By Michele Cottle @ TheAtlantic.com, April 26

The Dems are trying to take advantage of the president’s tendency to make maximalist claims then retreat from them.

6:47 minute video at NYTimes.com

The U.S. blames Syria for a chemical weapons attack on its own people on April 4. Syria and Russia deny it. We looked at videos, satellite photos and open-source material to find the truth.

• President Trump on Wednesday proposed sharp reductions in both individual and corporate income tax rates, reducing the number of individual income tax brackets to three.
• The plan also called for the elimination of most itemized tax deductions.

By Alan Rappeport & Julie Hirschfeld Davis @ NYTimes.com, April 26

By Lydia Polgreen @ HuffingtonPost.com, April 25

We’ve got a new name, look and mission ― to tell the stories of people who have been left out of the conversation.

By Adam Nossiter from Paris @ NYTimes.com, April 25

Whole article reporting that the race has become a much worse version of  Melenchon = Bernie and Macron = Hillary. Recommended. Oh and gets into some of the nuances, too.

By Jim Rutenberg @ NYTimes.com, April 23

[.....] His Twitter trail could be a gift to lawyers for the news industry during leak investigations into articles that made the president mad enough to pick up his Android and tap, Tap, TAP!

It could provide great grist for legal arguments that the investigations are less about prosecuting damaging leaks than they are about punishing journalists.

By John Markofg @ NYTimes.com, April 23

This isn’t science fiction. A number of start-ups as well as big aerospace firms are trying to build personal aircraft.

It's about time! Finally, what The Weekly Reader (my first lying media!) promised me in fourth grade would happen by the year 2000!

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff & Sayed Salahuddin @ The Washington Post, April 24

By Amy B. Wang @ The Washington Post, April 24

By Josh Meyer @ Politico.com, April 24

By dropping charges against major arms targets, the administration infuriated Justice Department officials — and undermined its own counterproliferation task forces.

Whether or not one agrees with Obama's deal, I think this is a good read to understand where some of those in the Obama D.O.J who may speak out against may be coming from.

By Jay Croft @ CNN, April 21

Insulting. Out of touch. Inaccurate.

By Michael Wines @ NYTimes.com, April 21

By Nancy Cook & Aaron Lorenzo @ Politico,com, April 21

Think health care was hard? Wait until Trump meets the factions fighting over taxes

Only 1 of the 13 is the Democrats.

The deal to evacuate four towns, some besieged by Assad, some by the opposition, involved some extraordinary intrigue—and terrible risks.

By Emma Beals @ The Daily Beast, April 21

By Ryan Browne and Elise Labott @ CNN, Updated 9:03 PM ET, April 20

Washington -- Chinese air force land-attack, cruise-missile-capable bombers were put "on high alert" on Wednesday as the US sees evidence that the Chinese military is preparing to respond to a potential situation in North Korea, a US defense official tells CNN.

By Helene Cooper @ The New York Times, April 19

 By Juan Carlos Hernandez and Joshua Goodman @ The Associated Press, April 20

VALENCIA, Venezuela---General Motors announced Thursday that it was shuttering its operations in Venezuela after authorities seized its factory in the country, a move that could draw the Trump administration into the escalating chaos engulfing the South American nation amid days of deadly protests.

By Andrew Higgins @ The New York Times, April 20

By Zack Beauchamp @ Vox.com, April 19

Tuesday night [....]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that “certifies” Iran is complying with the terms of the deal, including the terms that place strict limits on its ability to develop a nuclear weapon. The deal, Tillerson said, was working.