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9:15 PM ET, April 17, 2017

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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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, ThinkProgress, The Hill, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Daily Kos, AOL, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Shakesville, RedState, Mother Jones, Shareblue, Politicus USA, TheBlaze and Bangor Daily News

Numbers / Pew Research Center:

Public Dissatisfaction With Washington Weighs on the GOP — Ryan job rating at 29%; Republicans view their party as divided — Nearly three months after the Republican Party took control of the White House and Congress, the public gives low job ratings to the president and even lower ratings to the speaker of the House.

Discussion: Hot Air, Politico, Washington Post, TheBlaze, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

This brutal new poll shows that fewer and fewer people believe Trump's lies — THE MORNING PLUM: — The 100-day mark of the Trump presidency is approaching, and his aides are worried that the media narrative will depict his historically awful lack of accomplishments with highly unflattering levels of accuracy.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Daily Wire, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Politico, AOL, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Zpolitics, more at Mediagazer »

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Handicapping The Georgia 6 Special Election

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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz concerned Democrats will trigger government shutdown

Discussion: Axios

Pew Research Center:
2. Views of the parties — Public assessments of the Republican …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Sanders: Dems didn't do enough in Kansas special election

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post and Politico

BBC:

North Korea ‘will test missiles weekly’, senior official tells BBC — North Korea will continue to test missiles, a senior official has told the BBC in Pyongyang, despite international condemnation and growing military tensions with the US. — “We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Politico, ABC News, The National Interest, The Gateway Pundit, Infowars, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, AOL, Washington Free Beacon and Axios

The Guardian:

North Korea warns ‘thermonuclear war may break out at any moment’ — Country's deputy UN ambassador Kim In-ryong makes declaration as Trump tells Kim Jong-un he has ‘gotta behave’ … A senior North Korean official has accused the US of turning the Korean peninsula into “the world's biggest hotspot” …

Discussion: Associated Press, TheBlaze, New York Magazine and Eschaton

Bloomberg:
Russian State TV Says Trump Is More Dangerous Than Kim Jong-Un

Discussion: RedState, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and New York Magazine

Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml …:
US Deploys Two More Aircraft Carriers Toward Korean Peninsula: Yonhap

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
North Korea: ‘Thermonuclear war’ possible at any time

Discussion: The Guardian and TheBlaze

Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
Burying ‘Trumpomania,’ Kremlin TV says Trump scarier than North Korean leader

Discussion: Raw Story and Axios

Justin Osofsky / Facebook:

Community Standards and Reporting — On Sunday morning, a man in Cleveland posted a video of himself announcing his intent to commit murder, then two minutes later posted another video of himself shooting and killing an elderly man. A few minutes after that, he went live, confessing to the murder.

Discussion: NBC News, Business Insider, Mashable, Mediaite, Axios, The Verge and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »

Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Cleveland offers $50K reward for Facebook Live murder suspect

Discussion: Fox News, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit, CBS Philly, IJR, Axios, The Root and Cleveland Division of Police

CNN:
Search for suspect in Facebook homicide video widens to 5 states

Ken Dilanian / NBC News:

Susan Rice Did Nothing Wrong, Say Both Dems and Republicans — A review of the surveillance material flagged by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes shows no inappropriate action by Susan Rice or any other Obama administration official, Republican and Democratic Congressional aides …

Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos

Steve Benen / MSNBC:

Trump's claims about Susan Rice start to unravel — It started in early March with a series of early-morning tweets. For reasons that are still unclear, Donald Trump woke up one Saturday and started publishing online missives about a new conspiracy theory: Barack Obama launched …

Financial Times:

US admits Trump tax reforms will be hit by healthcare setback — Treasury secretary Mnuchin rejects currency war fears, plans new Syria sanctions — Read next … The US Treasury secretary has conceded that the administration's timetable for ambitious tax reforms is set to slip following setbacks …

Discussion: New York Times, The Hill, Reuters, CNBC, Talking Points Memo, Politico, TheStreet, Morning Consult, Business Insider and Axios

Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:

BREAKING: Glenn Beck Countersues Tomi Lahren, Claims She Mistreated Staff, Offended Blaze Audience — Glenn Beck, and his conservative network, The Blaze, have filed a counter claim against firebrand conservative news personality Tomi Lahren after she sued the organization for wrongful termination.

