Trump, Kim Jong-un Sign Document, Pledge to Work Together for Peace
After a historic summit that scored North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s signed pledge committing to “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” President Trump said Tuesday it was a great moment for the world. “We are prepared to start a new history and we are prepared to write a new chapter between our nations,” he told reporters at the summit site at Capella Hotel. He ticked off a laundry list of concessions the U.S. won from North Korea: • The release of three U.S citizens imprisoned in North Korea. • The return of remains of soldiers still missing in action (MIA) from the Korean War. ... Read More
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Obama Reportedly Coaching 2020 Hopefuls on How to Defeat Trump
President Obama won’t be on the ballot in 2020, but he is meeting with some of the Democrats who are looking to run for president, giving them advice on how to challenge President Trump, according to news reports. Mr. Obama has met with nearly a dozen potential candidates, coaching them on issues, party politics and how to confront the unorthodox Mr. Trump, CNN reported. It’s a unique role for a former president who’s seen Mr. Trump, in less than two years, wipe away much of his legacy, from environmental policy to immigration decisions to trade agreements to the ... Read More
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Trump Moves on to Iran: Says He Wants a ‘Real Deal’
Just a few hours after his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump has his eyes on making a new deal with Iran. “I hope that, at the appropriate time, after the sanctions kick in — and they are brutal what we’ve put on Iran — I hope that they’re going to come back and negotiate a real deal because I’d love to be able to do that,” Trump said, speaking to reporters in Singapore on Tuesday. Trump pulled out of the controversial Iran Deal, formally named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, calling it “one of the worst and ... Read More
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Trump-Kim Nuclear Summit Praised, but Big Questions Loom
The summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un was historic in that it presented a potent optic of peace and diplomacy between two leaders who’d traded nuclear threats just a year ago. But the meeting also produced more questions than answers, with the big one being: Will the North Korean dictator actually follow through on denuclearizing? Uncertainty on the issue loomed especially large Tuesday morning in Washington, where long-time North Korea watchers are all too aware that Mr. Kim’s father Kim Jong-il explicitly committed back in 2005 to “abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs,” only to renege on ... Read More
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Alleged Leaker Engaged in 'Betrayal' of Public Trust, Prosecutor Says
The indictment of a top Senate staffer in a leak investigation touched off more concerns about politicized leaking of what is supposed to be secret government information. A federal grand jury in Washington indicted James A. Wolfe, 58, the director of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, for lying to FBI investigators in the course of a leak investigation. Wolfe’s job was safeguarding all classified information in the possession of the committee, according to the Justice Department. “These leaks shouldn’t be happening. This was not a case of a whistleblower, but an actual violation of security protocol,” said Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who ... Read More
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