The blast that shook the ground at North Korea’s test site Sunday instantly erased lingering skepticism about Pyongyang’s technical capabilities and brought the prospect of nuclear-tipped North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of devastating a major city one step closer to reality, U.S. analysts and weapons experts said.
The U.S. president criticized the South Korean approach to dealing with North Korea’s nuclear ambitions as “appeasement.” South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said that his government would continue to work towards peaceful denuclearization.
President Trump and congressional Republicans are under intense pressure this month to score some significant policy victories and to fulfill such basic duties as avoiding default and keeping the government open. But the path to success continues to look politically perilous.
Flooded cars along a road in Port Arthur, Tex., on Saturday. (AP)
Harvey appears to be the most destructive event for cars in the nation’s history, with flooding that destroyed hundreds of thousands of vehicles in a sprawling region in which residents rely primarily on private cars and trucks to get to work and school.
The Environmental Protection Agency said that Hurricane Harvey has put more than 800 wastewater treatment facilities out of commission. Thousands of people in Southeast Texas still don’t have safe drinking water.
The last time Alicia Sly saw her horse, water was rushing into the neighborhood.
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President Trump’s job-approval numbers remain mired in the 30s in most polls, and several new findings last week gave Republicans interested in expanding the party’s appeal fresh reason to worry.
Emily Reyes, 22, works at the Clark County fair in Kahoka, Mo. (Matt McClain/The Post)
The Clark County fair has been a ritual in Kahoka, Mo., for 136 years. (Matt McClain/The Post)
From left, Connie Phillips, Hannah Ross, Emily and Cristian Reyes at the fair. (Matt McClain/The Post)
The demolition derby is one of the main attractions at the fair. (Matt McClain/The Post)
In rural Kahoka, nearly three of every four voters in the county voted for Trump. (Matt McClain/The Post)
Emily Reyes watched the demolition derby. (Matt McClain/The Post)
At a moment when the phrase “cold civil war” was being used to describe the nation’s seemingly irreconcilable differences, coming home for Emily Reyes was beginning to feel like crossing over to the other side.
Civility reigned when the chancellor squared off with rival Martin Schulz ahead of this month’s vote.
Ash rained down on Los Angeles from a blaze that the mayor said is the largest in the city's history. In Oregon, search and rescue crews airdropped supplies to hikers who were forced to sleep in the woods after being stranded by fire.
Police found the body of 22-year-old Jenna Burleigh at a Pennsylvania home on Saturday. The suspect has confessed to “elements of the crime,” police said.
Doctors couldn’t figure out why she was so sick. Then a test revealed a surprising problem.
Perspective
Over an eight-year stretch with Steely Dan, Becker and Donald Fagen produced a catalogue like no other. They were as subversive as they were popular, and they were very popular.
Perspective
It’s not the equivalent of white supremacists and it shouldn’t be portrayed that way.
The most innovative wearable luggage allows technology, clothing and food to coexist without making a mess.
An engaged couple landed the work they always wanted — but in different states.
The phrase book includes benching, bread-crumbing, ghosting and zombie-ing.
