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3:40 PM ET, April 8, 2019

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CNN:
Trump is removing US Secret Service director  —  (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.  —  President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.
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NBC News:
Trump has for months been urging administration to reinstate child separation policy  —  A senior administration official said they believe Trump is convinced that family separation has been the most effective policy at deterring asylum seekers.  —  President Donald Trump has for months urged …
New York Times:
More Top Homeland Security Officials Set to Leave in Trump Purge  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to sweep out the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after pushing out its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, accelerating a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Stephen Miller pressuring Trump officials amid immigration shakeups  —  As President Donald Trump roils the capital over illegal immigration, his influential aide Stephen Miller is playing a more aggressive behind-the-scenes role in a wider administration shakeup.
CNN:
Stephen Miller wants Trump to oust more senior leaders at Homeland Security  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns  —  Washington (CNN)White House senior adviser Stephen Miller wants to make sure that outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is only the first of a string …
Discussion: VICE News, NBC News, Vox and Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen just revealed how Trump's pathologies and lawlessness will get worse  —  It has become a ritual of the Trump years: Each time President Trump parts ways with one of his top advisers or associates, that person then embarks on an effort to expunge the deep moral stain left behind …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen's ignominious end
Fox News:
Kirstjen Nielsen makes first public comments after resignation as DHS boss
Discussion: Breitbart
ABC News:   Secret Service director out less than 24 hours after DHS secretary resigns
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
Discussion: The Daily Beast, New York Times and CNN
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Bernie Sanders: Trump Wants To Get Rid Of The Filibuster Too, So Be Skeptical Of It  —  “You should be a little bit nervous if Donald Trump supports it,” the 2020 presidential candidate said.  —  MUSCATINE, Iowa Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders finds himself in a new role as front-runner  —  DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is quieting critics who questioned whether he could recapture the energy of his upstart 2016 campaign, surpassing his rivals in early fundraising and establishing himself …
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
Biden still leads but Abrams, Buttigieg join front-runners in new SC 2020 primary poll
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations
Discussion: Politico and Daily Wire
NBC News:
Democratic candidates slam Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
Discussion: Conservative Review
Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:   Barack Obama is stuck in the past. He represents the old Democratic party
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Miami Herald:
‘She lies to everyone’: Feds say Mar-a-Lago intruder had hidden-camera detector in hotel  —  Trump Tourism: Access for Sale  —  The Miami Herald is investigating how U.S. President Donald J. Trump has become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful.
Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg:
Mar-A-Lago Trespasser Had a Stash of Electronics, Judge Told  —  A Chinese woman who breached security at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, had a stash of electronics in her hotel room, including a signal detector, nine USB drives and five SIM cards for mobile phones, a judge was told.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
To Get Trump's Tax Returns, N.Y. Democrats Try a New Strategy  —  ALBANY — In an attempt to work around the White House, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are trying to do what their federal counterparts have so far failed to accomplish: to obtain President Trump's tax returns.
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
NY state lawmakers to introduce bill to get Trump's state tax returns
Discussion: Breitbart and Front Page Magazine
John Harwood / CNBC:
Few Americans think they're getting a Trump tax cut: NBC/WSJ poll  — Just 17% of people believe their own taxes will go down, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll finds.  —  No wonder the 2017 Republican tax cut remains so unpopular — the vast majority of Americans don't think they got one at all.
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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Wall Street pans Trump's Fed picks, Stephen Moore and Herman Cain
Discussion: Political Wire
Kyle Korver / The Players' Tribune:
Privileged  —  PHOTO BYMELISSA MAJCHRZAK/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES  —  W  —  hen the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little.  —  When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in.
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Iowa student asks Beto O'Rourke ‘Are you here to see Beto?’ in bathroom  —  On Sunday, minutes before being in front of more than 300 people, Beto O'Rourke took a moment for a requisite bathroom break.  While washing his hands, O'Rourke got an unexpected question.
Discussion: Political Wire
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David Siders / Politico:
Reality bites Beto after high-flying kickoff
Discussion: Fox News, The Week and Washington Post
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump administration cancels MLB deal with Cuba  —  The Trump administration canceled a four-month-old deal between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation Monday, saying that the federation was part of the Cuban government and trade with it was illegal under current law.
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NBC News:   Trump administration moves to undercut MLB's deal with Cuba
Associated Press:
The Latest: US labels Iran's Guard a terrorist organization  —  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Trump administration's stance on Iran (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says the U.S. has designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization” …
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The White House:
Statement from the President on the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats crafting Mueller response if report drops during recess  —  Attorney General William Barr is likely days away from issuing a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings, but Washington may be a ghost town when he does.  —  The House leaves for the week …
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Rachel Kurzius / DCist:
Shaw's Metro PCS Store Has Been Forced To Turn Off Its Go-Go Music, Owner Says  —  For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW.  Until now.  —  Campbell says that T-Mobile, which acquired Metro PCS …
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
‘Daddy hurt her’: Nobody believed a boy's story, until he dug up the backyard 20 years later  —  It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Fla. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Trump's health care brain trust says no thanks  —  President Donald Trump promised a new plan to replace Obamacare.  But the four Senate Republicans he tapped for the job aren't jumping at the opportunity.  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says any new plan has to come from the White House …
Washington Post:
There are two types of hijabs.  The difference is huge.  —  Masih Alinejad is the author of “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran” and the founder of the #WhiteWednesdays campaign in Iran.  Roya Hakakian is co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and author of the memoir …
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
How the NYU School of Medicine is going tuition-free  —  One of the top medical schools in the United States is going tuition-free.  Lesley Stahl reports on how and why they're doing it  —  Going to medical school today takes more than ambition, good grades in biology in college, and an appetite for hard work.
Discussion: Mother Jones
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Trump Gutted Green Rules But Plans to Run on His Environmental Credentials
Discussion: Vanity Fair
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
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Discussion: Political Wire
ABC News:
Woman arrested for sending threatening letter to Maine Sen. Susan Collins: Authorities
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Chicago is Tracking Kids With GPS Monitors That Can Call and Record Them Without Consent
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Mallory Pickett / The Guardian:
Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress
Discussion: Common Dreams
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
William Barr's Mueller cover-up reveals America's delusional dreamland about democracy
Discussion: Herman Cain and Washington Times
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trumpism Extols Its Folk Hero
Discussion: Althouse