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5:40 PM ET, April 23, 2018

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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
‘No credible sightings’ of Waffle House shooting suspect as manhunt continues, police say … Police continued their intensive search Monday for the 29-year-old suspected of opening fire at a Tennessee Waffle House and killing four people one day earlier.  —  The Metro Nashville Police Department …
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Connor Sheets / al.com:
Outrage growing over black woman's arrest in Alabama Waffle House by white police officers  —  Censored: Saraland Police arrest woman at Waffle House, exposing her breasts  —  The treatment of a 25-year-old black Mobile woman who was arrested early Sunday morning inside a Waffle House …
New York Times:
'I'm Not a Hero,' Says Unarmed Man Who Wrested Rifle From Waffle House Gunman  —  For the latest on the Waffle House shooting, read Monday's live updates.  —  NASHVILLE — The young woman, bandaged and shrouded in bedsheets, began to cry when James Shaw Jr. walked into Trauma Room No. 26 on Monday morning.
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Police wrestled a black woman to the ground, exposing her breasts in restaurant, video shows
Discussion: al.com, Eater and CBS Chicago
Anita Wadhwani / Tennessean.com:
Woman gives birth in car outside scene of Waffle House tragedy, with employee assist
Discussion: Bearing Arms
Allison Klein / Washington Post:
Waffle House hero wrestled gun from shooter.  The next day, he raised more than $24,000 for the victims' families.
Vernon Silver / Bloomberg:
Flight Records Illuminate Mystery of Trump's Moscow Nights  —  President denied overnight Miss Universe stay, Comey memos say  —  Jet landed on a Friday, left pre-dawn Sunday after pageant  —  President Donald Trump twice gave James Comey an alibi for why a salacious report …
Bloomberg:
White House Deterring Republicans From Defending Pruitt, Sources Say  —  Republicans who fawned over EPA boss now sharpening criticism  —  Four Republicans and 170 Democrats said Pruitt should quit  —  White House officials are cautioning Republican lawmakers and other conservative allies …
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CNN:
Trump ramps up personal cell phone use  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to contact outside advisers, multiple sources inside and outside the White House told CNN, as Trump returns to the free-wheeling mode of operation that characterized the earliest days of his administration.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Josh K. Elliott / CTVNews:
Suspect in custody after van strikes people on Toronto sidewalk  —  Police have arrested a suspect after a white van mounted the curb and struck numerous pedestrians in Toronto.  —  The incident happened on Yonge Street south of Finch Avenue around 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Toronto Police Service.
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CTVNews:   Toronto police say 9 dead, 16 injured after pedestrians struck; suspect arrested
CBS New York:   9 Dead, 16 Injured When Rental Van Runs Into Pedestrians In Toronto, Canada
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Respect Unearned  —  Washington's self-righteous establishmentarians talk of professionalism when they act unprofessionally.  They refer at length to their intellectual and professional pedigrees when they prove incompetent.  And they cite their morality and ethics when they possess neither.
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USA Today:
Love him or hate him, Jeff Sessions is why Mueller's Russia probe is still on track  —  Thank Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller for running Justice and the Russia probe by the book despite extreme pressure from Donald Trump.  —  CONNECT  —  One of us is a supporter …
Discussion: National Review and Above the Law
Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
McMaster and Commander  —  Can a national-security adviser retain his integrity if the President has none?  —  When Donald Trump had a phone conversation with Vladimir Putin on the morning of March 20th, the two were at an excruciatingly delicate juncture.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump's Re-Elect Figures Similar to Those of Obama, Clinton  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. registered voters solidly believe that President Donald Trump does not deserve to be re-elected, by 59% to 37%.  The percentage of voters who say Trump deserves re-election is essentially identical …
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
John Bolton chaired anti-Muslim think tank  —  WASHINGTON — John Bolton, President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, chaired a nonprofit that has promoted misleading and false anti-Muslim news, some of which was amplified by a Russian troll factory, an NBC News review found.
Chauncey Devega / Salon:
Pulitzer-winning reporter David Cay Johnston: “The evidence suggests Trump is a traitor”  —  Investigative reporter who has covered Trump for 30 years dares to imagine impeachment — and President Nancy Pelosi  —  The saga of President Donald Trump consists of several parallel and intersecting stories.
