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• It's Not Too Early to Panic About Seattle Squeeze 2.0

  23-08-2019 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamPray for the light rail in this trying time.Timothy Kenney
  Did you know that light rail service downtown is going to be interrupted for 10 weeks starting in January?We'll see the first glimpses of this—what Sound Transit has dubbed "Connect 2020"—starting this fall with construction over three weekends (Oct. 12-13, Oct. 26-27, and Nov. 9-10) of a temporary center platform in the Pioneer Square station. You may have seen the beginnings of this already cropping up at
  
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• Oregon Democrats aim to change quorum after GOP walkouts

  23-08-2019 23:10
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — After two walkouts this year by minority Republicans in the Oregon Legislature snarled the chamber’s business, Democrats say they will ask voters to change quorum rules, allowing the statehouse to convene with only a simple majority of lawmakers present. Oregon Senate Democrats said in a statement Friday that majority Leader Ginny […]
  
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• Elizabeth Warren’s Sunday town hall is moved to Seattle Center

  23-08-2019 23:08
  Previously scheduled for the WaMu Theater, the event will now be held at the International Fountain at Seattle Center, the presidential candidate's campaign said.
  
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• Unique Waffles to Try on National Waffle Day

  23-08-2019 22:57 via thestranger.com
  Super Six, Moo Bar, and More Places to Go on August 24by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis Saturday, August 24, is National Waffle Day (not to be confused with International Waffle Day on March 25), and to celebrate, we've compiled a round-up of breakfast items in Seattle worthy of Leslie Knope herself, from classic Belgian waffles to puffy Hong Kong-style bubble waffles to fried chicken-topped versions.Blank Space Cafe
  At this cafe/sweets shop, you'll find the peculiar delicacy of bubble waffles
  
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• 20 Unique Seattle Waffles to Try for National Waffle Day

  23-08-2019 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffColumbia City's brunch spot Super Six will serve its fried chicken and bubble waffles all day this Saturday for National Waffle Day. Super Six
  This Saturday, August 24, is National Waffle Day (not to be confused with International Waffle Day on March 25), and to celebrate, we've compiled a round-up of breakfast items in Seattle worthy of Leslie Knope herself, from classic Belgian waffles to puffy Hong Kong-style bubble waffles to fried chicken-topped versions. For m
  
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• 55 Yellowstone bison moved to Montana Indian reservation

  23-08-2019 22:33
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials have transferred 55 of the park’s wild bison to a Montana Indian reservation under a program that aims to establish new disease-free herds of the animals. Park officials said they completed the transfer of the bison, also known as buffalo, to the Fort Peck Reservation on Friday. […]
  
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• Showtime's On Becoming a God in Central Florida Has Great Elements But Plateaus Too Soon

  23-08-2019 22:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannKirsten Dunst in On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Patti Perret/Sony/SHOWTIMEThere are a lot of things to like in On Becoming a God in Central Florida, although I doubt any two people are going to like exactly the same things about it. In its best moments, On Becoming a God hits upon a worthy blend of comedy, humanism, and bug-nuts surreality that’s unlike anything else on TV. Unfortunately, it also has qualities that are like a lot of things on TV—namely, that it
  
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• Seattle-area traffic congestion is among the worst in the country, study shows

  23-08-2019 22:09
  The average driver in Seattle spent more time sitting in traffic in 2017 than their counterparts in almost any other city, according to the 2019 Urban Mobility Report by Texas A&M University's Transportation Institute. Seattle ranked seventh on this metric among large urban areas.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 101 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Weekend: August 23-25, 2019

  23-08-2019 21:44 via thestranger.com
  No advance planning required for these cheap events.by Elaina FriedmanPanicking because you don’t know what to do this weekend and you're short on cash? Don't worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, ranging from Linda's Fest to a town hall with Elizabeth Warren, and from Big Flip to the Seattle Design Festival Block Party. For even more options, check out our complete Things To Do calendar and our list of cheap & easy thi
  
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• Low Testosterone, DNA Tests, Pep Talks—Reader Advice Roundup

  23-08-2019 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Roundupby Dan Savage
  This week's Savage Love Letters of the Day: The much younger partner in an intergenerational relationship has been cheating from the start—will he ever change? Woman stumbles over evidence she's not her boyfriend's "ideal" type—should she end it? She fucked a couple that has herpes—does she need to disclose to future sex partners? Her husband didn't reveal his kinks until their wedding night and threatens to chea
  
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• Woodland Park Zoo red-tailed hawk gets loose, staff work to coax him home

  23-08-2019 21:20
  Zoo personnel had him in sight Friday morning, in the trees on the north side of the zoo on Phinney Ridge, and are working to coax him back home.
  
