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9:40 AM ET, April 25, 2018

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Mulvaney's Advice to Bankers: Up Campaign Donations to Diminish Consumer Watchdog  —  WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives and lobbyists on Tuesday that they should increase their campaign donations …
New York Times:
Republicans Lost Support in Every Special Election Since Trump Became President  —  Republicans have fared far worse in recent special congressional elections compared with previous elections.  —  Republican margin of victory  —  In a special House election on Tuesday, Debbie Lesko …
Discussion: Arizona Republic
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New York Times:
Arizona Special Election Results: Eighth House District  —  CandidatePartyVotesPct.  —  Rep.  —  82,294  —  Hiral Tipirneni  —  Dem.  —  73,188  —  155,482 votes, <1% reporting (0 of 143 precincts)  —  The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an energetic Democratic challenge …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Debbie Lesko Wins Arizona Special Election for Congress, Rallying G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an unusually strong Democratic challenge to win a special congressional election on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Republican Debbie Lesko scores tight win in Arizona special election, NBC News projects
Discussion: Fox News, HuffPost, Althouse and CNBC
Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
‘Blue Wave’ Fizzles as AP Declares Republican Winner of Arizona Special Congressional Election
Discussion: Mother Jones, ABC News, AOL and CNN
Harry Enten / CNN:
Why the win for Republicans in Arizona 8 is still good for Democrats
Discussion: Shareblue Media and twitchy.com
Axios:
Trump's election nightmare
CNN:
VA nominee drunkenly banged on female employee's door during overseas trip, sources say  —  (CNN)During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation.
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Associated Press:
Watchdog report points to power struggle involving VA pick
Discussion: The Week, Axios and Daily Kos
Bloomberg:   Trump's Veterans Affairs Pick Is Planning to Fight for Confirmation, Sources Say
Mark Landler / New York Times:
A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner  —  WASHINGTON — In the ceaseless churn of the Trump administration, there are many ways to leave the White House.  Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the ousted national security adviser, exited to the applause of colleagues who lined the West Wing parking lot.
Discussion: Splinter
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CNN:
Melania Trump masters the moment
Discussion: New York Times and Breitbart
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Playful dominance’: The touchy-feely relationship between Trump and Macron
Discussion: Politico
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications … A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
9,000 Nepalis face deportation as Trump administration prepares to cancel residency permits
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Don Blankenship, West Virginia Candidate, Lives Near Las Vegas and Mulled Chinese Citizenship  —  KEYSER, W.Va. — Don Blankenship is running for the United States Senate as a proud West Virginian with Appalachian roots, but his primary residence is a $2.4 million villa with palm trees and an infinity pool near Las Vegas.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump travel ban is focus of Supreme Court's last arguments  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is saving one of its biggest cases for last.  The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries.
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Sam Baker / Axios:
The Trump show goes to the Supreme Court
New York Times:
Pruitt's Security Chief Moonlighted for Tabloid Publisher That Helped Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The former Secret Service agent who leads the security detail for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, worked on assignments for the tabloid news publisher American Media Inc. during …
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Lynching Memorial Is Opening.  The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.  —  The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board …
Discussion: WHNT-TV
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Miss Universe 2013 Host Thomas Roberts Confirms: Trump Stayed Overnight in Moscow … In a fateful private White House dinner early last year, President Donald Trump raised with then-FBI Director James Comey the issue of “the golden showers thing”—a particularly salacious portion …
Chris Butler / Internet Archive Blogs:
Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine  —  Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid, in the Wayback Machine and her claims that some of these posts were “manipulated” by an “unknown, external party”.
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
How the Trump Show Gets Old  —  On September 20, 2004, the director of the Museum of Television & Radio in Los Angeles welcomed a packed crowd to an evening discussion “featuring the two people responsible for giving television audiences across America a mesmerizing cultural phenomenon. ...
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian civilians helping Assad use military base back home - witnesses  —  MOLKINO, Russia (Reuters) - The Kremlin says it has nothing to do with Russian civilians fighting in Syria but on three recent occasions groups of men flying in from Damascus headed straight to a defense ministry base …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trump's Contact with Vietnam — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast  —  On Dec. 14, 2016, one month after his election, President-elect Donald Trump had a call with the prime minister of Vietnam.  At a time when foreign governments were scrambling to contact Trump …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Boom: Treasury kills 305 regulations, IRS hammered  —  Acting on President Trump's demand that his cabinet secretaries gut Obama-era federal regulations, the Treasury Department on Tuesday said it has cut over 300 standing and proposed rules with a focus on the Internal Revenue Service.
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
We must stop giving mass killers what they want … There it was again.  On the car radio after this morning's school drop-off: The killer's motives are unknown.  Maybe you heard it on the evening news.  Maybe it popped into your mobile device.  Maybe it appeared in the morning paper.
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Harry Reid says Trump is damaging the country but warns against impeachment  —  LAS VEGAS — Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said he is worried that U.S. institutions have been “decimated” under President Donald Trump and blames Republicans for being lax on Russian election meddling …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Vox rewrites history to make Barbara Bush-hating professor the victim  —  Vox's fundamental problem isn't that many of its writers are astonishingly ignorant.  It's that they are aggressively dishonest.  —  Consider, for example, how the website that promises to “explain the news” …
Discussion: Daily Wire, twitchy.com and Vox
Chronicle of Higher Education:
Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans.  One Problem: He's Not Real.  —  Drew Cloud is everywhere.  The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and CNBC …
Kate Mishkin / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Mines owned by Gov. Justice missed deadline for installing safety tech  —  Two mines owned by Gov. Jim Justice are among only three across West Virginia that failed to install life-saving technology to prevent miners from being crushed to death by fast-moving machinery in underground coal mines on the job.
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Democrat Wins New York Assembly Seat, the 40th Legislative Flip Since Trump's Inauguration  —  Democrat Steve Stern won his race in New York's 10th Assembly District on Tuesday night, a Long Island district that had been in the hands of Republicans for more than three decades.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
GOP candidate gets Nazi sympathizer's endorsement after paying him $5k  —  Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward coincidentally paid $5,000 to Seb Gorka on the same day he endorsed her.  Also coincidentally, this is the third time Gorka has been involved in such a transaction.
Discussion: Arizona Republic
Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
Video shows Port Authority commissioner telling cops: ‘You may shut the f— up!’  —  Full video: Port Authority commissioner confronts police during N.J. traffic stop  —  Flashing her commissioner's gold badge and boasting of her influence during a routine traffic stop involving her daughter …
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
Why the Cause of Full Employment Is Back from the Dead  —  Senators Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand speak to reporters during a news conference in Washington  —  Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is introducing a government-guaranteed full employment bill this week.
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Admin To Grant Iran Missiles Capable of Destroying Israel
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Did McCabe issue ‘Stand-Down’ order on FBI Clinton Email Investigation?
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Decent society is unraveling right in front of us
Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
Democratic Majority Would Act Quickly on Guns, Dreamers, Infrastructure, Pelosi Says
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Backing for Trump isn't growing ahead of meeting with Kim Jong Un
Fox News:
Comey's memo leak contact had ‘special government employee’ status at FBI
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Revolution and Worse to Come
Ryan Moore / Des Moines Register:
How a lifelong anti-gun liberal became an NRA life member
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Jeff Sessions Is Serving, and Doing His Best to Ignore, Trump
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
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The Babylon Bee:
Prime Minister Issues Friendly Reminder To UK Parents That The State Owns Their Children
Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg:
Holding Up a Mirror to the Intellectuals of the Left
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Hannity's shady real estate deals just came back to bite him in humiliating fashion