Discussion: Washington Press
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
EXCLUSIVE: Joy Reid Claims Newly Discovered Homophobic Posts From Her Blog Were ‘Fabricated’  —  Mediaite has obtained a series of homophobic posts from Joy Ann Reid's old blog that she denies were actually written by her.  —  In an exclusive statement to Mediaite, the MSNBC host claims …
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Hank Berrien / Daily Wire:   MSNBC's Joy Reid: Homophobic Posts On My Blog Were Made By ‘An Unknown, External Party’
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
First lady releases menu, details for Macron's state visit  —  The White House on Monday revealed the menu, entertainment and other details of the first state visit of the Trump administration in anticipation of the French president's arrival.  —  French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife …
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
CONSERVATIVES: TRUMP CRIMES ARE NONE OF OUR BUSINESS  —  Over the weekend, the New York Times published a column by Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder who commissioned the Steele dossier, and his business partner Peter Fritsch.  —  Simpson has spent years researching Donald Trump's conduct …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Debbie Nathan / The Intercept:
How the Border Patrol Faked Statistics Showing a 73 Percent Rise in Assaults Against Agents  —  Last November, reports that a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents had been attacked with rocks at a desolate spot in West Texas made news around the country.  The agents were found injured and unconscious …
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
Anna M. Tinsley / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Tarrant County judge pleads guilty, resigns after using fake signatures to get on ballot  —  Justice of the Peace Russ Casey pleaded guilty Monday to tampering with a government record and resigned after an investigation showed he turned in fake signatures to secure a place on the March 6 primary ballot.
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won't save American democracy  —  It feels like this moment in history deserves a definitive ending.  It won't get one.  —  When the president's lawyer is getting his office raided by the FBI, and his former national security adviser …
Karma Allen / Yahoo:
Starbucks' ‘unconscious bias training’ isn't enough, protesters say  —  Members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity rallied at a Starbucks in Philadelphia on Sunday after their fraternity brother, Rashon Nelson, was arrested there earlier this month in an incident the city's mayor called an example of racial profiling.
Discussion: IJR, Daily Wire, TheBlaze and twitchy.com
Sean Hannity:
Sean Hannity Responds to Latest Fake News Attack  —  It is ironic that I am being attacked for investing my personal money in communities that badly need such investment and in which, I am sure, those attacking me have not invested their money.  The fact is, these are investments …
Elizabeth Djinis / Sarasota Herald:
Sarasota student makes racist prom proposal  —  Riverview High School says it is investigating.  —  SARASOTA COUNTY — A Riverview High student is under fire after using a racist sign to ask his girlfriend to the school's prom.  —  The sign, reading “If I was black, I'd be picking cotton …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
New York Times:
Mueller Guides Us Through the Swamp  —  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.  —  The special counsel, Robert Mueller, has not yet presented evidence that the Trump campaign conspired …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP candidates are now mimicking Trump's authoritarianism.  That's ominous. … THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Around the country, Republicans embroiled in tough primaries are increasingly emulating President Trump — by echoing his xenophobia, his veiled racist appeals, his attacks on the news media …
Washington Post:
How merchants use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On Amazon, customer comments can help a product surge in popularity.  The online retail giant says that more than 99 percent of its reviews are legitimate because they are written by real shoppers who aren't paid for them.
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Andrew Khouri / Los Angeles Times:
Southern California home prices jump to a new record high  —  Southern California's median home price jumped 8.4% in March from a year earlier, setting a new all-time high, as hopeful buyers engaged in bidding wars over a limited supply of homes on the market.
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Keeping up with the cosmetics: Kourtney Kardashian to urge makeup reform on Capitol Hill  —  Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian is set to make an appearance on Capitol Hill Tuesday to speak on cosmetics reform alongside Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.  —  (D-N.J.).
Dan Rozenblum / pluralist:
Watch New York Bargoers Force ‘Nazi Scum’ Milo Yiannopoulos  —  Wondering where Milo Yiannopoulos had been lately?  Well, on Sunday, he was getting shouted out of a New York pub.  —  The right-wing provocateur and former Breitbart News editor unwittingly walked into the lion's den.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, Raw Story and Mediaite
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Republican National Committee Spent $225K at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Just Last Month  —  The Republican National Committee spent more than $224,000 at President Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in March, according to newly filed FEC reports.  The expenditures, which were for rental …
Associated Press:
Penn State says wilderness is too risky for outdoors clubs  —  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A near-century-old outdoor recreation club will now refrain from going outside because it is too dangerous out in the wilderness, according to officials at Penn State University.
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Christian Publisher Says Google Banned It Over ‘Faith We Express’  —  Google ads has refused to do business with a Christian publishing house “because of the faith we express on our website,” said Concordia Publishing House CEO Bruce Kintz in a Facebook post today.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sarah Sanders: Dems have to decide if they love the US more than they hate Trump … White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said early Monday that Democrats must decide if they love the United States more than they hate President Trump  —  's nomination to lead the State Department.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Mitt Romney, in his fifth campaign since 1994, says 'I'm not in this race because I have some political career I'm trying to foster'  —  Five-time political candidate Mitt Romney wanted delegates to this past weekend's Utah Republican convention to know one thing: He isn't running for the Senate …
Discussion: Hot Air and Weekly Standard
 
 
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Maya Rhodan / TIME:
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New York Times:
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Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Mother Jones
Bloomberg:
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Discussion: New York Magazine and Politico
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Jon Sharman / The Independent:
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John F. Harris / Politico:
'I Don't Like to Be Called a Nazi.'
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democrats Have Great Female Presidential Candidates. They Need to Avoid the Victim Trap.
Discussion: New Republic
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
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