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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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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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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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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:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Pillars of Family-Driven West Wing — WASHINGTON — One has an office down the hall from the president in the White House; the other just moved into an office a floor up. One recently visited war-torn Iraq as the president's emissary; the other will soon head …
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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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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Michael Corkery / New York Times:
Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point? — Along the cobblestone streets of SoHo, Chanel handbags and Arc'teryx jackets are displayed in shops like museum pieces, harking back to the height of the neighborhood's trendiness. But rents there are softening, and the number of vacant storefronts is rising.
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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 …
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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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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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
A Letter From An Ivy League Admissions Dean — A young woman was accepted at Brown—and then the other note arrived. — Brown University in Providence, R.I. houses one of the country's most selective undergraduate colleges. The Brown Daily Herald, a student-run newspaper …
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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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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Roger Stone defends WikiLeaks, calls for CIA head to resign over attacks — Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone on Friday defended WikiLeaks calling for the CIA head to resign for attacking the anti-secrecy site's legitimacy. — In an interview with Newsmax Stone blasted CIA Director Mike Pompeo …
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Melania Trump seemed like a rebellious first lady. She's turning out to be a retro one. — Melania Trump's first act as first lady suggested she might play the rebel. — When she announced that she would not move to the White House right away — and instead remained in her New York penthouse …
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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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CNN:
‘Mother of all bombs’ killed 94 ISIS fighters, Afghan official says — Kabul (CNN)At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Saturday.
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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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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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