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Kim Yong Chol, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of Kim Jong Un's closest aides (second from right) and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sit across from one another before the start of a meeting on Thursday in New York (Seth Wenig/AP)
NPR
International

Pompeo meets with top North Korean official in hopes of reviving Singapore summit

The meeting between Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol, N. Korea's former military intelligence chief, marks the highest-level official visit by a North Korean to the U.S. since 2000.

8 years ago

Kim Yong Chol, left, a former military intelligence chief who is now North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's top official on inter-Korean relations, accompanied by North Korean Ambassador to China Ji Jae Ryong, second from left, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Kim Yong Chol was headed to New York for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
International

Top North Korean official lands in US for talks with Pompeo

A senior North Korean official arrived in New York on Wednesday in the highest-level official visit to the United States in 18 years.

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., ushered a crackdown on undocumented immigrants. while he was mayor of Hazleton. (AP photo/Matt Slocum)
NewsWorks Tonight
Pennsylvania

Examining political strategy of ‘divide and conquer’ in Hazleton, Pa.

Professor and author Jamie Longazel joins NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller to discuss the legacy of the Illegal Immigration Relief Act on the community of Hazleton, Pa.

8 years ago

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(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)
Radio Times
Immigration
Kids

ICE: Then and now

Guests: Roque Planas, Mae Ngai, Carola Suárez-Orozco “If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you ...

Air Date: May 30, 2018 10:00 am

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Roseanne Barr attends the Disney/ABC/Freeform 2018 Upfront Party at Tavern on the Green on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
National Interest

Roseanne gets Barred from decent society, and good riddance

When I heard yesterday that trashy racist Roseanne Barr had been summarily tossed into the trash, I wanted to high-five the world. It’s ...

8 years ago

President Trump speaks during a rally in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday.
NPR

Trump tests midterm message on immigration, MS-13 ‘animals’ during Tenn. rally

8 years ago

Customers sit on the patio of a Chicago Starbucks store after it was closed on May 29.
NPR
Economy

Starbucks employees find training against racial bias eye-opening

8 years ago

Jeff Miller
Energy
Government Accountability

New swamp: Ex-Perry adviser lobbies for energy firm bailout

At a West Virginia rally on tax cuts, President Donald Trump veered off on a subject that likely puzzled most of his audience.

8 years ago

North Korea's chief delegate Kim Yong-Chol (L) talks with his South Korean counterpart Lee Hong-Kee (R) during the inter-Korean general talks at the south side of the truce village of Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone, December 14, 2007. 
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PBS NewsHour

Senior North Korean official heads to New York to plan for Trump summit

8 years ago

A tree toppled by Hurricane Maria rests over damaged graves in the Villa Palmeras cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NPR
Government Accountability

Study puts Puerto Rico death toll from Hurricane Maria near 5,000

Perhaps 5,000 died in Puerto Rico for reasons related to Hurricane Maria according to a study that dismisses the official death toll of 64 as "a substantial underestimate."

8 years ago

A woman from the
National Interest

Ballot power: Ireland teaches us how to act like a progressive democracy

Put your hands together for Ireland! On the issue of abortion, this heavily Catholic nation is now officially more enlightened than America’s Republican party.

8 years ago

President Trump marks Memorial Day with a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
NPR
Military

On Memorial Day, Trump honors fallen soldiers and himself

"This is one of the most inappropriate, ignorant and tone-deaf things our Commander-in-Chief could have said on a day like today," tweeted John Kirby

8 years ago

In this May 20 photo provided by the office of George H.W. Bush, the former president waves to supporters as his motorcade arrives in Kennebunkport, Maine. A Bush spokesman said the nation's 41st president was eager to get to Maine after enduring his wife's death and then being hospitalized shortly after that with a blood infection.
NPR

Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Maine, spokesman says

Former President George H.W. Bush is hospitalized in Maine — a week after he arrived in the state to spend the summer.

8 years ago

A member of the Army 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, pauses to honor a fallen soldier while places flags a the gravesite of the nation's fallen military heroes during its annual Flags In ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Thursday, May 24, 2018, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
National Interest

Trump: ‘We are respected again.’ Reality: The opposite.

Last Friday morning, before taking refuge in golf and Twitter, Donald Trump predictably soiled the Memorial Day weekend by lying to the '18 graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy

8 years ago

Republican candidate for Pa-6 Congressional District Greg McCauley. (Provided)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Pennsylvania

Chester County GOP candidate, 61, named ‘young gun’ for Congress

Sixty-one-year-old Greg McCauley, GOP candidate for Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District, is named a national Republican 'young gun' hopeful for the midterm election.

8 years ago

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