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9:20 AM ET, April 15, 2017

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Kathy Gilsinan / The Atlantic:
North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation  —  Not long after the United States Navy dispatched a carrier strike group in the direction of the Korean peninsula following a North Korean missile test last week, Pyongyang vowed to counter “the reckless act of aggression” and hinted at “catastrophic consequences.”
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Ben Westcott / CNN:
North Korea puts on a show for Day of the Sun  —  (CNN)A military parade in the heart of Pyongyang is underway where it's expected the North Korean regime will show off some of its latest arsenal.  —  Pictures on state television showed thousands of soldiers marching in formation alongside tanks, balloons and enormous crowds.
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Shows Off Long-Range Missiles in Military Parade  —  SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's latest military hardware, including what analysts said appeared to be three kinds of intercontinental ballistic missile, rolled through central Pyongyang on Saturday, as the country showed off …
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strength
James Pearson / Reuters:
North Korea displays submarine-based missiles for first time at military parade
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Associated Press:
THE LATEST: RUSSIAN LAWMAKER: US BIGGER THREAT THAN N. KOREA
Discussion: Washington Post
Reuters:   North Korea displays apparently new missiles as U.S. carrier group approaches
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:   Reading Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts
Jun Mai / South China Morning Post:
Air China clarifies ticket sales to blame for temporary flight cuts to Pyongyang; no suspension of services
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW STATEMENT ON WHITE HOUSE REFUSAL TO RELEASE VISITOR LOGS  —  Washington, D.C.—In response to the White House's decision to break six years of tradition and refuse to release White House visitor logs, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Executive Director Noah Bookbinder released the following statement:
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House says it won't make visitor logs public
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Alt-Right Ringleader Mike Cernovich Threatens to Drop ‘Motherlode’ If Steve Bannon Is Ousted  —  A week after President Donald Trump began to publicly distance himself from White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, alt-right ringleader Mike Cernovich threatened to release a “motherlode” …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:   Does Steve Bannon Have Something to Offer?
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump's reelection campaign raised $13.2 million in first quarter  —  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is off to a quick start, pulling in $13.2 million through a trio of committees in the first three months of the year, while paying an unusually large staff of about 20 employees …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World  —  The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Fear of Trump Makes Migrants Disappear From Mexican Border  —  NOGALES, Mexico—In the 35 years Gilda and Juan Francisco Loureiro have been running a shelter in northern Mexico for undocumented immigrants, they've never seen a week like this one.  —  The shelter, called Albergue San Juan Bosco …
Discussion: Infowars, Daily Wire and Hot Air
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump claims he can't be sued for inciting rally violence  —  Donald Trump's lawyers in a Friday afternoon federal court filing argued that he cannot be sued for inciting his supporters to hurt protesters because, as the president, he is immune from civil lawsuits.
USA Today:
Trump's taxes must be released before tax reform: Painter and Eisen  —  It'll turn into ‘the art of the steal’ unless we know what taxes he pays and what breaks he uses.  —  CONNECT  —  Many of us will fork over up to a third of our income to pay federal taxes this year and as much as half …
Discussion: Longreads
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
A Trump Tower Neighbor Is the Point Man for Europe's Populists  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — George Guido Lombardi spotted President Trump's young son Barron alone on a couch playing a video game in the gaping and gilded living room of Mar-a-Lago, his father's private oceanfront club in Palm Beach.
Annie Waldman / ProPublica:
DeVos Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for Being White  —  The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white.  —  As an undergraduate studying calculus …
New York Times:
O'Reilly's Behavior Said to Have Helped Drive Megyn Kelly Out at Fox  —  Last fall, in the weeks after 21st Century Fox struck settlements with two women who said that Bill O'Reilly had sexually harassed them, the Fox News host went on morning television and offered a harsh assessment of women …
Carl Prine / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Decorated Navy SEAL moonlighting as a porn star  —  Joseph John Schmidt III during one of his many community outreach events for the Navy SEALs.  (photo courtesy of U.S. Navy)  —  Navy Chief Special Warfare Officer Joseph John Schmidt III has been living dual lives.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Eric Adler / Kansas City Star:
Catholic college in Kansas wipes ‘yoga’ from names of classes — it's a Hindu thing  —  Yoga is designed to help bring peace and wellness to body and mind.  —  But at Benedictine College — a small and strongly Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kan. — yoga classes per se will soon be yo-gone …
Discussion: Instapundit
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
NASA ‘sting’ operation against 74-year-old widow of Apollo engineer draws court rebuke  —  Agents of the U.S. government are entitled to immunity from lawsuits for what they do in the line of duty, as long as they do it right, in accord with the Constitution.
Discussion: WHNT-TV and CBS San Francisco
 
 
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Michael Wear / Washington Post:
Remember when the White House had faith?
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
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Trump and The Problem of Militant Ignorance
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Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
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Discussion: TheBlaze
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New York Times Promises Truth and Diversity, Then Hires Climate-Denying Anti-Arab White Guy
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
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