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12:15 PM ET, April 17, 2017

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CNN:
On North Korean border, Pence tells CNN US will drop ‘failed policy’  —  Panmunjom, South Korea (CNN)With North Korean soldiers standing less than 100 feet behind him at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, Vice President Mike Pence told CNN that Pyongyang should understand that the Trump …
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Claudia Rosett / The Hill:
Trump juggles the foreign policy balls Obama dropped  —  The Trump administration is taking heat for striking a Syrian air base with Tomahawk missiles and hitting ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan with a MOAB, a conventional bomb so big that it has been dubbed the “Mother of All Bombs.”
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Pence tells North Korea not to test American resolve, offering Syria and Afghanistan strikes as examples
New York Times:
President Trump's Loose Talk on North Korea
Discussion: Washington Post
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Jacob Gardenswartz / Vox:
Watch the White House Easter Egg Roll live stream  —  President Trump will participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll, the 139th iteration of the annual tradition, on Monday morning.  —  Yet even something as light as the Easter celebration for kids has become a sort of mini controversy for Trump …
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump WH officials work their way around ethics rules: report
mystatesman:
In Travis County custody case, jury will search for real Alex Jones  —  Highlights  —  Alex Jones and his ex-wife, Kelly, will be locked in a child custody trial the next two weeks in Austin.  —  Alex Jones' lawyers will make the case that their client should not be judged by his on-air persona.
Eric Heisig / Plain Dealer:
Facebook shooting victim's son says Cleveland man was father of nine, grandfather of 14  —  A Cleveland man was gunned down on Sunday afternoon.  The shooting was broadcast on Facebook Live.  Police are searching for the suspect, Steve Stephens.  (Jane Morice/cleveland.com)
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Facebook issues statement after murder suspect shares video of shooting in Cleveland [Updated]
Clevelandpolice / Cleveland Division of Police:
Homicide Suspect - Armed and Dangerous Steve Stephens
Jim Norman / Gallup:
Majority in US No Longer Thinks Trump Keeps His Promises  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's image among Americans as someone who keeps his promises has faded in the first two months of his presidency, falling from 62% in February to 45%.  The public is also less likely to see him as a …
patribotics:
Carter Page Went to Moscow With a Tape of Donald Trump Offering Treason For Hacking  —  Sources with links to the intelligence community say it is believed that Carter Page went to Moscow in early July carrying with him a pre-recorded tape of Donald Trump offering to change American policy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tegna / KHOU-TV:
Bride and groom booted off United flight in Houston  —  A bride and groom headed to Costa Rica for their wedding got kicked off their United flight out of Houston on Saturday afternoon. … A bride and groom headed to Costa Rica for their wedding got kicked off their United flight out of Houston on Saturday afternoon.
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Trump Voters in a Swing District Wonder When the ‘Winning’ Will Start  —  BENSALEM, Pa. — One after another, the gamblers totter along the twisting walkway, bathed in artificial purple light — burdened, at least occasionally, by the instinct that they should have known better.
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas Wood / Washington Post:
Racism motivated Trump voters more than authoritarianism or income inequality  —  During the 2016 presidential campaign, many observers wondered exactly what motivated voters most: Was it income?  Authoritarianism?  Racial attitudes?  —  Let the analyses begin.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
A picture perfect moment!  Barack and Michelle Obama pose on billionaire David Geffen's superyacht during day out with Oprah, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks in French Polynesia  — Since leaving the White House, they have also visited Palm Springs, Hawaii and toured the Caribbean
Steven A. Cook / Foreign Policy:
RIP Turkey, 1921 - 2017  —  Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn't just win his constitutional referendum — he permanently closed a chapter of his country's modern history.  —  On Jan. 20, 1921, the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the Tekilât- Esasîye Kanunu, or the Law on Fundamental Organization.
Discussion: The Guardian
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Benjamin Harvey / Bloomberg:   Erdogan Follows Slim Referendum Win by Warning Opponents
Washington Times:
Haitians get word of Trump crackdown, slow flow to border by 97%  —  Sometime around November, word began to trickle back down the spine of Latin America: The U.S. was getting stricter about letting in Haitians at the border.  —  Not only had the Obama administration begun deporting Haitians …
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘Machiavelli Would Approve’  —  He's been called “the leading conservative intellectual to make the case for Donald Trump,” his work dubbed “the intellectual source code for Trumpism,” and many other names besides.  —  During the 2016 campaign, Michael Anton was an anonymous pamphleteer making …
Rasmussen Reports:
in Politics  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump's job performance.  Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.  —  This is the first time the president's overall approval rating has been back in the 50s in nearly a month.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
ICE immigration arrests of noncriminals double under Trump  —  Immigration arrests rose 32.6 percent in the first weeks of the Trump administration, with newly empowered federal agents intensifying their pursuit of not just undocumented immigrants with criminal records, but also thousands …
Sophia A. McClennen / Salon:
Trump's millennial problem: The snowflakes are becoming a blizzard  —  Polls show the majority of millennials view Trump as an illegitimate president, and they don't like Ivanka either  —  Millennials, those born between 1981 and 1997, have become the generation the right loves to hate.
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Zach Swaim / The College Fix:
University of Wisconsin-Madison offers free tampons in men's bathrooms  —  The University of Wisconsin-Madison is rolling out a new pilot program to provide free menstrual products in several of its campus bathrooms — including some men's restrooms.  —  The public university will offer …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump learning to love Bush aides  —  Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly declared that “the last thing we need is another Bush,” as he vowed to take on two political dynasties — the Bushes and the Clintons.  —  But as president, Trump has been increasingly dipping …
Discussion: Washington Post
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump's big problem is he doesn't know what he's talking about  —  At least it's one of his problems.  —  Donald Trump doesn't know what he's talking about.  This became clear when he said he realized dealing with North Korea was “not so easy” after 10 minutes with the Chinese president.
 
 
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