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• Accused Capital One hacker is denied bail over past threats

  23-08-2019 21:03
  Paige A. Thompson, 33, who has been jailed since her arrest in Seattle in July, is a danger to herself and others and must stay locked up while the case proceeds, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle L. Peterson ruled after a bail hearing Friday.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Proposes "Perhaps the Most Robust Tribal Policy Platform" of Any 2020 Candidate to Date

  23-08-2019 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Warren will hold a town hall in Seattle this Sunday.by Rich SmithElizabeth Warren will hold a town hall in Seattle this Sunday at Seattle Center.DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES
  Last Friday, a little over a week ahead of her town hall in Seattle on Sunday, August 25, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren released her plan for working with and investing in Native American communities. She calls it "Honoring and Empowering Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples."As with her other plans, this one is sub
  
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• Supreme Court: Ginsburg treated for tumor on pancreas

  23-08-2019 20:41
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining, the Supreme Court said Friday. The court said in a statement that a biopsy performed July 31 confirmed a localized malignant tumor. Ginsburg, 86, underwent a three-week course […]
  
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• Quebec's Big | Brave and Brazilian Trio Deaf Kids Are Bringing the Heavy to El Corazon Tonight

  23-08-2019 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Brian CookDeaf Kids Jean Ribeiro / Neurot Records
  It’s difficult to pinpoint the sound of Quebec trio Big | Brave. You can project the grandiose sprawl of their post-rock Montreal peers, the roaring orchestral cacophony of Swans, the big riff principles of Southern Lord’s more abstract-inclined artists, and the bold beauty of PJ Harvey onto their music, but their sound is still entirely their own. It’s even more difficult to pick apart any reference points for Brazilian tour
  
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• Amazon rainforest fires: Here’s what’s really happening

  23-08-2019 20:38
  Here is what we know so far about the fires raging in the Amazon.
  
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• Court: Idaho must give transgender inmate gender surgery

  23-08-2019 20:25
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appeals court says Idaho must provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate who has been living as a woman for years but who has continuously been housed in a men’s prison. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday agreed with a federal judge in Idaho that […]
  
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• Enter to win a pair of four-day passes to Kremfest 2019!

  23-08-2019 20:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Taffy MarlerEntries accepted until 11:59pm (PT) on Thursday, September 12, 2019Three lucky winners will each receive a pair of four-day passes to Kremfest 2019, September 19-22 at Kremwerk + Timbre Room Complex!Enter HEREOr buy tickets here
  
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• At Olympic Sculpture Park’s Newest Installation, Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder

  23-08-2019 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Gregory ScruggsOctopus Wrap at Olympic Sculpture Park Courtesy of SAM
  Make your way to Olympic Sculpture Park on a summer’s eve, like, say, tonight for the park’s annual outdoor edition of SAM Remix, and what draws your eye? With some of the most unobstructed waterfront views on Elliott Bay, there is a natural tendency to gaze out at cloudlines and mountaintop ridges that intermingle across Puget Sound. After last night’s closing of Summer at SAM with Black Belt Eagle Scout,
  
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• Illinois patient’s death may be first in US tied to vaping

  23-08-2019 18:29
  CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois health officials are reporting what could be United States’ first death tied to vaping. In a Friday news release, the Illinois Department of Public Health says a person who recently vaped died after being hospitalized with “severe respiratory illness.” The agency didn’t give any other information about the patient, including a […]
  
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• DOJ: Immigration facility shouldn’t have to pay minimum wage

  23-08-2019 18:15
  SEATTLE (AP) — The Trump administration is opposing Washington state’s effort to make a privately run, for-profit immigration detention center pay detainees minimum wage for the work they do. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued The GEO Group in 2017, saying its Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma must pay the state minimum wage to detainees […]
  
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• Veteran musher Jim Lanier denied entry into 2020 Iditarod

  23-08-2019 18:07
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A veteran Iditarod musher says he’s been denied entry into the 2020 race. Anchorage television station KTUU reports 77-year-old Jim Lanier of Chugiak (CHOO-gee-ak) was told he could not enter the 1,000-mile (1609-kilometer) race from Willow to Nome. Lanier says the reasons given were recent scratches in the race and feedback […]
  
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• Iditarod denies entry to musher over dog care concerns

  23-08-2019 18:07
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The world’s most famous sled dog race has denied entry to a 78-year-old musher for the 2020 race over dog care concerns raised by race officials. Jim Lanier, whose first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was in 1979, dropped out the last four times he started the grueling 1,000-mile race that […]
  
