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MORE said Thursday night that President Trump needs to shift his focus from using Twitter to instead negotiating with North Korea over their continued nuclear and missile tests. "Get over the Twitter stuff and get on to the diplomatic negotiations," Clinton said during an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow promoting her new book. Clinton's comments came hours after North Korea launched another ballistic missile from Pyongyang that flew over Japan.

House Minority Leader Trump as Democratic leaders discussed making a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Washington Post reports that Pelosi, who was the only woman in attendance at the meeting between Trump, Cabinet officials and Democratic leaders on Wednesday, was trying to make a point when the men at the table began talking over her and over each other about how Trump would benefit from striking a deal with the Democrats. “Do the women get to talk around here?” Pelosi asked, two sources familiar with the exchange told the Post, after

The federal government will host the first-ever government-wide event to recruit new IT and cybersecurity talent, at a time when agencies and department are struggling to fill these positions.  The General Services Administration (GSA) on Thursday announced the event, which will be held November 6-7 in Maryland.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro bashed protesters of his speech at the University of California, Berkeley, on Thursday night, which had drawn increased security measures. "Thanks to antifa and the supposed anti-fascist brigade for exposing what the radical left truly is," Shapiro said in his speech, referring to anti-fascist or "antifa" activists. "All of America is watching because you guys are so stupid.

Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, and William Taubman’s new biography of him is essential reading for the 21st, as we trace the arc from the fall of the Soviet Union to the rise of Putin’s Russia. Kurt Andersen digs up the roots of alternative facts in American culture (hint: it starts with the Pilgrims) in “Fantasyland”; and Ben Blum investigates a cousin’s inexplicable crime in “Ranger Games.” In fiction, new works by the acclaimed novelists Jesmyn Ward and Claire Messud encompass themes of childhood and loss.

Good morning. The New York Times is providing full free digital access to European readers through Sunday. Here’s what you need to know: • North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Friday morning, an act of defiance against the new sanctions resolution adopted days earlier by the United Nations Security Council. The missile passed over Japan — where an alert was issued, on television and via cellphones, warning people to take shelter inside a building or underground — and traveled 2,300 miles, the farthest of any of North Korea’s laun

PASADENA, Calif. — The last picture show from Saturn has begun. The final photographs taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are streaming back to Earth. Early Friday morning, the last of the last will arrive. They include some of the favorite subjects over Cassini’s 13-year stay in orbit: the rings, the moons Enceladus and Titan, and Saturn itself. One image yet to arrive will be the spot where Cassini will disintegrate on Friday, by deliberate design.

As I hiked through the village of Oia in Santorini, Greece, slightly out of breath from navigating the hilly streets, I was certain that I had seen few places in the world as attractive. Majestically perched atop a cliff, Oia faced the sparkling Aegean Sea and was awash in gleaming white villas built into the hills. Many travelers think of Santorini as a beach destination, similar to Mykonos, but locals have long known that the magic of the island is the gorgeous views to be had from its many steep cliffs.

Facing harsh criticism, a Harvard dean said early Friday morning that he was revoking his invitation to Chelsea Manning, a former United States soldier convicted of leaking classified information, to be a visiting fellow at the university. The sudden turnabout by the Harvard Kennedy School came after a day of intense backlash over the university’s announcement on Wednesday that Ms. Manning would become a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics this school year. Douglas W.