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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:
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
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
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 …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Save the Mainline — OUR intervention in Syria required me to be fully serious last Sunday, but now it's time to return to this column's ongoing series of implausible proposals, Easter Sunday edition. Which means I'll be proposing — yes, I'm that predictable — that many of this newspaper's …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Patterico's Pontifications
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
BBC:
Syria war: ‘At least 68 children among 126 killed’ in bus bombing — At least 68 children were among 126 people killed in Saturday's bomb attack on buses carrying evacuees from besieged Syrian towns, activists say. — A vehicle filled with explosives hit the convoy near Aleppo.
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The Daily Caller, The FADER and New York Times
Jen Steer / fox8.com:
Cleveland police release photo of suspect wanted in murder shown live on Facebook — CLEVELAND- The Cleveland Division of Police is searching for the suspect who shot and killed a man live on Facebook Sunday afternoon. The murder happened on East 93rd in Cleveland.
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Raw Story, FOX6Now.com and KTLA