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8:45 AM ET, April 16, 2017

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BBC:
N Korea missile launch fails, says South Korea  —  North Korea has attempted to launch a missile on its east coast which is believed to have failed, South Korea's military says.  —  It comes a day after the state warned the US that it was “ready to hit back with nuclear attacks” amid mounting tension in the region.
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Scott Campbell / Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: North Korea ‘attempts to launch missile but fails’ just hours after flaunting military might amid escalating global tensions  — But the launch failed according to local media in what could prove to be embarrassing for the country  — Comes hours after North Korea unveiled …
Discussion: Infowars
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
N. Korea didn't test a nuclear weapon, but it did try to launch another missile  —  TOKYO — There was a sense of relief when April 15, the most important day in the North Korean calendar, passed without a nuclear test.  That relief didn't last long, as North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Sunday morning.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Former CIA analyst on Korea slams Trump's ‘gross miscalculation’ on North Korea
Los Angeles Times:
Berkeley braces for another pro-Trump rally, counter protests  —  Pro-Trump supporters and counter-protesters clash in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley in March.  (Dan Honda / East Bay Times)  —  Berkeley officials are bracing for a “Patriots Day” rally Saturday …
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KRON4.com:
VIDEO: 21 arrested in violent pro, anti-Trump protests in Berkeley  —  BERKELEY (KRON) — Twenty-one people are in custody and 11 people were injured after an enormous group of pro and anti-Trump demonstrators clashed in Berkeley.  —  Hundreds of President Trump supporters …
New York Times:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Pillars of Family-Driven West Wing  —  WASHINGTON — One has an office down the hall from the president in the White House; the other just moved into an office a floor up.  One recently visited war-torn Iraq as the president's emissary; the other will soon head …
Discussion: NPR, The Hill and Raw Story
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Was Doomed
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
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: Political Wire
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Maxine Waters rallies Tax March crowd for Trump's impeachment  —  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) renewed her call for impeaching President Trump during Saturday's Tax March in Washington.  —  “I don't respect this president.  I don't trust this president.  He's not working in the best interests of the American people,” Waters said.
Discussion: IJR
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Clare Foran / The Atlantic:   Are Anti-Trump Protests Losing Steam?
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump takes route to Mar-a-Lago that misses Tax March protesters
Discussion: ABC News and KFOR-TV
NBC Bay Area:
Twenty-One People Arrested as Clashes Break Out at Opposing Rallies in Berkeley  —  In what has become an eerily familiar scene in Berkeley, supporters and detractors of President Donald Trump on Saturday exchanged blows, burned flags, and set off fireworks at opposing rallies, resulting in at least 21 arrests, police said.
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.
The Huffington Post:
Hiring Anti-Trump Conservative Is Part Of New York Times' Effort To Expand Opinion  —  Bret Stephens won over progressive critics of the president, but his climate change views have sparked backlash.  —  The New York Times' decision to hire Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Privacy group sues IRS for not disclosing Trump's taxes  —  A privacy group is suing the IRS for not disclosing President Trump's tax returns.  —  The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Saturday, as rallies around the country …
Discussion: epic.org and Politico
Jack Montgomery / Breitbart:
French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen has criticised the Pope for pressuring Western countries to open their borders to migrants, accusing him of asking states to disregard their own citizens.  —  In an interview with La Croix International, the leader of the Front National chided Pope Francis …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Electric Grid Study Ordered by U.S. Energy Chief to Boost Coal  —  Review to consider how renewable subsidies affect electric mix  —  Keeping the lights on even when the wind isn't blowing  —  U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is ordering a study of the U.S. electric grid …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
FBI documents detail how the Russians try to recruit spies  —  Carter Page: Washington Post report a joke  — Carter Page has acknowledged to CNN that he is the individual the documents refer to as a target of recruitment  — A foreign spy will use the information gathered about a target's background …
New York Times:
With Trump Appointees, a Raft of Potential Conflicts and ‘No Transparency’  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is populating the White House and federal agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who in many cases are helping to craft new policies for the same industries in which they recently earned a paycheck.
Discussion: ProPublica and Political Wire
 
 
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