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• North Korea missile test: How big a technological breakthrough?
• Why states pass budgets despite rising political divide
• The tiny cracks inside North Korea
• On world stage, Germany cautiously moves to the center as US eyes the wings

North Korea missile test: How big a technological breakthrough? Posted: 05 Jul 2017 02:54 PM PDT Tuesday's launch, North Korea's most advanced missile test since Mr. Kim took power in 2011, lofted an Intercontinental Ballistics Missile (ICBM) 1,700 miles before it splashed down 580 miles away in the Sea of Japan. China, North Korea's main ally, has expressed doubts about this missile's ability to cross continental boundaries.

Why states pass budgets despite rising political divide Posted: 05 Jul 2017 01:40 PM PDT States are supposed to be the places where government works, where politicians put aside their differences to pass good programs and balanced budgets. "What we're seeing at the states is a mirror of what we're seeing at the national level," says Boris Shor, a political scientist at the University of Houston who has studied the issue.

The tiny cracks inside North Korea Posted: 05 Jul 2017 01:38 PM PDT With conspicuous ceremony on the Fourth of July, North Korea launched a missile that had more than a technological purpose. The test suggested that North Korean missiles can now reach Alaska. It came from the highest-level North Korean defector in years, and he offered an assessment perhaps as frightening as a missile test to Kim Jong-un's regime.

On world stage, Germany cautiously moves to the center as US eyes the wings Posted: 05 Jul 2017 11:46 AM PDT When German Chancellor Angela Merkel first took office in 2005, her British counterpart was Tony Blair. Jacques Chirac was president of France. At the time Germany was suffering high unemployment and sclerotic growth, and under Ms. Merkel, the country largely had its head down – just the way it has long liked it.

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