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A.M. Links: Hugh Hefner Dead at 91, Trump Waives Jones Act for Puerto Rico, North Korea Again Denies Torturing Otto Warmbier

Damon Root | 9.28.2017 9:00 AM

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    President Donald Trump has begun rolling out his tax plan.

  • President Trump will waive the Jones Act for Puerto Rico.
  • Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has died at age 91.
  • North Korea is once again denying that it tortured Otto Warmbier, the American who died after being held prisoner in that country.
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dissolved the lower house of the Japanese parliament and called for a snap election.
  • A U.S. district court judge has ruled against a Kentucky law that requires doctors who perform abortions to first conduct an ultrasound and then describe the image to the patient.

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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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