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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
The day outspoken Barbara Bush regretted speaking her mind  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Bush leaned over the seat on Air Force Two and glared at me.  It was 1984, and her husband, Vice President George Bush, was running for re-election with President Ronald Reagan.
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Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
‘One last time’: Barbara Bush had already faced a death more painful than her own … Barbara Bush, who died Tuesday, said she didn't fear death.  That may be because the 92-year-old former first lady faced it before, in the hardest way imaginable.  —  In 1953, soon after George H.W. Bush …
Enid Nemy / New York Times:
Barbara Bush, Wife of 41st President and Mother of 43rd, Dies at 92
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump will attend Barbara Bush's funeral
Christopher Buckley / New York Times:   Mrs. No-Nonsense  —  I met her in 1981, when I went to work …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Gorbachev recalls Barbara Bush as warm, astute
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Barbara Bush was as authentic as her pearls were fake
Stephanie Dube Dwilson / Heavy.com:
Tammie Jo Shults, Southwest Pilot: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know  —  Tammie Jo Shults is the pilot who bravely flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after part of its left engine ripped off, damaging a window and nearly sucking a woman out of the plane.  The flight was en route to Dallas Love airport …
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
‘Nerves of steel’: She calmly landed the Southwest flight, just as you'd expect of a former fighter pilot … The pilot's voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended with 149 people on board.  —  “Southwest 1380, we're single engine,” said Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with the U.S. Navy.
Clive Irving / The Daily Beast:   How Veteran Fighter Pilot Tammy Jo Shults Saved Crippled Southwest Flight 1380
Max Jaeger / New York Post:
Hero who landed Southwest flight was an ace Navy pilot
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Daily Mail:   Mother-of-two Wells Fargo executive from Albuquerque, 43, is named as woman who was killed …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Hannity's rising role in Trump's world: ‘He basically has a desk in the place’  —  The phone calls between President Trump and Sean Hannity come early in the morning or late at night, after the Fox News host goes off the air.  They discuss ideas for Hannity's show, Trump's frustration …
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Sean Hannity, Michael Cohen and the ethics of disclosure  —  I've been watching hours and hours of nonstop coverage about Sean Hannity.  —  And while what was disclosed in a federal court in Manhattan is clearly newsworthy, many of Fox's competitors have made no effort to hide their glee in slamming the top-rated host in cable news.
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“You Only Hire Cohen for One Reason”: Inside Fox News, Sean Hannity's Michael Cohen Disclosure Stokes …
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Bob Corker: No, Really, Trump is Gonna Kill The Iran Nuclear Deal … Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump will “absolutely” withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in less than a month.
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Elana Schor / Politico:   Corker says Democrat is ahead in race to succeed him
Elana Schor / Politico:
Corker: Trump ‘perfectly fine’ with scrapping Iran deal absent a fix
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Mattis Wanted Congressional Approval Before Striking Syria.  He Was Overruled.  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged President Trump to get congressional approval before the United States launched airstrikes against Syria last week, but was overruled by Mr. Trump …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
The Hill says goodbye to 50 Most Beautiful  —  After nearly 15 years, The Hill is bidding a beautiful bye-bye to its annual 50 Most Beautiful list.  —  While it's had a remarkably gorgeous run, The Hill team feels the time has come for 50 Most Beautiful to be added to that big, beautiful list in the sky.
New York Times:
Sanctions Flap Erupts Into Open Conflict Between Haley and White House  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump was watching television on Sunday when he saw Nikki R. Haley, his ambassador to the United Nations, announce that he would impose fresh sanctions on Russia.
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels' Penthouse Reveal: Plans to Donate $130K to Planned Parenthood in Trump and Cohen's Names … In addition to her 60 Minutes sit-down with Anderson Cooper and appearance on The View this morning, Stormy Daniels will grace the cover of Penthouse magazine.
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Trump, Inc.:
The Company Michael Cohen Kept
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Billionaire Democratic activist Tom Steyer endorses Kevin de León in his insurgent bid against Sen. Dianne Feinstein  —  Billionaire Democratic activist Tom Steyer is endorsing state Sen. Kevin de León in his insurgent challenge to fellow Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP alarmed by tax law's falling poll numbers, privately blame Trump  —  President Trump is undermining voter support for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with erratic messaging after it was gaining popularity, alarming Republicans counting on the law to save the party's vulnerable House majority.
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
New House FEC Reports: Rating Changes in 7 Districts  —  Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement plans could complicate the House GOP's fundraising math.  In 2017, Ryan's joint fundraising committee brought in $44 million and transferred $32 million to the NRCC.  His exit could leave GOP donors skittish.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
How To Spot A Deepfake Like The Barack Obama-Jordan Peele Video  —  This “deepfake” video starring Jordan Peele as Barack Obama shows how easy it's getting to create convincing audio and video fakes.  Here's how to fight back. … You're looking at the future of fake news and propaganda.
Sputnik International:
WATCH Nuclear Explosion Outside White House Modelled by Experts  —  09:50 17.04.2018April 18, 2018Get short URL  —  Science Magazine has published a video showing the consequences of a simulated nuclear attack near the White House in Washington carried out by terrorists.
