AMERICA-NEWS TODAY: WASHINGTON – Trump says CIA director’s secret meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un went ‘very smoothly’
NORTH AMERICA
US-WORLD
- • South Korea to seek formal peace agreement with North at upcoming summit
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US-NATION
Trump, Obama and other dignitaries pay tribute to Barbara Bush
The wisdom of Barbara Bush: If someone doesn’t like being first lady ‘there’s something wrong with her’
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US-CALIFORNIA
Hayward fault
The Big One, 112 Years Later: East Bay fault is ‘tectonic time bomb,’ more dangerous than San Andreas, new study finds
A landmark report by the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that at least 800 people could be killed and 18,000 more injured in a hypothetical magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault.
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US-TEXAS
In southern Texas, patching the border wall with $49 million in gates
- • Images from San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake
- • On anniversary of great 1906 quake, California still struggles to prepare for the next ‘big one’
SOUTH AMERICA
MEXICO-NATION
Castro Era Is Closing in Cuba as Party Signals Successor
Raúl Castro is expected to step down as president in Cuba, handing power to someone outside the dynasty for the first time in more than half a century. His successor will face a minefield of tasks that even Mr. Castro failed to complete.
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LATIN AMERICA
ART REVIEW
How Latin America Was Built , Before Modernism Came Along
“The Metropolis in Latin America,” an exhibit at the Americas Society in New York, tells a tale of ambition, nationalism, violence and technical innovation.
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