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North Korea’s released photos point to its progress on ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons

This photo provided on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, rear, visits a hall displayed what appeared to be various types of warheads designed to be mounted on missiles or rocket launchers on March 27, 2023, in undisclosed location, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

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North Korea released photos of what appear to be its first, lower-yield “tactical” nuclear warheads for the first time on Tuesday, sparking concern in Washington and Seoul about Pyongyang’s widening weapons arsenal and the rising likelihood they may be used in a future conflict on the divided peninsula.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pauses for questions in the House Rules Committee as he advances a GOP effort to disapprove of action by the District of Columbia Council on a local voting rights act and a criminal code revision, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House investigators follow trail of Treasury red flags on Biden clan’s lucrative foreign deals

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Robin Wolfeden prays in front of a makeshift memorial at the entrance to The Covenant School Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Three children and three school staff members were killed by a former student in Monday's mass shooting. (Mark Zaleski /The Tennessean via AP)

Shooter’s motive unclear as politicians, public promote competing focuses in tragedy’s aftermath

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on threats to the homeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans urge DHS Chief Mayorkas to resign in acrimonious hearing

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U.S. supplants Russia as Europe’s biggest crude oil supplier in major blow to Moscow

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., talks to reporters on Feb. 6, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. It seems like no one wants to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits, including McCarthy, who has declared cuts to the programs off the table in negotiations to raise the federal debt limit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

House GOP eyes competing lists of spending cuts for debt limit showdown

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A U.S. Marshal patrols outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in Chevy Chase, Md., June 8, 2022. The House has given final approval to legislation to allow around-the-clock security protection for families of Supreme Court justices. The vote on Tuesday came one week after a man carrying a gun, knife and zip ties was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house after threatening to kill the justice. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

U.S. Marshals told not to arrest protesters outside justices’ homes, documents reveal

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Dr. Amos C. Brown Jr., vice chair for the California Reparations Task Force, right, holds a copy of the book "Songs of Slavery and Emancipation," as he and other members of the task force pose for photos at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on June 16, 2022. Economists for a California reparations task force estimate the state owes Black residents at least $800 billion for harms in policing, housing and health. The preliminary estimate will be discussed at the Wednesday, March 29, 2023, meeting of the state reparations task force. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion

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Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks as she gives the state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Press secretary for Arizona’s Democratic governor tweets gun-toting image ripping ‘transphobes’

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An an entry to Covenant School has become a memorial for shooting victims, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Media outlets backpedal after being accused of ‘misgendering’ school shooter

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Fox News commentator Sean Hannity speaks during an interview at Fox News Studios, March 16, 2023, in New York. Tucker Carlson, Hannity and Bret Baier are among the stars that both Fox News and the voting machine company suing it for defamation have signaled could testify if the explosive case heads to trial next month.(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity among potential witnesses at Fox News trial

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House GOP eyes gas stove protections as sprawling energy bill nears passage

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition Nov. 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. Christie, who is mulling another presidential run, said on March 27, 2023, while speaking in New Hampshire, Republicans need a candidate who can execute a quick takedown of former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Chris Christie: I can’t support Trump if he’s the 2024 nominee

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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pauses for questions in the House Rules Committee as he advances a GOP effort to disapprove of action by the District of Columbia Council on a local voting rights act and a criminal code revision, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House investigators follow trail of Treasury red flags on Biden clan’s lucrative foreign deals

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In this Tuesday, June 4, 2019, file photo, Barry Black, a retired rear admiral and chaplain of the U.S. Senate, delivers the homily during the funeral services of the late Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, at Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss. Black regularly opens the chamber’s proceedings with prayer. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Senate Chaplain Barry Black delivers rare rebuke after Nashville shooting

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Pastor Rick Mannon sits for a photo among the pews at Calvary Assembly of God before a Bible study in Wilson, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

More Americans stopped in-person worship than increased attendance during pandemic, Pew says

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The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 10, 2023. The Supreme Court won’t hear a civil rights case brought by the parents of a teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was fatally shot by an Oklahoma police officer in 2019. The high court on Monday, March 27, rejected without comment the lawsuit bought by Isaiah Lewis' parents. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 10, 2023. The Supreme Court won’t hear a civil rights case brought by the parents of a teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was fatally shot by an Oklahoma police officer in 2019. The high court on Monday, March 27, rejected without comment the lawsuit bought by Isaiah Lewis' parents. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, testifies before the House Rules Committee as Republicans advance the "Parents Bill of Rights Act," at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans, religious freedom advocates oppose rollback of faith-based student group protections

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In this Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, file photo, different kinds of baby formula line a shelf in Mankato, Minn. (Jackson Forderer/The Free Press via AP) ** FILE **

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Robin Wolfeden prays in front of a makeshift memorial at the entrance to The Covenant School Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Three children and three school staff members were killed by a former student in Monday's mass shooting. (Mark Zaleski /The Tennessean via AP)

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Hunter Biden leaves after President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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In this Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, file photo, different kinds of baby formula line a shelf in Mankato, Minn. (Jackson Forderer/The Free Press via AP) ** FILE **

Baby formula is back on store shelves … mostly

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A Border Patrol agent keeps a lookout with binoculars in an area often used by migrants to cross into the U.S., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Agents’ busy weekend: 6 miles of border, nearly 300 illegal immigrants, 35 different nationalities

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The overdose-reversal drug Narcan is displayed during training for employees of the Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), Dec. 4, 2018, in Philadelphia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved selling the overdose antidote naloxone over-the-counter, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, marking the first time an opioid treatment drug will be available without a prescription. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Dr. Amos C. Brown Jr., vice chair for the California Reparations Task Force, right, holds a copy of the book "Songs of Slavery and Emancipation," as he and other members of the task force pose for photos at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on June 16, 2022. Economists for a California reparations task force estimate the state owes Black residents at least $800 billion for harms in policing, housing and health. The preliminary estimate will be discussed at the Wednesday, March 29, 2023, meeting of the state reparations task force. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion

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This photo made from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, shows a Yars missile launcher of the Russian armed forces being driven from a shelter in an undisclosed location in Russia. The Russian military on Wednesday launched drills of its strategic missile forces, deploying Yars mobile launchers in Siberia in a show of the country's massive nuclear capability amid the fighting in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia launches drills of its nuclear missile forces

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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 10, 2022. China has threatened “resolute countermeasures” over a planned meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy. On April 5, 2023, Tsai’s expected to stop in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

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In this image supplied by the Australian Department of Defence, Chinese People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Intelligence Collection Vessel Haiwangxing operating off the north-west shelf of Australia, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Australian Minister of Defence Peter Dutton said Friday, May 13, 2022, that the Chinese warship with spying capabilities had been hugging the western coastline in what amounted to an &quot;aggressive act.&quot; (Australian Defence Dept. via AP)

Navy budget doesn’t match China’s fast-growing warship fleet, GOP senators say

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In this photo made from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, a Russian navy boat launches an anti-ship missile test in the Peter The Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan. Russia's Defense Ministry says Moscow has test-fired anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan. The ministry said Tuesday that a few boats launched a simulated missile attack on a mock enemy warship about 60 miles away. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

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Team President Jason Wright speaks during the press conference as he announces the Washington Commanders as the new team name at FedEx Field on February 2nd 2022 in Landover MD. (Reggie Hildred/All-Pro Reels)

Jason Wright: Dan Snyder selling will be a ‘substantial boost’ to Commanders

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Dan and Tanya Snyder, co-owner and co-CEOs of the Washington Commanders, pose for photos after unveiling their NFL football team's new identity, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md. The new name comes 18 months after the once-storied franchise dropped its old moniker following decades of criticism that it was offensive to Native Americans. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Two bidders reportedly meet Snyder asking price of $6 billion for Commanders

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Washington Wizards center Kristaps Porzingis (6) goes to the basket during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Kristaps Porzingis, short-handed Wizards rout Celtics 130-111

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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Patrick Corbin throws during the first inning of Game 4 of the baseball World Series against the Houston Astros, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in Washington. Corbin -- a 33-year-old in the fifth year of a six-year, $140 million contract -- will be on the mound, making a second consecutive opening day start for a rotation missing World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg and top prospect Cade Cavalli because of injuries and trying to find young pieces around whom to rebuild.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) **FILE**

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