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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 …
Brad Lendon / CNN:
North Korea surprises with display of new missiles — (CNN)North Korea put its adversaries on notice Saturday, when it showed off a bevy of new missiles and launchers at its annual military parade. — Pyongyang showed off two new intercontinental ballistic missile-sized canisters …
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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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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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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.
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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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly left Fox News in part due to O'Reilly: report — Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's departure from the network was partially inspired by the behavior of colleague Bill O'Reilly, according to a new report. — Kelly was frustrated by O'Reilly's criticism of her for publicly …
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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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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Gives Generals More Freedom on ISIS Fight — Pentagon brass take lead on decisions that were made by White House under Obama; ‘I authorize my military,’ Trump says — U.S. military commanders are stepping up their fight against Islamist extremism as President Donald Trump's administration urges …
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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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Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
Reading Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts
Reading Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
The Latest Dump of Alleged NSA Tools Is ‘The Worst Thing Since Snowden’ — Thanks to the Shadow Brokers, any hacker can now easily attack and pwn millions of Windows computers on the internet. … On Friday, the group known as The Shadow Brokers dropped the hacking equivalent of a bomb …
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right — After work one day in January 2007, Scott McConnell left his office at the magazine The American Conservative in Arlington, Virginia, and walked to a nearby Thai restaurant that was hosting a panel discussion about the Duke lacrosse scandal.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Tillerson's stock rises in the White House — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson looked like he had been cast into social Siberia. — The former ExxonMobil CEO was enjoying a martini with his wife at the BLT Prime steakhouse inside the Trump International Hotel on Feb. 25 …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Chatting With Fish About Water — When is something that looks like “reflexive partisanship” actually a reflection of the viewer? Ah, well. Here is James Hohmann of the WaPo, April 11: — The Daily 202: Reflexive partisanship drives polling lurch on Syria strikes
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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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