Inside North Korea’s missiles

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So far this year, North Korea has conducted 16 test launches of missiles, virtually each one personally approved by the country’s young dictator, Kim Jong-un. With every test, North Korea takes a step toward its ultimate goal: an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the United states with a thermonuclear […]

Inside Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs: The human toll

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Jose Abad Consuelo helped put up the Christmas lights at his church last year. He was a recovering drug addict, volunteering in the Bagong Silang neighborhood of metro Manila.  Now, he is dead. He is one of more than 7,000 Filipinos who have been killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s […]

Defending the U.S. from N. Korea’s nuclear threat

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After years of threatening to burn the United States in a sea of fire, North Korea is on the verge of having an intercontinental ballistic missile — an ICBM — capable of hitting the American homeland with a thermonuclear warhead. The missile is called the Hwasong — which translates to […]

The deadly hate crime that shocked Portland

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The latest “CBSN Originals” documentary, “Portland | Race Against the Past,” is airing on CBSN Monday, October 30 at 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. On May 26th, 2017, a white supremacist stabbed and killed two men on a mass transit train in Portland, Oregon. He severely wounded a third man. They […]

Portland’s racist past explains its violent present

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The latest “CBSN Originals” documentary, “Portland | Race Against the Past,” is airing on CBSN Monday, October 30 at 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. Americans live in a world where issues of race often populate headlines: the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Colin Kaepernick‘s controversial kneeling during […]