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FBI Raided Former Trump Campaign Chair Manafort’s Home

In this July 18, 2016 photo, then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort walks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. FBI agents looking for financial
documents have searched one of the homes of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, whose past foreign political work has been
swept into the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A Manafort spokesman confirmed the search Wednesday.
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North Korea Dismisses Threats, Warns of ‘Absolute Force’

By J. LEDERMAN, M. PENNINGTON finalize a plan by mid-August in- A day after evoking the use of reassurance.
Associated Press volving mid-range missiles hitting overwhelming U.S. military might, If Trump’s goal with two days of
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea waters 19 to 25 miles away from Trump touted America’s atomic tough talk was to scare North Ko-
on Wednesday officially dismissed the island. The plan will then go to supremacy. He said his first order rea, Kim, the commander, put
President Donald Trump’s threats the commander in chief of North as president was to “renovate that idea quickly to rest.
of “fire and fury,” declaring the Korea’s nuclear force and “wait and modernize” an arsenal that is He called Trump’s rhetoric a “load
American leader “bereft of rea- for his order,” Kim was quoted by “now far stronger and more pow- of nonsense” that was aggravat-
son” and warning ominously, KCNA as saying. He called it a “his- erful than ever before.” ing a grave situation. “Sound dia-
“Only absolute force can work on toric enveloping fire at Guam.” It was a rare public flexing of logue is not possible with such a
him.” The statement only served to es- America’s nuclear might. And guy bereft of reason and only ab-
In a statement released on state calate tensions even further in Trump’s boasting only added to solute force can work on him,” the
media, General Kim Rak Gyom, a week that has seen a barrage the confusion over his administra- KNCA report quoted him saying.
who heads North Korea’s rocket of threats from both sides. While tion’s approach to dealing with Kim said the Guam action would
command, also said his country nuclear confrontation still seems North Korea’s expanding nuclear be “an effective remedy for re-
was “about to take” military ac- incredibly remote, the comments capabilities on a day when his top straining the frantic moves of the
tion near the U.S. Pacific territory have sparked deep unease in the national security aides wavered U.S. in the southern part of the Ko-
of Guam. He said the North would United States, Asia and beyond. between messages of alarm and rean peninsula and its vicinity.”q