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3:35 PM ET, April 21, 2018

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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
It is too bad I have been silenced … It is with a heavy heart, and profound regret for the current state of media in America, that I have dragged my laptop to a Starbucks to pen this column.  But I think it is important that we understand the degree of oppression we are up against.
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Barbara Bush remembered at funeral as ‘the first lady of the greatest generation’  —  Barbara Bush was remembered at her funeral as a loving wife, mother and friend with a devilish sense of humor and who represented the best of the World War II generation.  —  “Barbara Bush was the first lady …
Discussion: Washington Press and Mediaite
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Gil Troy / Politico:
What Melania Trump Can Learn From Barbara Bush
Discussion: Associated Press
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Four Former Presidents Pay Respects as Barbara Bush Is Laid to Rest in Texas
Discussion: Mother Jones and LifeZette
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Barbara Bush laid to rest in Houston
New York Times:
Scott Pruitt Before the E.P.A.: Fancy Homes, a Shell Company and Friends With Money  —  OKLAHOMA CITY — Early in Scott Pruitt's political career, as a state senator from Tulsa, he attended a gathering at the Oklahoma City home of an influential telecommunications lobbyist who was nearing retirement and about to move away.
Discussion: Political Wire
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
Former Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Is Drawn Into Federal Investigation  —  The Beverly Hills lawyer who represented two women who were paid in 2016 to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Donald J. Trump has been drawn into the federal investigation focused on Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels's former lawyer said to be cooperating with federal probe of Michael Cohen
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart, Political Wire and Raw Story
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
‘Imploding’: Financial troubles.  Lawsuits.  Trailer park brawls.  Has the alt-right peaked? … Eight months after a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in the death of a counterprotester, the loose collection of disaffected young white men known as the alt-right is in disarray.
Associated Press:
North Korea Suspends Nuclear, Long-Range Missile Tests and Plans to Close Nuclear Test Site  —  Central Committee makes decisions ahead of meeting between North, South Korean leaders  —  SEOUL—North Korea said it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site.
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Will Kim Jong-un Trade His Nuclear Arsenal to Rebuild Economy?
Discussion: IJR and Politico
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
It's becoming clear that Trump won't run in 2020  —  It has been nearly three years since Donald Trump descended his faux-gold escalator to announce an improbable run for president, and Republican politicians seem just as baffled by the reality TV star's future as they were the day he first launched …
Discussion: Althouse
ABC:
Loyal blue heeler stays with three-year-old lost in bush overnight  —  An old blue heeler named Max remained by the side of a three-year-old girl and led searchers to her after she spent more than 15 hours lost in rugged bushland on Queensland's Southern Downs overnight.
Discussion: Mashable
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Democrat uses TrumpTV to blast TrumpTV  —  Democratic House candidate John Heenan is buying up airtime on stations owned by Trump-friendly Sinclair Broadcasting Group — and using it to blast Sinclair.  —  John Heenan, a Democratic candidate for Montana's U.S. House seat …
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Matt Volz / Associated Press:   Candidate buys ads on Sinclair TV stations to blast company
Douglas MacKinnon / Fox News:
How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?  —  “How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?”  —  That was the deeply dismaying question posed to me by a friend with four young children as we discussed the plight of the Christian faith in America and around the world.
Austin L. Miller / Ocala.com:
Forest High shooter: ‘My first memory is violence and conflict’  —  At the Marion County Jail, Sky Bouche, 19, talked about how he was raised, how he got a gun and how the shooting unfolded.  —  Austin L. Miller @almillerosb  —  After his arrest Friday on terrorism and other charges …
Discussion: IJR and AOL
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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Homework assignment asks students to list positive aspects of slavery  —  (CNN)A Texas charter school is apologizing after a teacher gave an assignment to an eighth grade American History class, asking students to list the positive aspects of slavery.  —  “When I first read it, I thought …
New York Times:
Pressure to Release Comey Memos May Have Backfired on G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — For days, top Republicans in Congress demanded the release of James B. Comey's memos about President Trump, threatening Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, with a subpoena if he failed to share …
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump lashes out at New York Times reporter in latest attack on press  —  President Trump's first public comments from Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday were to attack New York Times' White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, apparently over her coverage of a criminal investigation of Mr. Trump's personal lawyer.
New Yorker:
Techno-Fundamentalism Can't Save You, Mark Zuckerberg  —  It was like a verbal tic.  Last week, in two days of testimony before Congress, Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, invoked a magical-sounding phrase whenever he was cornered about a difficult issue.
New York Times:
Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match  —  MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an extended family were glued to Facebook.
New York Times:
The Business Deals That Could Imperil Trump  —  Put aside Russian collusion for a moment.  Press pause on possible presidential obstruction of justice.  Forget Stormy Daniels.  The most significant recent development involving the president may be that the special counsel, Robert Mueller …
NBC News:
GOP faces rural rebellion over Trump trade agenda  —  WASHINGTON — From his dairy farm in southeastern Nebraska, lifelong Republican Ben Steffen believed Donald Trump meant what he said on the campaign trail about ripping up U.S. trade agreements.  —  So Steffen, who produces milk, beef …
Camilla Turner / Telegraph:
Robots interviewing graduates for jobs at top city firms as students practice how to impress AI  —  As a nervous university student keen to make a good impression, you would be forgiven for wanting to comb your hair, polish your shoes and maybe even clean your teeth before a job interview.
TMZ.com:
Singer Roberta Flack Rushed to Hospital from Apollo Theater  —  10:20 PM PT — Roberta's rep tells us ... the singer's checked out of the hospital, but doctors are still running tests to determine why she fell ill during the Apollo show.  The rep adds, Roberta had a stroke in 2016 …
Discussion: The Root and FOX6Now.com
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Why Trump has struggled to assemble a legal team  —  WASHINGTON — When President Richard Nixon got into legal trouble, a team of top lawyers signed up to represent him.  And as Bill Clinton found himself staring down a grand jury, another crop of elite attorneys stood at his side.
Discussion: Raw Story
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border  —  On Feb. 20, a young woman named Mirian arrived at the Texas border carrying her 18-month-old son.  They had fled their home in Honduras through a cloud of tear gas, she told border agents, and needed protection from the political violence there.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Splinter
David Siders / Politico:
Clyburn urges full leadership shakeup If Democrats fail to retake House  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's top lieutenants, said Friday that if Democrats fail to retake the House in November, the party's entire House leadership team should step down.
Discussion: Axios
Geoffrey Mohan / Los Angeles Times:
Raids and tariffs?  We'll take our lumps, say California farmers  —  You might assume walnut grower Mike Poindexter would be regretting his vote for Donald Trump.  —  Since the inauguration, immigration officials have raided his Selma, Calif., office and China has slapped tariffs on his walnuts …
Kelsey Ables / Columbia Journalism Review:
Meet the journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class  —  Mariel Padilla.  Photo by Catherine Mazanek.  —  On Monday afternoon, Mariel Padilla, a master's student at Columbia Journalism School, sat around a table with classmates, listening to Professor Giannina Segnini lead …
 
