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11:00 AM ET, May 2, 2017

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New York Times:
Ivanka Trump's West Wing Agenda  —  A month before Donald J. Trump was elected president, he and his aides watched his daughter's coolly composed surface crack open.  —  Inside Trump Tower, the candidate was preparing for a debate when an aide rushed in with news that The Washington Post …
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Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Ethics office says it wasn't consulted about Ivanka Trump job
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It
Discussion: The Daily Caller
YouTube:
Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son's Birth & Heart Disease … Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel.  At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and is now home with his family.
Discussion: Vox, STAT, Boing Boing and ABC News
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Jimmy Kimmel Might Have Struck the Final Blow Against the GOP Health-Care Plan  —  After weeks of negotiations, last week House Republicans reached a compromise that they said could finally allow them to repeal and replace Obamacare.  It involves letting states opt out of certain Obamacare provisions …
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trumpcare's long odds in the Senate, explained by a Republican senator
Discussion: Politico
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
GOP Congressman: People who ‘lead good lives’ should pay less than those with pre-existing conditions
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Axios
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's dizzying day of interviews  —  President Donald Trump questioned why the Civil War— which erupted 150 years ago over slavery — needed to happen.  He said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the violent North Korean dictator who is developing nuclear missiles and oppresses his people …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Historians see a dark underside to Trump's Civil War riff
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Wilbur Ross Says Syria Missile Strike Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ at Mar-a-Lago  —  Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.
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Jessica Estepa / USA Today:   Syrian missile attack was ‘after-dinner entertainment,’ Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Adviser Jared Kushner Didn't Disclose Startup Stake  —  Investments show ties to Goldman Sachs, George Soros and Peter Thiel as well as a number of loans  —  Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, didn't identify on his government financial disclosure form …
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Democrats confident they can block Trump's agenda after spending-bill win  —  Democrats believe they have set the stage to block President Trump's legislative priorities for years to come by winning major concessions in a spending bill to keep the government open.
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Josh Magness / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
No money for Trump's wall, plus 6 other GOP issues missing from $1T spending bill
Discussion: Power Line and The Last Tradition
Austin Wright / Politico:
Congress claws back power from Trump
Discussion: The Week
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Sean Hannity Eyes Fox News Exit, Insiders Say … Sean Hannity is looking to leave Fox News, according to sources, following the resignation of Fox News co-president Bill Shine officially on Monday.  —  Shine was Hannity's his long-time ally whom he personally recommended the network hire two decades ago to produce Hannity & Colmes.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Murdochs Might Not Be Done Cleaning House at Fox News
travel.state.gov:
Europe Travel Alert  —  The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued threat of terrorist attacks throughout Europe.  —  This Travel Alert expires on September 1, 2017.  —  Recent, widely-reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom demonstrate …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
U.S. issues travel alert for Europe, citing threat of terrorist attacks
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Orioles' Adam Jones berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park  —  BOSTON — Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones was berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park while a bag of peanuts was thrown at him Monday night, calling it one of the worst cases of fan abuse he has heard in his career.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Colbert Demolishes Trump for Insulting ‘Face The Nation’ Host John Dickerson … President Donald Trump insulted Face The Nation host John Dickerson and Stephen Colbert is pissed.  —  As the Late Show host explained in his monologue on Monday, during his CBS colleague's Sunday morning interview …
New York Times:
Police Account Changes in Killing of Texas 15-Year-Old  —  As family and friends mourned the death of a 15-year-old boy shot in the head by a police officer in a Dallas suburb over the weekend, the police chief said Monday that new evidence showed the killing did not unfold the way the authorities had originally claimed.
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CBS News:
Police chief reveals new details about officer who fatally shot Texas teen
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Trump farmers now worry he was serious about NAFTA repeal  —  Washington (CNN)Bob Hemseath, whose corn-farming business hinges on the whims of mother nature, is comfortable with uncertainty.  —  But as the fourth-generation farmer heads onto his northeast Iowa farm for the 2017 planting season …
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Poll: Ossoff in dead heat with Handel in Georgia's 6th  —  An internal poll conducted for Democrat Jon Ossoff's campaign shows him locked in a dead heat with Republican Karen Handel in the June 20 runoff to represent Georgia's 6th District.  —  The poll was conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research …
Jim O’Sullivan / BostonGlobe.com:
Speculation is stirring about a Seth Moulton presidential bid  —  He has won praise from a neoconservative magazine editor, taken star turns on HBO and “This American Life,” and likened President Trump's political ascendance to that of Adolf Hitler's.  —  Just months into his second term …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Making Afghanistan Great Again  —  President Donald Trump will soon have to decide what to do about Afghanistan.  After weeks of wrangling inside his national security cabinet, top officials on Friday agreed on the broad outlines of a strategy to prosecute America's longest war.  The interventionists prevailed.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Needs Government ‘Shutdown’  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States needed “a good ‘shutdown’” this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules …
Rebekah L. Sanders / Arizona Republic:
Were up to 58,000 citizens in Maricopa County denied right to vote?  —  Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes is spoiling for a fight over voter-registration procedures meant to keep undocumented immigrants from voting.  —  The newly elected Democrat says the restrictions may have denied …
CNN:
The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist  —  8pm ET TONIGHT: Watch AC 360 to learn more about the FBI employee who married an ISIS terrorist.  —  An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative …
Dawn Rhodes / Chicago Tribune:
Northwestern journalism school lets accreditation lapse  —  Northwestern University's main campus in Evanston.  —  In a nontraditional move, officials at Northwestern University's prestigious journalism and communications school have decided not to renew the program's accreditation, letting the designation lapse.
USA Today:
Campus mobs muzzle free speech: Our view  —  Administrators and student groups play a role in the growing intolerance.  —  Respect for free speech is withering on campus.  —  At Claremont McKenna College in California, protesters blocked the doors to a lecture hall preventing conservative author Heather Mac Donald from speaking.
Discussion: Althouse and Inside Higher Ed
 
 
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
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Congress Allocates $120 Million for Trump Family's Security Costs
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