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  Sep 3, 2017

  Trump Condemns 'Appeasement' of North Korea After Hydrogen Bomb Test

  U.S. President Donald Trump admonished South Korea, a key ally, for what he termed a policy of "appeasement" after North Korea claimed to have tested an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile on Sunday.

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  Sep 3, 2017

  North Korea 6.3 Earthquake Caused by Hydrogen Bomb Test

  A shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook North Korea on Sunday, suggesting it had detonated its sixth and most powerful nuclear test device, hours after Pyongyang said it had developed an advanced hydrogen bomb that possesses "great destructive power."

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  Sep 1, 2017

  Ethan Hawke on Religion, Praying God Wouldn't Call Him to Be a Priest

  Ethan Hawke\'s great-grandmother had wanted him to become a priest, but the American actor prayed that he would never get the calling, he said at the Venice film festival on Thursday.

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  Sep 1, 2017

  In Harvey Aftermath, Houston Begins Slow Recovery

  As water levels receded and search teams began checking abandoned homes for victims, Houston began a grim cleanup on Thursday and businesses began to reopen for the first time since Hurricane Harvey hit last weekend.

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  Aug 30, 2017

  Harvey Death Toll Rises to 17 as Storm Makes Landfall Again

  Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall again on Wednesday near the Texas-Louisiana border. The storm that first came ashore on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years has killed at least 17 people.

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  Aug 27, 2017

  Harvey Claims Second Fatality as Floodwaters Rise in Worst Storm to Hit Texas in 50 Years

  Emergency crews raced to pull people from cars and homes as flood waters rose across southeast Texas on Sunday, rescuing more than 1,000 people in the Houston area as Tropical Storm Harvey pounded the region.

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  Aug 25, 2017

  President Trump Signs Memo Directing Pentagon to Implement Transgender Ban

  U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Friday that directs the U.S. military not to accept transgender men and women as recruits and halts the use of government funds for sex-reassignment surgeries for active personnel unless the process is already underway.

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  Aug 25, 2017

  Sen. Bob Menendez's Corruption Trial Must Not Be Delayed, Federal Prosecutors Say

  Federal prosecutors on Friday opposed a last-ditch effort by New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez to allow periodic delays in his federal corruption trial in Newark, New Jersey, next month so that he can travel to Washington to cast critical Senate votes.

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  Aug 22, 2017

  Trump Reverses on Afghanistan, Commits to Open-Ended War: We Will Win

  President Donald Trump committed U.S. troops to an open-ended war in Afghanistan, a decision the Afghan government welcomed on Tuesday but which Taliban insurgents warned would make the country a "graveyard for the American empire."

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  Aug 20, 2017

  Jerry Lewis, Comedy Legend and MDA Charity Fundraiser, Dies at 91

  Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in movies as well as a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon, died on Sunday of "natural causes" at the age of 91, his family said.