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The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter transits the Mediterranean Sea on March 9. The more than 50 Tomahawk missile strikes were carried out against Shayrat air base in Homs province from the USS Porter and USS Ross in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Trump Orders Syria Airstrikes After 'Assad Choked Out The Lives' Of Civilians

11:41pm April 06, 2017

U.S. officials said that more than 50 Tomahawk missile strikes were carried out against a single Syrian air base from the USS Porter and USS Ross in the Eastern Mediterranean.

A screenshot of the Bureau of Land Management's home page displays a photo of a "large coal seam at the Peabody North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming."

BLM Replaces Mountain Landscape Photo With Coal Seam On Home Page

8:37pm April 06, 2017

by Kirk Siegler

Critics were not kind to the Bureau of Land Management on social media. The agency says it plans to rotate photos showing various uses for federally managed lands.

A now-deleted tweet from @ALT_USCIS was included in a complaint Twitter filed against the Department of Homeland Security. Twitter says DHS tried to unmask the user behind this account, which has "expressed dissent in a range of different ways," including

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Twitter Sues Homeland Security To Protect Anonymity Of 'Alt Immigration' Account

8:20pm April 06, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

After the Trump administration set limits on some government Twitter accounts, anonymous "rogue accounts" popped up. Homeland Security demanded to know who was behind one; Twitter is fighting back.

American servicemen enjoy a hot cup of coffee at a Salvation Army hut in New York, circa 1918. During World War I, instant coffee was a key provision for soldiers on the front. They called it a "cup of George."

In WWI Trenches, Instant Coffee Gave Troops A Much-Needed Boost

7:47pm April 06, 2017

by Jeff Koehler

One hundred years ago today, the U.S. entered World War I. American GIs marched into battle armed with one important — and then still-novel — item to give them a jolt of energy and raise morale.

President Trump waits to greet Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen outside the West Wing of the White House on March 30. Trump's approach to foreign policy has changed since he has taken office.

Is Trump's Foreign Policy Evolving?

7:41pm April 06, 2017

by Mara Liasson

The new president is finding out that things happen, and the world's greatest superpower has to respond.

In 2003, Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus, also known as mimivirus, was the first giant virus to be described. It's larger than many bacteria, and was found in a water sample from a hospital cooling tower in England.

In Giant Virus Genes, Hints About Their Mysterious Origin

7:07pm April 06, 2017

by Rae Ellen Bichell

They're the Godzillas of the virus world, pushing the limit of what is considered alive. Researchers are trying to figure out where they came from. (And no, they aren't known to make people sick.)

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Mark Warner (from left) of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Republican Chairman Richard Burr of North Carolina listen to testimony during a March 30 hearing in Washington, D.C.

Sen. Mark Warner: No Evidence To Support Trump's Political Snooping Claims

6:28pm April 06, 2017

by Philip Ewing

But the Trump White House has fallen into a pattern of responding to criticism or inconvenient news with sometimes extreme countercharges, said the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Democratic Senator Rails Against His Party's Filibuster Of Gorsuch Nomination

5:14pm April 06, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado about why he was against his party's filibuster of the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.

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Trump Welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping At Mar-A-Lago

5:14pm April 06, 2017

by Scott Horsley

President Trump welcomes President Xi Jinping of China to his home in Florida on Thursday. It will be Trump's first face-to-face meeting with the Chinese leader after campaigning for two years on the critique that China was ripping off the U.S.

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Lynching Of Robert Prager Underlined Anti-German Sentiment During World War I

5:14pm April 06, 2017

by Robert Siegel

It became dangerous to be German in the U.S. after the country entered World War I. But it was fatal for Robert Prager. The immigrant was lynched in the town of Collinsville, Ill. It's a story people in the St. Louis suburb didn't talk about for years, but today it's on display at a local museum.

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