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9:15 PM ET, April 9, 2017

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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
McFarland to Exit White House as McMaster Consolidates Power  —  Former Fox News commentator will become envoy to Singapore  —  Trump's second national security advisor making his mark  —  K. T. McFarland has been asked to step down as deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald …
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland ousted from role: report  —  Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland has been asked to step down in another shakeup within President Trump's administration, according to a new report.  —  McFarland will become the U.S. ambassador to Singapore …
Dan Merica / CNN:
K.T. McFarland to leave NSC for Singapore ambassadorship
Discussion: Daily Kos and IJR
USA Today:
K.T. McFarland to leave White House amid NSC shakeup
Discussion: Politico
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Trump's Shadow Is Looming Over This Special Election  —  SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia — Amy King, an accountant in this Atlanta suburb, said she's always been a Republican.  —  But when a Republican, Judson Hill — the first candidate to enter the first competitive congressional race …
Discussion: Reuters, IJR and CNN
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Georgia Vote Nears, G.O.P. Asks if Ideological Purity Matters Anymore  —  ATLANTA — When Michael Fitzgerald, a local Republican leader, took a break from packing up the signs after a candidate forum here last week, he appeared momentarily flummoxed about the state of his party under President Trump.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Obama's Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump's  —  The Trump administration's strike on one of Bashar al-Assad's air bases was similar in style and objectives to the strike plan that President Barack Obama prepared in 2013 — except that Obama's attacks were to be several times bigger than President Trump's.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:   Ryan and McConnell flip-flop on the use of force in Syria to deter chemical weapons
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Schiff says Russia is absolutely ‘complicit’ in Syrian chemical attack
Discussion: Politico
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Column An untraditional president's very traditional military strike
Discussion: Mother Jones
Joy Lin / ABC News:
Rubio says US can't defeat ISIS until Syria's Assad is removed
Discussion: Associated Press, Politico, The Hill and CNN
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Tillerson, Haley issue differing statements on future of Assad in Syria
Discussion: Daily Wire and Hot Air
David B. Larter / Navy Times:
Korea crisis deepens as the US dispatches the Carl Vinson strike group to the region  —  The head of all U.S. forces in the Pacific canceled a planned carrier exercises and port visits in Australia and redirected the Carl Vinson carrier strike group to the waters off the Korean Peninsula …
Discussion: RedState
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Idrees Ali / Reuters:
U.S. Navy strike group to move toward Korean peninsula: U.S. official
Jay Rayner / The Guardian:
Le Cinq, Four Seasons Hôtel George V, 31 avenue George V, 75008 Paris (00 331 49 52 71 54).  Meal for two, including service and modest wine: €600 (£520)  —  There is only one thing worse than being served a terrible meal: being served a terrible meal by earnest waiters …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Jeremy Scahill Slams Fareed Zakaria on CNN: If He Could Have Sex With That Missile Strike, He Would  —  On CNN's Reliable Sources this morning, The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill went off on the “atrocious” media coverage of the Syria missile strikes, even calling out CNN's Fareed Zakaria in particular.
Discussion: Common Dreams and IJR
CNN:
Blasts at Christian churches in Egypt kill dozens on Palm Sunday  —  (CNN)Bombs targeted two Coptic churches in Egypt as the Christian faithful observed Palm Sunday, one of the most important days on the religion's calendar.  —  A powerful blast rippled through a Palm Sunday service …
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Rafael Romo / CNN:
Violent clashes in Venezuela as thousands protest socialist government  —  Supporters of opposition leader fight police  —  (CNN)Thousands of protesters clashed Saturday for a fifth consecutive day with security forces in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.  —  Officers in riot gear blocked …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
Nearly $1 billion in side deals by Gov. Brown and Democratic leaders cemented the legislative vote to raise the gas tax  —  Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount), left, Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) were the forces pushing for a new transportation funding bill.
The Hill:
Dems winning fight over wall  —  Democrats are winning the war over the wall.  —  Despite President Trump's request for more than $1 billion to fund the Mexican border wall this year, GOP leaders are expected to exclude the money in the spending bill being prepared to keep the government open beyond April 28.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Despite Trump campaign promise, Tillerson had ‘no conversation’ with Mexico paying for border wall
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
New York Daily News:
Man-spreading dispute over seats on J train leads to hammer attack and large brawl  —  An argument over man-spreading on a Lower East Side subway train ended in an all-out brawl with one man attacking another with a hammer, officials said Saturday.  —  The 30-year-old hammer victim …
Elana Schor / Politico:
Why Democrats have no regrets after McConnell's ‘nuclear’ blast  —  Democrats heard the argument throughout the Senate's bitter debate over Neil Gorsuch: Don't filibuster this Supreme Court nominee — save your leverage for President Donald Trump's next pick, the one who could change the court's balance of power for a generation.
Nature:
Why people prefer unequal societies  —  Abstract  —  There is immense concern about economic inequality, both among the scholarly community and in the general public, and many insist that equality is an important social goal.  However, when people are asked about the ideal distribution …
US Food and Drug Administration:
Precautionary Recall of a Limited Quantity of Organic Marketside Spring Mix Salad is Announced by Fresh Express … For Immediate Release  —  Orlando, Fla., — Fresh Express is announcing a precautionary recall of a limited number of cases of Organic Marketside Spring Mix.  —  The item subject to the recall is 5 oz.
Breitbart:
‘Far-Left Militia’ Attacks Le Pen Rally in Corsica  —  Skirmishes broke out on Saturday ahead of a campaign rally by French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, prompting the removal of more than a dozen protesters and the evacuation of the hall in Ajaccio, Corsica.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
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Janet Jackson splits with billionaire husband
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Betsy DeVos' brother, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, sparks headlines
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