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EXMOUTH, Australia - A rare solar eclipse plunged part of Australia’s northwest coast into brief midday darkness Thursday.The remote tourist town of Exmouth, with fewer than 3,000 residents, was promoted as one of the best vantage points in Australia to see the eclipse that also crossed remote parts of Indonesia and East Timor.Joy Daniels captured the moment from her viewing spot in Exmouth, while Luke Riley from the boat tour agency Sail Ningaloo shared timelapse footage from the same town.READ MORE: Countdown is on: 1 year away until the Great North American Solar Eclipse"It’s getting so dark; we have totality. Can you hear the birds? They are going crazy," Daniels says in her video.An international crowd had been gathering for days, camping in tents and trailers on a red, dusty plain on the edge of town with cameras and other viewing equipment pointed skyward.The hybrid solar eclipse tracked from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and was mostly over water.

WASHINGTON – Lawyers for former national security adviser John Bolton told a judge Thursday they want to interview White House officials following new allegations that a pre-publication review of his tell-all book was politicized in an effort to block its release.Michael Kirk, a lawyer for Bolton, said the interviews were needed to help establish whether President Donald Trump's political appointees at the White House acted in “bad faith” when overruling the judgment of a career classification official and concluding that Bolton's manuscript still contained classified information.A lawsuit over Bolton's book, including whether the Justice Department is entitled to profits, is still pending even though a judge months ago refused to block the