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Responding to Venezuelan regime attacks against civilians, the U.S. should identify those commanders responsible and seize their assets. The need for action is clear. Four civilians were killed on Saturday as they sought to bring aid across the Brazilian and Colombian borders into Venezuela. That aid was to have been used to alleviate chronic starvation rates and shortages of basic medicines. But although about 100 Venezuelan security officers defected to…

GOP Sen. Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisThe Hill’s Morning Report — Emergency declaration to test GOP loyalty to Trump Don’t look for House GOP to defy Trump on border wall The Hill’s 12:30 Report: Trump escalates fight with NY Times MORE (N.C.) said on Monday that he will support a resolution to block President TrumpDonald John TrumpSpike Lee urges Oscars viewers to vote in 2020: ‘Let’s all be in the…

One child accused the cardinal of touching his genitals on multiple occasions from 1978 to 1979, as they played in the local swimming pool. Another said he had also been abused at the pool, between 1977 and 1979. He said the cardinal had touched his testicles as he was throwing him into the water. A third complainant, whose allegations were not made part of a formal charge, said that in…

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A former staffer on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign says he kissed her without her consent outside a rally in Florida in August 2016, The Washington Post reported Monday. “I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it,” the staffer, Alva Johnson, told the Post. “I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.”  The allegation is described in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Florida,…

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un meet in Vietnam to discuss denuclearization, the vague promise they made at their historic first summit. However, history may be repeating itself, as nuclear test sites were discovered months after the first summit. Will “one destiny’ regress into “fire and fury?” USA TODAY

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES China Economy U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s state-run news agency Xinhua both announced “significant progress” from the last week of trade negotiations. Encouragingly, both sides specifically mentioned the issues of technology transfer, intellectual property protection, currency, services and agriculture. Still, the U.S. and China will need to overcome significant hurdles if they’re to ink a deal resolving their long-term disagreements. Trump said in…

An all-male draft has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Texas, declaring that the “time has passed” for debating the role of women in the army. “While historical restrictions on women in the military may have justified past discrimination, men and women are now ‘similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft,’” wrote U.S. District Judge Gray Miller of the Southern District of Texas….

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Europe Politics British lawmakers were meant to be given a vote this week on British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal but May has delayed it and it will now take place just 17 days before the U.K. is meant to leave the European Union (EU). Still, May said on Sunday that her government is making progress in talks with the EU and that…

Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSanders urges campaign surrogates in the media to act respectfully Sanders warns against ‘bullying and harassment’ on his behalf in internal memo DNC chair: GOP labeling Democratic policies socialist because ‘they’re wrong on the issues’ MORE (I-Vt.) is facing scrutiny by former Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonSanders urges campaign surrogates in the media to act respectfully De Blasio visits Iowa as he mulls 2020 bid Sanders warns…

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Howard X says officials have told him that his visa is “invalid”, but has received no explanation as to why A Kim Jong-un impersonator has been deported from Vietnam ahead of the real North Korean leader’s meeting with US President Trump in Hanoi this week. Hong Kong resident Howard X staged a fake summit with Trump impersonator Russell White last week. The two were…

U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators meeting in Washington, D.C. last week. Citing progress in the talks, President Trump said he would suspend a planning increase in tariffs on Chinese goods due to take effect on March 1. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators meeting in Washington, D.C. last week. Citing progress in the talks, President Trump said he would suspend a…

In this June 12, 2018, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump stands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. For some observers, the nightmare result of the second summit between Trump and Kim is an ill-considered deal that allows North Korea to get everything it wants while giving up very little, even as the mercurial leaders trumpet a blockbuster nuclear success. (AP Photo/Evan…

Image caption A number of defectors have spoken to the BBC Venezuelan soldiers who defected into Colombia on Saturday say they fear for the safety of their families under President Nicolás Maduro’s government. Speaking exclusively to the BBC’s Orla Guerin, one defector aged 23 says he is worried forces loyal to the president may “lash out against my family”. “But I think it was the best decision I could have…

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Authorities recovered two bodies after a cargo plane used by the retailer Amazon crashed into Trinity Bay in Texas, officials said Sunday. Three people were aboard the Boeing 767 cargo jet when it plunged into the water on Saturday afternoon. Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said authorities were still in “active recovery mode,” though it was “hard to believe” they would find any survivors. “The north wind has blown the…

WASHINGTON — Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that House Democrats were prepared to go to court to force the release of the final report from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and subpoena Mr. Mueller to testify if it was not made public. Mr. Mueller, who has spent nearly two years investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia and…

Video President Trump discusses China deal ahead of North Korea summit President Trump announced Sunday that he would hold off on implementing planned tariff hikes on hundreds of goods imported from China, citing “substantial progress” in high-level trade talks between the two nations. The president also tweeted he would hold a summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to finalize an agreement “assuming both sides…

Video What will be agreed to at the second US-North Korea summit? Former National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz weighs in on what can be expected to come out of President Trump’s next meeting with North Korean President Kim Jong Un. As President Trump prepares to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their second one-on-one summit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday and Thursday, Secretary of State…