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• Saint Alphonsus employee facing wire fraud charges

  23-08-2019 18:03
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A southwestern Idaho woman is facing charges after authorities say she stole $1 million from Saint Alphonsus Health System. A federal grand jury last week indicted 60-year-old Lois Soito of Horseshoe Bend on 10 counts of wire fraud. Authorities say Soito worked for the company for 22 years. Officials say that […]
  
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• Protester who smeared blood in Portland City Hall sentenced

  23-08-2019 17:59
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who smeared his own blood on a piece of public art in Portland’s City Hall after being forcibly removed from a City Council meeting has been sentenced to community service and two years of probation. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said Friday that a jury convicted David Davis […]
  
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• Oregon sheriff facing ethic complaint withdraws resignation

  23-08-2019 17:59
  JOHN DAY, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon sheriff who had announced he would step down after an ethics complaint was brought against him now says he will stay on the job. Oregon Public Broadcasting reported Wednesday that Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer announced this week he’s withdrawing his resignation after telling county officials last week […]
  
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• Body of North Carolina man recovered in Oregon lake

  23-08-2019 17:26
  MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The body of a North Carolina man who drowned while trying to save his brother more than two months ago has been recovered from the bottom of a lake in southwestern Oregon with the help of volunteers from Idaho. The body of Juan Carlos Fuentes, 29, was located about 135 feet […]
  
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• Slog AM: David Koch Is Dead, SPD Needs Help Solving a Murder, Climate Change Causes Ancient Plant to Boom

  23-08-2019 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamIs it in poor taste to caption this photo of David Koch "Hooray"? I won't do it—just asking.Chip Somodevilla/Getty
  Ding-dong! David Koch is dead: One-half of the Koch brothers, the industrialists who funneled money into the right-wing movement and fueled climate-change denial, is dead. David Koch kicked the bucket at age 79, his brother Charles said in a statement. Koch's legacy includes $42.2 billion in assets as of 2019 and giving rise to the Tea Party as well as streng
  
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• Slog AM: David Koch Is Dead, SPD Needs Help Solving a Murder, Climate Change Causes Ancient Plant to Bloom

  23-08-2019 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamIs it in poor taste to caption this photo of David Koch as "hooray?" I won't do it—just asking.Chip Somodevilla/Getty
  Ding dong David Koch is dead: One-half of the Koch brothers, the industrialists who funneled money into the right-wing movement and fueled climate change denial, is dead. David Koch kicked the bucket at age 79, his brother Charles said in a statement. Koch's legacy includes $42.2 billion in assets as of 2019 and giving rise to the Tea Party as well as stre
  
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• 6 indicted on riot charges from May 1 protest in Portland

  23-08-2019 16:52
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Six men have been indicted on charges related to a brawl between members of right- and left-wing groups outside a Portland bar on May 1 that left one woman unconscious. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday the men all face a single count of rioting. They were all arrested […]
  
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• Republicans petition Inslee to reimburse state for his security detail used during presidential bid

  23-08-2019 16:19
  For months, Washington state Republicans have fumed over Gov. Jay Inslee's use of a state-funded security detail during his short-lived presidential bid. Now, they're demanding Inslee reimburse the state for those costs.
  
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• State Patrol targeting drivers who don’t slow down and move over near emergency or work zones

  23-08-2019 16:11
  Drivers speeding through work and emergency zones are not only putting workers in danger but could be putting their record and pocketbook at risk.
  
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• UN: Ebola outbreak in Congo has killed nearly 2,000 people

  23-08-2019 15:45
  LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo is approaching a “stark” milestone with nearly 2,000 people killed by the virus in the year-long epidemic. In a press briefing on Friday, Dr. Mike Ryan said that although the U.N. health agency has the vaccines and drugs that […]
  
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• Bolsonaro says may send army to contain Amazon fires

  23-08-2019 15:37
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he’s leaning toward sending the army to help fight Amazon fires that have alarmed people across the globe. In brief remarks to reporters Friday, Bolsonaro said he’d act on that plan within hours. Bolsonaro has come under increasing international pressure to contain the fires in […]
  
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• Bolsonaro prepares to send army to contain Amazon fires

  23-08-2019 15:37
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Under increasing international pressure to contain record numbers of fires in the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he might send the military to battle the massive blazes. “That’s the plan,” said Bolsonaro. He did not say when the armed forces would get involved but suggested that action could […]
  
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• Work to repave the Aurora Bridge this weekend means heavier traffic ahead

  23-08-2019 15:00
  If crews find no major problems in the bridge deck, the repaving work could be finished this weekend. Wet weather could interfere, however.
  
