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Most Read These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned. In a story published Friday, a high school newspaper staff questioned the legitimacy of the recently hired principal's degrees and of her work as an education consultant. By Samantha Schmidt  •  Read more » WorldViews •  Analysis Will North Korea fire a missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland? Probably. Kim Jong Un has declared North Korea is close to testing a missile that can reach the U.S. Is it time to freak out? By Anna Fifield  •  Read more »   The Fix •  Analysis Ivanka Trump’s answer to critics who want her to keep her father in check: Just trust me "I would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence," she says. But that's kind of a straw man. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   F-16 fighter jet crashes, pilot parachutes out in Maryland The plane crashed about six miles southwest of Joint Base Andrews. By Dana Hedgpeth  •  Read more »

Rice denies compiling, leaking names of Trump officials from intelligence reports Obama’s national security adviser has become the subject of reports that she “unmasked” the names of Trump officials concealed in intelligence intercepts. By Karen DeYoung  •  Read more »   America is ‘over-stored’ and Payless ShoeSource is the latest victim A combination of online shopping, suburban flight, maturing debt and the closures of other retailers has created a “death-spiral of retailers." By Travis M. Andrews  •  Read more »   A maid begged for help before falling from a window in Kuwait. Her boss made a video instead. It was not the first time a domestic servant fell off of a building in Kuwait — in the oil-rich Persian Gulf, where where foreign workers are cheap, plentiful and live at the mercy of their employers. By Avi Selk  •  Read more »   The Plum Line •  Opinion Republicans will ‘go nuclear’ to confirm Gorsuch. They should worry about what happens next. Republicans have more to fear from nuking the filibuster on legislation than Dems do. By Greg Sargent  •  Read more »   Advertisers flee ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ amid sexual-harassment claims against host A rising number of companies have suspended sponsorship, including major automakers and drug manufacturers. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »

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