<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Hawaii's False Alarm, Trump's Bill of Health, Astrology's Comeback
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‘THIS IS NOT A DRILL’: A mistakenly sent emergency warning that a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii caused terror and anger among the state’s residents on Saturday morning. Alia Wong describes the scene. Officials said the alert went out because “somebody clicked the wrong thing on a computer.” The situation could have been worse—a cyberattack or a sensor error. Still, the fiasco highlights the flaws in an emergency-alert system that hasn’t fully caught up with current technology, as well as the high risks of miscalculation on an ever more volatile global stage.
The White House physician about President Trump’s cognitive condition after the president passed an exam commonly used to Over the weekend, the president disputed reports that he’d and bemoaned that he doesn’t receive more-positive coverage, illustrating how the he’s used against political enemies hurts him. He also called for changes to the immigration system—but he rejected lawmakers’ most recent proposal. And as Congress approaches a funding deadline on Friday night, the federal government
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