Aug 09 Watch 4:07 Latest North Korea clash draws sharply different responses from Trump, top national security aides By PBS News Hour As a war of words escalated between the North Korea and the U.S., Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged calm, saying Americans should have no concerns about the rhetoric of the last few days. The volley of tough talk follows… Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch 8:58 How will North Korea react to mixed signals from U.S.? By PBS News Hour Judy Woodruff talks to former Pentagon official Abraham Denmark and Mike Chinoy of the University of Southern California about the latest threats and counter-threats between Pyongyang and Washington and what options the U.S. has to defuse the situation. Continue watching
Aug 09 AP FACT CHECK: How strong is America’s nuclear arsenal? By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press President Donald Trump's tweet Wednesday that America's nuclear arsenal is "now stronger and more powerful than ever before" is debatable. Continue reading
Aug 09 Analysis: Can the U.S. defend itself against North Korea’s missile threat? By Thomas Karako, Center for Strategic and International Studies North Korea recently tested an intercontinental ballistic missile and said it was developing a plan to target Guam. President Donald Trump responded that North Korea "will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen." See a… Continue reading
Aug 09 North Korea says it will have plan for attack on Guam by mid-August By Josh Lederman, Matthew Pennington, Associated Press North Korea officials called Trump's warning of "fire and fury" a "load of nonsense."… Continue reading
Aug 09 Trump’s voter fraud commission could create target for hackers, critics say By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press "Coordinating a national voter registration system located in the White House is akin to handing a zip drive to Russia," said Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat who has refused to send data to the commission. Continue reading
Aug 09 Trump pushes back on McConnell claim of ‘excessive expectations’ on health care By Alan Fram, Associated Press President Donald Trump is using Twitter to take a whack at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying the president had "excessive expectations" about how quickly Congress could act on uprooting the Obama health care law. Continue reading
Aug 09 WATCH: State Department says it agrees with Trump’s fiery threat to North Korea By Associated Press Watch today's news briefing from the State Department as White House rhetoric on North Korea has heated up. Continue reading
Aug 09 FBI agents searched former Trump campaign chair’s home By Chad Day, Associated Press A spokesman for President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, says that FBI agents served a search warrant at one of his homes. Continue reading
Aug 09 5 stories you probably missed that deserve a closer look By Joshua Barajas, Roni Dengler, Iman Smith The White House had a difficult time last week defending some of the president’s statements. The issue: reconciling what he said happened with what actually happened. The Boy Scouts of America pushed back Wednesday on a claim from the… Continue reading