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1:20 PM ET, April 15, 2017

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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Parades New Long-Range ‘Frankenmissile’  —  Pyongyang displays military hardware, including apparently new intercontinental ballistic missile  —  SEOUL—North Korea showed off what appeared to be at least one new long-range missile at a military parade Saturday …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Shows Off Long-Range Missiles in Military Parade  —  SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's latest military hardware, including what analysts said appeared to be three kinds of intercontinental ballistic missile, rolled through central Pyongyang on Saturday, as the country showed off …
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
James Pearson / Reuters:
North Korea displays submarine-based missiles for first time at military parade
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Reuters:   North Korea displays apparently new missiles as U.S. carrier group approaches
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War  —  West Wing sources come clean about the backstabbing, the bullying, the distrust, and the buzzing flies.  —  I. BUZZING FLIES  —  The West Wing of the White House is a cramped collection of tiny offices, some of them windowless, linked by narrow hallways.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Axios
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Trump demands gold-plated welcome  —  President insists on a carriage journey down The Mall to Buckingham Palace  —  Donald Trump waving from the Queen's royal carriage is not a scenario many would have foreseen a year ago, but it has become a very real prospect, forcing security services to plan an unprecedented lockdown.
New York Times:
O'Reilly's Behavior Said to Have Helped Drive Megyn Kelly Out at Fox  —  Last fall, in the weeks after 21st Century Fox struck settlements with two women who said that Bill O'Reilly had sexually harassed them, the Fox News host went on morning television and offered a harsh assessment of women …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly left Fox News in part due to O'Reilly: report  —  Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's departure from the network was partially inspired by the behavior of colleague Bill O'Reilly, according to a new report.  —  Kelly was frustrated by O'Reilly's criticism of her for publicly …
Discussion: RedState
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Even Canadians are skipping trips to America after Trump travel ban  —  The cancellations came quickly and in rapid succession.  Within days of President Trump's first executive order restricting travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, a number of European travel groups pulled their plans …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Gives Generals More Freedom on ISIS Fight  —  Pentagon brass take lead on decisions that were made by White House under Obama; ‘I authorize my military,’ Trump says  —  U.S. military commanders are stepping up their fight against Islamist extremism as President Donald Trump's administration urges …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strength
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:   Reading Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
The Latest Dump of Alleged NSA Tools Is ‘The Worst Thing Since Snowden’  —  Thanks to the Shadow Brokers, any hacker can now easily attack and pwn millions of Windows computers on the internet. … On Friday, the group known as The Shadow Brokers dropped the hacking equivalent of a bomb …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump claims he can't be sued for inciting rally violence  —  Donald Trump's lawyers in a Friday afternoon federal court filing argued that he cannot be sued for inciting his supporters to hurt protesters because, as the president, he is immune from civil lawsuits.
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Alt-Right Ringleader Mike Cernovich Threatens to Drop ‘Motherlode’ If Steve Bannon Is Ousted  —  A week after President Donald Trump began to publicly distance himself from White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, alt-right ringleader Mike Cernovich threatened to release a “motherlode” …
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW STATEMENT ON WHITE HOUSE REFUSAL TO RELEASE VISITOR LOGS  —  Washington, D.C.—In response to the White House's decision to break six years of tradition and refuse to release White House visitor logs, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Executive Director Noah Bookbinder released the following statement:
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House to Keep Its Visitor Logs Secret
Discussion: Balloon Juice
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
A Letter From An Ivy League Admissions Dean  —  A young woman was accepted at Brown—and then the other note arrived.  —  Brown University in Providence, R.I. houses one of the country's most selective undergraduate colleges.  The Brown Daily Herald, a student-run newspaper …
CNN:
‘Mother of all bombs’ killed 94 ISIS fighters, Afghan official says  —  Kabul (CNN)At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Saturday.
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Cohn's Goldman Sachs Shares Sold as He Touted Financial Overhaul  —  Unclear whether White House adviser knew about sale's timing  —  Bank's share price increased on news of regulatory review  —  On the same day that President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Arkansas judge prohibits state from using lethal injection drug, blocking scheduled executions  —  An Arkansas circuit judge on Friday evening issued an order temporarily blocking the state from using one of its lethal injection drugs until further notice, throwing into question a series of executions scheduled to begin next week.
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right  —  After work one day in January 2007, Scott McConnell left his office at the magazine The American Conservative in Arlington, Virginia, and walked to a nearby Thai restaurant that was hosting a panel discussion about the Duke lacrosse scandal.
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump's reelection campaign raised $13.2 million in first quarter  —  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is off to a quick start, pulling in $13.2 million through a trio of committees in the first three months of the year, while paying an unusually large staff of about 20 employees …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
 
 
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge weighs arguments in SF, Santa Clara sanctuary cities case
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Chatting With Fish About Water
Discussion: Fox News
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Melania Trump seemed like a rebellious first lady. She's turning out to be a retro one.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Tillerson's stock rises in the White House
CBS News:
Secret Service costs for Trump family protection continue to mount
Discussion: Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Fresno State professor faces backlash after ‘Trump must hang’ tweet
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Google searches spike for ‘World War 3’ amid heightened tensions abroad
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Marine Le Pen wants to kill the European Union. But it actually helps pay her bills.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
 Earlier Items: 
USA Today:
Trump's taxes must be released before tax reform: Painter and Eisen
Discussion: Longreads
Michael Wear / Washington Post:
Remember when the White House had faith?
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
NASA ‘sting’ operation against 74-year-old widow of Apollo engineer draws court rebuke
Discussion: WGN-TV
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump visits Mar-a-Lago resort for 23rd day as president
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Post On Politics
 

 
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