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North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say … North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.
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North Korea seriously considering strike on Guam: Reports, citing state media — North Korea is considering a plan to fire missiles at Guam, state media said. — A spokesman for North Korea's military told KCNA that it would carry out a pre-emptive operation if there were signs of U.S. provocation.
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US spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat — Despite the United States' insistence that North Korea halt its missile tests, U.S. spy agencies detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country's east coast just days ago.
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North Korea says seriously considering plan to strike Guam: KCNA — SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it is “carefully examining” plans for a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump told the North that any threat …


Trump Threatens ‘Fire and Fury’ Against North Korea if It Endangers U.S. — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump threatened on Tuesday to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it endangers the United States as tensions with the isolated nuclear-armed state grow into perhaps …
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Trump threatens North Korea after US assesses they have miniaturized a nuclear warhead — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary ultimatum to North Korea on Tuesday warning Pyongyang not to make any more threats against the United States or they will …
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Exclusive: U.S. envoys told to be coy on re-engaging in Paris climate deal - cable — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. diplomats should sidestep questions from foreign governments on what it would take for the Trump administration to re-engage in the global Paris climate agreement, according to a diplomatic cable seen by Reuters.
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Trump warns North Korea will be “met with fire and fury”
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Haley decries leaks after Trump tweets Fox story
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Trump's ‘fire and fury’ threat to North Korea sparks new fears of war
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Trump vows North Korea will be met with ‘fire and fury’ if threats continue
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It's known as the “propaganda document” — Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus …
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President Trump has exchanged private messages with Russia special counsel Robert Mueller — WASHINGTON - President Trump has publicly called the widening federal investigation into Russia's election meddling a “witch hunt.” But through his lawyer, Trump has sent private messages of “appreciation” to special counsel Robert Mueller.


McConnell criticizes Trump's ‘excessive expectations’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered some of his toughest criticism yet for President Donald Trump in a speech Monday to a Rotary Group in northern Kentucky. — McConnell, who has been relatively measured …
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McConnell goes after Trump's ‘excessive expectations’
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Google Fires Engineer For Noticing Men And Women Are Different — Female engineers are apparently so analytical and un-neurotic that they demanded—and received—the head of the poor sap who dared to question the gender diversity drumbeat at Google. — James Damore, the Google engineer behind …
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Google Fires Employee Who Wrote Memo Criticizing Diversity Initiatives


Trump Approval Hits New Low Of 32% As Support From His Base Slips — IBD/TIPP Poll — President Trump's approval rating dropped 5 percentage points in August to a new low of 32%, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll.
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Poll: Trump's approval rating sinks to new low
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Trump White House weighs unprecedented plan to privatize much of the war in Afghanistan — The White House is actively considering a bold plan to turn over a big chunk of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to private contractors in an effort to turn the tide in a stalemated war …
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Glen Campbell, ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ Singer Who Fused Country and Pop, Dead at 81 — Singer-guitarist and TV host who achieved crossover success succumbs to Alzheimer's disease — Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits including “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” died Tuesday.


David Letterman Returning to TV With Netflix Talk Show — The six-episode untitled series will feature in-depth interviews as well as topics outside of the studio. — Two years after signing off CBS' The Late Show, David Letterman is returning to the small screen.
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The Left's Misguided Debate Over Kamala Harris — My article about a bank's law-breaking during the housing crisis became a political football, obscuring the real issue at hand. — Back in January, after Donald Trump had nominated Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary …
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Exclusive First Interview — New RNC Spokeswoman: Whole GOP Needs to Get Behind Trump and Listen to American People — Kayleigh McEnany, formerly of CNN and now the Republican National Committee's new spokeswoman, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday's Breitbart News Daily to stress …

I Found Trump Fan Nicole Mincey and She's Not a Twitter Bot … Even though she's been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey. The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend. The one everyone thinks is a bot.
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Exclusive — Deep State Teams with Fake News: Email Evidence Proves New York Times Soliciting Anti-Trump Bureaucracy Leakers — Emails from a reporter for the New York Times to government employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the newspaper's employees …
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Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart … Higher Income Lower Income … Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using post-tax income. … Many Americans can't remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away.
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What If Mike Pence Becomes President? — Mike Pence—who's quietly launched his own PAC and already begun glad-handing big dollar donors—is shocked (shocked!) by the rumors that he might be laying the groundwork for his own presidency. Fake news, he calls it.
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Trump Administration on the Right to Vote: Use It or Lose It — The Trump administration redoubled its support on Monday for efforts to remove people from voter registration rolls, siding with the state of Ohio in a case that could allow states to cancel registrations for voters who fail …


The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d! — Bill Burr's 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error — The man who wrote the book on password management has a confession to make: He blew it.
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President Trump promised “a major briefing” on the opioid crisis. It was a huge nothingburger. — Trump likes to talk about the opioid epidemic. He should try doing something about it. — The anticipation was high. President Donald Trump promised “a major briefing on the Opioid crisis.”
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In decisive Rust Belt, Trump's approval is starting to look like Romney's — (CNN)Even as the White House this week firmly insists President Donald Trump is determined to seek a second term, a new analysis of polling data shows that he's caught in a three-way political squeeze in the states …
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The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald Versus H.R. McMaster — Donald Trump has scrambled the political spectrum in certain ways, and one of them has been to introduce a new set of players onto the national scene. “Nationalists” or “populists” (as they now call themselves), or the “alt-right” …
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Class Actions Could Fight Discrimination in Tech — The recent leak of a Google engineer's screed against the company's diversity initiatives is a reminder that the notion of Silicon Valley as the seat of human progress is a myth — at least when it comes to the way the women behind the latest in technology are treated.
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