Discussion: Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Raw Story, Red Alert Politics, The Gateway Pundit and Heat Street, more at Mediagazer »

Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:

‘Shattered’ Charts Hillary Clinton's Course Into the Iceberg — Donald J. Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in November came as a shock to the world. Polls, news reports and everything the Clinton campaign was hearing in the final days pointed to her becoming the first female president in American history.

Marwan Barghouti / New York Times:

Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel's Prisons — HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel's illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners.

Discussion: The Times of Israel, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com, National Review, The Nation, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Free Beacon and NPR

Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
NYT Fails To Disclose Terrorism Conviction Of Op-Ed Contributor

Discussion: New York Times

Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:

Google says rogue vendor violated guidelines by instructing contractors to rate InfoWars as untrustworthy site — Google said Monday that a vendor mistakenly told staffers working for the search engine that InfoWars should be ranked as a low-quality site. — The prominent right-wing website …

Discussion: Medium and Infowars

Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:

This Man Is Spending Millions to Break Elon Musk's Trump Ties — The day Donald Trump was elected President, Doug Derwin came into a lot of money. Derwin is a lawyer turned venture capitalist, and he'd cashed in on a successful investment. Like so many wealthy, Silicon Valley types …

Discussion: CNBC and CBS San Francisco

Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:

White nationalist claims Trump directed rally violence — A white nationalist leader accused of assaulting a young African-American woman at a Donald Trump campaign rally filed a countersuit on Monday claiming the president directed him and other supporters to remove protesters.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA, Hullabaloo, Little Green Footballs and AOL

New York Times:

How Prince Concealed His Addiction: Aspirin Bottles of Opiates — At the time of Prince's death, his Paisley Park home and recording compound were strewn with “a sizable amount” of narcotic painkillers for which he did not have prescriptions, including some hidden in over-the-counter vitamin …

Discussion: The FADER

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 …

Brian Beutler / New Republic:

Why We Shouldn't Celebrate Trump's “Centrism” — It blinds us to the ways in which the institutions constraining Trump are themselves flawed. — Donald Trump's recent policy reversals, and reports that he's exasperated with right-wing advisers like chief strategist Steve Bannon in favor …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and LewRockwell

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

Vulnerable GOP senator: ‘No problems’ with Planned Parenthood funding — (R-Nev.) said Monday during a combative town hall that he supports federal funding for Planned Parenthood. — “I have no problems with federal funding for Planned Parenthood,” Heller said when asked about his support for the health organization.

Discussion: Politico, Mother Jones, USA Today and The Daily Caller

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.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Heather Digby Parton / Salon:

Maxine Waters, Donald Trump and impeachment: One Democrat is ready — her party and the American people may follow — A California Democrat calls for impeachment, and the world says it's too early. That might change — and quickly — Over the weekend tens of thousands of Americans once …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Meghan Keneally / ABC News:

Trump could release his taxes but probably won't, experts say — President Donald Trump like other Americans is supposed to file his taxes by Tuesday's deadline, but that doesn't mean the public will get to see his elusive returns. — Trump was the first presidential candidate …

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, ThinkProgress, CNBC and Associated Press

Louis Nelson / Politico:

Conway calls on Democratic party leaders to calm violent anti-Trump protesters — Kellyanne Conway on Monday chalked up a fresh wave of protests directed at President Donald Trump over the weekend, some of which turned violent, as attempts by stubborn liberals to relitigate last year's presidential election.

Discussion: Breitbart, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo and Washington Free Beacon