THE NEW YEAR HAS GOTTEN OFF to a bombastic start, hasn’t it?
From President Donald Trump getting into a playground-styled, bragging rights exchange on Twitter with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un about whose nuclear bomb desktop button is bigger and an explosive new expose book by Michael Wolfe on the Trump administration, to a weather bomb cyclone (aka bombogenesis) off the East Coast that whammed New England Thursday, followed by high winds and big chills this weekend, it's been a wild first week.
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