 
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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Tired of waiting for electricity in Puerto Rico, man builds his own solar power system
Discussion: NPR and Slashdot
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
With Albany Balance of Power at Stake, 2 Women Vie for Senate Seat
Discussion: NY State of Politics
Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Targeted by Stephon Clark protests, Sacramento DA has fence erected around building
New York Times:
Electric Scooters Are Causing Havoc. This Man Is Shrugging It Off.
Discussion: Althouse and Washingtonian
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kobach tells national walkout students at gun-rights rally to stay in class
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Gazette:
Gov. Hickenlooper on making pot illegal again if tied to crime: 'I'm not ruling it out'
Rick Hall / USA Today:
I'm a lifelong conservative and I support Robert Mueller's Russia investigation
 Earlier Items: 
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Brothers Linked To Assad Gave Thousands To Dennis Kucinich's Ohio Political Machine
Jill Abramson / The Guardian:
Comey's wish for a leaker's ‘head on a pike’? Proof he's no better than Trump
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Rebels without a Cause
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Republican Rick Wilson destroys CNN's Trump booster Jason Miller for defending the president's ‘bullsh*t’
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
DeVos Education Dept. Begins Dismissing Civil Rights Cases in Name of Efficiency
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Sessions told White House that Rosenstein's firing could prompt his departure, too
 

 
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How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

 
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