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8:40 PM ET, April 24, 2017

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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Will Provoke a Crisis or Be Humiliated This Week  —  The president has miscalculated the politics of government funding.  —  It's hard to imagine a better metaphor for Donald Trump's presidency than if, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress, he celebrates his 100th day in office by shutting down his own government.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Decision time for GOP: Trump's ire or government shutdown
Discussion: ABC News
The Hill:   Trump's wall jams GOP in shutdown talks
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened.
Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News and TheStreet
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Another government shutdown over Obamacare? Only if Trump wants it.
Discussion: Politico and NPR
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing  —  Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday.  —  All 100 senators have been asked …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former press secretary Josh Earnest doesn't have much sympathy for Sean Spicer  —  Press secretary Josh Earnest's advice for his successor Sean Spicer  —  Former White House press secretary Josh Earnest is speaking for the first time about how his successor Sean Spicer is doing.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Demian Bulwa / San Francisco Chronicle:
BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders  —  A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15%  —  President tells staff he wants to prioritize reductions over deficit concerns  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has ordered White House aides to accelerate efforts to draft a tax plan slashing the corporate rate to 15% and prioritizing cuts …
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Washington Post:   Trump seeks 15 percent corporate tax rate, even if it swells the national debt
Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘Fox & Friends’ anchor to be State spokesperson  —  Fox News anchor Heather Nauert has been hired by the State Department to be its spokesperson.  —  Nauert, 47, has been a news anchor on “Fox & Friends” since 2012 and has been with Fox News and local New York Fox affiliate Fox 5 …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN's Tapper: US ‘shamelessly’ advertising Trump's businesses
Discussion: RedState
Dan Merica / CNN:
State Dept. blog promotes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, prompting ethics concerns
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Forget the critics, Mr. President.  Your first 100 days have been just fine.  —  Despite the best efforts of the White House “PR apparatus” to sell the president's first 100 days as a success, the New York Times declared in an editorial, the new administration has, in fact, been plagued by …
Discussion: The Week, Daily Wire and The Guardian
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NBC News:   First 100 Days  —  It's the start of a presidency like no other.
Zach Kyle / Idaho Statesman:
Chobani sues Alex Jones, InfoWars for defamation over Twin Falls assault coverage  —  Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government …
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Obama's hidden Iran deal giveaway  —  When President Barack Obama announced the “one-time gesture” of releasing Iranian-born prisoners who “were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses” last year, his administration presented the move as a modest trade-off for the greater …
Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Despite Reports, Fmr Fox Guest Now Claims She Was Never Sexually Harassed by Sean Hannity  —  Debbie Schlussel, a former Fox News guest, appeared on a local radio show on Friday and recounted an incident where Sean Hannity purportedly asked her to a hotel, and when she rebuffed his advances …
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump jokes that Haley could ‘easily be replaced’  —  DON'T MISS A BRIEF.  SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump disses the United Nations as an ‘underperformer’
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump Holocaust remembrance speech uses wording similar to Holocaust Museum website's  —  President Trump's Holocaust remembrance remarks use similar wording to the Holocaust Museum website's “Introduction to the Holocaust” page.  —  “The Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution …
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Macron Campaign Wards Off Hacking Attempts Linked to Russia  —  Presidential candidate's campaign suffers multipronged phishing attack beginning in mid-March  —  PARIS—Hackers matching the profile of a pro-Kremlin group have tried in recent weeks to access campaign email accounts …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Axios and The Verge
Steve Chawkins / Los Angeles Times:
Robert Pirsig dies at 88; wrote counterculture classic ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’  —  Robert Pirsig in 1991 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. (Gary Guisinger / For The Times)  —  In the nearly five years it took Robert Pirsig to sell “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance …
Discussion: Raw Story
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
Bill Nye's Bizarre Video On Transgenderism Bombs On YouTube [VIDEO]  —  A clip of Bill Nye's latest television show promotes transgenderism and other gender identities as hard science, and it's performing horribly on YouTube, as of Monday.  —  “My Sex Junk,” published on YouTube Sunday …
Discussion: Hot Air and SARAH PALIN
France 24:
N.Korean media issue threat to ‘wipe out’ US  —  An official North Korean website warned Monday that Pyongyang will “wipe out” the United States if Washington starts a war on the peninsula, the latest tit-for-tat sabre-rattling that has sent tensions soaring in the region.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth  —  Struggling communities deserve help, but nostalgia economics won't work.  —  A wave of recent columns argue that what Trump superfans — or at least some hazily imagined, hard-pressed Northern working-class version of them — really want is respect.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Beau Evans / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Removal of the first of four New Orleans Confederate monuments begins with Liberty Place  —  Gallery: Supporters of Confederate monuments watch as one is torn down  —  Efforts to remove four Confederate monuments commenced early Monday morning (April 24), as crews and police gathered around …
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Bow-tie Wearing Dog Vigorously Contests Mark Halperin's Version of Events  —  Charlie, the adorable bow-tie-wearing dog who landed at the center of a national controversy on Friday night when NBC News Senior Political Analyst Mark Halperin tweeted a photo that many took to mean he was unhappy …
Discussion: twitchy.com and RedState
Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon … Stephen K. Bannon, who maintains a precarious hold over the nativist wing of the Trump White House, honed his skills in the art of conservative persuasion in the most liberal precinct of the American imagination, Hollywood.  He became himself in the byways of the movie business.
Fox News:
Tom Perez draws rebuke from Pelosi after declaring Dems can't be pro-life  —  Democrats no longer have a choice about being pro-choice.  —  So says Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, who drew a swift rebuke from Republicans and a public swipe from a top leader of his own party …
Ulrich Baer / New York Times:
What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech  —  At one of the premieres of his landmark Holocaust documentary, “Shoah” (1985), the filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was challenged by a member of the audience, a woman who identified herself as a Holocaust survivor.
BBC:
Le Pen ‘steps aside’ as party leader  —  Marine Le Pen says she's stepping aside as leader of far-right National Front party as she seeks French presidency … You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.
 
 
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News
Discussion: Raw Story
Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
At Tomi Lahren hearing, judge orders The Blaze to search emails
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
More millennials living with parents
Discussion: TheBlaze
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Dissatisfaction With Speaker Paul Ryan, Congress Overall Is Growing, Poll Finds
Discussion: Axios, Politicus USA and Politico
New York Times:
El Chapo Complains About Conditions at Manhattan Jail
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign
David Nather / Axios:
Republicans get details on latest health care compromise
Discussion: TheStreet
 Earlier Items: 
Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump faces skeptical audience in Berlin
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 73% Back Independent Probe of Russian Election Interference
Foreign Policy:
The End of Foreign Aid As We Know It
Discussion: The Week
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: 15 Trumpists who did not survive the first 100 days