Cops Have Hours-Long Standoff With Empty Hardee's, Trump Wanted More Nukes, Afghanistan Bombing Accelerates: A.M. Links

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  After a several hour standoff outside a Liberty, Missouri, Hardee's restaurant, local cops in SWAT gear entered to find the place completely empty. Police had been summoned by Hardee's workers who said a man with a gun had barricaded himself in the bathroom.

• President Trump got upset after learning that the U.S. had steadily decreased its stockpile of nuclear weapons since the 1960s and proposed a nearly tenfold increase, military officials told NBC News. "It was soon after the meeting broke up that officials who remained behind heard Tillerson say that Trump is a 'moron.'"
• We're dropping more bombs in Afghanistan than we have since 2010.
• Apparently no one can figure out whether Catalonia has or has not declared independence.
• "For all their effort, what crime did the police root out? None. They were just toying with people and ruining lives for sport."
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