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9:35 AM 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.
Discussion: CNBC, CANNONFIRE, Mediaite and Vox
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Allies and House Republicans to Paul Ryan: Get Out Now … House Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement announcement Wednesday morning set off a round of heartburn within the White House and among its allies over the damage that may be done in what's left of his term.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Kaitlyn Burton / Politico:
Trump's push to redo $1.3T spending bill he signed sparks GOP revolt  —  A regretful President Donald Trump wants to roll back spending in a massive omnibus bill he signed into law, but Republicans who helped craft the legislation are in open revolt.  —  “My attitude is, your word is your bond …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Ryan Found Himself on the Margins as the G.O.P. Moved Right  —  WASHINGTON — Paul D. Ryan took the helm of the House two and a half years ago, not because he wanted it, but because he was seen as the only lawmaker who could keep Republicans from devouring themselves.
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 …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
House Speaker Paul Ryan was the biggest fraud in American politics
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan implodes his party — ahead of schedule
Discussion: Salon
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Why Ryan called it quits
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fanatic, Fraud, Factotum: The Rise and Fall of Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:   ‘I feel content that I have done my part; I am ready to move on’
John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP faction wants Ryan gone now
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
What Ryan Wrought  —  No one person bears singular blame …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Bannon pitches White House on plan to cripple Mueller probe and protect Trump … Stephen K. Bannon, who was ousted as White House chief strategist last summer but has remained in touch with some members of President Trump's circle, is pitching a plan to West Wing aides and congressional allies …
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Washington Post:
Trump chooses impulse over strategy as crises mount … In a White House known for chaos, the process of developing the U.S. response to the Syrian government's alleged latest gas attack was proceeding with uncharacteristic deliberation, including several national security briefings for President Trump.
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Rosenstein lets Nunes, Gowdy review FBI memo that kick-started Russia probe
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Scott Pruitt's Idea to Update an E.P.A. Keepsake: Less E.P.A., More Pruitt  —  When Scott Pruitt wanted to refashion the Environmental Protection Agency's “challenge coin” — a type of souvenir medallion with military origins that has become a status symbol among civilians …
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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Here are some of the threats made against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pompeo failed to disclose Chinese business connection  —  WASHINGTON  —  CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose last year that he owned a Kansas business that imported oilfield equipment from a company owned by the Chinese government.  —  That omission, on the questionnaire Pompeo …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Eight brutal months are coming up
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Bloomberg
Wall Street Journal:
The Paul Ryan Difference
Discussion: New York Times
Cristina Maza / Newsweek:
RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR WITH U.S., INSTRUCTING CITIZENS TO BUY WATER AND GAS MASKS  —  Claiming that some Americans are preparing for a coming war with Moscow, Russian state-owned television explained to the country's residents how to stock their bunkers with water and basic foodstuffs in case a war breaks out.
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
US ‘still assessing the intelligence’ on alleged Syrian chemical attack, defense secretary says
CNN:
Firing Rosenstein would cross a red line for the rule of law  —  Source: Trump considering firing Rosenstein  —  Fred Wertheimer is the founder and president of Democracy 21, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to promote government accountability and integrity.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump turns to Dershowitz as Mueller probe escalates
Discussion: MSNBC
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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me.  Yikes.  —  When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn't expect to see much.  My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads.  (I'm what some call a Facebook “lurker.")
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:   Facebook Crossed The Creepy Line And Can't Go Back
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds  —  For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement.  —  But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened …
New York Times:
Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records on ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape  —  The F.B.I. agents who raided the office and hotel of President Trump's lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, were seeking details on his relationship with the Trump campaign and his efforts to suppress negative information about Mr. Trump …
Cindy Adams / Page Six:
Women are lining up to date Rudy Giuliani  —  The about-to-be-consciously uncoupled Rudy Giuliani is coming off to Upper East Side sex kittens like catnip.  They're purring at him.  Sidling — if not actually front-ling — in his direction.  —  It seems power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.:
California Responds to Federal Request for National Guard Personnel  —  SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today responded to the federal government's request for additional California National Guard personnel with the following letter.  The accompanying agreement …
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KQCA-TV:
California's governor agrees to deploy 400 National Guard troops at Trump's request
Discussion: NPR and TheBlaze
Christina Capatides / CBS News:
Single mom of five goes viral with inspiring law school graduation photo  —  Ieshia Champs has wanted to be a lawyer since she was 7 years old.  In her teenage years, however, the odds began stacking up against her and it appeared that her dream might be permanently out of reach.
 
 
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NRA finally admits taking money from 23 Russian-linked sources
Discussion: The Federalist, Bloomberg and NPR
Matthew Smith / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates are the world's most admired people in 2018
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Press
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Members of Congress can't possibly regulate Facebook. They don't understand it.
Patrick Barkham / The Guardian:
Green-haired turtle that breathes through its genitals added to endangered list
Discussion: Earther and Mashable
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Missouri senator calls for reparations for slavery, criticizes McCaskill, Democrats
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Parkland teacher faces charge after his gun is fired in public bathroom
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Stephanopoulos: Comey compared Trump to a ‘mob boss’
Discussion: Fox News Insider
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Washington Lies In a Parallel Universe
Brett T. / twitchy.com:
Women pose for open carry pics in solidarity with college student who had gun in her graduation photo