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Donald Trump / ABC News:
Trump ‘will take action’ to end any North Korea threat to US: top security adviser — National security adviser said Trump won't allow North Korea threat to continue. — 58m ago — ‘This Week’ Transcript: High Alert | North Korea — A rush transcript for “This Week” on April, 16 2017.
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KTLA, Politico and Talking Points Memo
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Josh Meyer / Politico:
Failure to sanction China helped North Korea, former officials say — Even as Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping pledge to stop North Korea's fast-advancing nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, there's one uncomfortable secret that neither leader has publicly acknowledged …
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ABC News
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: High Alert | North Korea
‘This Week’ Transcript: High Alert | North Korea
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Associated Press
ABC News:
McMaster: President Trump ‘will take action’ to end any North Korea threat to US
McMaster: President Trump ‘will take action’ to end any North Korea threat to US
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NBC News
Patrick Sawer / Telegraph:
Is this the missile Donald Trump is afraid of? Kim Jong-un puts show of nuclear strength in Pyongyang parade
Is this the missile Donald Trump is afraid of? Kim Jong-un puts show of nuclear strength in Pyongyang parade
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Infowars
BBC:
N Korea missile launch fails, says South Korea
N Korea missile launch fails, says South Korea
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Reuters, Raw Story, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, Axios and New York Times
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Steve Bannon's Biblical Fall — Steve Bannon is a devout Catholic who believes in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But it's the story of Christ's descent into hell that occupies his mind most this Easter weekend. — The embattled chief strategist to President Donald Trump is a student …
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Raw Story
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
United to stop staff from taking seats of boarded passengers — United Airlines will no longer let its staff take the seats of already boarded passengers on overbooked flights, a policy change born of the aftermath of an incident earlier this month in which a passenger was violently dragged from his seat.
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RedState
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Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
United Staff Will No Longer Take Seats of Boarded Passengers
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
White supremacist caught on video sucker-punching woman Berkeley protester faces calls for arrest — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A notorious white supremacist got caught on camera sucker-punching a woman in the melee that erupted on Saturday in Berkeley, CA between pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators.
Greg / gregfallis.com:
seriously, the guy has a point — I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan's Financial District some five weeks ago. I have occasionally added a comment or two to some of the online discussions about the statue.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House in no mood for government funding fight — They're playing tough in public — it's called negotiating — but privately, senior White House officials are in no mood to get into a knock-down-drag-out fight over government funding. — The government runs out of money April 29 …
Craig Gilbert / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Donald Trump's election flips both parties' views of the economy — 252 Shares — Do political views color perceptions of the economy? Washington Bureau Chief Craig Gilbert fills us in. — Having Donald Trump in the White House has had a revolutionary effect on the economic outlook …
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Has Trump found religion in the Oval Office? — President Donald Trump has increasingly infused references to God into his prepared remarks — calling on God to bless all the world after launching strikes in Syria, asking God to bless the newest Supreme Court justice, invoking the Lord to argue in favor of a war on opioids.
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Mother Jones, Hullabaloo and Political Wire
Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Sarah Silverman at Anti-Trump Rally: ‘Show Us Your F*cking Taxes You Emotional Child’ — Sarah Silverman joined in the anti-Donald Trump “Tax March” protest in New York City Saturday, where she demanded the president release his tax returns in a fiery speech.
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The Gateway Pundit, Gothamist, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, TheBlaze, Daily Kos, KFOR-TV and Mediaite
Travis Waldron / The Huffington Post:
WTF Happened To Curt Schilling? — How the Red Sox hero went from the top of the world to the bottom of the fever swamps. — The sign appeared in a window above Boylston Street as the Red Sox paraded through downtown Boston to celebrate the team's first World Series title in 86 years.
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Media Matters for America and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Older Workers Challenge Firms' Aggressive Pursuit of the Young — In one class action against PricewaterhouseCoopers, two men say they were rejected because they lacked the youthful profile possessed by many PwC recruits — PricewaterhouseCoopers bills itself as the “place to work for millennials …