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While the president brags about his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran and throttling its oil exports, its weapons ...

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Jon Stewart says that Donald Trump is missing one key component to be a “top-tier authoritarian”. The host of US series The Daily Show often spends time discussing the US president and the latest ...

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This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed.