Politics

Sessions excludes domestic, gang violence from asylum claims

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

Immigration judges generally cannot consider domestic and gang violence as grounds for asylum, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in a ruling that could affect large numbers of Central Americans who have turned to the U.S. for protection.

South Korea’s Moon Jae-in offers aid to find remains of U.S. soldiers

By Associated Press

Moon's office says he made the proposal to President Donald Trump as they spoke over the phone after Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

Trump says tough rhetoric led to North Korea summit

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump says he sometimes "felt foolish" lobbing insults at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. But he says without his harsh rhetoric, their summit may never have happened.

Effects of Supreme Court voter roll decision may be limited

By Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for states to take a tougher approach to maintaining their voter rolls, but few appear eager to follow.

Trump says denuclearization must be verifiable

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump is telling reporters that North Korea's denuclearization will have to be total and verifiable as he prepares to head home from his historic summit with Kim Jong Un.

For world, Trump-Kim summit raises cautious hope for peace

By Associated Press

South Koreans cheered, Japanese snapped up a newspaper special edition and China made a suggestion Donald Trump may not like as the U.S. president held an unprecedented summit Tuesday with the leader of North Korea.

UN watchdog welcomes Trump-Kim joint statement

By Associated Press

The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says his agency "stands ready to undertake any verification activities in (North Korea) that it may be requested to conduct by the countries concerned."…

After summit, Trump announces halt to U.S.-South Korea ‘war games’

By Zeke Miller, Catherine Lucey, Josh Lederman, Foster Klug, Associated Press

President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un concluded a nuclear summit Tuesday with the U.S. president pledging unspecified "security guarantees" to the North and Kim recommitting to the "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."…

8 early takeaways from the Trump-Kim summit

By Larisa Epatko

We don’t yet know exactly what the leaders discussed, so we asked foreign policy experts for their early takeaways on the summit.

White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow has suffered heart attack, Trump tweets

By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

President Donald Trump says his top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, has suffered a heart attack. Trump tweeted just minutes before his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Kudlow is being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center.