WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis warned North Korea Sunday against aggression against the United States or its allies, saying it would trigger a unified world response and what he termed the “total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea.” Speaking outside the White House after President Donald Trump met with his top national security […]
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International, USAPresident Trump said Sunday on Twitter that North Korea has “become a great threat and embarrassment to China,” after the secretive totalitarian nation announced it had detonated a hydrogen bomb and declared the test “a perfect success.” It was the sixth underground bomb tested since 2006, said North Korea’s state-run TV, and it was the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Victoria and The Crown (about Elizabeth II) are television dramas that portray the experiences of two young women who find themselves with the imperfectly defined power of the Monarch in a serious country having enough weight to affect the world. Both dramas appear reasonably true to prominent details of history,
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International, Ira Sharkansky, USAPresident Donald Trump handed out box lunches and hugged children in a Houston emergency shelter on Saturday, as he witnessed the devastation wrought after Hurricane Harvey unleashed apocalyptic floods on America’s fourth-largest city. The sprawling Texas city was taking tentative steps back to normalcy after a week of flooding that damaged 40,000 to 50,000 homes
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USAThe White House announced President Donald Trump’s preferred pick to head NASA on Friday night, but the choice is already proving unpopular, with Florida senators criticizing Trump’s choice. The man nominated is Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine, who would become the 13th administrator of the national space agency upon Senate approval. The role’s responsibilities include serving
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USAMEXICO CITY — Making his final state of the union address before national elections next year, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Saturday received a thunderous standing ovation when he vowed that Mexico would not compromise its national “dignity” in the country’s rocky relations with the Trump administration. “I have said it and I will
President Donald Trump, or whoever wrote his speech for him on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, is right: Pakistan must step up to the plate and do more to eradicate safe havens for extremists on its soil. While it is essential that extremism is defeated at its ideological root, we cannot deny that politics—and foreign policy in particular—can
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USALOS ANGELES—Residents in Burbank at the foot of the Verdugo Mountains were ordered to evacuate late Friday as firefighters struggled to contain a raging wildfire that grew to 2,000 acres. Those living in the Brace Canyon Park area were ordered to “leave immediately” and head to an evacuation shelter in Sunland, according to an alert
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USAWASHINGTON – President Trump on Friday nominated Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy as the nation’s “drug czar,” months after he had officially withdrawn from consideration. Marino, an attorney who has served in the House of Representatives since 2011, has a lengthy track record of supporting enforcement-side drug
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USAPresident Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, has curtailed the flow of conservative-media reports reaching his boss amid a bid to block his access to unvetted articles, according to The New York Times. Hardly one month into his tenure as Mr. Trump’s latest chief of staff, Mr. Kelly has made a noticeable impact on the
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USAAGT dad Screen Shot 2017-09-01 at 1.34.30 PM The future couldn’t look any brighter for 13-year-old Evie Clair in terms of chasing her dreams. All season long, the Arizona native has been wowing judges with her incredible voice on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” But staying positive can be quite a challenge for the teenager when
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USARussia on Saturday summoned the top US envoy in Moscow to protest a search by American officials of a diplomatic facility in Washington, due to be shuttered in the latest twist of the two countries’ diplomatic tit-for-tat. The foreign ministry said it called in acting US mission head Anthony Godfrey and handed him a “note
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International, USALOS ANGELES, September 3, 2017 – While many Americans are enjoying Labor Day Weekend, a large chunk of residents in Southeast Texas and Louisiana do not have that luxury. Hurricane Harvey devastated the area with over 52 inches of rain and residents are now under mandatory evacuation to avoid floods. The overall response by President
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USAHOUSTON — The big-rig truck was full of cats. Theo, who had a bit of a sneeze. Vennessa, who was acting like a diva. Two Thomases. And Buck, who, to everyone’s surprise, was a girl. They had been living in shelters in southeast Texas. But with Hurricane Harvey leaving untold numbers of family pets stranded,
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