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12:05 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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New York Times:
A ‘Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion’ in North Korea  —  WASHINGTON — All the elements of the North Korean nuclear crisis — the relentless drive by Kim Jong-un to assemble an arsenal, the propaganda and deception swirling around his progress, the hints of a covert war by the United States …
Claudia Rosett / The Hill:   Trump juggles the foreign policy balls Obama dropped
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
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Facebook issues statement after murder suspect shares video of shooting in Cleveland [Updated]  —  Facebook has issued a statement after a video showing a fatal shooting was uploaded onto the social media network by the alleged murderer.  Cleveland Police say that Steve Stephens broadcast …
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Clevelandpolice / Cleveland Division of Police:
Homicide Suspect - Armed and Dangerous Steve Stephens
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.
CNN:
White House bounces into spring with 139th annual Easter Egg Roll  — The White House Easter Egg Roll gives each first lady the opportunity to put her thumbprint on the event  —  (CNN)Eggs will roll — nearly 18,000 of them — Monday at the White House.  —  First lady Melania Trump …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump WH officials work their way around ethics rules: report
Jacob Gardenswartz / Vox:
Watch the White House Easter Egg Roll live stream
Discussion: CNN, ABC News and Business Insider
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
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
Amanda Prestigiacomo / Daily Wire:
California College Snowflakes: The American Flag Is Triggering, Take It Down!  —  College students at the University of California, Davis believe the American flag is triggering, recently voting to remove a compulsory bylaw which mandates the flag be present at UCD Senate meetings.
Katherine Rodriguez / Breitbart:
Report: Huma Abedin Asking Publishers for $2 Million for Tell-All Memoir  —  Huma Abedin is willing to tell all in a new book for a price tag of $2 million, according to a new report.  —  The former top aide to Hillary Clinton and “estranged wife of disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner …
 
 
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Discussion: Hot Air
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
1st woman to officially run Boston Marathon to do it again, 50 years later
Discussion: CBS Boston
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Trump Won't Be Punked By Foreign Dirtbags Like Obama Was
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Steven A. Cook / Foreign Policy:
RIP Turkey, 1921 - 2017  —  Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn't just win …
Discussion: The Guardian
James McAuley / Washington Post:
Against all odds, a communist soars in French election polls
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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