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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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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.
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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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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 …


Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strength
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North Korea displays submarine-based missiles for first time at military parade
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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.
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A Trump Tower Neighbor Is the Point Man for Europe's Populists
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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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Trump's reelection stockpile grows as small donors keep giving
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White House says it won't make visitor logs public
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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.


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” …
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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 …
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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 …

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.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Teaser — Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Arriving in your galaxy December 15. Visit Star Wars at http://www.starwars.com Subscribe to Star Wars on YouTube at http://www.you...
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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