June 13, 2017 North Korea frees Otto Warmbier: The timeline The timeline of American detainee Otto Warmbier's time in North Korea.
June 7, 2017 US 'deeply concerned' after Turkey arrests Amnesty International official The Trump administration criticized the Turkish government Wednesday after police in that country detained a prominent human rights lawyer as part of a crackdown on people suspected of links to a U.S.-based cleric accused of masterminding a failed coup.
June 5, 2017 Top-ranking US diplomat in China resigns after Trump rejects climate treaty The top-ranking diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing has abruptly resigned, telling colleagues he is leaving the foreign service over disagreements with Trump administration policy, U.S. officials said Monday.
June 2, 2017 Supreme Court could rule within days on lifting temporary stay on travel ban The Supreme Court could rule within days on whether to lift a temporary stay on President Trump's revised executive order banning travel from six mostly Muslim countries.
June 2, 2017 Trump administration to start social media vetting for visa applicants The Trump administration has approved a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants that asks for social media handles and accounts used during the last five years and travel history, including the source of funding for trips, over the last 15 years for more “rigorous” vetting.
May 24, 2017 Watchdog says DEA botched deadly Honduras raids The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration misled the public, Congress and Justice Department officials about an aggressive yet poorly planned strategy that led to a series of deadly confrontations involving agents in Honduras, government watchdogs wrote in a scathing report released Wednesday.
May 24, 2017 Syrian regime using crematorium to 'cover up' mass murders, State Department says The Syrian regime is using a site outside Damascus to cremate the bodies of thousands of prisoners it has abducted, jailed and murdered during the country’s long-running civil war, the U.S. State Department alleged Monday.
May 24, 2017 State Department announces 'extreme vetting' proposals for visa applicants Following through on President Trump’s campaign promise to put immigrants to the U.S. through “extreme vetting, the State Department announced new proposals Thursday to increase the screening of certain applicants, including requesting social media handles.
May 24, 2017 UN agency helps North Korea with patent application for banned nerve gas chemical For more than a year, a United Nations agency in Geneva has been helping North Korea prepare an international patent application for production of sodium cyanide -- a chemical used to make the nerve gas Tabun.
May 24, 2017 State Dept. summons Turkey envoy after violence against anti-Erdogan protesters The Trump administration faced growing calls Thursday for a forceful response to violence by Turkish presidential guards on American soil, who were briefly detained this week but then set free.