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5:45 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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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been pushing to reinstate broader family separation policies and sought to close the US-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas …
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.
CNBC:
Randolph Alles is out as Trump's Secret Service chief  — Alles “will be leaving shortly,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says, adding that President Donald Trump “has selected James M. Murray, a career member of the USSS, to take over as director beginning in May.”
New York Times:
Trump Purge Set to Force Out More Top Homeland Security Officials  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to replace the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after forcing the resignation of its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, as he accelerated a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
CNN:
Trump overseeing ‘near-systematic purge’ at Department of Homeland Security  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is cleaning house in the Department of Homeland Security.  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles have been ousted …
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 …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Stephen Miller pressuring Trump officials amid immigration shakeups
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Who Is Left to Say No to Trump?  —  Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen's ignominious end
Wall Street Journal:   White House Seeks Tighter Grip on Immigration Policy
Washington Post:   Federal judge blocks Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico …
Fox News:
Kirstjen Nielsen makes first public comments after resignation as DHS boss
Discussion: Breitbart
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had a Hidden Camera Detector, Prosecutors Say  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to President Trump's private club had a device used to detect hidden cameras and a large amount of cash in her Palm Beach hotel room …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Woman accused of illegal entry to Mar-a-Lago had numerous electronic devices, thousands in cash  —  Trump not worried about Mar-a-Lago security breach  —  West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)Yujing Zhang, the woman who allegedly breached security at President Donald Trump's private Florida club …
Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg:
Chinese Intruder at Mar-a-Lago to Stay in Jail Another Week
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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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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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.
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.
Discussion: Deadspin
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NBC News:
Trump administration moves to undercut MLB's deal with Cuba
Discussion: TheBlaze
New York Times:
Trump Designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a Foreign Terrorist Group  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that he was designating a powerful arm of the Iranian military as a foreign terrorist organization, the first time that the United States had named a part of another nation's government …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: US labels Iran's Guard a terrorist organization
The White House:
Statement from the President on the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …
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
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.
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David Siders / Politico:
Reality bites Beto after high-flying kickoff
Discussion: Fox News, The Week and Washington Post
Lynh Bui / Washington Post:
Md. man planned to run down crowds at National Harbor in an ISIS-inspired attack, prosecutors say  —  Federal authorities have arrested a Maryland man they say planned to plow a stolen U-Haul van into crowds at the National Harbor, a large shopping and entertainment compound outside of Washington D.C. …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Feds charge Maryland man accused of plotting to ram stolen truck into pedestrians
Discussion: Geller Report and The Daily Caller
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 …
Eric Levenson / CNN:
Felicity Huffman and 12 wealthy parents plead guilty in college admissions scam  —  (CNN)Thirteen wealthy parents, including actress Felicity Huffman, and one coach will plead guilty to using bribery and other forms of fraud as part of the college admissions scandal, federal prosecutors in Boston said on Monday.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Vanity Fair
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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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 …
 
 
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