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Upending decades of US defense posture on the Korean Peninsula, President Trump is stopping the annual US-South Korean war games and wants to remove US troops from the region.   Decades of fraught relations with North Korea didn’t seem to stop Trump from publicly heaping praise upon Kim.  Get Smart Scholars at Boston-area universities say the summit didn’t produce much of substance.  NESTOR RAMOS A Canadian senator also thought Justin Trudeau was meek and mild. Then Trudeau kicked his butt.   Former President George H.W.

Upending decades of US defense posture on the Korean Peninsula, President Trump is stopping the annual US-South Korean war games and wants to remove US troops from the region.   Decades of fraught relations with North Korea didn’t seem to stop Trump from publicly heaping praise upon Kim.  Get Smart Scholars at Boston-area universities say the summit didn’t produce much of substance.  NESTOR RAMOS A Canadian senator also thought Justin Trudeau was meek and mild. Then Trudeau kicked his butt.   Former President George H.W.

Upending decades of US defense posture on the Korean Peninsula, President Trump is stopping the annual US-South Korean war games and wants to remove US troops from the region.   Decades of fraught relations with North Korea didn’t seem to stop Trump from publicly heaping praise upon Kim.  Get Smart Scholars at Boston-area universities say the summit didn’t produce much of substance.  NESTOR RAMOS A Canadian senator also thought Justin Trudeau was meek and mild. Then Trudeau kicked his butt.   Former President George H.W.

Republican centrists will have to show their cards on immigration cards Tuesday after a month of gamesmanship within the House Republican Conference.

If the centrists demanding votes on legislation to protect “Dreamers,” who came to the country illegally as children, can get 218 signatures on their petition, it will force a vote this month that Republican leaders have sought to avoid.

If they do not, they’ll miss a deadline, punting the issue to July and taking their foot off the accelerator.

MORE took a jab at the media on Tuesday in Singapore as he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un headed into their historic meeting. "The press, they never stop," Trump told Kim, as reporters yelled out questions to the two leaders. Trump and Kim met in person for the first time Monday after months of back-and-forth, in the first meeting in history between a North Korean leader and a sitting U.S. president. Trump has long criticized the media, even laying into American reporters while out of the country.

MORE announced from Singapore on Tuesday that his top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, was hospitalized outside Washington, D.C., after suffering a heart attack.  "Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack," Trump tweeted as he arrived at the denuclearization summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.   White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later described the heart attack as “very mild” and said Kudlow is expected to make a “full and speedy recovery.”  “Larry is currently in good cond

MORE and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un capped off their historic Tuesday summit in Singapore by signing an agreement committing the United States to unspecified “security guarantees” for Pyongyang in exchange for a denuclearized Korean peninsula. “President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to [North Korea], and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," the statement said. At a signing ceremony alongside Kim, Trump called the document “pretty comprehensive” despite its l

Johnston tweeted: “I did not vote for Bill Clinton and I did not agree with most of his policies. But when he extended an invitation to our TEAM to visit the White House to celebrate our first Super Bowl Championship I was honored to attend and meet the President of the United States.

Johnston tweeted: “I did not vote for Bill Clinton and I did not agree with most of his policies. But when he extended an invitation to our TEAM to visit the White House to celebrate our first Super Bowl Championship I was honored to attend and meet the President of the United States.