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New York Times:
Trump Rings Up Roseanne Barr After Her Show Is a Ratings Winner  —  President Trump made a personal phone call on Wednesday to a political supporter with a huge megaphone — Roseanne Barr.  —  Mr. Trump called Ms. Barr to congratulate her on the revival of her comedy, “Roseanne,” and to thank her for her support.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Roseanne revival is a wake-up call for Hollywood  —  At the beginning of March, the Academy Awards featured performers talking about “intersectionality” and Dreamers and jokes about how an Oscar-nominated movie about a gay awakening was made to annoy Mike Pence — and the show got the lowest ratings in history.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Roseanne’ Revival's Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood, Prompts Soul-Searching
Discussion: The Last Tradition
David J. Shulkin / New York Times:
Privatizing the V.A. Will Hurt Veterans  —  It has been my greatest professional honor to serve our country's more than 20 million veterans.  Almost three years ago, I left my private sector job running hospitals and came to Washington to repay my gratitude to the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country.
Harry Litman / Washington Post:
We may know why Paul Manafort has kept quiet.  But his bet is still risky.  —  Harry Litman practices law at the firm Constantine Cannon and teaches constitutional law at the University of California at San Diego.  He served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
Trump's Lawyer Raised Prospect of Pardons for Flynn and Manafort as Special Counsel Closed In  —  WASHINGTON — A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Inside the Cutthroat Battle to Be the Next Hope Hicks  —  Hope Hicks plans to depart Washington by Good Friday, over a month after she resigned as the White House communications director on February 28.  She will leave behind a press operation that is inherently broken …
Discussion: The Week
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Loyalty to Trump emerges as a top issue in Republican primary campaign commercials
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Kelly Loses White House Clout as Trump Blazes Own Path  —  Chief of staff out of loop for several key recent decisions  —  President and top aide at times now on different wavelengths  —  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has lost some of his clout following recent missteps …
Associated Press:
Rival Korean leaders to meet April 27 in historic summit  —  PAJU, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a border village on April 27, the South announced Thursday, for a rare summit that could prove significant in global efforts …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Shake-Up of National-Security Team Remakes Kushner's Role  —  Arrival of Pompeo and Bolton could curb Mr. Kushner's influence  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's shake-up of his national-security team is likely to reshape the role played by Jared Kushner, who has been a key counselor …
Jeffrey Lewis / The Daily Beast:
John Bolton to Kim Jong Un: Give Up Your Nukes Like Gaddafi Did—Before We Killed Him
Molly Ball / TIME:
Jeff Sessions Is Winning for Donald Trump.  If Only He Can Keep His Job  —  Sessions greets law-enforcement officers in Kentucky.  “The fundamental question is, Who rules the streets?” the U.S. Attorney General says.  “The government or the outlaws?”  Philip Montgomery for TIME
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Carly Wanna / Yale Daily News:
Jeb fires Trump barbs at Yale talk  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's psychiatrist wants him to move past the 2016 presidential election.  —  “I'm not going to talk about the 2016 election,” Bush joked on Tuesday in a talk sponsored by the The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Jeb Bush hits Trump: I go home to children ‘who actually love me’
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim / mprnews.org:
Minneapolis FBI agent charged with leaking classified information to reporter  —  A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept.  —  Terry James Albury …
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Osita Nwanevu / Slate:
It's Time to Stop Yammering About Liberal Bias  —  We're now several days into a roiling debate over whether liberals ought to be upset that the Atlantic hired a man who once argued that a quarter of American women should be executed.  Predictably, both sides have progressed from that specific …
Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times:
Boeing hit by WannaCry virus, but says no impact on jet production  —  Boeing was hit by the WannaCry computer virus Wednesday, initially raising fears within the company that airplane production could be affected.  Later Boeing played down the impact and called it a “limited intrusion” with production unaffected.
Wall Street Journal:
Why Are States So Strapped for Cash?  There Are Two Big Reasons  —  The proportion of state and local tax revenues dedicated to Medicaid and public pensions is the highest since the 1960s  —  The only speaker standing between state budget officers and the opening cocktail hour …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Documents suggest possible coordination between CIA, FBI, Obama WH and Dem officials early in Trump-Russia probe: investigators  —  The political rhetoric over the FISA abuse memo took a new turn with the ranking Democrat drafting his own version; Catherine Herridge goes in-depth for ‘Special Report.’
