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After summit pullout, South Korea and China have little appetite for Trump's ‘maximum pressure’ — SEOUL — President Trump credited his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions and threats with bringing North Korea to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear weapons program.
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President Trump Is a Better Dealbreaker Than Dealmaker — His blown-up North Korea summit proves it. — At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I was speaking with a senior Administration official involved in the preparations for President Trump's summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
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White House officials: We were closer to war with North Korea than realized
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Trump Says North Korea Summit May Be Rescheduled
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The Latest: Mattis: ‘Possibly some good news’ on summit
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Senator Lindsey Graham On “Spygate” And President Trump And War On The Korean Peninsula
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White House gift shop ‘Deal of the Day’: Trump-Kim summit souvenirs
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At Trump Tower, Michael Cohen and Oligarch Discussed Russian Relations — Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer and fixer …
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Ex-aides say congressman and wife made them his servants — Rep. Tom Garrett and his wife made staffers pick up groceries, clothes — even dog poop, multiple former employees to the freshman Republican told POLITICO. — Freshman Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) and his wife turned the congressman's staff …
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'We're closed!': Trump vents his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary — President Trump began berating Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in the Oval Office earlier this spring, according to administration officials, griping about her performance and blaming her for a surge in illegal border crossings.
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The Real Constitutional Crisis — The FBI and Justice Department continue evading congressional oversight. — Democrats and their media allies are again shouting “constitutional crisis,” this time claiming President Trump has waded too far into the Russia investigation.
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Harvey Weinstein released on $1M bail after arrest on rape, sexual abuse charges — Harvey Weinstein turned himself into police in New York City this morning to face rape and sexual misconduct charges, before being released on $1 million cash bail and fitted with a GPS tracking device.
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Rose McGowan, Asia Argento, President Trump react to Harvey Weinstein charges
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T-Mobile Says It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to Former Trump Aide Corey Lewandowski — Company says contract with Turnberry Solutions includes help on pending deal with Sprint — WASHINGTON— T-Mobile US Inc. TMUS -.53% is getting advice from Corey Lewandowski, the former campaign manager …


‘This is surreal,’ parent says of Indiana school shooting — Chad Lancaster, who has an eighth-grade daughter and sixth-grade son at the middle school, said he heard from his ex-wife in a phone call. — Their daughter, hiding under her desk, called the mother. She told her to run.
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2 in critical condition, one in custody after shooting at Indiana school
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At least 2 injured in shooting at Indiana middle school; student in custody
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GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati — (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in Illinois has said the September 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job and that singer Beyonce Knowles has ties to the Illuminati.
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Parents call for investigation into Stoneman Douglas assault involving sheriff's son — Embattled former Deputy Scot Peterson handled case 4 years ago — PARKLAND, Fla. - Several parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff's …
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Black Cube: Inside the shadowy Israeli firm accused of trying to undermine the Iran deal — As Rebecca Kahl remembers it, something felt odd about the initial email. It came in May 2017 from a woman named Adriana Gavrilo, who claimed to work for a London-based private equity firm.


Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment ‘colossal waste’ … A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment “a colossal waste of resources.”
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Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors — U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.
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Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests — One of the first things Mick Mulvaney did last year after President Trump asked him to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to read the statute dictating the agency's powers.
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Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids — As more and more American communities grapple with opioid addiction, the human toll of the epidemic has grown in both scope and severity. And now, scientists at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have found evidence …
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Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen? — Escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back — DRAPER, Utah—Mike Meru, a 37-year-old orthodontist, made a big investment in his education.
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Trump says the first lady is ‘doing great.’ She hasn't been seen in public for two weeks. — First lady Melania Trump, who spent five nights in the hospital following a kidney procedure, has been out of public view for 15 days running — an unusually long absence even for a first lady who relishes life outside the spotlight.
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Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats — WASHINGTON — Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed …
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Conservatives Tout ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Theory After Armed Men Killed Oklahoma Shooter … Two “good guys with a gun” stopped a potential mass shooter at a restaurant Thursday night in Oklahoma City, providing more fuel for the ongoing gun debate as yet another school shooting occurred Friday morning.
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Keith Olbermann takes an expanded role at ESPN, including a return to ‘SportsCenter’ — Keith Olbermann's most recent return to ESPN just became more prominent. — Olbermann, who has made appearances on various ESPN shows in recent months, will have an increased role on the network as part …
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A son was killed in action and his parents ask why — Spec. Gabriel Conde, a kindergartner on 9/11, was the 2,264th member of the U.S. military to die in the Afghan war — BERTHOUD, Colo.— Ten days since Gabe was killed. Bob and Donna Conde were sitting on a couch in their basement …


EPA: Pruitt spent $3.5 million on security during first year in office — Taxpayers spent about $3.5 million on security for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt during his first year in office, according to records released by the agency Friday.


Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam? — Until 1968, Walter Cronkite believed what his government told him about the Vietnam War. He was an old-school journalist, a patriot, a man who came of age covering World War II as a wire-service reporter and then taking …


Wichita teen arrested for sagging pants at Warren Theatre — WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - — A 14-year-old boy says he was arrested at the Warren Theatre in east Wichita because his pants were sagging. — Alonzo Taylor Jr says he went to the East Warren 20 with a group of friends when the manager approached him about his pants.
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John Travolta's Former Scientology Pals Speak Out: He's 'Got a Dark Side and He's Reckless' … CANNES, France - The gay rumors? — Try sitting five inches from John Travolta's wife, in the Carlton Hotel's Grace Kelly suite overlooking the shimmering Mediterranean without being overwhelmed by cognitive dissonance.
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Stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally, called a criminal: how police targeted a black activist — Exclusive: records show police surveilled and tried to charge a citizen journalist attacked at a California rally. Does it fit a pattern of punishing black protesters?