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Trump touts 'bold, new push for peace' with North Korea in UN speech

9/26/2018, 12:36:14 AM
undefined ✔ U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N ✔ The laughter followed Trump's boasts that in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country ✔ The sanctions will stay in place until denuclearization occurs


America is the best, Iran is the worst, globalism is bad: 5 things we learned from Trump’s UN speech

9/26/2018, 3:07:04 AM
US President Donald Trump praised Israel and Saudi Arabia, and attacked Iran, Venezuela and the International Criminal Court in his second annual speech to the UN General Assembly, in which he reshuffled his greatest hits. ✔ In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country ✔ Iran remains the main bad guy – the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism – that he called on all nations to isolate, having earlier tweeted that he personally rejected a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani


US-China trade tensions spilling over into the military arena

9/26/2018, 12:34:31 AM
The relationship appears to be veering wildly off track as an escalating trade war becomes conflated with broader concerns in Washington about China's policies. ✔ China appeared even more stunned by the decision to punish the state military company ✔ The State Department announced last week that it would impose sanctions on the Chinese military's Equipment Development Department and its director, Li Shangfu, for purchases of Su-35 fighter jets and S-400 surface-to-air missiles from Russia ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes


Trump praises Kim at U.N. but says sanctions must stay for now

9/26/2018, 2:47:42 AM
UNITED NATIONS--U.S. President Donald Trump praised North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday for ✔ Moon told an event in New York on the sidelines of the U.N ✔ I believe the normalization of North Korea-Japan relations is required in the process of establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula, and I will actively support and cooperate so a North Korea-Japan summit will be held, Yonhap quoted Moon as telling Abe


Trump criticizes China trade and rejects globalism at UN

9/26/2018, 12:12:39 AM
President's claim of 'accomplishments' is met with laughter ✔ In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of my country, Trump said a few minutes into his remarks -- a line that sparked laughter from the audience ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th


Donald Trump defends ‘America ‘first’ in U.N. General Assembly speech

9/26/2018, 12:41:01 AM
President Trump told the United Nations on Tuesday that the U.S. is guided by patriotism instead of globalism, rejecting the authority of world bodies. ✔ Mr. Trump said he is standing up not only for the U.S. but also for other sovereign nations ✔ The nuclear threat North Korea poses is and will remain very real until the Trump administration clearly articulates its strategy to actually halt North Korea’s production of nuclear bomb material and the means to deliver it through a reasonable, sequenced plan in coordination with our closest allies and partners


Recent Russian military exercise is the largest rehearsal of WWIII in the 21st century

9/26/2018, 1:18:28 AM
The real threat from Russia is not to elections, but to our lives. ✔ Surely the Russian General Staff notices how small NATO’s military exercises are, and how thin the U.S. shield in Europe (1,000 troops in the Baltic States; 4,000 in Poland; 35,000 in Germany) are ✔ Peter Vincent Pry, chief of staff of the congressional Electromagnetic Pulse Commission, served on the House Armed Services Committee and the CIA


'Kim Jong-in is serious about giving up his bombs'

9/26/2018, 12:34:10 AM
undefined ✔ President Moon Jae-in speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York on Tuesday (local time) ✔ Pyongyang also wants an end to what it calls U.S. hostility and normalized ties between Washington and Pyongyang ✔ There will be high expectations if such a summit comes off


Hassan Rouhani accuses Trump of trying to overthrow Iran government

9/26/2018, 1:28:58 AM
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accusing the Trump administration of trying to overthrow his government while National Security Advisor John R. Bolton warned there will “be hell to pay” if Tehran doesn’t cease its provocative behavior on the world stage. ✔ In a sign of the uphill battle the Trump administration faces on the matter, the other signatory nations have been busy this week seeking a mechanism to bypass sanctions Washington is now reimposing on Iran and on foreign companies that want to do business with the Islamic Republic


US military sanctions illegal, ineffective - Opinion

9/26/2018, 1:52:00 AM
undefined ✔ Restraint refers to setting limitations on the development of the target’s capabilities ✔ Trump’s actions only create a closer China-Russia partnership while turning the trans-Atlantic partnership into disarray ✔ The author is is a doctoral fellow with the faculty of law and criminology at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium peiranwang@gmail.com +32 486 551 989


How 'Lethal Weapon' wrote out Clayne Crawford, and wrote in Seann William Scott

9/26/2018, 2:46:34 AM
Spoiler alert! Here's how "Lethal Weapon" wrote out it's co-star and wrote in new actor Seann William Scott after Clayne Crawford was fired in May. ✔ USA TODAY Seann William Scott in Lethal Weapon.(Photo: Ray Mickshaw/Fox) Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers from the Season 3 premiere of Lethal Weapon ✔ The networks are starting to roll out their plans for their new fall shows, including a reboot of the classic comedy Murphy Brown, which debuts on CBS on Sept ✔ 20th Century Fox Television Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide


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