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North Korea Expert Reacts to Trump's Cancellation Of Summit

12:01pm May 24, 2018

Morning Edition talks to North Korea expert Joel Wit of the Stimson Center about President Trump's decision to cancel a proposed summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.

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There Was A Lot Invested In U.S.-North Korea Summit. What Happened?

11:55am May 24, 2018

There was a place, date, commemorative coins. Now the whole thing is off. NPR's Rachel Martin discusses with White House correspondent Scott Horsley and State Department correspondent Michele Kelemen.

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Biometric data is considered a special category requiring explicit consent under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation law, which goes into effect Friday.

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3 Things You Should Know About Europe's Sweeping New Data Privacy Law

11:37am May 24, 2018

by Aarti Shahani

The General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect Friday, but it also has implications in the U.S. Firms like Spotify and eBay now say you can ask them to delete data about you they've stored.

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Yulia Skripal speaks to a journalist on Wednesday in London following her March poisoning with a nerve agent in Salisbury along with her father, former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

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Yulia Skripal Says She And Father 'Lucky' To Survive Attack With Nerve Agent

11:10am May 24, 2018

by Scott Neuman

In her first appearance on camera since the March poisoning, Skripal said that she was concentrating on nursing her father back to health, but that she eventually hoped to return to Russia.

Trump Cancels U.S.-North Korea Summit

10:47am May 24, 2018

President Trump has cancelled his proposed meeting with the leader of North Korea. It happened the same morning that North Korea made a very public showing of destroying its nuclear test site.

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Head prosecutor Fred Westerbeke speaks next to a part of the Buk rocket that was fired on Flight MH17 during the news conference of the Joint Investigation Team in Bunnik, Netherlands, on Thursday.

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Missile That Downed MH17 Came From Russian Military, Investigators Say

9:51am May 24, 2018

by James Doubek

The Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing 298 people aboard. Russia has denied involvement.

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The Art Of Dealing With North Korea

8:26am May 24, 2018

Rachel Martin talks to Gary Samore, an arms control negotiator in the Obama administration with expertise on the north's nuclear program, about what to expect from a U.S.-North Korea summit.

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Sweeping Internet Privacy Protection Regulations To Take Effect

8:26am May 24, 2018

by Aarti Shahani

One of the biggest changes in data privacy ever takes effect in Europe Friday. The rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, will have implications for U.S. consumers of social media.

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Morning News Brief

8:26am May 24, 2018

As part of the Russia probe, lawmakers will be briefed about an informant working with the FBI — leading up to the presidential election. Diplomats try to work out a June U.S.-North Korea summit.

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North Korea Plans To Close Main Nuclear Testing Site

11:13pm May 23, 2018

North Korea plans to close its Punggye-ri nuclear test site Wednesday. Adam Mount of the Federation of American Scientists explains the significance of the site and what its closure signals.

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