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1:25 PM ET, April 26, 2017

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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal  —  Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.  —  House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
House Republicans inch closer to repealing Obamacare  —  It all comes down to turnout.  —  Suddenly, House Republicans sure seem like they are starting to move again on their previously stunted quest to repeal and replace Obamacare.  —  Where that movement is actually heading is not yet clear.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico and Axios
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
House GOP health bill changes exempt members of Congress  —  A new amendment to the Republican ObamaCare replacement bill exempts members of Congress and their staff from its effects.  —  The new changes to the bill would allow states to apply for waivers to repeal key ObamaCare provisions …
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
GOP still optimistic about health care revival
Discussion: Political Wire, Politico and Vox
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Club for Growth, FreedomWorks throw support behind latest GOP health plan
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Axios
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
White House readies order on withdrawing from NAFTA  —  The Trump administration is considering an executive order on withdrawing the U.S. from NAFTA, according to two White House officials.  —  A draft order has been submitted for the final stages of review and could be unveiled late this week or early next week, the officials said.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump attacks judiciary for blocking order on sanctuary cities  —  President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the nation's judiciary Wednesday, blaming the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for the ruling by a federal district court judge that blocked Trump's move to deny federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities.
New York Times:
Trump's Tax Plan: Low Rate for Corporations, and for Companies Like His  —  President Trump plans to unveil a tax cut blueprint on Wednesday that would apply a vastly reduced, 15 percent business tax rate not only to corporations but also to companies that now pay taxes through the personal income tax code …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More
Discussion: Business Insider
Mike Allen / Axios:
Ivanka Trump's new fund for female entrepreneurs  —  Ivanka Trump told me yesterday from Berlin that she has begun building a massive fund that will benefit female entrepreneurs around the globe.  Both countries and companies will contribute to create a pool of capital to economically empower women.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
This is Amazing
Discussion: Mother Jones and Balloon Juice
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:   Ivanka Trump contradicts her father on Syrian refugees: Admittance to U.S. ‘has to be part of the discussion’
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Ivanka Trump: Allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. ‘has to be part of the discussion’
Discussion: twitchy.com
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's tax day
Discussion: Associated Press
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ann Coulter On Verge of Pulling Out of Speech at Berkeley  —  Ann Coulter said Wednesday that she is likely to cancel her planned appearance at the University of California, Berkeley, because she faced threats of violence and felt she was left without the support of local law enforcement who have said it cannot guarantee her safety.
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The Sun:
WHO BUN IT?  Brit bunny riddle as rabbit destined to be world's biggest dies on United Airlines jet to US  —  Three foot Simon died in the cargo section of a Boeing 767 after leaving Heathrow  —  SCANDAL-hit United Airlines is facing a new PR disaster — after a valuable giant rabbit died mysteriously on one of its planes.
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BBC:
United Airlines investigates giant bunny death  —  United Airlines is investigating the death of a giant rabbit which was being transported on one of its planes.  —  The 90cm-long bunny, called Simon, was found dead in the cargo hold when the flight arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport from London Heathrow.
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
O'Reilly protégée makes oral sex joke about Ivanka Trump  —  Jesse Watters is in his first week on The Five following his former boss' ouster amid a sexual harassment scandal.  —  Moments after smearing the left for merely pretending to respect women, Fox News' Jesse Watters made a sexual joke about Ivanka Trump.
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New York Post:
When will Obama have made enough money?  —  Cantor Fitzgerald LP will pay former President Barack Obama $400,000 to speak at a conference in September, likely the first of many lucrative Wall Street paydays.  —  Good for him.  —  SEE ALSO  —  Obama doesn't really need the money …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Apparently repealing Obamacare could violate international law  —  We've already seen that repealing Obamacare is politically perilous.  Now there's a new complication: It may also violate international law.  —  The United Nations has contacted the Trump administration as part of an investigation …
Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Views on Russian influence reflect partisan finger-pointing (POLL)  —  It's a partisan cold war right here at home: A majority of Democrats think now-President Donald Trump's campaign tried to help Russia influence the 2016 election, while a majority of Republicans think former President …
Jeff Stein / Vox:
The NYT's new columnist defends his views on Arabs, Black Lives Matter, campus rape  —  On April 12, the New York Times's vaunted editorial page got a new addition.  Bret Stephens, formerly a columnist at the Wall Street Journal, will join Ross Douthat and David Brooks among the stable of in-house conservatives at the Gray Lady.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Carl Bernstein: Flynn is ‘central to what FBI believes is cover-up’ … CNN commentator Carl Bernstein suggested Wednesday that former national security adviser Michael Flynn's is key to helping the FBI unravel a vast “cover-up” of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
Trump's speaking style still flummoxes linguists  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Campaign promises may have been reshaped and some self-imposed deadlines reset.  But among the things kept intact in the opening months of the new administration is the unmistakably distinct style of President Donald Trump's speech.
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
How Newt Gingrich became the go-to interview for every story about the Trump White House  —  Donald Trump is everything to Newt Gingrich.  —  He's “the grizzly bear in The Revenant,” he told HuffPost; a “pirate” willing to get things done outside the system he proclaimed to Fox News …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘This country cannot survive with a failure at the top’: Chris Matthews explodes at ‘pure evil’ Donald Trump  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews gave a passionate critique of President Donald Trump during his Trump Watch segment.
Charles R. Kesler / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is a Real Republican, and That's a Good Thing  —  Claremont, Calif. — What kind of conservative is President Trump?  He must be some kind of conservative, because for nearly 100 days and counting, liberals have poured on him the kind of vitriol they do not reserve for moderates or ideological nobodys.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Build it and be banned: Lawmakers move to block state contracts for any builders of Trump's border wall  —  California legislators took the first step Tuesday to ban state government contracts for any company that helps build President Trump's promised wall along the Mexico border …
Discussion: RedState, Sacramento Bee and Hot Air
 
 
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William Grimes / New York Times:
Benjamin R. Barber, Author of ‘Jihad vs. McWorld,’ Dies at 77
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Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:
Wild boars maul Isil fighters to death in Iraq
Discussion: USA Today, Mediaite, The Week and IJR
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
SCOOP: NBC could move studio from Nebraska Ave. …
David Nather / Axios:
Trump administration won't promise to keep making insurer payments
Discussion: Politico and ThinkProgress
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Will GOP Fund Planned Parenthood But Not Border Wall?
Daily Mail:
Kim readies for war: North Korean leader salutes as his army fires rockets and torpedoes …
Los Angeles Times:
For first time, more L.A. residents believe new riots likely, new poll finds
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Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Texas high-school student peed in teacher's cup before she drank from it, police say
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The biggest story of Trump's first 100 days? His survival
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