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5:05 PM ET, April 10, 2017

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Lucas Aulbach / Courier-Journal:
Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville  —  A video posted on Facebook late Sunday evening shows a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff at O'Hare International Airport.
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Brian Doherty / Hit & Run:
Why Should Police Help United Airlines Cheat Its Customers?  —  The world is rightly abuzz over an awful incident yesterday in which a man was beaten and dragged off a plane by police at Chicago's O'Hare airport for the crime of wanting to use the seat he's paid for on a United Airline flight getting ready to leave for Louisville.
Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight  —  Several videos have been posted online of a man being dragged off a United Airlines plane after the flight was overbooked.  —  Facebook: video.php  —  Videos posted to Twitter and Facebook show a man being pulled …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daring Fireball
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A man wouldn't leave an overbooked United flight.  So he was dragged off, battered and limp.  —  United Airlines says a man wouldn't give up his spot on an overbooked flight Sunday.  —  So, according to witnesses and videos of the incident, he was pulled screaming from his seat by security …
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
United Passenger Dragged From Overbooked Flight  —  A man on an overbooked United Airlines flight was forcibly removed from his seat and dragged through the aisle on Sunday, and video of the anguished protests by him and other passengers spread rapidly on Monday as people criticized the airline's tactics.
Audra D. Bridges:
Please share this video.  We are on this flight.  United airlines overbooked the flight.  They randomly selected people to kick off so their standby crew could have a seat.  This man is a doctor and has to be at the hospital in the morning.  He did not want to get off.  We are all shaky and so disgusted. #unitedairways
Discussion: The Guardian
Jeff Goldman / New Jersey Online:
WATCH: Man forcibly removed from overbooked United flight
John Archibald / al.com:
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley expected to resign this week  —  It Is becoming clear that Robert Bentley will not last the week as governor.  —  Sources in Montgomery say his lawyers have been involved in negotiations to step down from the governorship and plead to lesser charges, allowing Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey to step up as governor.
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Claire Aiello / WHNT-TV:
Multiple Sources: Gov. Robert Bentley to resign this afternoon  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Multiple sources have confirmed to WHNT News 19 that Governor Robert Bentley will resign today, the same day a House committee began impeachment hearings.  —  Earlier today, we reported Bentley's office …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:   5 Of The Wildest Details In Report On Alabama Guv's Efforts To Hide Affair
Eric Velasco / Politico:   How Alabama's ‘Luv Guv’ Broke New Ground in a Scandal-Plagued State
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Breitbart editors tell staffers to stop writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, sources say  —  Employees at Breitbart News have been asked by senior editors to refrain from writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.
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Bethany Mandel / The Federalist:
Who Needs Alt-Right Conspiracy Theories About Jews When You Have Politico?
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears  —  President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term.  But inside his pressure cooker of a White House, aides and advisers are sweating the next three weeks.  —  The symbolic 100-day mark by which modern presidents …
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Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
San Bernardino School Shooting: 2 Adults Dead in Classroom, 2 Students in Critical Condition After Suspected Murder-Suicide  —  Two adults were found dead in a classroom and two students are hospitalized in critical condition after a shooter walked on to the North Park Elementary School campus …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Susan Rice's claim that Obama got Syria to ‘verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile’  —  “We were able to find a solution that didn't necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Spicer: Trump's foreign policy is still ‘America first’
Discussion: ABC News
NASDAQ.com:
Midday Update: Stocks Return Gains on Reports of Chinese Troop Deployments on N. Korea Border  —  The benchmark averages have surrendered earlier gains on news that China has deployed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border, and the U.S. is considering further sanctions against Russia.
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:   South Korean Paper Reports China Has Deployed 150,000 Troops To North Korea Border
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘People Just Flat-Out Lie’  —  President Donald Trump called her “Hillary Clinton's P.R. person” when she got a scoop he didn't like last week.  —  Controversial Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called her “unruly” when she shouted questions at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice  —  Neil Gorsuch on Monday became the 101st associate justice of the Supreme Court and President Trump's first high court appointee.  —  Justice Anthony Kennedy administered the judicial oath to Gorsuch in the sun-soaked White House Rose Garden shortly …
Discussion: Politico
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John Sides / Washington Post:
Neil Gorsuch's confirmation shattered political conventions. Here is why.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Richard L. Hasen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed In the future, John Roberts could be the Supreme Court's swing vote
Discussion: Politico
Ben Westcott / CNN:
Trump administration sends mixed signals on Syria ahead of G7 meeting  —  (CNN)Foreign ministers of leading US allies were meeting Monday amid mixed signals from the Trump administration on the future of Syrian President President Bashar al-Assad.  —  At a summit in Italy …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Publicity Stunts Aren't Policy  —  Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal?  Back in December President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufacturer to keep 1,100 jobs in America rather than moving them to Mexico.
Jeremy Harris / KUTV-TV:
Orrin Hatch says he plans to run for another term  —  Orrin Hatch says he will run for another term (Photo: Mike Stephen / KUTV)  —  (KUTV) Utah's senior Senator told 2News reporter Rod Decker that he plans to seek re-election in 2018.  —  Hatch, 83, told 2News reporter Rod Decker that unless his health …
The Guardian:
Trump aide drew plan on napkin to partition Libya into three  —  Exclusive: Sebastian Gorka told proposal would be ‘the worst solution’ when he suggested it to senior European diplomat … A senior White House foreign policy official has pushed a plan to partition Libya …
CBS News:
What Americans think about U.S. strike on Syria  —  Fifty-seven percent of Americans approve of the airstrike against Syrian military targets - calling immoral the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons that led to the strike - but most are leery of any military involvement beyond airstrikes, a CBS News poll shows.
Ekin Karasin / Daily Mail:
Now that's a VERY deep end: Glass bottomed swimming pool on 42nd floor jets out into thin air so brave swimmers can see busy street 500 feet below  — Dubbed the Sky Pool, the infinity pool is on 42nd floor and extends 10 feet over side of Market Square Tower
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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