on Pyongyang in response to nuclear and missile tests in 2006 and 2009. The issue is now a bilateral one between Washington and Beijing, the diplomats said.

(Additional reporting by Paul Eckert, and Joseph Menn in San Francisco; Editing by Sandra Maler and Peter Cooney)navigating the sleaziest side of journalism, acting as a kind of private eye, spying on the infidelities of various fringe Hollywood figures. While pleading for assignments, Jay gets sent to the morgue to learn whatever he can about the brutal murder of Janice Brewster. In the process, some aspects of his unfortunate backstory emerge. Once a teen prodigy writer for the Los Angeles Times, he has now drifted into the disreputable world of The Examiner—for reasons that remain unspecified.

Back in Nevada, Pat is scolded by her alcoholic mother Jimmy Lee (Golden Brooks), who offers all kinds of discouraging words about her romantic relationship with Lewis (Dabier). Later that night, Pat starts digging through her mother’s possessions and stumbles upon a shocking discovery: her birth certificate, which reveals that