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1:20 PM ET, April 5, 2009

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New York Times:
Defying World, North Koreans Launch Rocket  —  SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed …
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The Politico:
Obama calls for ‘world without’ nukes  —  PRAGUE - Hours after North Korea launched a long-range rocket, President Barack Obama called for “a world without nuclear weapons” and said the United States had a “moral responsibility ” to lead the way, as the only nation ever to have use them.
Discussion: American Power and Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
North Koreans Launch Rocket Over the Pacific  —  SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Asks Security Council to Punish N. Korea  —  PRAGUE — President Obama said that North Korea violated international rules when it tested a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles, and he called on the United Nations Security Council to take action.
Associated Press:
NKorea launches rocket, defying world pressure  —  SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea defied international warnings and sent a rocket hurtling over the Pacific on Sunday, a launch President Barack Obama called an illicit test of the regime's long-range missile technology that threatened the security of nations “near and far.”
Discussion: BBC, Power Line, CNN, Paco Enterprises and MyDD
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Obama In Prague: Launches Effort To Rid World Of Nuclear Weapons  —  PRAGUE — Declaring it “matters to all people everywhere,” President Barack Obama promised on Sunday to lead the world into a nuclear-free future, giving a hawkish edge to a peacenik pursuit even as North Korea upstaged …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
North Korea Defies Warnings, Launches Powerful Rocket
Evan Ramstad / Wall Street Journal:   North Korea Launches Rocket
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Axelrod hits back at Cheney: Not behaving like a ‘statesman’  —  (CNN) — Top Obama adviser David Axelrod sharply criticized Dick Cheney's recent contention that the president's national security policies have made the country less safe, suggesting the former vice president is not behaving like a “statesman.”
Jon Meacham / Newsweek:
The End of Christian America  —  The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades.  How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.  —  From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Flashback: NYT scolded Clinton for almost bowing to royalty  —  So far, the media has remained entirely silent on Barack Obama's deep-waist bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.  They used to defend American protocol a lot more closely, as The Anchoress discovered in doing research on the subject.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
GM planning for bankruptcy  —  Fritz Henderson, GM's new president and CEO, said for the first time Sunday that the automaker is planning for the possibility of restructuring within bankruptcy, although he said he still hoped to avoid that public-relations nightmare.
Discussion: The Note
KDKA-TV:
Gunmen Kills Three Pittsburgh Police Officers  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) ― A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said.  —  Friends said 23 year-old Richard Poplawski feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
California Dems target 8 GOP districts  —  California GOP voter registration is “dropping like a rock,” a new study shows, declining so fast that Democratic Party officials see an unprecedented opportunity to gain voters and House seats in the 2010 election.
 
 
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