Author: Carol Morello
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Trump to nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as the next U.N. ambassador
President Trump plans to nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, two senior administration officials said Thursday, as he seeks to advance his “America First” agenda on the world stage. If confirmed by the Senate, the nomination would elevate a foreign policy novice into the top echelons…
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New uneasiness between U.S., N. Korea
JAKARTA, Indonesia • Diplomats from the United States and North Korea alternately shook hands and lobbed critiques at one another Saturday, in what appeared to be another roadblock in the path to negotiations aimed at ending Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. In a day of head-snapping twists of tone at the annual conference of the…
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Trump, Pence offer hero’s welcome to three Americans freed by North Korea
Three Americans held captive for more than a year in North Korea arrived at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington well before dawn Thursday to a hero’s welcome featuring President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and first lady Melania Trump. Shortly before 3 a.m., in pitch black skies, a U.S. government plane made its approach…
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State Department updates travel advisories so they’re understandable
WASHINGTON – The State Department on Wednesday unveiled four tiered categories to warn travelers of potential dangers overseas, using common-sense language ranging from “Exercise normal precaution” to “Do not travel.” The new rankings replace the vague and often confusing system of issuing “travel alerts” for short-term dangers posed by events like health epidemics or mass…
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Securing North Korean nuclear sites would require a ground invasion, Pentagon says
The only way to locate and secure all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons sites “with complete certainty” is through an invasion of U.S. ground forces, and in the event of conflict, Pyongyang could use biological and chemical weapons, the Pentagon told lawmakers in a new, blunt assessment of what war on the Korean Peninsula might…
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U.N. agrees to toughest-ever sanctions against North Korea
The United Nations Security Council on Monday agreed on its toughest-ever sanctions against North Korea that passed unanimously after the United States softened its initial demands to win support from China and Russia. The sanctions set limits on North Korea’s oil imports and banned its textile exports in an effort to deprive the reclusive nation…
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Back on the Mekong Delta, John Kerry finds a man who once tried to kill him
CA MAU, Vietnam — It could have been 1969 again as Secretary of State John Kerry stood on the bow of the small boat chugging up the Bay Hap River on Saturday, the wind billowing his sleeves and his eyes darting left and right toward banks shrouded in dark foliage. As a young Navy lieutenant,…
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Donald Trump says he wants to ‘greatly strengthen and expand’ U.S. nuclear capabilitiy, a radical break from U.S. foreign policy
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday called for the United States to expand its nuclear arsenal, after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country’s nuclear potential needs fortifying, in what would reverse decades of efforts to reduce the number and size of the two countries’ nuclear weapons. In a tweet that offered no details, Trump said,…
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Single motherhood rises sharply
More than six of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried, the Census Bureau said last week in a report that shows sharp discrepancies in single mothers related to income, education and race. Census demographers said that single motherhood, while on a steady uptick since the 1940s, has accelerated in recent…