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A.M. Links: Trump to Sign 'Buy American and Hire American' Executive Order, British Prime Minister Calls for New General Election, Suspected Facebook Killer Still at Large

Damon Root | 4.18.2017 8:59 AM

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    President Donald Trump is expected to sign a new executive order today designed to give force to his "Buy American and Hire American" agenda.

  • "A failed missile launch in North Korea Sunday has brought renewed attention to reports that the United States is trying to degrade North Korea's missile capabilities via hacking."
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a general election on June 8.
  • Suspected Facebook killer Steve W. Stephens is still at large.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to overturn an order by the Arkansas Supreme Court stopping that state from executing two death row inmates.
  • Voters in Georgia head to the polls today for a special primary election for an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.

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