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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Willing to Hold Off on Border-Wall Funding  —  President's flexibility on wall funding could ease bipartisan deal on spending bill to avoid a government shutdown later this week  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is open to waiting until later this year to secure funding …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump opens the door to delaying funding of border wall  —  President Trump signaled to a gathering of conservative media reporters on Monday that he may be open to delaying the funding of his proposed border wall.  —  The president said — according to tweets from conservative media …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
White House ‘confident’ of averting shutdown as Trump shows flexibility on wall  —  The White House sought Monday to calm a jittery Washington ahead of a showdown with Congress over spending, and President Trump softened his demand that a deal to keep the federal government open include money …
Associated Press:
Trump backs away from demand for border wall money
Discussion: Politico
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened.
Discussion: Politico and NBC News
The Hill:   Trump's wall jams GOP in shutdown talks
New York Times:
As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, U.S. Fears Time Will Run Out  —  WASHINGTON — Behind the Trump administration's sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude …
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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 …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Conservative media figures disappointed with Trump meeting  —  Some conservative media figures invited to an exclusive event with President Trump Monday night left the White House frustrated and complaining that Trump's staff had intentionally sought to limit what they could report out of the meeting.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Senate staff perplexed by unusual White House private briefing on North Korea
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
How an Alternative Donald Trump Opening Act Might Have Unfolded  —  The president could have taken advantage of the fact he isn't an ideological conservative or traditional Republican, but a centrist  —  Let's imagine an alternative opening act to the Trump presidency.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:   100 days of Democratic rage
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Despite Trump's Low Numbers, Dem Surge Is No Guarantee
Discussion: TheBlaze
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 …
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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Chobani sues Alex Jones, saying he falsely linked company to child rape, tuberculosis
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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Daniel Lippman / Politico:   MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: Trump's tax plan …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump gets booed, hissed at during Berlin event  —  BERLIN — Ivanka Trump arrived in Berlin Tuesday morning armed with facts and figures to recite at what was expected to be a high-brow international summit to discuss women entrepreneurship, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Discussion: Axios
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Bloomberg:
Trump Slaps Duty on Canada Lumber, Intensifying Trade Fight  —  Step will raise cost of home-building, mattress box springs  —  Canada vows to fight back against 'unfair" import duties  —  U.S. President Donald Trump intensified a trade dispute with Canada, slapping tariffs of up to 24 percent …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Plans to Impose 20% Tariff on Canadian Softwood-Lumber Imports
Discussion: New York Times, The Week and NPR
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 …
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 …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Christie gives Trump a ‘B,’ says WH staff need to ‘get their act together’  —  Warren gives Trump an ‘F’ on first 100 days  —  Washington (CNN)With a few days left of his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump's friend Gov. Chris Christie graded his performance so far as a “B.”
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Forget the critics, Mr. President. Your first 100 days have been just fine.
Discussion: The Week and Daily Wire
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with new Wikitribune site  —  Crowdfunded online publication from Jimmy Wales will pair paid journalists with army of volunteer contributors … Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will aim to fight fake news …
Fox Business:
Obama Wall Street's Newest Fat Cat With Cantor Speech  —  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press)  —  When he was president he called them “fat cats,” but now he's likely thanking them for a huge payday.  —  Former President Barack Obama, less than 100 days out of office …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:   Obama to net $400K for Wall Street speech: report
Chad Kiewiet De Jonge / ABC News:
Only 37 percent say Trump should repeal and replace Obamacare: Poll  —  As President Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress gear up for another attempt at repealing and replacing Obamacare, an ABC News/Washington Post poll finds broad public preference for keeping and improving it …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jacob Carpenter / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Prosecutors: Inmate's water cut off for 7 days before his death in the Milwaukee County Jail  —  An inquest has been ordered following the April 2016 dehydration death of Milwaukee County Jail inmate Terrill Thomas.  Here's how an inquest works, and how the only other Milwaukee County inquest in the past decade ended.
Discussion: CBS Sacramento
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
The Effects of Ending the Affordable Care Act's Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments  —  Controversy has emerged recently over federal payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) related to cost-sharing reductions for low-income enrollees in the ACA's marketplaces.
Discussion: Balloon Juice, USA Today, Vox and Axios
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 …
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Flynn's Turkish lobbying linked to Russia  —  The Turkish man who gave Mike Flynn a $600,000 lobbying deal just before President Donald Trump picked him to be national security adviser has business ties to Russia, including a 2009 aviation financing deal negotiated with Vladimir Putin, according to court records.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Infighting cools down in Trumpland  —  President Trump's White House is making an effort to heal the wounds from the infighting and leaks that have dogged the administration over its first 100 days.  —  Trump appears to have brokered at least a temporary peace between son-in-law Jared Kushner …
Discussion: Political Wire
Tucker Doherty / Politico:
The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think  —  How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell?  News organizations old and new, large and small, print and online, broadcast and cable assigned phalanxes of reporters armed with the most sophisticated polling data and analysis to cover the presidential campaign.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News  —  Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels.  But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.  —  “The Rachel Maddow Show” surpassed “Tucker Carlson Tonight” …
 
 
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The White House:
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
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Aaron R. Hanlon / New Republic:
Why Colleges Have a Right to Reject Hateful Speakers Like Ann Coulter
Discussion: Hot Air, Instapundit and IJR
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hate speech is free speech, Gov. Dean: Glenn Reynolds
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Dan Merica / CNN:
State Dept. blog promotes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, prompting ethics concerns
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign