• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
• US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
• High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
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  Missile Defense System Takes Shape in South Korea as North Holds Drills

  By CHOE SANG-HUN and GERRY MULLANY  New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/north-korea-military-anniversary-artillery-drills.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share SEOUL, South Korea — The United States and South Korea began installing key elements of an advanced missile-defense system in a rural southern county on Wednesday, a...

  • Posted April 26, 2017
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  North Korea Stages Long-Range Artillery Drills

  By GERRY MULLANY and CHOE SANG-HUN  New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/north-korea-military-anniversary-artillery-drills.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share HONG KONG — North Korea staged huge artillery drills on Tuesday to mark the 85th anniversary of the founding of the nation’s military, as China pressed its...

  • Posted April 25, 2017
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  China’s Leader Urges Restraint on North Korea in Call With Trump

  By CHRIS BUCKLEY New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/world/asia/north-korea-trump-china-xi-jinping.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   BEIJING — China’s president, Xi Jinping, has urged President Trump to show restraint toward North Korea despite signs that the North may be preparing a nuclear test. Mr. Xi made...

  • Posted April 24, 2017
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  North Korea has detained a U.S. citizen, potentially raising tensions

  Jonathan Kaiman La Times http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-american-detained-20170423-story.html North Korean authorities have reportedly detained a U.S. citizen, raising the total number of Americans known to be held in North Korea to three and potentially deepening animosities between Washington and Pyongyang...

  • Posted April 24, 2017
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• North Korea on a bun: What the legendary Koryo Burger tells us about the isolated nation, and ourselves

  Jonathan Kaiman LA Times http://lat.ms/2pNHf87 On Air Koryo, North Korea’s state airline, flight attendants are known to serve one thing, and one thing only: a burger as mysterious as the secretive country itself. The burger is always...

  • Posted April 24, 2017
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  Jeff Sessions Dismisses Hawaii as ‘an Island in the Pacific’

  By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/politics/jeff-sessions-judge-hawaii-pacific-island.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke dismissively about the State of Hawaii while criticizing a Federal District Court ruling last month that blocked the Trump administration from carrying out its...

  • Posted April 21, 2017
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  The Cost of Not Taking Your Medicine

  New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/well/the-cost-of-not-taking-your-medicine.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share There is an out-of-control epidemic in the United States that costs more and affects more people than any disease Americans currently worry about. It’s called nonadherence to prescribed medications, and it is —...

  • Posted April 21, 2017
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