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Missile alerts would fall to feds under defense bill

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                                A smartphone screen capture shows the retraction of a false incoming ballistic missile emergency alert sent from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency system on Jan. 13, 2018.
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A smartphone screen capture shows the retraction of a false incoming ballistic missile emergency alert sent from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency system on Jan. 13, 2018.

ASSOCIATED PRESS 
                                U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, pictured in July arriving on Capitol Hill for a meeting, authored a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that would give the federal government the responsibility to alert the public of a missile threat.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, pictured in July arriving on Capitol Hill for a meeting, authored a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that would give the federal government the responsibility to alert the public of a missile threat.

ASSOCIATED PRESS 
                                A smartphone screen capture shows the retraction of a false incoming ballistic missile emergency alert sent from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency system on Jan. 13, 2018.
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
                                U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, pictured in July arriving on Capitol Hill for a meeting, authored a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that would give the federal government the responsibility to alert the public of a missile threat.