July 6, 2017 North Korea: US sanctions amount to 'declaration of a war' North Korea said Friday that new U.S. sanctions against the country amounted to a “declaration of a war” and vowed to take strong retaliatory measures, the AFP reports.
July 6, 2017 Russian harassment of US diplomats reportedly includes break-ins, dog-killing Russian President Vladimir Putin's security agencies allegedly have ramped up their intimidation of American diplomats across Europe in ways that would be illegal in the United States: harassment, breaking and entering, and in at least one case, killing a man's dog.
July 5, 2017 Russian spy ship 'loitering' off Virginia near world's largest naval base, officials say The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov is currently “loitering” off the coast of Norfolk, Va., home to the largest naval base in the world, two U.S. officials tell ӣƵ.
July 5, 2017 Why Hillary Clinton is on the ropes Hillary Clinton’s own camp finally recognizes just how dangerous this email controversy has become for her.
June 23, 2017 North Korea captive Otto Warmbier 'got exactly what he deserved,' college prof says Katherine Dettwyler, an adjunct professor in the University of Delaware’s anthropology department, made her statement about Warmbier on Facebook and in the comments section of an article about the late college student on the website of conservative magazine, the National Review.
June 22, 2017 North Korea: Tillerson, Mattis still playing China card with Pyongyang One day after President Trump appeared to give up on China as an effective mediator in the West’s long-running disputes with North Korea, two of the president’s most senior cabinet officials signaled that the administration has not altogether abandoned the use of China as an intermediary.
June 21, 2017 USAID paid $500 a gallon for gas, failed to catch $500,000 in overpayments on long-delayed Afghan hospital Construction of a $14.6 million hospital in Gardez, Afghanistan, is 23 months behind schedule and costing taxpayers more than half a million dollars in overpayments the U.S. Agency for International Development and its contractor failed to catch.
June 21, 2017 Otto Warmbier's freedom was sought by US senator in secret meeting with North Koreans Sen. Rob Portman met with the North Korean delegation to the United Nations in December seeking the release of Otto Warmbier, months before the American college student was returned to the U.S. in a coma and died, the senator's office revealed Wednesday.
June 14, 2017 Tillerson claims Palestinians to change policy that pays families of terrorists Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told lawmakers on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority assured him the Palestinian Liberation Organization is in the process of changing controversial policies that pay terrorists and their families.
June 13, 2017 US mom hopeful Venezuela will release ailing son after North Korea frees student The release of 22-year-old college student Otto Warmbier from a North Korean prison on Tuesday has given Laurie Moon Holt hope that the U.S. State Department can work out a deal that will have her son back stateside soon.