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5:00 PM ET, April 16, 2017

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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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: ABC News
ABC News:
McMaster: President Trump ‘will take action’ to end any North Korea threat to US
Discussion: 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
Discussion: Infowars
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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.
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 …
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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Jillian Kay Melchior / Heat Street:
Vandal Calls for Beheading, Lynching of Berkeley College Republicans
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
If the Government Cannot Be Trusted, Can It Protect the Nation?
Ian Mason / Breitbart:
Weiner Rising in White House: Ally of Disgraced Ex-Congressman Hired
Discussion: Mediaite
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Jack Montgomery / Breitbart:
French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen has criticised the Pope for pressuring Western countries …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Electric Grid Study Ordered by U.S. Energy Chief to Boost Coal
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The Huffington Post:
Hiring Anti-Trump Conservative Is Part Of New York Times' Effort To Expand Opinion
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Privacy group sues IRS for not disclosing Trump's taxes
Discussion: epic.org and Politico