memeorandum: Has Trump found religion in the Oval Office? (Matthew Nussbaum/Politico)

1:45 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: Politico, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press and KTLA

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:

‘This Week’ Transcript: High Alert | North Korea — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on April 16, 2017 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: That was then-candidate Donald Trump during the New Hampshire primary debate saying that China should take care of the North Korea.

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press

ABC News:

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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 — Tension between North Korea and the United States rose to new levels on Saturday after the Pyongyang regime unveiled what could be a missile capable of striking the American mainland.

Discussion: Infowars

BBC:
N Korea missile launch fails, says South Korea

Discussion: AOL, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, CNN and Axios

Scott Campbell / Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: North Korea ‘attempts to launch missile but fails’ …

Discussion: Infowars

Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
N. Korea didn't test a nuclear weapon, but it did try to launch another missile

Discussion: New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Power Line and New York Times

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.

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.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Hullabaloo and Political Wire

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.

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.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money

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.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Gothamist, TheBlaze, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Daily Kos, KFOR-TV and Mediaite

Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
Are Anti-Trump Protests Losing Steam?

Discussion: ThinkProgress, NBC News and CNNMoney

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 …

Ian Mason / Breitbart:

Weiner Rising in White House: Ally of Disgraced Ex-Congressman Hired — Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump enlisted the services of Risa Heller, a New York City public relations figure known for her work with Democrats including former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Sen. Chuck Schumer …

Discussion: Mediaite