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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 …
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strength
Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strength
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Hullabaloo, Al Jazeera English, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story and Politico
James Pearson / Reuters:
North Korea displays submarine-based missiles for first time at military parade
North Korea displays submarine-based missiles for first time at military parade
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Vox Popoli
Ben Westcott / CNN:
North Korea puts on a show for Day of the Sun
North Korea puts on a show for Day of the Sun
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zerohedge.com/fullrss2 …, Business Insider and Sputnik International
Kathy Gilsinan / The Atlantic:
North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation
North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation
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Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
Reading Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts
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.
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 …
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 …
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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” …
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CANNONFIRE, Althouse, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House to Keep Its Visitor Logs Secret
White House to Keep Its Visitor Logs Secret
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Balloon Juice
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.
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Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Cohn's Goldman Sachs Shares Sold as He Touted Financial Overhaul — Unclear whether White House adviser knew about sale's timing — Bank's share price increased on news of regulatory review — On the same day that President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn …
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Political Wire
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.
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Marginal REVOLUTION
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
A Trump Tower Neighbor Is the Point Man for Europe's Populists
A Trump Tower Neighbor Is the Point Man for Europe's Populists
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No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Magazine and Business Insider
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.
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Trump demands gold-plated welcome — President insists on a carriage journey down The Mall to Buckingham Palace — Donald Trump waving from the Queen's royal carriage is not a scenario many would have foreseen a year ago, but it has become a very real prospect, forcing security services to plan an unprecedented lockdown.
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Joe.My.God.
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 …
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 …
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Political Wire and Raw Story
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 …
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Hot Air, Infowars and Daily Wire
YouTube:
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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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 …
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Longreads
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 …
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