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Axios:
Mike Pence's “Art of the Deal”
Discussion: New York Magazine
Brad Mielke / ABC News:
Comey: ‘The Republican Party has left me and many others’  —  Former FBI Director James Comey was a registered Republican for most of his life, but now he believes “the Republican Party has left me and many others.”  —  “I just think they've lost their way and I can't be associated with it …
New York Post:
De Blasio's rat-killing demonstration is a complete disaster  —  One wily rat made NYCHA look like a Mickey Mouse operation Tuesday in Brooklyn.  —  Mayor de Blasio and workers from the Housing Authority were outwitted by the rodent during a press event at a Bushwick project …
Discussion: Althouse
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook's new GDPR privacy changes  —  “Just click accept, ignore those settings”  —  Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes.  It will ask people to review how Facebook applies data …
Discussion: BGR, more at Techmeme »
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Liz Moyer / CNBC:
Student activist David Hogg calls for boycott of Vanguard and BlackRock over gunmaker ownership  — David Hogg led a successful advertiser boycott of Fox television's Laura Ingraham's show last month after Ingraham publicly mocked his college acceptances.  — BlackRock and Vanguard …
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Jeff McCall / The Hill:   Ingraham's ratings spike a wake-up for advertisers
New York Post:
Comey slams Trump on ‘Colbert’: I'm like the breakup he can't get over  —  Former FBI Director James Comey called the Trump presidency “a forest fire” and defended his handling of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email during his appearance Tuesday night on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
Discussion: Daily Wire
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YouTube:
LSSC Full Uncut Interview: James Comey
Discussion: Townhall
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
In Pro-Trump Tennessee, Democrats Count on a Familiar Face to Flip a Senate Seat  —  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — President Trump won 92 of Tennessee's 95 counties in the 2016 election, making this state a seemingly daunting target for Democrats hoping to flip a seat in the Senate.
Discussion: CNBC
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Can guns and Trump turn out Florida's youth vote?  So far, not so much.  —  Voter registration among young Floridians is down or flat in most large counties  —  TAMPA ­— University of Tampa junior Casey Bauer believes this is the year that his peers will make a difference at the polls.
Discussion: Axios
WNYC News:
‘It Smells Like Death’: Alabama Town Endures NYC ‘Poop Train’  —  A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet - and the “poop train” is just the latest example of the South being used as a dumping ground for other states' waste.
Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Cohen and Attorney-Client Privilege  —  The protection has limits, but is it worth testing them over a possible campaign-finance offense?  —  Who'd have dreamed that with all the horrors committed by Bashar Assad, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, the small change of American political discourse …
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
No, Republican Presidents Aren't Responsible For Most Of America's Debt  —  New York Times columnist David Leonhardt recently wrote a widely shared article arguing that Democrats were the party of fiscal responsibility while Republicans were nothing more than profligate spenders and reckless tax cutters.
John Sharp / al.com:
Alabama governor says state shouldn't ‘erase or tear down’ Confederate monuments  —  Alabama doesn't need “folks in Washington” or “out-of-state liberals” instructing the state on what it should do with Confederate monuments, Gov. Kay Ivey said Tuesday.  —  Ivey, during a campaign appearance in Foley …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, AOL and Joe.My.God.
Sheila Burke / Associated Press:
Tennessee lawmakers punish Memphis for removing statues  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Republican-dominated House in Tennessee voted Tuesday to punish the city of Memphis for removing Confederate monuments by taking $250,000 away from the city that would have been used for a bicentennial celebration next year.
Discussion: TheBlaze, Splinter and Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Scott Pruitt Has Become Ridiculous  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  Despite stiff competition, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency …
New York Times:
Why There Is No ‘Liberal Tea Party’  —  Mr. Grossmann hosts the podcast Political Research Digest.  Mr. Hopkins blogs about politics at Honest Graft.  —  In October 2015, John Boehner was driven from office by right-wing members of his own caucus.  His successor, Paul Ryan …
Discussion: Althouse, Honest Graft and Bloomberg
 
 
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
A Rule Is Changed for Young Immigrants, and Green Card Hopes Fade
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Arizona Senate moves to change rules for replacing members who die or resign
Discussion: MSNBC and Arizona Republic
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Woman tried to get into CIA headquarters with loaded gun
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and WTOP
Sarah Kleiner / Center for Public Integrity:
New York attorney general investigating Virginia-based veterans charity
Sarah Buynovsky / WNEP-TV:
4-year-old Summoned for Jury Duty, Excused for Preschool
Discussion: WPMT FOX43
Marc Weingarten / Washington Post:
Sorry, rock fans. Hip-hop is the only genre that matters right now.
Discussion: Althouse
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Tax cut riches have gone to execs and investors over workers by nearly 3-to-1 margin
Discussion: Washington Post
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Diante Yarber: Police kill black father with barrage of bullets in Walmart parking lot
Discussion: The Root and VICE News
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Xander Peters / Orlando Weekly:
Former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson says he's making another run for Congress
Discussion: Political Wire and Roll Call
HuffPost:
These Pro-Trump Extremists Had A Plan To Kill Muslims. How Were They Radicalized?
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Four U.S. senators seek details on unusual cellular surveillance in D.C. area
Discussion: Washington Times
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Freedom Caucus seeks to make McCarthy pay to become speaker
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump sours on talking with Mueller after FBI raid of lawyer's office
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Good Grief. Cohen's World Gets Mobbier The Closer I Look
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
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