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NYTIMES (John Yoon) - U.S. Military Strikes Boat in Caribbean, Killing 2

The aerial strike raised the death toll to at least 187 in the U.S. campaign against boats the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs.

ABCNEWS - Trump's influence tested in Indiana Republican state Senate primaries

Indiana Republican state lawmakers who broke with President Donald Trump over his call to redraw the state’s congressional district lines are facing primary challengers who are backed by Trump and national conservative groups

NPR (Hanna Merzbach) - Wyoming lawmakers use pro-natalist arguments to justify proposed new partial abortion ban

Wyoming lawmakers say tight new restrictions on abortion are needed to grow the state's population. Demographers and others say economic conditions are more to blame for an exodus of young people.

NYTIMES (Maria Varenikova and Amy Chang Chien) - Taiwan Could Learn From Ukraine. Informally, Connections Are Growing.

The governments have no official diplomatic or military ties. But a loose network led by company executives and volunteers is bridging some of that gulf.

NYTIMES (Keith Bradsher and Qilai Shen) - As Oil Prices Stay High, China Doubles Down on Wind Power

An industrial policy of subsidies and import restrictions laid the foundations for China to become almost as dominant in wind turbines as in solar panels.

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Taki) - The Wintour of Our Malcontents

Perhaps it’s time for the phonies to take action against their own. The post The Wintour of Our Malcontents appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag The Wintour of Our Malcontents Perhaps it’s time for the phonies to take action against their own. TakiMag (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) It was great fun while it lasted. It certainly was elegant, exclusive, and attended by men who were gentlemen and women who were ladies. Society beauties like Cee Zee Guest, Babe Paley, Natalie Cushing and their ilk were regulars. It was run by Pat Buckley, William F.’s better half, and she kept the level exclusive and high. It celebrated artistry and beauty, and attendants paid for it with pleasure. I remember introducing the author Walter Isaacson to Cee Zee, and how impressed with her ethereal elegance and looks the writer was; he told me so. And the lady in question was in her mid…Open