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Democrats controlling the House have teed up a vote to block President Donald Trump from using a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, accelerating a showdown in Congress that could divide Republicans and lead to Trump's first veto. The Democrats ...
North Korea's Kim cites own children as reason to give up nukes: ex-CIA official
A former top CIA officer who took part in several meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said that Kim had voiced his sincerity to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about giving up his nuclear weapons by citing the burden that ...
North Korea's surprise new nuclear envoy key to Trump-Kim talks
What little is known about the man North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tapped to prepare his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump suggests he's more familiar with defending Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal than giving it up. Kim Hyok Chol, a career diplomat from an ...
Vietnam issues traffic ban for possible arrival route of North Korea's Kim
Vietnam has announced an unprecedented traffic ban along a possible arrival route of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ahead of his second summit with President Donald Trump in Hanoi next week, state media reported. The Communist Party's mouthpiece Nhan Dan newspaper late Friday quoted ...
Worry over U.S.-South Korea alliance grows ahead of Trump-Kim summit
As U.S. President Donald Trump seeks a nuclear deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week in Vietnam, some in Seoul are wondering if the fate of Washington's decadeslong military alliance with South Korea could be at stake. Much of this worry is ...
Trump, Kim impersonators held for questioning by Hanoi police
Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump impersonators were held for questioning by Vietnamese police after they appeared in Hanoi, where the U.S. and North Korean leaders will meet next week for a second summit. Kim impersonator Howard X and Donald Trump lookalike Russell White staged ...
U.S. and China extend trade talks; Xi-Trump meeting may follow
U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed Friday to extend high-level trade talks through the weekend, and President Donald Trump said he hoped to meet next month at his Florida resort with President Xi Jinping to try to finalize an agreement. The news followed two days of ...
China seeks new islands to conquer
Allies in the Pacific are worried that the U.S. and Europe are no longer reliable.
Huawei will present a plan to address British security concerns about its equipment by the end of the first half of this year, a senior company executive said Thursday, following criticism the Chinese firm has not moved fast enough to fix the issues. British intelligence ...
North Carolina's elections board Thursday ordered a new election in the nation's last undecided congressional race after the Republican candidate conceded that his apparent victory was tainted by evidence of ballot-tampering by political operatives working for him. The State Board of Elections voted 5-0 in ...
Federal prosecutors have charged an IRS employee with leaking banking records of President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco said Thursday. John C. Fry, an investigative analyst for the IRS's law enforcement arm, was charged on Feb. ...
