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The United States scales back joint military drills with Seoul to appease Pyongyang.
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(Second column, 2nd story, link)
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The case could set up a landmark clash over the separation of church and state.
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Along with his comments about Muslim candidates, Mr. Trump spoke disparagingly of Somalis in the United States, saying "they're not smart."
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The Trump administration has introduced a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock of successful U.S. wildlife conservation for more than 50 years, dramatically weakening its power to protect natural habitats and opening vulnerable lands to real estate development, oil drilling and other extractive industries. A coalition of conservation groups is suing the Trump administration over the rule change. They are represented by the environmental law group Earthjustice and senior attorney Ben Levitan, who calls this latest Trump administration attack on the environment "a total repudiation of the premise that endangered species need places to have shelter, to have food, to raise their young."
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A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's providing federal data to states to check and purge their voter rolls violated several laws prohibiting the disclosure.
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