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North Korea keeps testing weapons to get Trump’s attention. He likely won’t listen.
The judge determined he really didn’t aim to kill anyone.
What’s more likely is that all sorts of speech — and people — would get swept up in the technology dragnets Trump seems to be proposing.
An old law, and congressional pressure, pushed Trump to make the move.
But it could just as easily fall apart.
Are we INF’d? We’ll see.
Trump probably won’t care.
Reports say Hamza bin Laden may be dead. But some skepticism is in order.
Experts say that would be a huge mistake, but the possibility can’t be discounted.
They would withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan within their first year in office.
This is one of the most dramatic moves of the “maximum pressure” campaign.
He could backtrack in only a few months’ time.
“We will withdraw,” the South Bend, Indiana, mayor and Afghanistan vet responded. “We have to.”
It’s likely a message for South Korea and President Trump.
This will help establish if the Texas representative is “Trump’s poodle” or not.
Daniel Coats said what’s happening in the world. In the Trump era, that’s an act of defiance.
Missile tests. Building provocative submarines. It’s all good.
It’s the latest scandal to rock the elite fighting force.
It also notes that Russia targeted voting systems in all 50 states.
He replaces Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford.
This is a test for Trump.
The revelation is clearly a message for Trump.
Finally, Trump has a replacement for Jim Mattis.
Trump said he doesn’t want millions to die, but mused about wiping out Afghanistan, a country we are supposedly trying to help.
President Donald Trump called the claim “just more lies and propaganda.”
Those victims were targeted or compromised by countries like Russia, North Korea, and Iran in the past year.
“Beware of what you’re walking into, because nothing good happens in the Strait of Hormuz,” said a retired three-star admiral.
Want to understand Trump’s foreign policy? Just follow the money.
Some experts say the announcement comes at a particularly fraught time.
Biden: Trump’s reelection means “no NATO in 4 years or 5 years.”
The war in Afghanistan may not end under Trump’s watch.
Expect the Trump administration not to be too happy with this announcement.
It came as the US and the insurgent group are engaged in peace talks.
Minimizing the chance of war is nothing to scoff at.
Bastian talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Jason Del Rey about improving the customer experience, facial recognition, and Delta employees’ attempts to unionize.
It was such a misleading answer. Why wasn’t he prepared?
A Wall Street Journal reports details the risky gamble the Chinese leader might make at the G20.
Expect Democrats to fight over these three main foreign policy areas.
Still no Republicans have signed on.
“Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force,” Trump tweeted.