BBC:
Julian Assange has internet cut at Ecuadorian embassy in London  —  Ecuador has cut Julian Assange's internet connection at its embassy in London, preventing him from communicating with the outside world.  —  The move is to prevent the WikiLeaks founder from interfering in other countries' affairs, Ecuador said.
Discussion: NPR and Daily Wire
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Scalise comeback fuels talk of succeeding Ryan  —  ATOP THE OLYMPUS TLP OIL RIG IN THE GULF OF MEXICO — With one arm snaked around his crutches and the other gripping a handrail, Steve Scalise climbed gingerly up hundreds of stairs to the peak control room of a hulking oil rig 77 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter  —  Exclusive: US authorities made inquiries even before 2016 election campaign into Trump property dealings in former Soviet Union … They wanted to build the Las Vegas of the Baltics.
New York Times:
‘Kiss Up, Kick Down’: Those Recalling Bolton's U.N. Confirmation Process Say He Hasn't Changed  —  WASHINGTON — The last time — perhaps the only time — John R. Bolton inspired bipartisan agreement, it was over the shared conclusion that he was perhaps the least diplomatic personality …
Discussion: Common Dreams
TMZ.com:
Groupon Apologizes for Using N-Word to Describe Boots  —  Groupon's got a major mishap to deal with after a racial slur appeared on its site for a listing for women's boots ... and it started by issuing an apology.  —  Screenshots from outraged customers started making the rounds on social media Wednesday …
Discussion: Althouse and Hollywood Life
Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
Channeling his inner Fred Astaire: 6 times George W. Bush broke out the dance moves  —  WASHINGTON — George W. Bush has talked about finding his “inner Rembrandt.”  Maybe he has an inner Fred Astaire, too.  —  The former president — who's taken up painting since leaving the White House …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Under Ben Carson, HUD Scales Back Fair Housing Enforcement  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is attempting to scale back federal efforts to enforce fair housing laws, freezing enforcement actions against local governments and businesses, including Facebook, while sidelining officials …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Clinton book provides a new guessing game for Washington  —  Axios has learned that the N.Y. Times' Amy Chozick uses pseudonyms to identify top Clinton aides in her memoir, “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Ceiling,” out April 24.
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Fine, Don't ‘Defund’ Planned Parenthood.  Do This Instead.  —  Pro-life conservatives have been frustrated with the ongoing failure to defund Planned Parenthood, and for good reason.  America's largest abortion provider markets itself as a defender of “women's health,” but performs zero mammograms …
Joanna Rothkopf / Jezebel:
Statistically, at Least 2 Disney Princesses Have Had Abortions  —  We need many kinds of Disney princesses, according to an extremely fun meme whooshing across the 'net.  We need a Disney princess who juuls; we need a Disney princess who is falling asleep/calling a cab/having a smoke/taking a drag …
Discussion: RedState and Mashable
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
In Arizona Race, Conservatives View Stormy Daniels as a ‘Little Hard to Believe’  —  PEORIA, Ariz. — With allegations of sexual misconduct swirling around President Trump, Debbie Lesko — a Republican candidate for Congress — sat down recently and clicked on “60 Minutes.”
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
Family of boy in viral police hug photo dies after SUV plunges off cliff.  He's still missing. … Five members of a Washington family were killed after their SUV went off a Pacific Coast Highway cliff and crashed into the rocky ocean, authorities said.  —  The victims were identified …
Discussion: Raw Story
Facebook:
Shutting Down Partner Categories  —  We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner Categories.  This product enables third party data providers to offer their targeting directly on Facebook.  While this is common industry practice, we believe this step …
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
Manhattan Church Shields Guatemalan Woman From Deportation  —  At the end of a recent Sunday service, the congregants at the Fourth Universalist Society on Central Park West placed their hands on the shoulders of a woman who stood in the center of the church.
 
 
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Trump loses arbitration to win back control of Panama hotel
Discussion: Politico
Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
Mike Pence's hometown to host first gay pride festival
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed:
Trump Tweeted Pictures Claiming “The Start” Of His Border Wall, But It Was Actually An Old Project
Discussion: Raw Story
Jessica Miller / Salt Lake Tribune:
Judge ‘beyond angry’ after Corrections workers withheld evidence, allowing Utah killer to avoid death penalty
Brian M. Rosenthal / New York Times:
Why Does Subway Construction Cost So Much? Congress Wants to Find Out