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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 …
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Kate Feldman / New York Daily News:
Former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlussel claims host Sean Hannity invited her back to his hotel room  —  Former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlussel claims that host Sean Hannity sexually harassed her.  —  Schlussel said on the Pat Campbell Podcast Friday that Hannity repeatedly invited …
Mike Opelka / TheBlaze:
“LET ME BE CLEAR”: Sean Hannity's stern response to sexual harassment allegation
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: RedState
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 …
Discussion: Vox, CNN, KTLA and CityLab
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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.
Discussion: NPR, rubber hose, The Guardian and Mediaite
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New York Times:
Five Key Questions as a Government Shutdown Looms
Associated Press:
Trump pushes wall funding in spending dispute with Democrats
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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 …
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.
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Senate Trump-Russia Probe Has No Full-Time Staff, No Key Witnesses  —  There are just seven part-time staffers working on the Senate inquiry.  None of them are trained investigators.  And they haven't interviewed a single player in Trump's orbit.  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee's probe …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Senate Russia probe flounders amid partisan bickering
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Business Insider
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
NBC News:
First 100 Days  —  It's the start of a presidency like no other.  We talked to historians, activists, and White House veterans to evaluate President Trump's progress at his first major benchmark.  —  Words BENJY SARLIN Photographs JIM LO SCALZO/EPA  —  FIRST 100 DAYS ARE HARD.  Just ask Bill Clinton.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Marine Le Pen Is In A Much Deeper Hole Than Trump Ever Was  —  Emmanuel Macron, a centrist candidate, and Marine Le Pen, of the far-right-wing National Front, will advance to a runoff in the French presidential election after finishing in the top two positions in a first-round vote on Sunday.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans sound alarm on Trump's troubles ahead of 2018  —  Republicans say President Donald Trump needs to turn things around fast — or the GOP could pay dearly in 2018.  —  With the party preparing to defend its congressional majorities in next year's midterms, senior Republicans …
Bloomberg:
Xi Urges Restraint on North Korea in Phone Call With Trump  —  Trump speaks by phone with Chinese president and Japan's Abe  —  Japan is participating in exercises with U.S. aircraft carrier  —  Chinese President Xi Jinping called for restraint on North Korea in a phone call with Donald Trump …
Discussion: Reuters, NPR, Politico and New York Magazine
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Citizen Arrested in North Korea
Jonathan Tilove / politics.blog.mystatesman.com:
In midst of custody battle, Alex Jones reveals that at 16, 'I'd already had over 150 women.'  —  Good Monday Austin:  —  On Saturday afternoon Alex Jones tweeted this.  —  LIVE: Alex Jones Responds to Sandy Hook Vampire http://www.infowars.com/... #tcot pic.twitter.com/1WjBb6Cboo — Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 22, 2017
John Markoff / New York Times:
No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car  —  This isn't science fiction.  A number of start-ups as well as big aerospace firms are trying to build personal aircraft you could fly around town.  —  CLEARLAKE, Calif. — On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working …
Discussion: GeekWire and The Verge
Foreign Policy:
The End of Foreign Aid As We Know It  —  Trump budget would gut development assistance and fold USAID into State.  —  President Donald Trump's vow to put “America first” includes a plan to drastically cut assistance to developing countries and merge the State Department with USAID, according to an internal budget document and sources.
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Who Does the Anne Frank Center Represent?  —  Sean Spicer was in trouble.  In a press conference addressing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people, the White House press secretary had fallen into one of his signature slow-moving train-wrecks of an analogy …
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly set for June NBC debut … Megyn Kelly is ready to get back on TV.  Page Six has exclusively learned that Kelly will officially start at NBC next month.  —  “She will start in May, and her Sunday show will premiere in June,” a network insider told us.
Discussion: Breitbart, RedState, Axios, Mediaite and Deadline
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
NYT Refuses To Use Term ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ Because It's ‘Culturally Loaded’  —  Worried the term “female genital mutilation” might sharpen the divide between those who oppose brutally cutting away a little girl's genitalia to deprive her of sexual pleasure and those who practice the …
Discussion: Fox News
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Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:   Genital mutilation victims break their silence: ‘This is demonic’
 
 
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Associated Press:
Trump administration to issue new Syria sanctions
Discussion: Politico
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
With Budget Debate Looming, Growing Share of Public Prefers Bigger Government
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: 15 Trumpists who did not survive the first 100 days
Dylan Scott / Vox:
America's health care cost problem might shut down Hollywood
Discussion: Axios
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump faults DNC in Russian email hacks
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sanders: Democratic Party's model is ‘failing’
Discussion: Shakesville and Hot Air
Tamar Hallerman / Political Insider blog:
Ethics group: Hank Johnson improperly aided Jon Ossoff with taxpayer resources
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New York Times:
Outspoken Maldives Blogger Who Challenged Radical Islamists Is Killed
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Why Paul Wolfowitz Is Optimistic About Trump
Tim Ross / Bloomberg:
May Hires Jim Messina for U.K. Conservative Election Team
Discussion: Political Wire
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Trump Saved Carrier Jobs. These Workers Weren't as Lucky.
Discussion: Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Jack Ma Sees Decades of Pain as Internet Upends Older Economy
Discussion: Business Insider
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Trump announces WH dinner for Supreme Court justices — then hours later postpones it indefinitely
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Everyone tunes in’: Inside Trump's obsession with cable TV