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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
I'm In Hawaii And Just Got The Scariest Alert Of My Life. Here's What I Did Next. — What would you do if you thought you had 15 minutes to live? — Reporting From — HONOLULU — On Saturday morning, I was basking in my usual routine, waking up with my yawning dog, walking upstairs to receive a macchiato made by my husband.
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New York Times:
Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error — An early-morning emergency alert mistakenly warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack was dispatched to cellphones across Hawaii on Saturday, setting off widespread panic in a state that was already on emotional edge …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
White House scrambles after false missile warning in Hawaii — The erroneous alert triggered reminders inside the administration about long-delayed plans to prepare for a domestic missile attack. — A false warning of a missile threat in Hawaii sent White House aides scrambling Saturday …
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Associated Press:
Hawaii officials mistakenly warn of inbound missile
Hawaii officials mistakenly warn of inbound missile
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New York Times:
False Alarm Adds to Real Alarm About Trump's Nuclear Risk
False Alarm Adds to Real Alarm About Trump's Nuclear Risk
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Jon Letman / The Daily Beast:
Terror in Paradise: I Got the Hawaii Missile Message and Prepared to Die
Terror in Paradise: I Got the Hawaii Missile Message and Prepared to Die
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Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Missile threat alert for Hawaii a false alarm
Missile threat alert for Hawaii a false alarm
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
False ballistic missile alert spreads panic in Hawaii
False ballistic missile alert spreads panic in Hawaii
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Washington Post:
Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland … Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings.
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Eliza Dushku:
When I was 12 years old, while filming “True Lies”, I was sexually molested by Joel Kramer, one of Hollywood's leading stunt coordinators. — Ever since, I have struggled with how and when to disclose this, if ever. At the time, I shared what happened to me with my parents, two adult friends and one of my older brothers.
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New York Times:
Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them — For a fashion model, success is the ability to incite desire. The job requirements often include nudity and feigning seduction; provocation is a lever for sales. In the industry, boundaries between the acceptable …
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Aurora Snow / The Daily Beast:
Trump Accuser Jessica Drake Silenced … The Daily Beast was informed late Friday that porn star Jessica Drake is not allowed to discuss President Donald J. Trump on account of a non-disclosure agreement she signed barring her from any such talk. NDAs are often deployed as part of settlements to silence accusers.
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Rlitt / Lawfare:
The President is Wrong to Accuse the FBI of Treason — With all of the attention paid to President Donald Trump's confusing tweets about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and his profane description of African nations, another comment he made should not escape notice.
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
The ‘genius’ of Trump: What the president means when he touts his smarts — The genius in the White House has always believed that what makes him special is his ability to get things done without going through the steps others must take. — In school, he bragged that he'd do well without cracking a book.
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USCIS:
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: Response to January 2018 Preliminary Injunction — Update: Due to a federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA. Until further notice, and unless otherwise provided in this guidance …
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Politico, Washington Times and IJR
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Mark Wahlberg Donates $1.5M In Michelle Williams' Name To #TimesUp Legal Fund — BREAKING: Mark Wahlberg has announced that he will donate in Michelle Williams' name the $1.5 million in money he received for All The Money In The World reshoots. The donation is being made to #TimesUp …
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Sky News:
Trump supporters demand arrest of London Mayor Sadiq Khan — Supporters of US President Donald Trump have disrupted a speech by Sadiq Khan, calling for the London Mayor to be arrested. — Mr Khan was about to start speaking to the Fabian Society in London when he was disrupted by protesters …
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Noah Yoo / Pitchfork:
Moby Says CIA Agents Asked Him to Spread the Word About Trump and Russia — “They said, like, ‘Look, you have more of a social media following than any of us do, can you please post some of these things just in a way that... sort of put it out there.’” — Last February, following …
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Leigh Giangreco / CityLab:
The City That ‘This Town’ Forgot — On a bone-chilling January night last week, customers lined up inside Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle for the midnight release of Michael Wolff's account of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury. The occasion should have merited …
Erin Beck / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
WV DHHR: 4 of nearly 900 TANF applicants test positive for drugs — In the nearly three months since the state began drug testing low-income people applying for financial help from the state, four of the nearly 900 applicants tested positive, an official with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said.
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Obama rips Fox News viewers: ‘You are living on a different planet’ — Former President Barack Obama resurfaced on Friday and took a shot at Fox News viewers, saying they're “living on a different planet” than people who consume mainstream media. — Obama made the remarks on the premiere …
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Mark Davis / WCTX-TV:
Puerto Rican storm refugees in Connecticut facing eviction this weekend — Related Coverage — (WTNH) — Dozens of Puerto Rican hurricane refugees that came here to Connecticut are now in danger of being evicted from their hotels tomorrow. FEMA says their homes back on the island are …
Seamus Hughes / The Atlantic:
A New American Leader Rises in ISIS — The clues are out there, if you know where to look. Scattered across far-flung corners of the internet, there is evidence that Zulfi Hoxha, the son of an Albanian-American pizza-shop owner from New Jersey, had sinister plans.
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
‘This is super tight’: Companies struggle to find, retain workers in a hot economy — Ron Sandlin has tried everything. — He has boosted pay, added vacation days and even lowered the minimum age requirement from 25 to 23. But he still can't find enough qualified people to drive Patriot Transportation Holding's oil trucks.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Romney Who Is Unfailingly Loyal to Trump — NORTHVILLE, Mich. — She is the very profile of the voter President Trump tends to repel: a soft-spoken, college-educated mother of two who lives in an upscale suburb in one of the most contested battleground states.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Couldn't Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To. — Getty Images / John Paczkowski, BuzzFeed News — When news broke on Thursday evening of Facebook's dramatic overhaul of its News Feed, the worlds of media and publishing erupted. But inside Facebook, the reaction was markedly different — indifference.
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