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Sundown: So…North Korea

Plus five detained members of Women of the Wall are released

by
Adam Chandler
April 11, 2013
Doomsday Clock.(BusinessInsider)
Doomsday Clock.(BusinessInsider)

• According to a Pentagon assessment, North Korea may have the capacity to make a nuclear missile. [NYT]

• The five women arrested at the monthly Women of the Wall prayer service at the Western Wall were released after being detained and questioned for several hours. [JTA]

• Martyl Langsdorf, designer of the Doomsday Day Clock, has died at age 96. [NYT]

• A Palestinian-American teenager accused of throwing rocks at Israeli motorists have been held in military lock-up for a week, stirring some controversy from American civil liberties groups. [Haaretz/AP]

• Turning heads in a lot of corners today is the trial of Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor charged with the murder of eight. Justin Green reports. [Daily Beast]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.