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4:25 PM ET, April 12, 2018

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Associated Press:
$30,000 rumor?  Tabloid paid for, spiked, salacious Trump tip  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she'd had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid's parent made a $30,000 payment …
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
The National Enquirer, a Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence  —  Late in 2015, a former Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin met with a reporter from American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
RADAR:
Prez Love Child Shocker!  Ex-Trump Worker Peddling Rumor Donald Has Illegitimate Child  —  Fake news or an Oval Office bombshell?  You be the judge.  —  PRESIDENT Donald Trump fathered a secret love child with a Trump Organization employee — a gorgeous 29-year-old medical graduate who is currently living in California!
New York Times:
Investigators Focus on Another Trump Ally: The National Enquirer  —  President Trump has long had ties to the nation's major media players.  But his connections with the country's largest tabloid publisher, American Media Inc., run deeper than most.  —  A former top executive …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
National Enquirer paid second source with embarrassing Trump rumor
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
The Daily Beast:
James Comey: John Kelly Called Trump ‘Dishonorable’ for Firing Me … Within minutes of his firing in May, former FBI Director James Comey received a call from John Kelly, then the head of the Department of Homeland Security and now the White House chief of staff.
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Exclusive: Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey's publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP's new pro-Trump spin on Comey is utter nonsense
Discussion: Bloomberg, NBC News and HuffPost
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
GOP launches aggressive ‘Lyin’ Comey' website ahead of release of former FBI chief's book
Washington Post:
Trump weighs rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership amid trade dispute with China  —  President Trump told top administration officials Thursday to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the multination trade agreement he pulled the United States out of shortly after taking office.
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Reverses Course and Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, in a stunning reversal, told a gathering of farm state lawmakers and governors on Thursday morning that he was directing his advisers to look into rejoining the multicountry trade deal known …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Daily Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Ricky Waddell is leaving the White House
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senator: Trump flirting with massive TPP trade pact
Discussion: Mediaite
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Trump Reconsiders the TPP
Discussion: AOL and Daily Kos
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump is flirting with re-entering TPP talks
Discussion: Breitbart
NBC News:
Trump, Mueller teams prepare to move forward without presidential interview  —  WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and President Donald Trump's legal team are now proceeding with strategies that presume a presidential interview will likely not take place as part of the Russia investigation …
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CNN:
White House is prepping an effort to undermine Rosenstein  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing talking points designed to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's credibility, according to sources familiar with the plan.  —  The plan calls on President Donald Trump's allies …
Paul Rosenzweig / The Atlantic:
Firing Rosenstein Won't Save Trump  —  Let's be blunt.  Given what we know about President Trump's impulsive nature, there are good odds that sometime soon he will fire the special counsel, Robert Mueller, or perhaps the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein (who, because Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Bannon pitches White House on plan to cripple Mueller probe and protect Trump
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Zahra Hirji / BuzzFeed:
A New Bombshell Letter Alleges “Unethical And Potentially Illegal” Acts By EPA Head Scott Pruitt  —  The letter from congressional Democrats comes after an interview with a former staffer to the EPA administrator.  —  A former top EPA official has come forward with allegations of …
Discussion: New Republic, ProPublica, Grist and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt has four different EPA email addresses. Lawmakers want to know why.
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Political Wire
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims April 12 through April 19, 2018, as the Days of Remembrance …
Discussion: Townhall and CBS New York
Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman found guilty of 23 felonies  —  A federal jury in Houston has ruled that Steve Stockman, a conservative former Texas congressman, is guilty of all but one charge in his federal fraud trial.  —  Steve Stockman, a former Texas congressman …
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Trump federal judicial nominee refuses to say whether she supports racial segregation in schools  —  Brown v. Wendy Vitter?  —  A Louisiana lawyer nominated by President Trump for a federal judgeship refused to affirm whether she's opposed to school segregation during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Trump judicial nominee refuses to say if landmark civil rights opinion was correctly decided
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Senators  —  There's good news and bad news for Senate Democrats up for re-election  — Sanders (I-Vt.) and McConnell (R-Ky.) remains the most popular and unpopular senators, respectively.  —  2018's first quarter was a volatile one for several senators …
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Governors
Madeleine Marr / miamiherald:
This Parkland teacher left his gun in a public bathroom.  It was loaded, BSO says.  —  Not the most normal sight: a gun left in the bathroom stall.  —  But that's exactly what went down on Sunday in a men's room at the Deerfield Beach Pier.  —  The circumstances of how the Glock 9mm got there are unusual.
Karen Hobert Flynn / USA Today:
Bust the budget then vote to balance it: GOP's shameless bid to shred safety net  —  The balanced budget amendment is a shameless GOP attempt to shred Social Security and the whole safety net after busting the federal budget with massive tax cuts.  —  CONNECT
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Washington Post:
On heels of spending binge, House prepares balanced-budget vote
Discussion: National Review and Fox News
Kaitlyn Burton / Politico:
Trump's push to redo $1.3T spending bill he signed sparks GOP revolt
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Axios
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo's confusing answer about whether Trump asked him to intervene in the Russia probe … One of the biggest questions hanging over Mike Pompeo's secretary of state nomination is whether he's too willing to do President Trump's bidding.  —  An answer he gave at Thursday's confirmation hearing …
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CNN:
Trump's secretary of state pick faces Senate grilling
Discussion: IJR and Joe.My.God.
Matt Bai / Yahoo:
Fire the special counsel.  Please.  —  Let me put it to you this way, Mr. President.  Who are you going to listen to — the voice of the stable genius inside your head, or the timid voices of experience, the ones that said you'd never win?  —  You know what you want to do.  Just do it already.
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
Pennsylvania Will Eliminate Paperless Voting Machines In Time For The 2020 Election  —  The largest swing state that can't fully audit its votes says that'll be fixed by the next presidential election.  —  Pennsylvania, the largest swing state where a substantial number of voting machines leave …
Axios:
Ryan may be forced to leave speakership by summer  —  Paul Ryan said he plans to remain as speaker and not call an early leadership election, but well-wired Republicans tell Jonathan Swan and me that Ryan may be forced out sooner.  —  What we're hearing: One source close to leadership told us …
Adam SchefterESPN Senior / ESPN:
Seahawks postpone visit after Colin Kaepernick won't say if he'll stop kneeling  —  After arranging for Colin Kaepernick to work out for the Seattle Seahawks this week, team officials postponed the trip when the quarterback declined to say he would stop kneeling during the national anthem next season …
Discussion: The Root, AOL and Deadspin
TIME:
The Story Behind TIME's ‘Stormy’ Donald Trump Cover  —  Nothing to See Here, Feb. 27, 2017 Stormy, April, 23, 2018 Illustrations by Tim O'Brien for TIME  —  The April 23 TIME cover, depicting the growing chaos within the Trump White House, may look familiar to some readers …
Discussion: Bustle
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Gets Petty After Noah Rothman Bests Him in Intense Syria Showdown  —  For Tucker Carlson, interviews with his detractors have become something of an art form, if that art form consists in churning out the same predictable and petty performance of contention night after night.
New York Times:
Mattis Expresses Caution on Imminent Strike Against Syria  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis took pains on Thursday to walk back President Trump's threats of an imminent strike on Syria, reflecting mounting concerns at the Pentagon that a concerted bombing campaign could escalate …
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Takes Out Paul Ryan, and 'It's Going to Be a Civil War' … The news that Paul Ryan is retiring from Congress was received by grim-faced members of the GOP caucus finally realizing what they've done, and what's coming.  Ryan pulled the ripcord today after a 19-year career in Congress …
Discussion: The Rush Limbaugh Show and Grist
NBC News:
U.S. officials: Blood samples show nerve agent, chlorine in Syria gas attack  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. now has blood and urine samples from last Saturday's deadly attack in Syria that have tested positive for chemical weapons, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence.
The Pew Charitable Trusts:
The State Pension Funding Gap: 2016  —  Investment shortfalls, insufficient contributions reduced funded levels for public worker retirement plans  —  Many state retirement systems are on an unsustainable course, coming up short on their investment targets and having failed to set aside enough money …
Discussion: Associated Press
James Oliver Cury / Hollywood Reporter:
Charlie Rose's Life Now: “Broken,” “Brilliant” and “Lonely”  —  Before the devastating allegations of sexual misconduct hit, Rose was a legendary man-about-town.  Now, the former CBS and PBS star, one of TV's most feted journalists, is hiding out on Long Island with occasional …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Gary Gastelu / Fox News:
Exclusive: Trump's new presidential limousine with Secret Service set to transport president this summer
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Susan Fowler / New York Times:
I Wrote the Uber Memo. This is How to End Sexual Harassment.
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
VIDEO: Pelosi suffers face spasms, says wrong words during brief appearance
Discussion: Sean Hannity
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Revealed: Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes
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Washington Post:
Parkland students cover the shooting they survived and the classmates they lost
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Chris Mills / BGR:
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Jill Brooke / Hollywood Reporter:
The Real Story Behind Donald Trump's Infamous “Best Sex I've Ever Had” Headline (Guest Column)
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Brian Bennett / TIME:
Donald Trump Relied on Michael Cohen to Weather the Storm. Now The President Is On His Own
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