President’s Trump card may be N. Korea if Flynn is threat to him
The centipede has dropped its heaviest shoe yet. Michael Flynn's plea deal makes explicit that he is cooperating with the special counsel in the Russia investigation.
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Russian Deputy PM Mutko defiant about Olympic scandal
Journalists walk in the concert hall of the State Kremlin Palace where Friday's final draw for the 2018 soccer World Cup will take place in the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. Jurors have found a Mexican man not guilty of murder in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that touched off a national immigration debate.
Senator: It’s time for US military families to leave South Korea
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he believes it's time to start moving the families of American military personnel out of South Korea as North Korea pushes the U.S. closer to a military conflict. Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he will also urge the Pentagon not to send any more dependents to South Korea.
GOP pressing plan to avert government shutdown on Dec. 8
An attorney for U.S. Rep. John Conyers says the 88-year-old lawmaker will fight allegations of sexual harassment involving former female staff members. An attorney for U.S. Rep. John Conyers says the 88-year-old lawmaker will fight allegations of sexual harassment involving former female staff members.
GOP tax bill gains support; Senate leaders work on holdouts
An attorney for U.S. Rep. John Conyers says the 88-year-old lawmaker will fight allegations of sexual harassment involving former female staff members. Maryland officials say 26 people have been indicted after an investigation into gang activity in the state's prisons, including correctional officer called a high-ranking gang member.
HBO cuts ties with Russell Simmons amid second allegation
Simmons announced on Nov. 30, 2017, he would be ... An attorney for U.S. Rep. John Conyers says the 88-year-old lawmaker will fight allegations of sexual harassment involving former female staff members. An attorney for U.S. Rep. John Conyers says the 88-year-old lawmaker will fight allegations of sexual harassment involving former female staff members.
NYT report: White House planning Tillerson’s exita
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks to the media about North Korea during White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee's daily press briefing at the White House on November 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. The White House has a plan ready to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from the State Department, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Pope arrives in Bangladesh in shadow of Rohingya crisis
Pope Francis landed in Bangladesh on Thursday after a diplomatically sensitive trip to mainly Buddhist Myanmar, where he made no direct reference to the plight of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh in their hundreds of thousands. Pope Francis walks with Bangladesh's President Abdul Hamid after arriving at the airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh November 30, 2017.
Vatican defends Pope’s avoidance of word Rohingya on historic Myanmar visit
The Vatican is pushing back against criticism aimed at Pope Francis for not speaking out against Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya Muslims during his historic visit to the southeast Asian country. Foreign diplomats, including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, have called what Myanmar's military is doing to the Rohingya ethnic cleansing, a charge that its leadership and the country's defacto ruler Aung San Suu Kyi deny.
Ap Photos: Associated Press editors pick best of 2017
2017 AP YEAR END PHOTOS - President-elect Donald Trump waits to step out onto the portico for his Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. 2017 AP YEAR END PHOTOS - Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts, as Melania Trump and his family looks on during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017.
Kim Jong Un signs what is said to be a document authorising the missile test
Mr Trump also urged China "to use all available levers" to convince its ally to "return to the path of denuclearisation". It was not immediately clear if Mr Trump was referring to additional US sanctions or another round of penalties at the United Nations .
War with North Korea is not a viable option
The Cold War was marked by hysteria over the potential for nuclear conflict. The world seemed to enter a new age when the Soviet Union collapsed.
New missile test shows North Korea capable of hitting all of US mainland
North Korea claims to have successfully tested a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile, topped with a "super-large heavy warhead," which is capable of striking the US mainland. The country's state media made the announcement Wednesday, hours after leader Kim Jong Un ordered the 3 a.m. launch of the Hwasong-15 missile, which reached the highest altitude ever recorded by a North Korean missile.
Trump confronts perilous North Korean test
North Korea pushed President Donald Trump closer to a set of excruciating choices with its most potent missile test yet, which shattered a two-month calm in Northeast Asia and set nerves in Washington back on edge. Trump, who earlier this year warned he would rain "fire and fury" on the isolated state if it continued to threaten the US or its allies, was relatively muted in responding to Kim Jong Un's latest provocation.
North Korea’s Missile launch appears to put D.C. in range
North Korea claimed the entire United States mainland was within reach after "successfully" testing a new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile, which it called the Hwasong-15, and said could carry a "super large heavy warhead." While Pyongyang is prone to exaggeration, its boast of having all of the United States in range is in line with experts' calculations that the missile launched Wednesday, which flew 10 times higher than the International Space Station, could theoretically reach Washington, District of Columbia.
Sri Lanka arrests 22 trying to go to Australia by boat
Sri Lankan prison officers escort suspected Sri Lankan illegal immigrants after producing them at a magistrate court in Puttalam, about 120 kilometers north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Sri Lankan police said Monday that they have arrested 22 people who were attempting to illegally migrate to Australia by boat.
Pentagon tried to block independent report on child sex among Afghan forces, Senate office says
The Pentagon tried to block an independent assessment of child sex abuse crimes committed by Afghan soldiers and police, instead insisting on the creation of its own report offering a far less authoritative review of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S. allies, according to an aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy . Although the report released Nov. 16 by the Defense Department Inspector General's office reached the grim conclusion that, for years, U.S. personnel have been inadequately trained to report such crimes, a parallel investigation by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction is thought to contain a much more detailed accounting of the problem's severity.
Bill Clinton Is Involved in Two Major Uranium Scandals Involving the…
It is already well known that former President Bill Clinton was right in the middle of the now widely reported criminal Uranium One deal. What isn't well known is that this was the second of two criminal uranium deals involving the former President and the Clinton Foundation.
Castro Meets N. Korea Minister Amid Hope Cuba Can Defuse Tensions
Cuban President Raul Castro met with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on Friday amid hopes the communist-run island might be able to persuade its Asian ally to avert a showdown with the United States. North Korea is facing unprecedented pressure from the United States and the international community to cease its nuclear weapons and missile programs.
Crawford: Russia was once our deadliest enemy — but no longer
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, there was no country more feared by Americans than the Soviet Union. We were all terrified back then at the thought that the Reds would drop atomic bombs on the United States and blast us all to oblivion.