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11:20 AM ET, April 17, 2017

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CNN:
On North Korean border, Pence tells CNN US will drop ‘failed policy’  —  Panmunjom, South Korea (CNN)With North Korean soldiers standing less than 100 feet behind him at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, Vice President Mike Pence told CNN that Pyongyang should understand that the Trump …
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New York Times:
A ‘Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion’ in North Korea  —  WASHINGTON — All the elements of the North Korean nuclear crisis — the relentless drive by Kim Jong-un to assemble an arsenal, the propaganda and deception swirling around his progress, the hints of a covert war by the United States …
Claudia Rosett / The Hill:
Trump juggles the foreign policy balls Obama dropped  —  The Trump administration is taking heat for striking a Syrian air base with Tomahawk missiles and hitting ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan with a MOAB, a conventional bomb so big that it has been dubbed the “Mother of All Bombs.”
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Pence tells North Korea not to test American resolve, offering Syria and Afghanistan strikes as examples
New York Times:
President Trump's Loose Talk on North Korea
Discussion: Washington Post
mystatesman:
In Travis County custody case, jury will search for real Alex Jones  —  Highlights  —  Alex Jones and his ex-wife, Kelly, will be locked in a child custody trial the next two weeks in Austin.  —  Alex Jones' lawyers will make the case that their client should not be judged by his on-air persona.
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Facebook issues statement after murder suspect shares video of shooting in Cleveland [Updated]  —  Facebook has issued a statement after a video showing a fatal shooting was uploaded onto the social media network by the alleged murderer.  Cleveland Police say that Steve Stephens broadcast …
Discussion: Mashable, The Daily Caller and 1A
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Clevelandpolice / Cleveland Division of Police:
Homicide Suspect - Armed and Dangerous Steve Stephens
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 …
patribotics:
Carter Page Went to Moscow With a Tape of Donald Trump Offering Treason For Hacking  —  Sources with links to the intelligence community say it is believed that Carter Page went to Moscow in early July carrying with him a pre-recorded tape of Donald Trump offering to change American policy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Trump Voters in a Swing District Wonder When the ‘Winning’ Will Start  —  BENSALEM, Pa. — One after another, the gamblers totter along the twisting walkway, bathed in artificial purple light — burdened, at least occasionally, by the instinct that they should have known better.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tegna / KHOU-TV:
Bride and groom booted off United flight in Houston  —  A bride and groom headed to Costa Rica for their wedding got kicked off their United flight out of Houston on Saturday afternoon. … A bride and groom headed to Costa Rica for their wedding got kicked off their United flight out of Houston on Saturday afternoon.
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 …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump's Beyoncé-free Easter Egg Roll
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
A picture perfect moment!  Barack and Michelle Obama pose on billionaire David Geffen's superyacht during day out with Oprah, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks in French Polynesia  — Since leaving the White House, they have also visited Palm Springs, Hawaii and toured the Caribbean
Washington Times:
Haitians get word of Trump crackdown, slow flow to border by 97%  —  Sometime around November, word began to trickle back down the spine of Latin America: The U.S. was getting stricter about letting in Haitians at the border.  —  Not only had the Obama administration begun deporting Haitians …
Steven A. Cook / Foreign Policy:
RIP Turkey, 1921 - 2017  —  Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn't just win his constitutional referendum — he permanently closed a chapter of his country's modern history.  —  On Jan. 20, 1921, the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the Tekilât- Esasîye Kanunu, or the Law on Fundamental Organization.
Discussion: The Guardian
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Benjamin Harvey / Bloomberg:   Erdogan Follows Slim Referendum Win by Warning Opponents
Thomas Wood / Washington Post:
Racism motivated Trump voters more than authoritarianism or income inequality  —  During the 2016 presidential campaign, many observers wondered exactly what motivated voters most: Was it income?  Authoritarianism?  Racial attitudes?  —  Let the analyses begin.
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘Machiavelli Would Approve’  —  He's been called “the leading conservative intellectual to make the case for Donald Trump,” his work dubbed “the intellectual source code for Trumpism,” and many other names besides.  —  During the 2016 campaign, Michael Anton was an anonymous pamphleteer making …
Rasmussen Reports:
in Politics  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump's job performance.  Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.  —  This is the first time the president's overall approval rating has been back in the 50s in nearly a month.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump learning to love Bush aides  —  Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly declared that “the last thing we need is another Bush,” as he vowed to take on two political dynasties — the Bushes and the Clintons.  —  But as president, Trump has been increasingly dipping …
Discussion: Washington Post
Natasha Lennard / Esquire:
The Violent Clashes In Berkeley Weren't ‘Pro-Trump’ Versus ‘Anti-Trump’  —  The media's oversimplification of what happened during Saturday's rally risks obscuring a long-brewing and fast-escalating conflict between the far left and the far right.  —  According to reports in mainstream news outlets …
Amanda Prestigiacomo / Daily Wire:
California College Snowflakes: The American Flag Is Triggering, Take It Down!  —  College students at the University of California, Davis believe the American flag is triggering, recently voting to remove a compulsory bylaw which mandates the flag be present at UCD Senate meetings.
 
 
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
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Trump's millennial problem: The snowflakes are becoming a blizzard
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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
1st woman to officially run Boston Marathon to do it again, 50 years later
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Trump Won't Be Punked By Foreign Dirtbags Like Obama Was
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29 people shot in less than 18 hours in Chicago
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The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton's Campaign Turns Over Email List To DNC
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