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North Korean officials were closely watching US President Donald Trump when he addressed the South Korean National Assembly Wednesday, but they say they weren't listening. Though the American leader's tone was more subdued -- and he proposed what some perceived as a conditional olive branch -- officials in Pyongyang authorized to speak for the government told CNN when it comes to Trump, "we don't care about what that mad dog may utter because we've already heard enough."
Democrats woke up to a big dose of good news Wednesday as they dissected election results from around the country. One year after the surprise election of President Donald Trump, there were plenty of encouraging signs for Democrats trying to travel the road to recovery.
Vice President Mike Pence told a gathering of Republican governors Wednesday "we've got real momentum," despite stinging electoral defeats last week in Virginia and New Jersey, a GOP-led Congress that has failed to pass any major legislation this year and President Donald Trump's plummeting popularity. Pence's party controls a record-tying 34 U.S. governorships and part of a two-day annual Republican Governors Association meeting in the capital of Texas, the country's largest red state, was to discussing how to continue that dominance.
Republican candidate for the governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie arrives to vote at Washington Mill Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. Mohan Shrestha, a new U.S. citizen originally from Nepal, takes his ballot to vote for the first time in an election at Hillsboro Old Stone School in Purcellville, Va.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday quickly sought to distance himself from Republican gubernatorial hopeful Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor's race as Democrat Ralph Northam was projected to win by multiple news outlets. "Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for," Trump said on Twitter in the midst of his visit to South Korea, as Virginia results continued to roll in, suggesting a comfortable Northam victory.
Twelve-term GOP Rep. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey says he plans to retire, declaring that "our nation is now consumed by increasing political polarization" and that "there is no longer middle ground." The 71-year-old became the latest moderate Republican to make plans to step down as his party struggles with internal divisions under President Donald Trump.
The Arizona lawmaker, one of the most vocal GOP critics of President Donald Trump, tweeted Tuesday about his bill that would bar anyone convicted of domestic violence in a criminal or military court from purchasing a weapon. The gunman who killed 26 people at a Texas church Sunday was able to purchase weapons because the Air Force failed to submit his criminal history to the FBI as required by law.
A year after a devastating defeat to Donald Trump, the party is still trying to move on. A disbarred lawyer who once represented Casey Anthony has been convicted of conspiring to fly a plane filled with $13 million worth of cocaine from Ecuador to Honduras.
A furious round of liberal-on-liberal violence broke out on Tuesday's CBS This Morning . The show's hosts confronted former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile for daring to expose Hillary Clinton's efforts to hobble any contenders in the 2016 primaries.
In early 1983, President Ronald Reagan dropped to 35 percent approval . By the end of the year, he was up nearly 20 percentage points, renominated by acclamation and won a second term with 49 states behind him.
The top Democrat on the House committee probing Russian election meddling said Tuesday that America's "democracy is under threat" from Russia - and also from President Donald Trump. He said Russia poses an external threat, but "in many respects, the challenge from within is more serious because we have a president who takes issue with the First Amendment and a president who describes the press as an enemy of the people."
Democrat and ex-CIA: Trump needs to focus on Making America Feel Good Again or he's out in 2020 A year ago, some 63 million Americans elected Donald Trump to serve as the nation's 45th president. Few anticipated his improbable success when he launched his campaign.
Voters in Maine are headed to the polls Tuesday to decide if they want to join 31 other states and expand Medicaid under former President Barack Obama 's Affordable Care Act . The ballot measure comes after Maine's Republican governor vetoed five attempts to expand the program.
After President Trump decertified the Iran Nuclear Deal in October, a new focus has been placed on whether Tehran is in compliance and how that is monitored. Over two years have passed since the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action , was signed between Iran and six world powers, but officials continue to disagree over whether Tehran is in compliance with the accord.
Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee work to shape the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee work to shape the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017.
Borrowing a phrase from Winston Churchill, Keith Olbermann said on Monday's episode of "The Resistance" that it appears America is at the end of the beginning of President Donald Trump's downfall - and what happens next has never been more unclear. With last week's indictments of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates, Olbermann mused whether we're also at "the end of whatever control of himself Donald Trump has."
South Korean protesters stage a rally against a visit by the U.S. President Donald Trump, near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. Readers weigh in on Trump.