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3:20 PM ET, April 23, 2019

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CNN:
White House ordered Trump administration officials to boycott WHCA Dinner  —  (CNN)The White House has ordered Trump administration officials to boycott the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, according to a senior administration official.  —  The order was issued Tuesday morning …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Furious Trump orders officials to boycott Correspondents' Dinner  —  President Donald Trump escalated his feud with the media by another degree on Tuesday, ordering officials in his administration to boycott Saturday's annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.
Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story and The Week
CNN:
White House tells official not to comply with Democratic subpoena over security clearances  —  (CNN)The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview …
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
White House instructs official to ignore Democratic subpoena over security clearances  —  A former White House personnel security director has been instructed by the White House not to show up Tuesday for questioning by the House Oversight Committee.  —  The move appears to be the latest effort …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Thanks, Mr. President, for making Washington's glitziest dinner as dull as it should be.  —  For years, the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner was an embarrassment.  —  Although, for many, an eagerly awaited and richly relished one.  —  It involved journalists cozying …
House Committee on Oversight and Reform:   White House Orders Former Security Director to Defy Oversight Committee Subpoena
NBC News:
White House tells official who gave Kushner security clearance: Don't comply with subpoena
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why is Trump raging again? Because Don McGahn will further expose his corruption.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
What to do about Sarah Sanders? White House reporters have a few ideas.
Discussion: RedState
J. W. Verret / The Atlantic:
The Mueller Report Was My Tipping Point  —  Let's start at the end of this story.  This weekend, I read Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report twice, and realized that enough was enough—I needed to do something.  I've worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years …
Peter Daou / The Nation:
I Was Bernie's Biggest Critic in 2016—I've Changed My Mind  —  Bernie Sanders can beat Donald Trump—and it would be an epic act of self-destruction for Democrats to try and hobble his campaign.  —  If you had told me in the spring of 2016 that three years later I'd be touting the merits …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:   Bernie Sanders Can Win, But He Isn't Polling Like A Favorite
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
The Big Money Challenge Awaiting Joe Biden in the 2020 Race
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and Townhall
New York Times:
The President in Plain Sight Is Bad Enough
Discussion: National Review and Raw Story
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Rivals are scrambling to dig up dirt on Pete Buttigieg  —  Buttigieg was on nobody's radar as a serious presidential contender until a few weeks ago.  Now his competitors are scrambling to find vulnerabilities.  —  SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Caught off guard by his sudden surge …
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Beto O'Rourke's Non-Media Strategy  —  The Texas Democrat is betting that interacting with voters face-to-face rather than via television can propel him to the Democratic presidential nomination.  —  More than seven weeks after announcing his campaign for president in 2020 …
Discussion: Quartz and RedState
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Signals Support for Trump's Census Citizenship Question  —  Key U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed inclined to let the Trump administration add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census in a clash that will shape the allocation of congressional seats and federal dollars.
Discussion: Townhall, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Court's conservatives seem fine with census
Discussion: Politico
Reuters:
Supreme Court conservatives sympathetic toward Trump census citizenship query
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Jared Kushner says Russian collusion accusations are “nonsense”  —  White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner called the idea that the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government “nonsense” during an interview at TIME's 100 summit on Tuesday.
Discussion: Washington Post
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Kushner says Russia investigations are ‘way more harmful’ than Russian election interference
Discussion: YouTube and Politico
Gary Willig / Arutz Sheva:
Kushner: Two State Solution an ‘old talking point’
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Philly.com:
Joe Biden campaign launch back in flux, potentially delayed  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's plans are in flux again.  —  If the former vice president does launch his presidential campaign this week, it won't involve a trip to Charlottesville, Va., and plans for potential public events …
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CNN:
Joe Biden to announce his 2020 presidential bid on Thursday
Discussion: Fox News, Washington Times and The Week
Dan Hendrickson / WHOTV:
State Rep. Andy McKean Leaving Republican Party, Says He Can't Support President Trump's Party  —  DES MOINES, Iowa -A longtime Iowa lawmaker says he's leaving the Republican Party and will vote with Democrats, and he says President Trump is to blame.  —  State Representative Andy McKean …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Great Republican Abdication  —  A party that no longer believes in American values.  —  So all the “fake news” was true.  A hostile foreign power intervened in the presidential election, hoping to install Donald Trump in the White House.  The Trump campaign was aware of this intervention and welcomed it.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
The Good Ol' Boys: 2 Years In, Trump Is Making Our Courts A Lot Less Diverse  —  His lifetime federal judges are almost entirely white, male ideologues.  Did someone clone Mike Pence or what?  —  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump has done something remarkable to the nation's federal courts …
Washington Post:
Six Trump Interior appointees are being investigated for possible ethical misconduct  —  Inspector General's Office inquiry comes a week after it launched a probe of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.  —  The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has opened an investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Collins / NBC News:
After Mueller report, Twitter bots pushed ‘Russiagate hoax’ narrative  —  As social media platforms continue to prepare for the 2020 election, efforts to spread disinformation and sow discord remain an ongoing issue.  —  A network of more than 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots railed against the …
Discussion: Politico and Engadget
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
What you missed in the Mueller report  —  Robert Mueller keeps on giving.  —  Dozens of overlooked nuggets are buried deep inside the special counsel's 448-page report that raise yet more intriguing questions about Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and shed new light on charges Mueller considered …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Week
Talia Kaplan / Fox News:
Former ICE acting director on border: 'This is a crisis I've never seen before at this level'  —  Former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan, a Fox News contributor, said Tuesday that the situation at the southern border “is a crisis I've never seen before at this level.”
Discussion: Politico
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Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune:
Border Patrol says apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley have already surpassed all of 2018
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Rachelle Hampton / Slate:
Years Ago, Black Feminists Worked Together to Unmask Twitter Trolls Posing as Women of Color.  If Only More People Paid Attention.  —  Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color.  If only more people had paid attention.
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
Sri Lanka Bombings Live Updates: ISIS Claims Responsibility, and President Pledges Security Shake-Up  —  • The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the Easter Sunday bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, as the government there raised the number of people killed to 321.
Erin Cox / Washington Post:
In New Hampshire, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he's seriously considering a primary challenge to Trump  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday he is seriously considering a primary challenge to President Trump, adding that the only reason Trump is not facing obstruction charges …
Richard Sokolsky / Politico:
Trump Isn't Just Reversing Obama's Foreign Policies.  He's Making it Impossible for His Successor to Go Back to Them.  —  Who says the Trump administration doesn't know what it's doing in the Middle East?  —  Sure, there's plenty of confusion, diplomatic malpractice and dysfunction in Trumpian foreign policy.
Whitney Davis / Variety:
‘CBS Has a White Problem’: Executive Blasts Toxic Culture at Network in Explosive Letter  —  Last year, CBS hired two white-shoe law firms to conduct an independent investigation into alleged misconduct by then-CEO Leslie Moonves, as well as broader cultural issues at CBS.
 
 
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JM Rieger / Washington Post:
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Dangerous embrace of the militia movement
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
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Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Politico
Dennis Lund / American Thinker:
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Samantha Allen / The Daily Beast:
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
WikiLeaks and Fox News Are Silent on the Debunked Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory
Ezra Klein / Vox:
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