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• Public Crisis, Private Toll: A primer on the mental-health crisis in Washington state

  23-08-2019 15:00
  Washington state’s mental-health crisis has revolved for years around a hard fact: There aren’t enough psychiatric facilities. But a shift is underway that promises to change this.
  
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• A year after officials called off search for hiker Sam Sayers, her mother is still looking

  23-08-2019 15:00
  Samantha Sayers was last seen Aug. 1, 2018, while on a solo day-hike up Vesper Peak in the North Cascades. It was easy to for fellow hikers to remember the young woman with the bald, tattooed head and the wide, easy smile. One saw her eating a sandwich. Another saw her descending the south side […]
  
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• Sheriff sees incident at coffee shop, calls police

  23-08-2019 14:50
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man was arrested after the Marion County Sheriff says he witnessed the man make an obscene gesture toward a table of people outside a Salem coffee shop. The Statesman-Journal reports Sheriff Joe Kast was at IKE Box Tuesday when he saw part of the incident between a man riding his […]
  
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• David Koch, billionaire and industrialist who funded conservatives, dies

  23-08-2019 14:44
  David Koch, the industrialist and libertarian who used his fortune to transform American politics while also donating more than $1 billion to philanthropic causes, has died. He was 79. The death was confirmed by Koch spokeswoman Cristyne Nicholas. Koch, whose net worth of about $59 billion in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index tied him with his […]
  
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• Russian doctor has trace of radiation after explosion

  23-08-2019 14:36
  MOSCOW (AP) — Over Russian 100 medical workers who helped treat victims of a recent mysterious explosion at a military testing range have undergone checks and one man has been found with a trace of radiation, officials said Friday. The Aug. 8 incident at the Russian navy’s range in Nyonoksa on the White Sea killed […]
  
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• Spain reports 2nd death in widening listeria outbreak

  23-08-2019 14:11
  MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say a second person has died in an outbreak of listeria from pork meat. The health spokesman for the southern Andalusia region, José Miguel Cisneros, said Friday a 72-year-old man who was in a terminal phase of pancreatic cancer died from the bacteria. Listeria usually causes mild illness but can […]
  
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• Records: Portland spent $1,100 per night for aide’s hotel

  23-08-2019 14:05
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Documents show that Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office billed city taxpayers $1,123 a night for an aide’s hotel accommodations while at a conference in Texas, in likely violation of city rules. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the files show Wheeler’s office paid for senior adviser Elisabeth Perez to attend the 2019 South by […]
  
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• Russia’s floating nuclear plant sails to its destination

  23-08-2019 13:55
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant has sailed to its destination in the nation’s northeast, a project that environmentalists have criticized as unsafe. The Akademik Lomonosov is a 140-meter (459-foot) long towed platform that carries two 35-megawatt nuclear reactors. On Friday, it set out from the Arctic port of Murmansk on the […]
  
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• Exracted eggs may prevent extinction of northern white rhino

  23-08-2019 13:53
  OL PEJETA, Kenya (AP) — Wildlife experts and veterinarians say there is hope to prevent the extinction of the northern white rhino because they successfully extracted eggs from the last two remaining females of the species. The eggs will be used to reproduce the species through a surrogate. The groundbreaking procedure was carried out Thursday […]
  
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• Rolling Stones get name on little Martian rock that rolled

  23-08-2019 09:45
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — There is now a “Rolling Stones Rock” on Mars, and it’s giving Mick, Keith and the boys some serious satisfaction. NASA named a little stone for the legendary rockers after its InSight robotic lander captured it rolling across the surface of Mars last year, and the new moniker was made public […]
  
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• With Amazon ablaze, Brazil faces global backlash: ‘Lungs of the Earth are in flames’

  23-08-2019 08:16
  Forest fires are common in Brazil during this time of the year, which tends to be cooler and drier. But the number now raging in the Amazon is unusually high.
  
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• 17-year-old wounded in South Seattle shooting, officials say

  23-08-2019 07:32
  Seattle police are investigating after a 17-year-old boy was shot near Rainier Beach Thursday night. The boy was taken to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition, said Seattle Fire spokeswoman Kristin Tinsley. Authorities responded to Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Henderson Street around 9:50 p.m. Gang detectives will be investigating, according to […]
  
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• US lawmakers to look into cancelled Alaska missile project

  23-08-2019 06:09
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s members of Congress say they plan to look into a Pentagon decision to cancel a project to improve Alaska-based missiles. The Anchorage Daily News reported Thursday that the Pentagon canceled a Boeing contract last week as a result of unspecified missile design flaws. Congress authorized the Pentagon to add 20 […]
  
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