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10:50 AM 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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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 …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans are still very far from 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.  —  But where that movement is actually heading is not yet clear.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus leaders back new health-care plan  —  White House officials and several Republican lawmakers claimed Tuesday they were nearing a deal on health-care legislation with the House Freedom Caucus, with at least three leading figures in the hard-line group ready to support …
Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, Shakesville and The Week
Timothy Jost / Health Affairs Blog:   The MacArthur Amendment Language, Race In The Federal Exchange, And Risk Adjustment Coefficients
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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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes  —  President Trump on Wednesday plans to call for a significant increase in the standard deduction people can claim on their tax returns, potentially putting thousands of dollars each year into the pockets of tens …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More
Discussion: Business Insider and The Resurgent
Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg:
Trump's 15% Corporate Tax Plan May Just Be His Opening Gambit
Discussion: Politico
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Ryan likely to get rolled on tax reform
Discussion: ABC News
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump contradicts her father on Syrian refugees: Admittance to U.S. ‘has to be part of the discussion’  —  Ivanka Trump stepped out publicly on the international stage for the first time this week, and she's now speaking out on one of the most controversial issues of her father's presidency: Syrian refugees.
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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.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's tax day  —  THE BIG STORY: The tax reform push is shaping up as the purest slice of the Trump agenda yet, an effort, mostly independent of Congress, to distill the president's ideas into a bold legislative concept.  As such, it appears disjointed and haphazard …
Washington Post:
UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus  —  The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests in a public plaza on campus after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday afternoon.
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Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
UC Berkeley riots: Violence looms as mayor questioned over ties to extremist group
Discussion: Breitbart
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Howard Dean doubles down on support for UC Berkeley excluding Ann Coulter
Discussion: Hit & Run and Townhall.com
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 …
The Huffington Post:
Sen. Mike Enzi: A Guy Who Wears A Tutu To A Bar ‘Kind Of Asks For It’  —  The Wyoming senator was speaking to a group of high school and middle school students.  —  Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) told a group of high school and middle school students last week that it's fine to be a member of the lesbian …
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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 …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News anchor joins lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment at network  —  Fox News still under grand jury probe  —  Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs, including an anchor, joining a suit alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the network.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Fox News Faces New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Slow pace of Trump nominations leaves Cabinet agencies ‘stuck’ in staffing limbo  —  President Trump's Cabinet secretaries are growing exasperated at how slowly the White House is moving to fill hundreds of top-tier posts, warning that the vacancies are hobbling efforts to oversee agency operations …
Discussion: Politico and TalkLeft
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:   Zinke to review more than 2 dozen national monuments ‘to make sure the people have a voice’
Fox News Insider:
Judge Who Blocked Trump Sanctuary City Order Bundled $200K for Obama  —  Federal Judge William Orrick III, who on Tuesday blocked President Trump's order to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities, reportedly bundled hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Barack Obama.
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The biggest story of Trump's first 100 days?  His survival  —  MORE FROM: … Unless the world ends before Saturday, most assessments of President Trump's first 100 days will include a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.  The emphasis will reveal more about those doing the grading than Trump himself.
Chrissacca / LOWERCASE capital:
Hanging up my spurs.  —  A couple years ago, my wife Crystal and I were cleaning out our garage in Truckee when we came across an old notebook of mine from when I lived in Ireland at age 20.  Back then, a friend had asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
Amanda Watts / CNN:
Cops use murdered woman's Fitbit to charge her husband  —  (CNN)The attack, as Richard Dabate described it to police, was horrific.  —  A masked intruder barged into his Connecticut home, he said, tied up and tortured him and — when his wife came home — shot and killed her.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Caitlyn Jenner: ‘I would seriously look at a run’ for office … Caitlyn Jenner says she is “seriously” considering a run for public office, if she decides that she would be most effective serving the gay and transgender communities in such a position.  —  “Yes, I would have to look …
Discussion: RedState, CNN, Mediaite and Towleroad
 
 
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Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
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Mike Rowe:
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