North Korea Blast Buries its Own Nuclear Test Site

Is this one of the reasons for North Korea's sudden willingness to talk?

North Korea's mountain nuclear test site has collapsed, putting China and other nearby nations at an unprecedented risk of radioactive exposure, two separate groups of Chinese scientists studying the issue have confirmed, Stephen Chen reports on southchinamorningpost.com.

The last five of Pyongyang's six nuclear tests have all been carried out under Mount Mantap at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea's northwest, Chen wrote.

One group of researchers found that the most recent blast tore open a hole in the mountain, which then collapsed upon itself.  A second group concluded that the breakdown created a "chimney" that could allow radioactive fallout from the blast zone below to rise into the air, he added.

For more of Chen's timely report: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2143171/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-has-collapsed-and-may-be-why-kim-jong-un

USA Today, CNN, CBS and others carried similar reports today.

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Join the Most Interesting Man in the World for a Beer

Bar tending in Tampa on Friday...

Jonathan Goldsmith, famous as the most interesting man in the world.

"Stay thirsty, my friends," the most interesting man in the world is coming to Tampa to tend bar on Friday, Sharon Kennedy Wynne reports on tampabay.com

Jonathan Goldsmith, the face that launched a thousand memes, will be slinging cocktails at Tampa's trendy Hall on Franklin, the food hall announced on it Facebook page Tuesday, Wynne wrote.

The veteran actor played "the most interesting man in the world" on a 10-year run of the popular (and parodied) commercials for Dos Equis beer, she added.

The commercials featured a debonair gentleman with a voiceover informing viewers of traits like, "Both sides of his pillow were cool," and that, "He is the only man to ever ace a Rorschach test," Wynne wrote.

For more of Wynne's fun article: www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/events/The-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-will-be-tending-bar-in-Tampa-on-Friday_167625296

For some more fun, here's a collection of the most interesting man in the world spots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18VkI0uDxE

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The New Exodus Out of American Cities

Driven by high costs, low services...

Back to the suburbs and other areas with lower costs of living.

Am I the only one in my spinning class at Equinox in Manhattan who's fed up paying $200 every month for a gym with clean showers, $3,000 in rent every month for an apartment without cockroaches and $8 every morning for a cup of coffee, Kristin Tate asks on thehill.com.

Am I the only one moving through the greater part of New York City boroughs and seeing and inexorable march of urban decay matched with the discomfort of crowding and inexplicable costs, she adds.

I know I am not, she writes.

What's happening in the Big Apple is a microcosm of what's happening in the nation's blue states, cities and towns, Tate noted.

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago -- the places where power and capital have traditionally congregated -- have become so over-regulated, so over priced and mismanaged, and so morally bankrupt and soft on crime that people are leaving in droves, she wrote.

For more: http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/384536-the-great-exodus-out-of-americas-blue-cities?amp

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Intense, Combative: Covering the Trump White House

"A great time to be a reporter..."

April Ryan, American Urban Networks, says, "I actively get death threats just for asking a question."

On a chilly and gray Monday in D.C. a few weeks ago, President Trump was sitting on the South Lawn among a group of children during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, when CNN's chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, shouted a question at him, Ted Johnson reports on variety.com.

"Mr. President, what about the DACA kids? Should they worry about what is going to happen to them, sir," Johnson wrote.

Trump answered, blaming the situation on the Democrats, but Acosta persisted in a follow-up: "Didn't you kill DACA, sir? Didn't you kill DACA?"

Trump didn't respond, but plenty of others did.  Conservative sites were indignant, accusing Acosta of behaving "rudely." Sean Spicer the former White House press secretary called him a "carnival barker," and Brad Parscale, who is managing Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, tweeted, Pull his credentials for each incident, Johnson added.

For more of timely and fascinating look behind the scenes of covering the Trump White House: variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-white-house-political-coverage-cnn-washington-post-1202782162/amp/

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Deepfakes: A Dangerous New Low on the Internet

Targeting Melania, Ivanka, Barack Obama and more...

Melania Trump.

Recently the Deep State, Fake News and more have been added to our everyday conversation.

Now comes deepfakes, and it's a doozy.

Google is making it very easy for anyone to find "deepfake" pornographic videos of first lady Melania Trump or President Trump's daughter Ivanka, David Gilbert reports on vicenews.com.

From turbocharging the fake news problem to undermining democracies and inciting violence, the ability to depict anyone saying anything has potentially catastrophic implications, Gilbert wrote.

As an example, Gilbert includes a deepfake video of Barack Obama with words put in his mouth off screen.

And, finally, there's a chilling video of Russian attitudes towards Putin's new war on the west, as economist.com has called it:  https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/evq94e/deepfake-video-melania-trump-google-fake-news?utm_source=vicenewsfb

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Remembering Barbara Bush

Terrific...

One of the best photos in a long time.

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How to Delete Your Google Search History

Limiting your information...

YouTube, Panera, Facebook, Equifax.  Every week, it seems, there's a new hack to worry about, Alix Langone reports on time.com.

Deleting your Google web browser history and Google Google search history is one way to limit how much data you allow to be collected about you on the Internet, Langone wrote.

For tips on how to limit your information on Google: time.com/money/5221313/how-to-delete-your-google-search-history/

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