WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense James Mattis and his South Korean counterpart have “discussed the option” of putting nuclear weapons in the country to deter North Korea, Mattis told reporters Monday. Mattis declined to elaborate further on his discussions with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo, but the two countries […]
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The Spanish foreign ministry said it has asked North Korea’s ambassador to leave Spain before the end of the month because of his country’s refusals to cease its nuclear weapons programme. Spain has cracked down on the actions of Kim Jong-un by ordering diplomat Hook Choi Kim to leave the […]
An engineering student who was an LGBTQ activist was shot and killed by Georgia Tech campus police on Saturday night, officials said Sunday. The school identified the victim as Scout Schultz, 21, a fourth-year engineering student from Lilburn, Georgia, who police said was armed with a knife. Schultz, president of […]
WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump visited CIA headquarters in the first weeks of his presidency, he toured the secure floor where agency officers direct drone strikes against suspected terrorists, current and former U.S. officials told NBC News. Impressed by what he saw, Trump conveyed to incoming CIA Director Mike […]
President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York City had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the refugee crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in attendance. The three-story Tudor-style home in […]
The German election takes place this Sunday amid a backdrop of growing concern at the national economy. Today a business chief warned a whole host of issues need serious investment, from the internet to roads. Dieter Kempf, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), said: “It is horrific to […]
BATON ROUGE, La.— A 23-year-old white man whom police call a “person of interest” in the fatal shootings of two black men in Baton Rouge has been released from jail after his arrest on drug charges over the weekend. Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola, a department spokesman, said Monday […]
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump on Monday previewed a new tradition he would like to institute: a parade of military pageantry in the nation’s capital in the style of the one he attended in Paris for Bastille Day this year. “To a large […]