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5:55 PM ET, April 27, 2017

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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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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
House Dems to force vote on bill demanding Trump taxes, visitor logs: report
Discussion: Common Dreams and Washington Post
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Top Pentagon watchdog launches investigation into money that Michael Flynn received from foreign groups
Discussion: New York Magazine
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.
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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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 …
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.”
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 …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
The new health-care bill may be little more than an exercise in blame-shifting  —  The renewed push by House Republicans to pass legislation replacing parts of the Affordable Care Act might just be a game of political hot potato, with no one sure who will end up holding the object when the legislative music stops.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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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Julia Horowitz / CNNMoney:   Southwest Airlines: We won't overbook anymore
Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
United dragging report: ‘Our review shows that many things went wrong that day’
Discussion: Daily Wire
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.
Discussion: TVNewser
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 …
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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
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
This photo of Donald Trump and kids is epic  —  (CNN)Thursday, as you likely know by now, is “Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work” day.  The White House, like CNN and virtually every other company, celebrates this day with a special program of activities.  Except, at the White House …
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” …
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New York Times:
President Trump's Laughable Plan to Cut His Own Taxes
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 …
Victoria McGrane GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren ‘troubled’ by $400,000 Wall Street speaking fee for Obama  —  WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren gently criticized former president Barack Obama Thursday for his decision to accept $400,000 from a Wall Street firm to speak at a health care conference this fall.
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea puts out new video showing the White House in crosshairs and carriers exploding  —  SEOUL — A North Korean propaganda outlet released a video clip on Thursday showing a simulated attack on the White House and declaring that “the enemy to be destroyed is in our sights.”
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Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
Putin Warns North Korea Situation Has ‘Seriously Deteriorated’
Discussion: Daily Mail
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Fox News Host Jesse Watters Finally Gets In Trouble For Something  —  Insulting Asian-Americans and homeless people is fine, but making a joke about Ivanka Trump is too much.  —  Over the years, Fox News personality Jesse Watters has mocked Asian-Americans in New York City's Chinatown …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Cruz: Breaking up 9th Circuit Court ‘a possibility’  —  (R-Texas) says that breaking up the 9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals is “certainly a possibility.”  —  “The 9th Circuit is the largest federal court of appeals,” he said Thursday on “The Jack Riccardi Show.”
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
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 …
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: The Daily Caller, Mediaite and AOL
Science:
Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments  —  1Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.  —  2Research Group for Ancient Genomics and Evolution, Department of Molecular Biology …
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: IJR, The Resurgent and Althouse
 
 
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