Fox News's Legal Nightmare Continues  —  The Murdochs hoped firing Bill O'Reilly would signal a changing culture at Fox News.  “We want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environment built on the values of trust and respect,” Rupert and his sons …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Root and USA Today
Michael Kruse / Politico:
How Trump Succeeds Without Succeeding  —  Earlier this month, 11 weeks after his inauguration, in the aftermath of bungled attempts at instituting a Muslim travel ban and “repealing and replacing” the Affordable Care Act, and in the midst of sinking approval ratings, steady reports …
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Sessions, unlike Trump, says DREAMers are ‘subject to being deported’  —  Striking a different tone than President Trump on DREAMers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said they like “everyone that enters the country unlawfully” are “subject to being deported.”
Discussion: Politico
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 4-23-17: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Xavier Becerra  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on April 23, 2017 and it will be updated.  —  ANNOUNCER: Starting right now on THIS WEEK with George Stephanopoulos.  —  DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Yonhap News Agency:
Third U.S. citizen detained in North Korea: sources  —  A former Korean-American professor was arrested in North Korea last week, becoming the third U.S. citizen to be detained by the communist country as of late, according to sources Sunday.  —  The U.S. citizen, identified only by his surname Kim …
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CNN:
American detained in North Korea
Discussion: The Daily Caller and WCMH-TV
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Volleyball Over, North Koreans Go Back to Work at Nuclear Site, Analysts Say
Discussion: Daily Mail
Stan Collender / Forbes:
A Government Shutdown This Week Will Depend On What Trump Considers A Win  —  A government shutdown won't happen this week because of a specific spending cut, tax hike or policy rider.  The real, and perhaps only, issue will be Donald Trump's need to record a “win.”
Heather Caygle / Politico:
House Democrats grow bullish after Trump's stumbles  —  House Democrats are heading toward the 100th day of Donald Trump's presidency with the kind of feel-good unity they haven't experienced since the election.  —  Coming off a rowdy recess where Republicans continued to be skewered …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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
Discussion: CNN
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Ryan promises to keep government open — and makes no promises on health care
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Health Care Vote Likely in Early May, House Conservative Says
Discussion: Politico
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump's Fake War on the Fake News  —  Seven days before Donald Trump took office, the inauguration festivities got off to a low-key start inside a modest conference room at the Capitol Hill offices of the American Trucking Association.  There, a hundred-odd familiar faces from the Washington set gathered …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Taplin / New York Times:
Is It Time to Break Up Google?  —  In just 10 years, the world's five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft.  Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon and Facebook have taken their place.
Discussion: Axios
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Sanders denounces threats against Ann Coulter  —  (I-Vt.) denounced the threats made against conservative pundit Ann Coulter that forced the University of California, Berkley to postpone her appearance this week.  —  “I don't like this.  I don't like it,” Sanders told The Huffington Post for a story published Saturday.
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Daniel Marans / The Huffington Post:
Bernie Sanders Condemns Threats Against Ann Coulter Speech At Berkeley
Discussion: Hit & Run
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Why can't the Clintons just go away?  —  MORE FROM: … Since losing the most winnable presidential election in modern American history, Hillary Clinton has, among other things: given a series of high-profile speeches, joined Gov. Cuomo at his public unveiling of tuition-free college …
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Jonah Bennett / The Daily Caller:
Congressman Tells Girl That Trump Is More Dangerous Than A Terrorist  —  Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier told an 11-year-old girl at a middle school in California Wednesday that President Donald Trump is more dangerous than a terrorist.  —  While speaking at a town hall at Stanley Middle School …
Discussion: SARAH PALIN and Geller Report
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Gary Peterson / East Bay Times:   Child's Donald Trump question elicits congressman's heartfelt reply
 
 
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Hundred Days of Trump
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Trump-Free Sunday Mornings
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Moderate Voice
Bill Nye / CNN:
Science made America great
Miranda Green / CNN:
Trump: ‘Dreamers’ should rest easy
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
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New York Times:
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Discussion: France 24, NPR and AOL
Evgenia Peretz / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Trump Marriage: Melania's Burden
Discussion: AOL and Raw Story