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4:25 PM ET, April 25, 2018

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Another Special Election, Another Really Bad Sign For The GOP  —  One might describe Arizona's 8th Congressional District as ... nondescript.  Covering portions of Phoenix's northern and western suburbs, including the Arizona Cardinals' home stadium, the district isn't all that geographically …
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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 …
New York Times:
Arizona Special Election Results: Eighth House District
New York Times:
Inside the Confidential N.F.L. Meeting to Discuss National Anthem Protests  —  N.F.L. owners, players and league executives, about 30 in all, convened urgently at the league's headquarters on Park Avenue in October, nearly a month after President Trump began deriding the league and its players over protests during the national anthem.
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose rent increases for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies … U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday will propose to increase the amount low-income households are expected to pay for rent as well as require …
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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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
White House defends VA pick amid misconduct allegations
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
White House Mobilizes to Defend VA Pick Ronny Jackson
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Kirsten Gillibrand Unveils A Public Option For Banking  —  The idea would provide a low-cost alternative to payday loans — and it might just save the Postal Service, too.  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation Wednesday that would require every U.S. post office …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Mick Mulvaney says in Congress, he only talked to lobbyists who gave him money
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.
Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post:
North Korea's nuclear test site has collapsed ... and that may be why Kim Jong-un suspended tests  —  The mountain's collapse after a fifth blast last fall has led to the creation of a massive ‘chimney’ that could leak radioactive fallout into the air, researchers have found
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Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Is Largely Unusable, Chinese Scientists Say
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Week
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Trump Travel Ban Looks Poised for Victory at U.S. Supreme Court  —  Roberts, Kennedy skeptical of arguments against directive  —  Opponents say Trump's policy motivated by anti-Muslim bias  —  The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised to uphold President Donald Trump's travel ban …
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Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
The officers pulled over a car whose Nevada registration had expired.  The car was driven by a male friend of her daughter, who was a passenger in the back seat  —  The daughter had called her mother after the vehicle was pulled over as they were driving along Route 9W in Bergen County on March 31.
Discussion: Politico and Louder With Crowder
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
What's Robert Mueller's next big move?  Here are 9 possibilities.  —  Recent reports suggest intriguing possibilities for where the investigation is going.  —  What's the next shoe that will drop in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation?  —  Mueller's team won't say publicly …
Discussion: Politico
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Washington Post:
News organizations seek access to Mueller materials in Russia investigation
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Bet $69 Million on Megyn Kelly—Then Viewers Vanished  —  The former Fox News star was supposed to bring a bigger audience for ‘Today,’ but ratings declines and high costs have dragged down a critical franchise  —  Megyn Kelly was supposed to bring star power to NBC News and a bigger …
Los Angeles Times:
Suspect in Golden State killer case is arrested after decades of searching  —  Authorities have arrested a man suspected of being one of California's most prolific serial killers and rapists — the Golden State killer.  —  According to law enforcement sources who were unauthorized …
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TIME:
Emmanuel Macron's Address to Congress Was Full of Criticism for President Trump  —  French President Emmanuel Macron critiqued the nationalist rhetoric and policies of President Donald Trump in his address to Congress Wednesday.  The speech highlighted that, despite the public displays …
Discussion: Vox, Politico and New York Magazine
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Will anyone leave the Trump administration with an intact reputation? … It is one of the inevitable characteristics of politics that when you work for a politician, you end up sharing the blame for their misdeeds, fairly or not.  I'm sure there were many ethical people who worked …
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Jay Rosen / NYR Daily:   Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing
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 …
New York Times:
How Scott Pruitt Plans to Defend Himself on Capitol Hill: Spread the Blame  —  WASHINGTON — As Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, prepares to testify before Congress on Thursday amid a series of spending and ethics investigations, an internal E.P …
Discussion: The Hill and CNBC
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Above the Law
Merseyside Police:
We've issued the following statement following reports of social media posts being made in relation to Alder Hey Hospital and the ongoing situation with Alfie Evans:  —  Chief Inspector Chris Gibson said: “Merseyside Police has been made aware of a number of social media posts …
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
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Eddie Hughes / Fresno State News:
President Joseph I. Castro letter on conclusion of review regarding professor
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
For Melania Trump, fashion diplomacy was defined by a hat … The day began with a hat.  It ended with the hat, too.  Not literally, but nostalgically.  Over the course of 12 hours, no Cézanne at the National Gallery, no forest of cherry blossom branches, no Clinton or Bush china …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Ronan Farrow: Hillary Clinton Tried to Cancel Interview Because I Was Reporting on Weinstein Story  —  Ronan Farrow appeared on Good Morning America Wednesday to talk about his new book, and made a revelation about an interview he was slated to have with Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Althouse, TheBlaze and twitchy.com
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 …
Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress:
Unearthed photo reveals ‘New Yorker’ Steve Mnuchin enjoys solar eclipses after all  —  When the public first learned about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's trip aboard a (pricey) military jet to tour Fort Knox last August, it didn't take an astrologer to note the interesting timing of the visit …
Discussion: HuffPost
Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
Firing Mueller won't end Trump investigation, Mueller made sure  —  Rachel Maddow shows how Robert Mueller has worked with other departments and agencies in the course of the Trump Russia investigation, ensuring that even if the special counsel is fired, the elements of the investigation live on.
Steve LeVine / Axios:
Millennials blame boomers for ruining their lives  —  Beset by big college loans, inheriting two wars, and facing an uncertain future of work, a majority of millennials say baby boomers have made things worse for them — and a lot of boomers agree, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll.
Discussion: Raw Story
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: The Root, TheBlaze, theGrio and WHNT-TV
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Turning Point USA Keeps Accidentally Hiring Racists  —  “I love making racist jokes,” tweeted the woman who replaced the person who wrote, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE.”  —  Turning Point USA, a nonprofit founded in 2012 by then-19-year-old Charlie Kirk, has exploded in the Trump era.
Discussion: Slate and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Kanye 2024? Congressional Republicans Aren't So Sure.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and The Federalist
Prince Of Petworth / PoPville:
This Just In - Macron Lunching at Tonic!?!
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
James Comey threw a book party for all his friends — in the press
Dallas Morning News:
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, I'm alarmed that our country is forgetting the genocide
John Ingham / Daily Express:
Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought’ say scientists
Discussion: Climate Depot and Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
WPRI-TV:
Chafee will ‘very likely’ challenge Whitehouse for US Senate
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and ripr.org
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
A Look at WeWork's Books: Revenue Is Doubling but Losses Are Mounting
Colin Clark / Breaking Defense:
Russia Widens EW War, ‘Disabling’ EC-130s In Syria
Discussion: Instapundit
Reason:
Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People's Cars
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
The Independent Poll: Heller, Rosen neck and neck in U.S. Senate race though Rosen still largely …
Tennessean.com:
Phil Bredesen holds narrow edge over Marsha Blackburn, new Mason-Dixon poll shows
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian civilians helping Assad use military base back home - witnesses
Mark Landler / New York Times:
A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
 

 
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