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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it's conducted a powerful hydrogen bomb test today, prompting the U.N. Security council to call an emergency meeting. The mood in Pyongyang was celebratory, as a television anchor announced what the government calls a successful test of a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb. The president of neighboring South Korea is ordering its military to bolster its combined defense posture with U.S. forces.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-led Congress is about to put on President Barack Obama's desk a bill that strikes at the heart of his health care law. Today, the House will vote on legislation that would cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, dismantle requirements that most people obtain health insurance coverage and that larger employers offer it to workers. And it would eliminate the expansion of Medicaid coverage to additional lower-income people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has a timeline for political transition in Syria, and the best-case scenario does not foresee Bashar Assad steeping down as the country's leader before March 2017. A document obtained by The Associated Press sees Assad as outlasting Barack Obama's presidency by at least two months. The internal timeline was put together by U.S. officials dealing with the Syria crisis.
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel is set to plead guilty in Atlanta today to charges related to importing cocaine into the United States. Edgar Valdez Villareal known as "La Barbie," is accused of bringing trucks full of cocaine from Mexico to the eastern U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The folks at Twitter are thinking about allowing longer messages. Twitter has had a decades-old restriction of limiting the number of characters in a tweet to 140. But it's considering increasing the limit to as many as 10,000 characters.
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