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2:50 PM ET, April 27, 2017

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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems threaten to oppose short-term spending bill if GOP pushes healthcare vote  —  House Democrats will oppose a short-term spending bill if Republican leaders attempt to expedite an ObamaCare repeal bill this week, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) warned Thursday.  —  Hoyer, the Democratic whip …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump is setting up Paul Ryan to be his fall guy  —  THE BIG IDEA: The conventional wisdom when Donald Trump took office was that Paul Ryan would be in the driver's seat on policymaking.  That has turned out to be wrong.  —  The thinking was that the new president …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Politicus USA and Shareblue
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The education of Donald Trump  —  The 70-year-old leader of the free world sat behind his desk in the Oval Office last Friday afternoon, doing what he's done for years: selling himself.  His 100th day in office was approaching, and Trump was eager to reshape the hardening narrative of a White House veering off course.
CNN:
Pentagon warned Flynn in 2014 against taking foreign payments; IG launches investigation  —  (CNN)Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 against accepting foreign payments as he entered retirement, according to new documents obtained by the House oversight committee.
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Pentagon inspector general launches Flynn investigation  —  The Pentagon's inspector general is now investigating Michael Flynn over payments he received from foreign governments after retiring from the Army, according to documents released Thursday by the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's lies are working brilliantly.  This new poll proves it.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  As we stumble toward the 100-day mark of the Trump presidency, the president's frequent assaults on the news media appear to have taken on a distinct purpose.  With the White House visibly agitated …
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Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Are Trump voters ruining America for all of us?:  Tom Nichols  —  First 100 days suggest our democracy is more likely to die in dumbness than in darkness.  —  President Trump's record in his first 100 days, by any standard of presidential first terms, is one of failure.
UVA Center / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Center for Politics Poll Takes Temperature of Trump Voters at 100-Day Mark  —  A new University of Virginia Center for Politics poll of Trump voters shows his approval rating at 93% with these voters, though just 42% “strongly approve” while 51% “somewhat approve.”
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Is a Management Shake-up Looming at Fox News?  —  As Fox News is roiled by lawsuits and the ouster of Bill O'Reilly, the network's co-president Bill Shine has retained the backing of the Murdochs.  On Monday, Rupert Murdoch took network co-presidents Shine and Jack Abernethy to lunch at Marea …
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Felix Gillette / Bloomberg:
And Then There Was Hannity  —  Bill O'Reilly.  Roger Ailes.  Megyn Kelly.  One by one, the biggest personalities at Fox News have left the building.  —  From Subscribe Reprints  —  During commercial breaks on his Fox News program, Sean Hannity likes to wing around a football with anyone in the vicinity of his desk.
Discussion: TVNewser
Max Jaeger / New York Post:   Lawyers sue Times, CNN, Fox News for racial discrimination
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Portland rose parade canceled after ‘antifascists’ threaten GOP marchers  —  For 10 years, the 82nd Avenue of Roses Business Association has kicked off the city of Portland's annual Rose Festival with a family-friendly parade meant to attract crowds to its diverse neighborhood.
Discussion: Althouse and Washington Times
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Jamie Hale / Oregonian:
Organizers cancel 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, after protesters threaten to shut it down  —  A threatening email has derailed one of the Portland Rose Festival's signature events, and spurred new debate about the ongoing political protests in Portland.  —  Organizers of the 82nd Avenue …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
A Chilling Threat of Political Violence in Portland
Jim Stingl / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Urgent trip to restroom gets man kicked off Delta flight  —  The way Kima Hamilton sees it, his urgent need to visit the restroom as a Milwaukee-bound Delta jet awaited takeoff was a misunderstanding blown all out of proportion.  —  In fellow passenger Krista Rosolino's view …
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Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
United dragging report: ‘Our review shows that many things went wrong that day’
Discussion: Daily Wire
David Choi / Business Insider:
Fox News' Jesse Watters takes abrupt vacation after controversial remarks about Ivanka Trump  —  Fox News' Jesse Watters reportedly is taking a vacation, one day after making what some saw as suggestive remarks about Ivanka Trump.  —  CNN's Brian Stelter and the CNNMoney media team reported …
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Fox host Jesse Watters announces vacation following backlash over Ivanka Trump remark
Discussion: The Daily Beast, RedState and The Week
Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
Putin Warns North Korea Situation Has ‘Seriously Deteriorated’  —  Russian leader urges restraint after talks with Japan's Abe  —  Russia, Japan may consider new sanctions, Kremlin aide says  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program …
Discussion: Daily Mail and USNI News
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC News President on Megyn Kelly's New Show, Trump and Fox News Turmoil  —  “I would never allow a culture like that to exist,” Noah Oppenheim says of the recent Bill O'Reilly allegations.  —  Noah Oppenheim's career in TV news (with a stop in Hollywood along the way) began back in 2000, when he was a senior at Harvard.
Discussion: Mediaite and AOL
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Congress Asks Trump to Prosecute Clinton Private Server Team for Obstruction  —  The private internet company hired by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to maintain her private email server has been obstructing a congressional investigation into its actions for more than a year …
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Associated Press:
House panel seeks charges for company in Clinton email case
Discussion: Politico
Mitch Prothero / BuzzFeed:
The Hungarian Rise And Fall Of Sebastian Gorka  —  Before Sebastian Gorka was an adviser to President Donald Trump, he was a man with a dream to rise to the top of Hungarian politics.  It didn't quite work out.  —  Reporting From  —  Budapest  —  BUDAPEST — Sebastian Gorka …
Washington Post:
‘My rights as a mom have been violated.’: Mother is asked to find private room while breast-feeding in church  —  Annie Peguero was trying to soothe her agitated 19-month-old baby in church on Sunday when she did what she often does — she nursed her.  But her efforts to calm her daughter caused …
Discussion: The Resurgent and Althouse
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump's Tax Plan Is a Reckoning for Republican Deficit Hawks  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump's top economic advisers faced a barrage of questions on Wednesday about the tax plan they had just unfurled, there was one that they struggled most to answer: how to keep the “massive tax cuts” …
New York Times:
A Calmer Mexico Sees Trump Anew: as a ‘Bluffer’ at the Poker Table  —  MEXICO CITY — There was a time when Donald J. Trump — first as a candidate and then as president — could rile Mexico without really trying.  —  His threats to build a border wall and make Mexicans pay …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
A Saudi man has been sentenced to death after insulting the prophet Muhammad on Twitter  —  The Saudi religious police had gotten word of Ahmad Al-Shamri's tweets and went to his door sometime in 2014.  —  He was accused of using social media to say disparaging things about Islam and the prophet Muhammad, according to activists.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Tracie Dawson / ESPN:
Postcard from Diana Prince on Themyscira  —  Picture a riot of blue cliffs, a coastal strip enemies brand as myth and mirage, for  —  what place, once seen, has ever been but a small blip on man's lusty conquistador  —  radar?  Right.  Just think of any gimcrack bar in Nevada headlining GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS
Click2Houston.com:
School district slams sixth grader with suspension over haircut  —  BAYTOWN, Texas - Xavier Davis had no idea his hair could cause him so much trouble.  —  Xavier is a sixth grader at Cedar Bayou Junior High School in Baytown.  —  When he walked into class last Thursday, he said he was promptly sent to the office.
Discussion: The Root, Refinery29 and KFOR-TV
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump tweets draw ‘tidal wave of threats’  —  It's never easy for a new president to transition into his security bubble, but Donald Trump comes with unconventional protection challenges — including his active Twitter life — that are testing the Secret Service in unpleasant and costly ways.
Discussion: Raw Story and Axios
 
 
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