Even pessimists said President Trump's hard line against Pyongyang — after decades of less forceful U.S. effort — played a major role in bringing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the negotiating table. But questions came fast and furious after the announcement.
At the daily White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested the meeting wasn't a done deal after all. She seemed to retroactively attach preconditions to the whole thing.
On Thursday, the secretary of state said the time was not ripe for negotiations. By Friday, he was drawing a distinction between talks and negotiations.
The new law establishes a three-day waiting period for most purchases for long guns and a new age requirement. The rules come weeks after the deadly mass shooting at Parkland.
The governor was one of the first GOP politicians to buck the NRA on some gun-control measures. Now he could be one of the first post-Parkland to campaign on that.
Syrian filmmaker Muhammad Bayazid said he endured torture, survived a massacre and fled two countries while planning a feature film he hoped would be the "Schindler's List" of his homeland's grinding war. Then he was stabbed on a dark Istanbul street. But now his account has come into question.
Defense attorneys for Shkreli, the 34-year-old former hedge-fund manager best known as "Pharma Bro" for raising the price of an AIDS drug by 5,000 percent when he was chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, had asked U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto for a sentence of 12 to 18 months. Prosecutors sought a sentence of at least 15 years in prison.
NBC News reported that Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime ally and attorney, had used a Trump Organization email address as he worked to secure the payment to the porn star.
A defeat here would represent the biggest political humiliation for President Trump since he went all in for Senate candidate Roy Moore and lost anyway. That's why the White House is sending the cavalry.
The reduction, which could benefit JPMorgan and Citigroup, would weaken one of the safeguards Congress helped to put in place after the 2008 financial crisis, some banking experts say.
Kyle Kashuv, 16, had an itinerary that any lobbyist would dream of, packed into 24 hours: five senators, the speaker of the House, the counselor to the president, and then a special surprise at the White House.
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