The surprise announcement came less than a week before North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is due to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a precursor to a meeting between Kim and President Trump. Tests will be suspended starting Saturday, according to the Korean Central News Agency. Analysts noted that the announcement made no mention of giving up its program, simply signaling a freeze.
The attorney general made his position known in a phone call to White House Counsel Donald McGahn last weekend, as President Trump’s fury at Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein peaked after he approved the FBI’s raid on the president’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
The unusual release of the memo is part of a broader campaign to rehabilitate Gina Haspel’s image ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing to become CIA director. Senators who want the agency to declassify documents related to her record were angered by what they saw as a “selective” response to their demands.
William Fears, holding the flag, stands with other white supremacists at a rally in Charlottesville in August. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Post)
Lawsuits and arrests, fundraising difficulties, tepid recruitment, widespread infighting, fierce counterprotests and banishment on social media platforms have exhausted even some of the staunchest members of the movement.
Yellowstone National Park sits squarely over a giant, active volcano that's 44 miles across. It wasn't until the 1980s that scientists grasped that it is fully alive and threatens to erupt thousands of times more violently than the blast that blew apart Mount St. Helens in 1980. Geologists now have new insight into the volcano's restless magma chambers.
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The multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee alleges a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the presidential campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump.
Consumers should “throw out any romaine lettuce in their homes because it may be difficult to tell” whether it is from the region around Yuma, Ariz., the CDC said. They also should not buy or eat romaine lettuce at a grocery store or restaurant unless they can confirm it is not from that area.
The probe appears to focus on whether the companies colluded to hamstring a technology that could make it easier for consumers to seamlessly switch wireless carriers, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Analysis Self-described “deficit owls” argue that proposals to rein in the deficit are the real threat to the nation’s well-being. But deficit hawks contend that the effects of a deficit crisis are so drastic that even the possibility shouldn’t be on the table.
Although the seedy reputation of weed is changing, the science has lagged behind the movement because studying cannabis is so difficult. Take our quiz to see how much you know.
Federal prosecutors say the actress who spent a decade playing Clark Kent’s friend was a top lieutenant to Keith Rainere, who has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking and forced labor.
President Trump became irate at then-national security adviser Michael Flynn for failing to tell him about a congratulatory call from Russian President Vladimir Putin after Trump’s inauguration, according to a newly released memo written by then-FBI Director James B. Comey.
The DJ and producer, born Tim Bergling, was found dead in Oman. He was one of the decade’s first breakout performers in the electronic dance music genre as it surged into the mainstream. No cause of death was given.
