Trump Meets 3 Americans Held In North Korea As They Return To U.S.
The dramatic release of the trio, two who were arrested just over a year ago and the third held since 2015, comes amid a thaw in relations between Washington and Pyongyang.
Haspel nomination clouded by her past – but also by today’s context
Gina Haspel says she will not resume the Central Intelligence Agency’s brutal interrogation programs of the past. As a CIA official in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Ms. Haspel supervised waterboarding and other questioning techniques conside…
President Trump Expected To Greet 3 Americans Released From North Korea
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on his way back from North Korea with three U.S. detainees who were released.
Trump Administration Orders Boeing To Cancel Deal With Iran
Aircraft giant Boeing looked at deals worth billions of dollars with Iran. Now the Trump administration is preventing them as it pulls out of the nuclear agreement. But the company wasn’t counting on the deals anyway.
Former Iranian Nuclear Negotiator Weighs In On U.S. Decision To Leave Nuclear Deal
A former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, weighs in on how President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal is playing out in that country.
EU Ambassador To The U.S. Reacts To Trump’s Decision To Leave Iran Nuclear Deal
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Ambassador David O’Sullivan, the European Union’s ambassador to the U.S., about President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal.
Why So Many Iraqis Are Discouraged By Their Country’s Upcoming Election
Iraqis fought hard for the right to vote and millions will do so in a parliamentary election this weekend. But their faith in democracy is being tested by political corruption and mismanagement.
Trump, Iran, North Korea, and the art of the denuclearization deal
It was no mere aside when President Trump used his statement Tuesday on withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal to announce that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was about to touch down in North Korea to lay the groundwork for the upcoming summit. Instead…
Why Trump cannot merely contain Iran
As he promised as a candidate, President Trump has taken the United States out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Shaping a sustainable order in the Middle East takes leadership in values, not just the raw power of military might and economic sanctions.
Sugar Crash: After Tanker Flips, Chocolate Bars Traffic On Polish Highway
A truck carrying tons of liquid chocolate flipped over on a highway Wednesday, leaving sweet stuff to congeal on the asphalt. Happily, there’s video — though it’s a bit grosser than you might imagine.
An unprecedented effort to stem opioid crisis – and the judge behind it
“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things if they step up,” says Judge Daniel A. Polster in an interview in his 18th-floor Federal Court House office overlooking Cleveland. Judge Polster has found himself at the helm of an unprecedented legal battl…
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