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U.S. To Leave 1987 Treaty That Marks The End Of The Cold War

5:04am October 23, 2018

Noel King talks with nuclear weapons expert Jon Wolfsthal, director of the Nuclear Crisis Group, about the Trump administration's decision to pull the U.S. out of a cold war-era nuclear arms treaty.

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Morning News Brief

5:04am October 23, 2018

Trump uses Houston rally to stoke fears about illegal immigration, and he plans to exit an arms control treaty with Russia. Turkey's president says he'll reveal what happened to Jamal Khashoggi.

Microplastics are not just showing up on beaches like this one in the Canary Islands. They are showing up in human waste.

Microplastics Are Turning Up Everywhere, Even In Human Excrement

11:05pm October 22, 2018

by Jill Neimark

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it's not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.

Jowan Osterlund holds a microchip implant in Stockholm in 2017. His company, Biohax International, is a leading provider of the devices in Sweden.

Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin

10:36pm October 22, 2018

by Maddy Savage

Proponents of the chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of personal health data that might be stored on the devices.

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Beachgoers enjoy the shore in Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, Mexico on Sunday. Hurricane Willa, now a Category 5, is expected to land in the region late Tuesday or Wednesday.

'Extremely Threatening' Hurricane Willa Heads For Mexico's Pacific Coast

9:16pm October 22, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, is expected to make landfall on the southwestern coast of Mexico sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Barriers block the road leading to the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on Monday, where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was last seen alive.

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Video Footage Shows Apparent Khashoggi 'Body Double' Exiting Consulate

9:12pm October 22, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

A Turkish ruling party official described the newly released surveillance footage as evidence of a Saudi cover-up. Saudi Arabia has confirmed that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died.

A sea cucumber that looks like a headless chicken has been caught on video in the deep seas near East Antarctica, thousands of miles from where one of the species was last spotted.

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Behold The Headless Chicken Of The Deep Sea

8:27pm October 22, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

A sea cucumber that looks like a headless chicken has been caught on video in the deep seas near East Antarctica, thousands of miles from where one of the species was last spotted.

Mourners stand beside the grave of Gen. Abdul Raziq, the Kandahar police chief who was killed by a Taliban attack, during his burial ceremony Friday in Kandahar, Afghanistan. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was wounded in the attack.

Days Later, Pentagon Says U.S. General Among Wounded In Kandahar Attack

7:11pm October 22, 2018

by Tom Bowman

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was shot twice, according to the Pentagon, during an attack in Kandahar that killed the province's chiefs of police and intelligence and wounded the governor.

President Ronald Reagan (right) and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchange pens during the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signing ceremony in the White House on Dec. 8, 1987. Gorbachev's translator Pavel Palazhchenko stands in the middle.

What Trump's Threat To End A U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Treaty Means For Putin

6:02pm October 22, 2018

by Lucian Kim

The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty marked the end of the Cold War. The Kremlin may want to leave the agreement, too.

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Migrant Caravan Rests In Southern Mexico Before Continuing March Toward The U.S.

5:37pm October 22, 2018

Thousands of migrants traveling in a group deny President Trump's claims that terrorists are traveling with them. The group says it is fleeing crime and poverty in the hopes of finding a better life.

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