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10:20 AM ET, April 15, 2017

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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Parades New Long-Range ‘Frankenmissile’  —  Pyongyang displays military hardware, including apparently new intercontinental ballistic missile  —  SEOUL—North Korea showed off what appeared to be at least one new long-range missile at a military parade Saturday …
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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
Kathy Gilsinan / The Atlantic:
North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation
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
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
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Marine Le Pen wants to kill the European Union.  But it actually helps pay her bills.  —  BRUSSELS — Those who fear for the future of the European Union are confronting a painful paradox: Many of the strongest bids to tear apart the E.U. are being underwritten by E.U. cash.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
A Trump Tower Neighbor Is the Point Man for Europe's Populists
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Even Canadians are skipping trips to America after Trump travel ban  —  The cancellations came quickly and in rapid succession.  Within days of President Trump's first executive order restricting travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, a number of European travel groups pulled their plans …
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War  —  West Wing sources come clean about the backstabbing, the bullying, the distrust, and the buzzing flies.  —  I. BUZZING FLIES  —  The West Wing of the White House is a cramped collection of tiny offices, some of them windowless, linked by narrow hallways.
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: CANNONFIRE, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:   Does Steve Bannon Have Something to Offer?
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 …
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
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.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Google searches spike for ‘World War 3’ amid heightened tensions abroad  —  As tensions rise abroad, Google searches for “World War 3” are at an all-time high.  —  New data provided by Google shows a surge in searches for “World War 3” this month, breaking a record for the most searches …
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, Hot Air and Daily Wire
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:
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
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Arkansas judge prohibits state from using lethal injection drug, blocking scheduled executions  —  An Arkansas circuit judge on Friday evening issued an order temporarily blocking the state from using one of its lethal injection drugs until further notice, throwing into question a series of executions scheduled to begin next week.
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 …
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
 
 
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Michael Wear / Washington Post:
Remember when the White House had faith?
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
NASA ‘sting’ operation against 74-year-old widow of Apollo engineer draws court rebuke
Discussion: WHNT-TV and CBS San Francisco
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump visits Mar-a-Lago resort for 23rd day as president
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump and The Problem of Militant Ignorance
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Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
Maine Democrats Laugh About Rising Suicide Rates Among White Males [VIDEO]
Discussion: TheBlaze
Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:
New York Times Promises Truth and Diversity, Then Hires Climate-Denying Anti-Arab White Guy
Discussion: Grist, IJR and Daily Wire
Carl Prine / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Decorated Navy SEAL moonlighting as a porn star
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Facebook Discovers ‘Major Spam Operation,’ USA Today Likes Plummet
Media Matters for America:
Trump Ally Alex Jones: “The Word Is” President Obama's Daughters “Aren't Even His Kids”
 

 
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
The US Senate passes the TikTok divestment bill by a margin of 79-18; the legislation now heads to President Biden, who has committed to sign it into law

Chris Morris / Fortune:
Taylor Swift's new album smashed streaming records; Spotify says it had 300M+ streams on launch day and became 2024's most-streamed album within just 12 hours

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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